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This paper demonstrates the relativity of Computability and Nondeterministic; the nondeterministic is just Turing's undecidable Decision rather than the Nondeterministic Polynomial time. Based on analysis about TM, UM, DTM, NTM, Turing…

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We prove two sets of results concerning computational complexity classes. The first concerns a variation of the random oracle hypothesis posed by Bennett and Gill after they showed that relative to a randomly chosen oracle, P not equal NP…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Alex Creiner , Stephen Jackson

Selective classifiers improve model reliability by abstaining on inputs the model deems uncertain. However, few practical approaches achieve the gold-standard performance of a perfect-ordering oracle that accepts examples exactly in order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stephan Rabanser , Nicolas Papernot

We start by an introduction to the basic concepts of computability theory and the introduction of the concept of Turing machine and computation universality. Then se turn to the exploration of trade-offs between different measures of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Joost J. Joosten , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

Variable selection for models including interactions between explanatory variables often needs to obey certain hierarchical constraints. The weak or strong structural hierarchy requires that the existence of an interaction term implies at…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Yiyuan She , Zhifeng Wang , He Jiang

The Ku\v{c}era-G\'acs theorem is a landmark result in algorithmic randomness asserting that every real is computable from a Martin-L\"of random real. If the computation of the first $n$ bits of a sequence requires $n+h(n)$ bits of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-13 George Barmpalias , Andrew Lewis-Pye , Jason Teutsch

Generating code from a natural language programming task is one of the most successful applications of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, the generated program may be buggy. Without an oracle, such as an existing, correct implementation or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thomas Valentin , Ardi Madadi , Gaetano Sapia , Marcel Böhme

We define an extension of lambda-calculus with dependents types that enables us to encode transparent and opaque probabilistic programs and prove a strong normalisation result for it by a reducibility technique. While transparent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Francesco A. Genco

Generic computability has been studied in group theory and we now study it in the context of classical computability theory. A set A of natural numbers is generically computable if there is a partial computable function f whose domain has…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Carl G. Jockusch , Paul E. Schupp

We introduce a notion of computable randomness for infinite sequences that generalises the classical version in two important ways. First, our definition of computable randomness is associated with imprecise probability models, in the sense…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Floris Persiau , Jasper De Bock , Gert de Cooman

The illusion phenomenon of large language models (LLMs) is the core obstacle to their reliable deployment. This article formalizes the large language model as a probabilistic Turing machine by constructing a "computational necessity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wang Xi , Quan Shi , Zenghui Ding , Jianqing Gao , Xianjun Yang

Testing can be key to software quality assurance. Automated verification may increase throughput and reduce human fallibility errors. Test scripts supply inputs, run programs and check their outputs mechanically using test oracles. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 William B. Langdon

For the classical mind, quantum mechanics is boggling enough; nevertheless more bizarre behavior could be imagined, thereby concentrating on propositional structures (empirical logics) that transcend the quantum domain. One can also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Karl Svozil

Cantor's ordinal numbers, a powerful extension of the natural numbers, are a cornerstone of set theory. They can be used to reason about the termination of processes, prove the consistency of logical systems, and justify some of the core…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tom de Jong , Nicolai Kraus , Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg , Chuangjie Xu

In this article, we investigate the arithmetical hierarchy from the perspective of realizability theory. An experimental observation in classical computability theory is that the notion of degrees of unsolvability for natural arithmetical…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Takayuki Kihara

We investigate the problem of deciding whether a given preference profile is close to having a certain nice structure, as for instance single-peaked, single-caved, single-crossing, value-restricted, best-restricted, worst-restricted,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Robert Bredereck , Jiehua Chen , Gerhard J. Woeginger

Semi-supervised active clustering (SSAC) utilizes the knowledge of a domain expert to cluster data points by interactively making pairwise "same-cluster" queries. However, it is impractical to ask human oracles to answer every pairwise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-12 Taewan Kim , Joydeep Ghosh

Due to common misconceptions about the Church-Turing thesis, it has been widely assumed that the Turing machine provides an upper bound on what is computable. This is not so. The new field of hypercomputation studies models of computation…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Toby Ord

Large language models (LLMs) can generate high-level diverse phenomena without explicitly programmed rules. This capability has led to their adoption within different agent-based models (ABMs) and social simulations. Recent studies…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Patrick Zhao , David Huu Pham , Nicholas Vincent

As machine learning and algorithmic decision making systems are increasingly being leveraged in high-stakes human-in-the-loop settings, there is a pressing need to understand the rationale of their predictions. Researchers have responded to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Jonathan Dinu , Jeffrey Bigham , J. Zico Kolter