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Probabilistic Boolean Networks (PBNs) have been previously proposed so as to gain insights into complex dy- namical systems. However, identification of large networks and of the underlying discrete Markov Chain which describes their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou , Diana Marculescu

Abduction is a fundamental and important form of non-monotonic reasoning. Given a knowledge base explaining how the world behaves it aims at finding an explanation for some observed manifestation. In this paper we focus on propositional…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Nadia Creignou , Johannes Schmidt , Michael Thomas

When writing programs, people have the ability to tackle a new complex task by decomposing it into smaller and more familiar subtasks. While it is difficult to measure whether neural program synthesis methods have similar capabilities, what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Joey Hong , Manzil Zaheer , Pengcheng Yin , Charles Sutton

We define a measure for the complexity of Boolean functions related to their implementation in neural networks, and in particular close related to the generalization ability that could be obtained through the learning process. The measure…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonardo Franco

In this paper we address the problem of generating all elements obtained by the saturation of an initial set by some operations. More precisely, we prove that we can generate the closure of a boolean relation (a set of boolean vectors) by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Arnaud Mary , Yann Strozecki

Epistemic logics are a primary formalism for multi-agent systems but major reasoning tasks in such epistemic logics are intractable, which impedes applications of multi-agent epistemic logics in automatic planning. Knowledge compilation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Liangda Fang , Kewen Wang , Zhe Wang , Ximing Wen

Despite the superior performance of CNN, deploying them on low computational power devices is still limited as they are typically computationally expensive. One key cause of the high complexity is the connection between the convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Following the introduction of BNF notation by Backus for the Algol 60 report and subsequent notational variants, a metalanguage involving formal "grammars" has developed for discussing structured objects in Computer Science and Mathematical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-25 David Feller , Joe B. Wells , Fairouz Kamareddine , Sebastien Carlier

Machine learning approaches to solving Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) aim to replace handcrafted heuristics with learning-based models. Graph Neural Networks have emerged as the main architecture for SAT solving, due to the natural graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Saku Peltonen , Roger Wattenhofer

Learning precise Boolean logic via gradient descent remains challenging: neural networks typically converge to "fuzzy" approximations that degrade under quantization. We introduce Hierarchical Spectral Composition, a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Gorgi Pavlov

An efficient pairwise Boolean matching algorithm to solve the problem of matching single-output specified Boolean functions under input negation and/or input permutation and/or output negation (NPN) is proposed in this paper. We present the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Juling Zhang , Guowu Yang , William N. N. Hung , Yan Zhang

Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS) is the computational problem of finding an implementation f that meets both a semantic constraint given by a logical formula $\varphi$ in a background theory T, and a syntactic constraint given by a grammar…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Rajeev Alur , Dana Fisman , Rishabh Singh , Armando Solar-Lezama

Syntax-guided synthesis aims to find a program satisfying semantic specification as well as user-provided structural hypothesis. For syntax-guided synthesis there are two main search strategies: concrete search, which systematically or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Kangjing Huang , Xiaokang Qiu , Qi Tian , Yanjun Wang

Certifying the safety of nonlinear systems, through the lens of set invariance and control barrier functions (CBFs), offers a powerful method for controller synthesis, provided a CBF can be constructed. This paper draws connections between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Max H. Cohen , Ryan K. Cosner , Aaron D. Ames

Computational learning theory states that many classes of boolean formulas are learnable in polynomial time. This paper addresses the understudied subject of how, in practice, such formulas can be learned by deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Marcio Nicolau , Anderson R. Tavares , Zhiwei Zhang , Pedro Avelar , João M. Flach , Luis C. Lamb , Moshe Y. Vardi

Nonogram is a popular combinatorial puzzle (similar in nature to Sudoku or Minesweeper) in which a puzzle solver must determine if there exists a setting of the puzzle parameters that satisfy a given set of constraints. It has long been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Aaron Foote , Danny Krizanc

In this paper, we introduce the hybrid query complexity, denoted as $\mathrm{Q}(f;q)$, which is the minimal query number needed to compute $f$, when a classical decision tree is allowed to call $q'$-query quantum subroutines for any $q'\leq…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xiaoming Sun , Yufan Zheng

Database research and the development of learned query optimisers rely heavily on realistic SQL workloads. Acquiring real-world queries is increasingly difficult, however, due to strict privacy regulations, and publicly released anonymised…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kahan Mehta , Amit Mankodi

BEE is a compiler which facilitates solving finite domain constraints by encoding them to CNF and applying an underlying SAT solver. In BEE constraints are modeled as Boolean functions which propagate information about equalities between…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Michael Codish , Yoav Fekete , Amit Metodi

In this paper we investigate the problem of quantifying the contribution of each variable to the satisfying assignments of a Boolean function based on the Shapley value. Our main result is a polynomial-time equivalence between computing…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ahmet Kara , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu