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We investigate the algebraic reasoning of quantum programs inspired by the success of classical program analysis based on Kleene algebra. One prominent example of such is the famous Kleene Algebra with Tests (KAT), which has furnished both…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yuxiang Peng , Mingsheng Ying , Xiaodi Wu

A variant of Turing machines is introduced where the tape is replaced by a single tree which can be manipulated in a style akin to purely functional programming. This yields two benefits: first, the extra structure on the tape can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Arnaud Spiwack

Kernel methods are powerful machine learning techniques which implement generic non-linear functions to solve complex tasks in a simple way. They Have a solid mathematical background and exhibit excellent performance in practice. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 J. Emmanuel Johnson , Valero Laparra , Adrián Pérez-Suay , Miguel D. Mahecha , Gustau Camps-Valls

Martin's Conjecture is a proposed classification of the definable functions on the Turing degrees. It is usually divided into two parts, the first of which classifies functions which are not above the identity and the second of which…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Patrick Lutz , Benjamin Siskind

We give a presentation of Krivine and Parigot's Second-order functional arithmetic in Deduction modulo. Expressing this theory in Deduction modulo sheds light on an original aspect of this theory: the fact that programs are specified, not…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Gilles Dowek

The architecture of neural Turing machines is differentiable end to end and is trainable with gradient descent methods. Due to their large unfolded depth Neural Turing Machines are hard to train and because of their linear access of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Janez Aleš

The goals of this work are two-fold: firstly, to propose a new theoretical framework for representing random fields on a large class of multidimensional geometrical domain in the tensor train format; secondly, to develop a new algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Ling-Ze Bu , Wei Zhao , Wei Wang

We demonstrate that the Weihrauch lattice can be used to classify the uniform computational content of computability-theoretic properties as well as the computational content of theorems in one common setting. The properties that we study…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Vasco Brattka , Matthew Hendtlass , Alexander P. Kreuzer

Turing's (1936) paper on computable numbers has played its role in underpinning different perspectives on the world of information. On the one hand, it encourages a digital ontology, with a perceived flatness of computational structure…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-06-23 S. Barry Cooper

Special functions, coding theory and $t$-designs have close connections and interesting interplay. A standard approach to constructing $t$-designs is the use of linear codes with certain regularity. The Assmus-Mattson Theorem and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Chunming Tang , Cunsheng Ding , Maosheng Xiong

We present efficient algorithms to decide whether two given counting functions on non-abelian free groups or monoids are at bounded distance from each other and to decide whether two given counting quasimorphisms on non-abelian free groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Tobias Hartnick , Alexey Talambutsa

The classical problem in network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers which decode the same set of messages. In this work, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Changho Suh , Naveen Goela , Michael Gastpar

Coded computing has emerged as a promising framework for tackling significant challenges in large-scale distributed computing, including the presence of slow, faulty, or compromised servers. In this approach, each worker node processes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Kleene algebra (KA) is an important tool for reasoning about general program equivalences, with a decidable and complete equational theory. However, KA cannot always prove equivalences between specific programs. For this purpose, one adds…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Liam Chung , Tobias Kappé

Computability logic (CL) (see http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~giorgi/cl.html) is a semantical platform and research program for redeveloping logic as a formal theory of computability, as opposed to the formal theory of truth which it has more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-15 Giorgi Japaridze

We consider computations of a Turing machine subjected to noise. In every step, the action (the new state and the new content of the observed cell, the direction of the head movement) can differ from that prescribed by the transition…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ilir Çapuni , Peter Gács

Recursive analysis was introduced by A. Turing [1936], A. Grzegorczyk [1955], and D. Lacombe [1955]. It is based on a discrete mechanical framework that can be used to model computation over the real numbers. In this context the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Walid Gomaa

First-order model counting (FOMC) is the problem of counting the number of models of a sentence in first-order logic. Since lifted inference techniques rely on reductions to variants of FOMC, the design of scalable methods for FOMC has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ananth K. Kidambi , Guramrit Singh , Paulius Dilkas , Kuldeep S. Meel

Quantum computing is emerging as a new computing resource that could be superior to conventional computing for certain classes of optimization problems. However, in principle, most existing approaches to quantum optimization are intended to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Chin-Yao Chang , Eric Jones , Yiyun Yao , Peter Graf , Rishabh Jain

Variational Quantum Algorithms are promising candidates for near-term quantum computing, yet they face scalability challenges due to barren plateaus, where gradients vanish exponentially relative to system size. Recent conjectures suggest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Sabri Meyer , Francesco Scala , Francesco Tacchino , Aurelien Lucchi