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The Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) is a well-known example of monotonic reasoning, of intense practical interest due to fast solvers, complemented by rigorous fine-grained complexity results. However, for non-monotonic reasoning,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Victor Lagerkvist , Mohamed Maizia , Johannes Schmidt

This paper discloses a simple algorithm for encrypting text messages, based on the NP-completeness of the subset sum problem, such that the similarity between encryptions is roughly proportional to the semantic similarity between their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Nicholas Kersting

Constraint Satisfaction Problem on finite sets is known to be NP-complete in general but certain restrictions on the constraint language can ensure tractability. It was proved that if a constraint language has a weak near unanimity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Dmitriy Zhuk

In this paper we explore fundamental problems in randomized communication complexity such as computing Set Intersection on sets of size $k$ and Equality Testing between vectors of length $k$. Sa\u{g}lam and Tardos and Brody et al. showed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Dawei Huang , Seth Pettie , Yixiang Zhang , Zhijun Zhang

We consider the sorted top-$k$ problem whose goal is to recover the top-$k$ items with the correct order out of $n$ items using pairwise comparisons. In many applications, multiple rounds of interaction can be costly. We restrict our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Mark Braverman , Jieming Mao , Yuval Peres

We study a robust extensible bin packing problem with budgeted uncertainty, under a budgeted uncertainty model where item sizes are defined to lie in the intersection of a box with a one-norm ball. We propose a scenario generation algorithm…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Noam Goldberg , Michael Poss , Yariv Marmor

This paper presents a deterministic algorithmic approach of exploring the solution space of the Subset Sum Problem. The algorithm presented is input-robust and structurally adaptive. Exploration is guided and narrows into areas in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Thami Nkosi

NP complete problem is one of the most challenging issues. The question of whether all problems in NP are also in P is generally considered one of the most important open questions in mathematics and theoretical computer science as it has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Wenhong Tian , GuoZhong Li , Xinyang Wang , Qin Xiong , Yaqiu Jiang

The quantified constraint satisfaction problem (QCSP) is the problem of deciding, given a structure and a first-order prenex sentence whose quantifier-free part is the conjunction of atoms, whether or not the sentence holds on the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Hubie Chen

This article details the algorithmics in FLSSS, an R package for solving various subset sum problems. The fundamental algorithm engages the problem via combinatorial space compression adaptive to constraints, relaxations and variations that…

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We investigate the constrained synchronization problem for weakly acyclic, or partially ordered, input automata. We show that, for input automata of this type, the problem is always in NP. Furthermore, we give a full classification of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Stefan Hoffmann

In this paper we address the decision problem for a fragment of set theory with restricted quantification which extends the language studied in [4] with pair related quantifiers and constructs, in view of possible applications in the field…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Domenico Cantone , Cristiano Longo

The knapsack problem is a classic optimisation problem that has been recently extended in the setting of groups. Its study reveals to be interesting since it provides many different behaviours, depending on the considered class of groups.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Thibault Godin

We investigate determining the exact bounds of the frequencies of conjunctions based on frequent sets. Our scenario is an important special case of some general probabilistic logic problems that are known to be intractable. We show that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Nikolaj Tatti

The \Problem{knapsack} problem is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. It has been studied extensively from theoretical as well as practical perspectives as it is one of the most well-known NP-hard problems. The goal is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 MohammadHossein Bateni , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Saeed Seddighin , Cliff Stein

We consider an instance of the following problem: Parties P_1,..., P_k each receive an input x_i, and a coordinator (distinct from each of these parties) wishes to compute f(x_1,..., x_k) for some predicate f. We are interested in one-round…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Daniel Apon , Jonathan Katz , Alex J. Malozemoff

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) for first-order reducts of finitely bounded homogeneous structures form a large class of computational problems that might exhibit a complexity dichotomy, P versus NP-complete. A powerful method to…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Manuel Bodirsky , Bertalan Bodor

The concept of decomposition in computer science and engineering is considered a fundamental component of computational thinking and is prevalent in design of algorithms, software construction, hardware design, and more. We propose a simple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dror Fried , Axel Legay , Joël Ouaknine , Moshe Y. Vardi

The well-known sequentially lifted cover inequality is widely employed in solving mixed integer programs. However, it is still an open question whether a sequentially lifted cover inequality can be computed in polynomial time for a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Wei-Kun Chen , Yu-Hong Dai

Knapsack problem (KP) is a representative combinatorial optimization problem that aims to maximize the total profit by selecting a subset of items under given constraints on the total weights. In this study, we analyze a generalized version…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Yuta Nakamura , Takashi Takahashi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima