English
Related papers

Related papers: Quantum Algorithm for Finding the Optimal Variable…

200 papers

We propose a query learning algorithm for ordered multi-terminal binary decision diagrams (OMTBDDs) using at most n equivalence and 2n(l\lcei\log_2 m\rceil+ 3n) membership queries by extending the algorithm for ordered binary decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Atsuyoshi Nakamura

Understanding the characteristics of neural networks is important but difficult due to their complex structures and behaviors. Some previous work proposes to transform neural networks into equivalent Boolean expressions and apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yiping Tang , Kohei Hatano , Eiji Takimoto

Quantum computing is an advancing area of research in which computer hardware and algorithms are developed to take advantage of quantum mechanical phenomena. In recent studies, quantum algorithms have shown promise in solving linear systems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Katherine Asztalos , René Steijl , Romit Maulik

In the paper we develop a method for constructing quantum algorithms for computing Boolean functions by quantum ordered read-once branching programs (quantum OBDDs). Our method is based on fingerprinting technique and representation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Farid Ablayev , Alexander Vasiliev

The Sentential Decision Diagram (SDD) is a tractable representation of Boolean functions that subsumes the famous Ordered Binary Decision Diagram (OBDD) as a strict subset. SDDs are attracting much attention because they are more succinct…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kengo Nakamura , Shuhei Denzumi , Masaaki Nishino

In this paper, we present a quantum algorithm for the dynamic programming approach for problems on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). The running time of the algorithm is $O(\sqrt{\hat{n}m}\log \hat{n})$, and the running time of the best known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Kamil Khadiev , Liliya Safina

We introduce a novel framework, termed $\lambda$DD, that revisits Binary Decision Diagrams from a purely functional point of view. The framework allows to classify the already existing variants, including the most recent ones like Chain-DD…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Joan Thibault , Khalil Ghorbal

Efficient methods for the representation and simulation of quantum states and quantum operations are crucial for the optimization of quantum circuits. Decision diagrams (DDs), a well-studied data structure originally used to represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen , Tim Coopmans , David Elkouss , Vedran Dunjko , Alfons Laarman

Decision diagrams (DDs) have emerged as an efficient tool for simulating quantum circuits due to their capacity to exploit data redundancies in quantum states and quantum operations, enabling the efficient computation of probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Santiago Acevedo-Mancera , Herbert Vinck-Posada

The paper examines hierarchies for nondeterministic and deterministic ordered read-$k$-times Branching programs. The currently known hierarchies for deterministic $k$-OBDD models of Branching programs for $ k=o(n^{1/2}/\log^{3/2}n)$ are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Kamil Khadiev

We present several results on comparative complexity for different variants of OBDD models. - We present some results on comparative complexity of classical and quantum OBDDs. We consider a partial function depending on parameter k such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Farid Ablayev , Aida Gainutdinova , Kamil Khadiev , Abuzer Yakarylmaz

Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are a widely used data structure for efficient Boolean function representation. Context-Free-Language Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (CFLOBDDs) are a recently introduced hierarchical data structure that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Meghana Aparna Sistla , Swarat Chaudhuri , Thomas W. Reps

Bayesian network classifiers are used in many fields, and one common class of classifiers are naive Bayes classifiers. In this paper, we introduce an approach for reasoning about Bayesian network classifiers in which we explicitly convert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Hei Chan , Adnan Darwiche

In the context of knowledge compilation (KC), we study the effect of augmenting Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDD) with two kinds of decomposition nodes, i.e., AND-vertices and OR-vertices which denote conjunctive and disjunctive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Yong Lai , Dayou Liu

Ordered search is the task of finding an item in an ordered list using comparison queries. The best exact classical algorithm for this fundamental problem uses $\lceil \log_{2}{n}\rceil$ queries for a list of length $n$. Quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Joseph Carolan , Andrew M. Childs , Matt Kovacs-Deak , Luke Schaeffer

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

Combinatorial optimization is considered a promising class of problems in which quantum computers can show significant advantages. However, problems of practical relevance typically have more variables than current or foreseeable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mathias Schmid , Naeimeh Mohseni , Michael J. Hartmann

Quantum algorithms offer an exponential advantage with respect to the number of dependent variables for solving certain nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). These algorithms typically begin by transforming the original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Judd Katz , Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan , Abhijeet Alase

BDDs are representations of a Boolean expression in the form of a directed acyclic graph. BDDs are widely used in several fields, particularly in model checking and hardware verification. There are several implementations for BDD…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Luigi Capogrosso , Luca Geretti , Marco Cristani , Franco Fummi , Tiziano Villa

A binary string of length $2^k$ induces the Boolean function of $k$ variables whose Shannon expansion is the given binary string. This Boolean function then is representable via a unique reduced ordered binary decision diagram (ROBDD). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-08 J. Kieffer , P. Flajolet , E. -h. Yang