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Large language models (LLMs) show strong performance across natural language processing (NLP), mathematical reasoning, and programming, and recent large reasoning models (LRMs) further emphasize explicit reasoning. Yet their computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Hyundong Jin , Joonghyuk Hahn , Yo-Sub Han

This paper introduces a more restrictive notion of feasibility of functionals on Baire space than the established one from second-order complexity theory. Thereby making it possible to consider functions on the natural numbers as running…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Akitoshi Kawamura , Florian Steinberg

We study a clean machine model for external memory and stream processing. We show that the number of scans of the external data induces a strict hierarchy (as long as work space is sufficiently small, e.g., polylogarithmic in the size of…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Grohe , Christoph Koch , Nicole Schweikardt

We introduce a new algebraic proof system, which has tight connections to (algebraic) circuit complexity. In particular, we show that any super-polynomial lower bound on any Boolean tautology in our proof system implies that the permanent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Joshua A. Grochow , Toniann Pitassi

This paper proposes a thought experiment to search for efficient bounded algorithms of NPC problems by machine enumeration. The key contributions are: -- On Universal Turing Machines, a program's time complexity should be characterized as:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-09 YuQian Zhou

We define counting classes #P_R and #P_C in the Blum-Shub-Smale setting of computations over the real or complex numbers, respectively. The problems of counting the number of solutions of systems of polynomial inequalities over R, or of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-17 Peter Buergisser , Felipe Cucker

In this work we advance the understanding of the fundamental limits of computation for Binary Polynomial Optimization (BPO), which is the problem of maximizing a given polynomial function over all binary points. In our main result we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Alberto Del Pia , Silvia Di Gregorio

A polynomial Turing compression (PTC) for a parameterized problem $L$ is a polynomial time Turing machine that has access to an oracle for a problem $L'$ such that a polynomial in the input parameter bounds each query. Meanwhile, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Weidong Luo

This paper addresses the problem of enumerating all supported efficient solutions for a linear multi-objective integer minimum cost flow problem (MOIMCF). It derives an output-polynomial time algorithm to determine all supported efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 David Könen , Michael Stiglmayr

We present a new strongly polynomial algorithm for generalized flow maximization that is significantly simpler and faster than the previous strongly polynomial algorithm [V\'egh16]. For the uncapacitated problem formulation, the complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Neil Olver , László A. Végh

The subcube partition model of computation is at least as powerful as decision trees but no separation between these models was known. We show that there exists a function whose deterministic subcube partition complexity is asymptotically…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Robin Kothari , David Racicot-Desloges , Miklos Santha

Traditional Turing machines are semantically poor, they only concern the syntactic manipulation of symbols, discarding the mathematical semantics behind the symbols. This semantic deficiency is considered the root cause of the three major…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bojin Zheng , Jingwen Zheng , Weiwu Wang

This dissertation proves lower bounds on the inherent difficulty of deciding flow analysis problems in higher-order programming languages. We give exact characterizations of the computational complexity of 0CFA, the $k$CFA hierarchy, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-11-20 David Van Horn

One of the big challenges in the development of probabilistic relational (or probabilistic logical) modeling and learning frameworks is the design of inference techniques that operate on the level of the abstract model representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Manfred Jaeger

Consider an algorithm computing in a differential field with several commuting derivations such that the only operations it performs with the elements of the field are arithmetic operations, differentiation, and zero testing. We show that,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Wei Li , Alexey Ovchinnikov , Gleb Pogudin , Thomas Scanlon

This paper presents a novel meta algorithm, Partition-Merge (PM), which takes existing centralized algorithms for graph computation and makes them distributed and faster. In a nutshell, PM divides the graph into small subgraphs using our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Vincent Blondel , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli , Devavrat Shah

Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are fundamental tools for modeling physical phenomena, yet most PDEs of practical interest cannot be solved analytically and require numerical approximations. The feasibility of such numerical methods,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Juan Esteban Suarez Cardona , Holger Boche , Gitta Kutyniok

Branching bisimilarity on normed Basic Process Algebra (BPA) was claimed to be EXPTIME-hard in previous papers without any explicit proof. Recently it is reminded by Jan\v{c}ar that the claim is not so dependable. In this paper, we develop…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Qiang Yin , Mingzhang Huang , Chaodong He

In this paper, we present PARTIME, a software library written in Python and based on PyTorch, designed specifically to speed up neural networks whenever data is continuously streamed over time, for both learning and inference. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Enrico Meloni , Lapo Faggi , Simone Marullo , Alessandro Betti , Matteo Tiezzi , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci

The article studies query evaluation in parallel constant time in the CRCW PRAM model. While it is well-known that all relational algebra queries can be evaluated in constant time on an appropriate CRCW PRAM model, this article is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jens Keppeler , Thomas Schwentick , Christopher Spinrath