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A dichotomy theorem for counting problems due to Creignou and Hermann states that or any nite set S of logical relations, the counting problem #SAT(S) is either in FP, or #P-complete. In the present paper we show a dichotomy theorem for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Irénée Briquel , Pascal Koiran

We study border varieties of sums of powers ($\underline{\mathrm{VSP}}$'s for short), recently introduced by Buczy\'nska and Buczy\'nski, parameterizing border rank decompositions of a point (e.g. of a tensor or a homogeneous polynomial)…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Tomasz Mańdziuk , Emanuele Ventura

We prove that computing the deterministic communication complexity of a Boolean function, given its truth table, is \textsf{NP}-complete in the standard protocol-tree-depth model, addressing a meta-complexity question raised by Yao in 1979.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Serge Gaspers , Tao Zixu He , Simon Mackenzie

The framework of algebraically natural proofs was independently introduced in the works of Forbes, Shpilka and Volk (2018), and Grochow, Kumar, Saks and Saraf (2017), to study the efficacy of commonly used techniques for proving lower…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Prerona Chatterjee , Mrinal Kumar , C Ramya , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Anamay Tengse

Some 25 years ago Valiant introduced an algebraic model of computation in order to study the complexity of evaluating families of polynomials. The theory was introduced along with the complexity classes VP and VNP which are analogues of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-23 Uffe Flarup , Laurent Lyaudet

The vertex algebras $V^{(p)}$ and $R^{(p)}$ introduced in [2] are very interesting relatives of the famous triplet algebras of logarithmic CFT. The algebra $V^{(p)}$ (respectively, $R^{(p)}$) is a large extension of the simple affine vertex…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Drazen Adamovic , Thomas Creutzig , Naoki Genra , Jinwei Yang

In this short note, we reduce lower bounds on monotone projections of polynomials to lower bounds on extended formulations of polytopes. Applying our reduction to the seminal extended formulation lower bounds of Fiorini, Massar, Pokutta,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Joshua A. Grochow

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension is a combinatorial parameter that reflects the "complexity" of a set of sets (a.k.a. concept classes). It has been introduced by Vapnik and Chervonenkis in their seminal 1971 paper and has since found many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Shai Ben-David

It has recently been shown that the problem of testing global convexity of polynomials of degree four is {strongly} NP-hard, answering an open question of N.Z. Shor. This result is minimal in the degree of the polynomial when global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

We develop a complexity theory for approximate real computations. We first produce a theory for exact computations but with condition numbers. The input size depends on a condition number, which is not assumed known by the machine. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gregorio Malajovich , Mike Shub

In this paper, we define and study variants of several complexity classes of decision problems that are defined via some criteria on the number of accepting paths of an NPTM. In these variants, we modify the acceptance criteria so that they…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Eleni Bakali , Aggeliki Chalki , Sotiris Kanellopoulos , Aris Pagourtzis , Stathis Zachos

This paper presents a novel and straight formulation, and gives a complete insight towards the understanding of the complexity of the problems of the so called NP-Class. In particular, this paper focuses in the Searching of the Optimal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-14 Carlos Barron-Romero

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

We extend the transfer theorem of [KP2007] to the complex field. That is, we investigate the links between the class VPSPACE of families of polynomials and the Blum-Shub-Smale model of computation over C. Roughly speaking, a family of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-06-12 Pascal Koiran , Sylvain Perifel

The website reductions.network serves as a comprehensive database for exploring problems and reductions between them. It presents several complexity classes in the form of an interconnected graph where problems are represented as vertices,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Christoph Grüne , Femke Pfaue

This paper presents the following results on sets that are complete for NP. 1. If there is a problem in NP that requires exponential time at almost all lengths, then every many-one NP-complete set is complete under length-increasing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Xiaoyang Gu , John M. Hitchcock , A. Pavan

Valiant's famous VP vs. VNP conjecture states that the symbolic permanent polynomial does not have polynomial-size algebraic circuits. However, the best upper bound on the size of the circuits computing the permanent is exponential.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Somnath Bhattacharjee , Markus Bläser , Pranjal Dutta , Saswata Mukherjee

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

Nonuniformity is a central concept in computational complexity with powerful connections to circuit complexity and randomness. Nonuniform reductions have been used to study the isomorphism conjecture for NP and completeness for larger…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-19 John M. Hitchcock , Hadi Shafei

Conventional deep learning models embed data in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, a poor fit for strictly hierarchical objects such as taxa, word senses, or file systems. We introduce van der Put Neural Networks (v-PuNNs), the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Gnankan Landry Regis N'guessan