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Correlation testing provides a quick method of discriminating amongst potential terms to include in a nuclear mass formula or functional and is a necessary tool for further nuclear mass models; however a firm mathematical foundation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 M. G. Bertolli

Given query access to a monotone function $f\colon\{0,1\}^n\to\{0,1\}$ with certificate complexity $C(f)$ and an input $x^{\star}$, we design an algorithm that outputs a size-$C(f)$ subset of $x^{\star}$ certifying the value of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Meghal Gupta , Naren Sarayu Manoj

Inspired by Solomonoffs theory of inductive inference, we propose a prior based on circuit complexity. There are several advantages to this approach. First, it relies on a complexity measure that does not depend on the choice of UTM. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Cole Wyeth , Carl Sturtivant

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are utilized to ensure the safety of control systems. CBFs act as safety filters in order to provide safety guarantees without compromising system performance. These safety guarantees rely on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hongchao Zhang , Manan Tayal , Jackson Cox , Pushpak Jagtap , Shishir Kolathaya , Andrew Clark

We describe and motivate a proposed new approach to lowerbounding the circuit complexity of boolean functions, based on a new formalization of "patterns" as elements of a special basis of the vector space of all truth table properties. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Bruce K. Smith

Identifying features of molecular regulatory networks is an important problem in systems biology. It has been shown that the combinatorial logic of such networks can be captured in many cases by special functions called nested canalyzing in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-18 David Murrugarra , Reinhard Laubenbacher

The increasing complexity of control systems necessitates control laws that guarantee safety w.r.t. complex combinations of constraints. In this letter, we propose a framework to describe compositional safety specifications with control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Tamas G. Molnar , Aaron D. Ames

Randomized smoothing is currently considered the state-of-the-art method to obtain certifiably robust classifiers. Despite its remarkable performance, the method is associated with various serious problems such as "certified accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Peter Súkeník , Aleksei Kuvshinov , Stephan Günnemann

Classification of Non-linear Boolean functions is a long-standing problem in the area of theoretical computer science. In this paper, effort has been made to achieve a systematic classification of all n-variable Boolean functions, where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Ranjeet Kumar Rout , Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Sudhakar Sahoo

For typical first-order logical theories, satisfying assignments have a straightforward finite representation that can directly serve as a certificate that a given assignment satisfies the given formula. For non-linear real arithmetic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Enrico Lipparini , Stefan Ratschan

We relate the computational complexity of finite strings to universal representations of their underlying symmetries. First, Boolean functions are classified using the universal covering topologies of the circuits which enumerate them. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-20 John Scoville

Understanding properties of deep neural networks is an important challenge in deep learning. In this paper, we take a step in this direction by proposing a rigorous way of verifying properties of a popular class of neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-04 Nina Narodytska , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Leonid Ryzhyk , Mooly Sagiv , Toby Walsh

Many practical problems in almost all scientific and technological disciplines have been classified as computationally hard (NP-hard or even NP-complete). In life sciences, combinatorial optimization problems frequently arise in molecular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 H. Jose Antonio Martin

The node-averaged complexity of a problem captures the number of rounds nodes of a graph have to spend on average to solve the problem in the LOCAL model. A challenging line of research with regards to this new complexity measure is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Gustav Schmid

We consider the multiplicative complexity of Boolean functions with multiple bits of output, studying how large a multiplicative complexity is necessary and sufficient to provide a desired nonlinearity. For so-called $\Sigma\Pi\Sigma$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Magnus Gausdal Find , Joan Boyar

In this work we investigate into energy complexity, a Boolean function measure related to circuit complexity. Given a circuit $\mathcal{C}$ over the standard basis $\{\vee_2,\wedge_2,\neg\}$, the energy complexity of $\mathcal{C}$, denoted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Xiaoming Sun , Yuan Sun , Kewen Wu , Zhiyu Xia

We present a verification challenge based on the fractional cascading (FC) technique for accelerating repeated searches across a collection of sorted arrays. The specific context is nuclear cross section lookup in a simulation code, where a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Andrew R. Siegel

While the class of Polynomial Nets demonstrates comparable performance to neural networks (NN), it currently has neither theoretical generalization characterization nor robustness guarantees. To this end, we derive new complexity bounds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Zhenyu Zhu , Fabian Latorre , Grigorios G Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

Relations between the decision tree complexity and various other complexity measures of Boolean functions is a thriving topic of research in computational complexity. It is known that decision tree complexity is bounded above by the cube of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Rahul Chugh , Supartha Podder , Swagato Sanyal

Addressing the neural network-based optical channel equalizers, we quantify the trade-off between their performance and complexity by carrying out the comparative analysis of several neural network architectures, presenting the results for…