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Reservoir Computing is a type of recursive neural network commonly used for recognizing and predicting spatio-temporal events relying on a complex hierarchy of nested feedback loops to generate a memory functionality. The Reservoir…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 George Bourianoff , Daniele Pinna , Matthias Sitte , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Transparency and explainability are two important aspects to be considered when employing black-box machine learning models in high-stake applications. Providing counterfactual explanations is one way of catering this requirement. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shreya Meel , Mohamed Nomeir , Pasan Dissanayake , Sanghamitra Dutta , Sennur Ulukus

The so-called {\em leakage-chain rule} is a very important tool used in many security proofs. It gives an upper bound on the entropy loss of a random variable $X$ in case the adversary who having already learned some random variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Maciej Skorski

We reveal a natural algebraic problem whose complexity appears to interpolate between the well-known complexity classes BQP and NP: (*) Decide whether a univariate polynomial with exactly m monomial terms has a p-adic rational root. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Maurice Rojas

Multiparty computation (MPC) consists in several parties engaging in joint computation in such a way that each party's input and output remain private to that party. Whereas MPC protocols for specific computations have existed since the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Jesús Manjón

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods can be used to sample from posterior distributions when the likelihood function is unavailable or intractable, as is often the case in biological systems. ABC methods suffer from inefficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Charlie Rogers-Smith , Henri Pesonen , Samuel Kaski

In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, a user wants to retrieve a file from a database without revealing any information about the desired file's identity to the servers that store the database. In this paper, we study the PIR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Bar Sadeh , Yujie Gu , Itzhak Tamo

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used atomic simulations, but generating databases of atomic configurations used in fitting these models is a laborious process, requiring significant computational and human…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-26 Connor Allen , Albert P. Bartók

People and machines are collecting data at an unprecedented rate. Despite this newfound abundance of data, progress has been slow in sharing it for open science, business, and other data-intensive endeavors. Many such efforts are stymied by…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Johes Bater , Gregory Elliott , Craig Eggen , Satyender Goel , Abel Kho , Jennie Rogers

The problem of computing posterior functionals in general high-dimensional statistical models with possibly non-log-concave likelihood functions is considered. Based on the proof strategy of Nickl and Wang (2022), but using only local…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Randolf Altmeyer

In this paper, we study the multi-server setting of the \emph{Private Information Retrieval with Coded Side Information (PIR-CSI)} problem. In this problem, there are $K$ messages replicated across $N$ servers, and there is a user who…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Finding better solutions to combinatorial optimization problems could have a large positive impact on many real-world application areas, such as logistics. For this reason, significant efforts have been made to design novel optimisation…

In various fields, statistical models of interest are analytically intractable. As a result, statistical inference is greatly hampered by computational constraints. However, given a model, different users with different data are likely to…

Computation · Statistics 2020-07-01 Merijn Mestdagh , Stijn Verdonck , Kristof Meers , Tim Loossens , Francis Tuerlinckx

Suppose a database containing $M$ records is replicated in each of $N$ servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the retrieved record is secret against any up to $T$ servers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jingke Xu , Yaqian Zhang , Zhifang Zhang

In this work, we demonstrate a new way to perform classical multiparty computing amongst parties with limited computational resources. Our method harnesses quantum resources to increase the computational power of the individual parties. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Marco Clementi , Anna Pappa , Andreas Eckstein , Ian A. Walmsley , Elham Kashefi , Stefanie Barz

Suppose a database containing $M$ records is replicated across $N$ servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the retrieved record is secret against any up to $T$ servers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Jingke Xu , Zhifang Zhang

A sharp bound is obtained for the number of ways to express the monomial $X^n$ as a product of linear factors over $\mathbb{Z}/p^{\alpha}\mathbb{Z}$. The proof relies on an induction-on-scale procedure which is used to estimate the number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Jonathan Hickman , James Wright

In this paper, we argue that in many basic algorithms for machine learning, including support vector machine (SVM) for classification, principal component analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction, and regression for dependency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Mohammad Hossein Mousavi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Mahtab Mirmohseni

In this research, we have been constructing a large database of molecules by {\it ab initio} calculations. Currently, we have over 1.53 million entries of 6-31G* B3LYP optimized geometries and ten excited states by 6-31+G* TDDFT…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Maho Nakata

Inspired by connections to two dimensional quantum theory, we define several models of computation based on permuting distinguishable particles (which we call balls), and characterize their computational complexity. In the quantum setting,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Scott Aaronson , Adam Bouland , Greg Kuperberg , Saeed Mehraban