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Quantum Computing (QC) offers outstanding potential for molecular characterization and drug discovery, particularly in solving complex properties like the Ground State Energy (GSE) of biomolecules. However, QC faces challenges due to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Laia Coronas Sala , Parfait Atchade-Adelemou

In this note we show that any $k$-CNF which can be refuted by a quasi-polynomial $\mathsf{Res}^*(\mathsf{polylog})$ refutation has a "narrow" refutation in $\mathsf{Res}$ (i.e., of poly-logarithmic width). We also show the converse…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Massimo Lauria

In this paper, we investigate the proof complexity of a wide range of substructural systems. For any proof system $\mathbf{P}$ at least as strong as Full Lambek calculus, $\mathbf{FL}$, and polynomially simulated by the extended Frege…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Raheleh Jalali

The minimization of propositional formulae is a classical problem in logic, whose first algorithms date back at least to the 1950s with the works of Quine and Karnaugh. Most previous work in the area has focused on obtaining minimal, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Eduardo Calò , Jordi Levy

Does every Boolean tautology have a short propositional-calculus proof? Here, a propositional calculus (i.e. Frege) proof is a proof starting from a set of axioms and deriving new Boolean formulas using a set of fixed sound derivation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Fu Li , Iddo Tzameret , Zhengyu Wang

Quantified Conflict Driven Clause Leaning (QCDCL) is one of the main approaches to solving Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF). Cube-learning is employed in this approach to ensure that true formulas can be verified. Dependency Schemes help…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Abhimanyu Choudhury , Meena Mahajan

Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a principled framework for decision-making in partially observable environments, which can be modeled as Markov decision processes and compactly represented through dynamic decision Bayesian networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Gilberto Cunha , Alexandra Ramôa , André Sequeira , Michael de Oliveira , Luís Barbosa

The QBF Gallery 2023, the last QBF evaluation event, continues the tradition to survey and document the state of the art in solving quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs). It provides a detailed overview by collecting newly developed solvers…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Simone Heisinger , Luca Pulina , Martina Seidl

Quantized compressive sensing (QCS) deals with the problem of coding compressive measurements of low-complexity signals with quantized, finite precision representations, i.e., a mandatory process involved in any practical sensing model.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Chunlei Xu , Laurent Jacques

The quantified Boolean formula problem (QBF) is a well-known PSpace-complete problem with rich expressive power, and is generally viewed as the SAT analogue for PSpace. Given that many problems today are solved in practice by reducing to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist , Sebastian Ordyniak , George Osipov , Fahad Panolan , Mateusz Rychlicki

Linear detectors such as zero forcing (ZF) or minimum mean square error (MMSE) are imperative for large/massive MIMO systems for both the downlink and uplink scenarios. However these linear detectors require matrix inversion which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vipul Gupta , Abhay Kumar Sah , A. K. Chaturvedi

This study focuses on addressing the challenge of solving the reduced biquaternion equality constrained least squares (RBLSE) problem. We develop algebraic techniques to derive real and complex solutions for the RBLSE problem by utilizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Sk. Safique Ahmad , Neha Bhadala

We introduce a new general purpose multiresolution preconditioner for symmetric linear systems. Most existing multiresolution preconditioners use some standard wavelet basis that relies on knowledge of the geometry of the underlying domain.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Risi Kondor

In 2003, Atserias and Dalmau resolved a major open question about the resolution proof system by establishing that the space complexity of CNF formulas is always an upper bound on the width needed to refute them. Their proof is beautiful…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Yuval Filmus , Massimo Lauria , Mladen Mikša , Jakob Nordström , Marc Vinyals

Minimum Bayes risk (MBR) decoding is a decision rule of text generation tasks that outperforms conventional maximum a posterior (MAP) decoding using beam search by selecting high-quality outputs based on a utility function rather than those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hiroyuki Deguchi , Yusuke Sakai , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

Quantified Integer Programming (QIP) bridges multiple domains by extending Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) to incorporate general integer variables and linear constraints while also generalizing Integer Programming through variable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Michael Hartisch , Leroy Chew

Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding is a powerful decoding strategy widely used for text generation tasks, but its quadratic computational complexity limits its practical application. This paper presents a novel approach for approximating MBR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Firas Trabelsi , David Vilar , Mara Finkelstein , Markus Freitag

We introduce a novel framework for implementing error-correction in constrained systems. The main idea of our scheme, called Quantized-Constraint Concatenation (QCC), is to employ a process of embedding the codewords of an error-correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Dor Elimelech , Tom Meyerovitch , Moshe Schwartz

We consider planning with uncertainty in the initial state as a case study of incremental quantified Boolean formula (QBF) solving. We report on experiments with a workflow to incrementally encode a planning instance into a sequence of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Uwe Egly , Martin Kronegger , Florian Lonsing , Andreas Pfandler

Quantum error mitigation (QEM) strategies are essential for improving the precision and reliability of quantum chemistry algorithms on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Reference-state error mitigation (REM) is a cost-effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Hang Zou , Erika Magnusson , Hampus Brunander , Werner Dobrautz , Martin Rahm