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This work explores the effects of relevant and irrelevant boolean variables on the accuracy of classifiers. The analysis uses the assumption that the variables are conditionally independent given the class, and focuses on a natural family…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-12 David P. Helmbold , Philip M. Long

In this paper, we establish a new bound tying together the effective length and the maximum correlation between the outputs of an arbitrary pair of Boolean functions which operate on two sequences of correlated random variables. We derive a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Curriculum Learning is the presentation of samples to the machine learning model in a meaningful order instead of a random order. The main challenge of Curriculum Learning is determining how to rank these samples. The ranking of the samples…

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When students are learning to use math in physics, one of the most important ideas they need to learn is that equations are not just calculational tools; they represent relationships between physical variables that change together (covary).…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-03-20 Edward F. Redish

We describe a new class of Boolean functions which provide the presently best known trade-off between low computational complexity, nonlinearity and (fast) algebraic immunity. In particular, for $n\leq 20$, we show that there are functions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Claude Carlet , Palash Sarkar

We develop a method for training neural networks on Boolean data in which the values at all nodes are strictly $\pm 1$, and the resulting models are typically equivalent to networks whose nonzero weights are also $\pm 1$. The method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Veit Elser , Manish Krishan Lal

Polynomial representations of Boolean functions over various rings such as $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_m$ have been studied since Minsky and Papert (1969). From then on, they have been employed in a large variety of fields including…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Xiaoming Sun , Yuan Sun , Jiaheng Wang , Kewen Wu , Zhiyu Xia , Yufan Zheng

The work in this article is concerned with two different types of families of finite sets: separating families and splitting families (they are also called "systems"). These families have applications in combinatorial search, coding theory,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Daniel Condon , Samuel Coskey , Luke Serafin , Cody Stockdale

The lower and upper bound of any given algorithm is one of the most crucial pieces of information needed when evaluating the computational effectiveness for said algorithm. Here a novel method of Boolean Algebraic Programming for symbolic…

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Boolean functions with few-valued spectra have wide applications in cryptography, coding theory, sequence designs, etc. In this paper, we further study the parametric construction approach to obtain balanced Boolean functions using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qiancheng Zhang , Kangquan Li , Longjiang Qu

We provide two sufficient and necessary conditions to characterize any $n$-bit partial Boolean function with exact quantum 1-query complexity. Using the first characterization, we present all $n$-bit partial Boolean functions that depend on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Guoliang Xu , Daowen Qiu

Every partial function from bit strings of a given length to bit strings of a possibly different given length can be computed by a finite instruction sequence that contains only instructions to set and get the content of Boolean registers,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-28 J. A. Bergstra , C. A. Middelburg

Probabilistic logic programs are logic programs in which some of the facts are annotated with probabilities. This paper investigates how classical inference and learning tasks known from the graphical model community can be tackled for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Daan Fierens , Guy Van den Broeck , Joris Renkens , Dimitar Shterionov , Bernd Gutmann , Ingo Thon , Gerda Janssens , Luc De Raedt

A long-investigated problem in circuit complexity theory is to decompose an $n$-input or $n$-variable Majority Boolean function (call it $M_n$) using $k$-input ones ($M_k$), $k < n$, where the objective is to achieve the decomposition using…

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In this paper, we study uniqueness problems for an entire function that shares small functions of finite order with their difference operators. In particular, we give a generalization of results in [2,3,13].

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Abdallah El Farissi , Zinelâabidine Latreuch , Benharrat Belaïdi , Asim Asiri

Separation is a classical problem in mathematics and computer science. It asks whether, given two sets belonging to some class, it is possible to separate them by another set of a smaller class. We present and discuss the separation problem…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Lorijn van Rooijen , Marc Zeitoun

A Boolean function of n bits is balanced if it takes the value 1 with probability 1/2. We exhibit a balanced Boolean function with a randomized evaluation procedure (with probability 0 of making a mistake) so that on uniformly random…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Itai Benjamini , Oded Schramm , David B. Wilson

We study functional clones, which are sets of non-negative pseudo-Boolean functions (functions $\{0,1\}^k\to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$) closed under (essentially) multiplication, summation and limits. Functional clones naturally form a lattice…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Andrei Bulatov , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum , David Richerby , Stanislav Živný

We show nearly quadratic separations between two pairs of complexity measures: 1. We show that there is a Boolean function $f$ with $D(f)=\Omega((D^{sc}(f))^{2-o(1)})$ where $D(f)$ is the deterministic query complexity of $f$ and $D^{sc}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Andris Ambainis , Martins Kokainis

A vast class of exponential functions are shown to be deterministic. This class includes functions whose exponents are polynomial-like or "piece-wise" close to polynomials after differentiation. Many of these functions are proved to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Weichen Gu , Fei Wei