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Satisfiability of Boolean circuits is among the most known and important problems in theoretical computer science. This problem is NP-complete in general but becomes polynomial time when restricted either to monotone gates or linear gates.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Paweł M. Idziak , Jacek Krzaczkowski

It is known a method for converting a system of Boolean polynomial equations to a single Boolean polynomial equation with less variables. In this paper, we show a formula for systems of Boolean polynomial equations which is based on the…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Tomoya Machide

Explicit structural information has been proven to be encoded by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), serving as auxiliary knowledge to enhance model capabilities and improve performance in downstream NLP tasks. However, recent studies indicate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Li Zhou , Hao Jiang , Junjie Li , Zefeng Zhao , Feng Jiang , Wenyu Chen , Haizhou Li

Monotone Boolean functions, and the monotone Boolean circuits that compute them, have been intensively studied in complexity theory. In this paper we study the structure of Boolean functions in terms of the minimum number of negations in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Eric Blais , Clément L. Canonne , Igor C. Oliveira , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan

The parity decision tree model extends the decision tree model by allowing the computation of a parity function in one step. We prove that the deterministic parity decision tree complexity of any Boolean function is polynomially related to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Zhiqiang Zhang , Yaoyun Shi

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 studies the problem of finding an $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate solution to positive semidefinite programs. These are semidefinite programs in which all matrices in the constraints and objective are positive semidefinite and all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Richard Peng , Kanat Tangwongsan , Peng Zhang

LPMLN is a recently introduced formalism that extends answer set programs by adopting the log-linear weight scheme of Markov Logic. This paper investigates the relationships between LPMLN and two other extensions of answer set programs:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Joohyung Lee , Zhun Yang

Several variants of linear logic have been proposed to characterize complexity classes in the proofs-as-programs correspondence. Light linear logic (LLL) ensures a polynomial bound on reduction time, and characterizes in this way polynomial…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Matthieu Perrinel

Linear/non-linear (LNL) models, as described by Benton, soundly model a LNL term calculus and LNL logic closely related to intuitionistic linear logic. Every such model induces a canonical enrichment that we show soundly models a LNL lambda…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Bert Lindenhovius , Michael Mislove , Vladimir Zamdzhiev

In this paper, we show that while almost all functions require exponential size branching programs to compute, for all functions $f$ there is a branching program computing a doubly exponential number of copies of $f$ which has linear size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Aaron Potechin

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

We give upper and lower bounds on the power of subsystems of the Ideal Proof System (IPS), the algebraic proof system recently proposed by Grochow and Pitassi, where the circuits comprising the proof come from various restricted algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Michael A. Forbes , Amir Shpilka , Iddo Tzameret , Avi Wigderson

In this paper, we introduce BNN-DP, an efficient algorithmic framework for analysis of adversarial robustness of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs). Given a compact set of input points $T\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, BNN-DP computes lower and upper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Steven Adams , Andrea Patane , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti

Abduction is a fundamental and important form of non-monotonic reasoning. Given a knowledge base explaining how the world behaves it aims at finding an explanation for some observed manifestation. In this paper we focus on propositional…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Nadia Creignou , Johannes Schmidt , Michael Thomas

We show that for every homogeneous polynomial of degree $d$, if it has determinantal complexity at most $s$, then it can be computed by a homogeneous algebraic branching program (ABP) of size at most $O(d^5s)$. Moreover, we show that for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Abhranil Chatterjee , Mrinal Kumar , Ben Lee Volk

Arithmetic circuit complexity studies the complexity of computing polynomials using only arithmetic operations such as addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division. Polynomials over rings of integers model counting problems.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Balagopal Komarath , Harshil Mittal , Jayalal Sarma

Quantum entanglement is a fundamental property of quantum mechanics and plays a crucial role in quantum computation and information. We study entanglement via the lens of computational complexity by considering quantum generalizations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Pei Wu

We propose a novel learning paradigm for Deep Neural Networks (DNN) by using Boolean logic algebra. We first present the basic differentiable operators of a Boolean system such as conjunction, disjunction and exclusive-OR and show how these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Ali Payani , Faramarz Fekri

Recent studies reveal that branching bisimilarity is decidable for both nBPP (normed Basic Parallel Process) and nBPA (normed Basic Process Algebra). These results lead to the question if there are any other models in the hierarchy of PRS…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Qiang Yin , Yuxi Fu , Chaodong He , Mingzhang Huang , Xiuting Tao