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Probabilistic circuits (PCs) are a unifying representation for probabilistic models that support tractable inference. Numerous applications of PCs like controllable text generation depend on the ability to efficiently multiply two circuits.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Honghua Zhang , Benjie Wang , Marcelo Arenas , Guy Van den Broeck

It is already shown that a Boolean function for a NP-complete problem can be computed by a polynomial-sized circuit if its variables have enough number of automorphisms. Looking at this previous study from the different perspective gives us…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Satoshi Tazawa

This is yet another version of the course notes in chao-dyn/9407003. Here we change the universal Turing machine that is used to measure program-size complexity so that the constants in our information-theoretic incompleteness theorems are…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 G. J. Chaitin

We say that a circuit $C$ over a field $F$ functionally computes an $n$-variate polynomial $P$ if for every $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ we have that $C(x) = P(x)$. This is in contrast to syntactically computing $P$, when $C \equiv P$ as formal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Michael A. Forbes , Mrinal Kumar , Ramprasad Saptharishi

The complexity class CLS was introduced by Daskalakis and Papadimitriou with the goal of capturing the complexity of some well-known problems in PPAD$~\cap~$PLS that have resisted, in some cases for decades, attempts to put them in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-10 John Fearnley , Spencer Gordon , Ruta Mehta , Rahul Savani

This paper establishes the separation of complexity classes $\mathbf{P}$ and $\mathbf{NP}$ through a novel homological algebraic approach grounded in category theory. We construct the computational category $\mathbf{Comp}$, embedding…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jian-Gang Tang

The effects of a boundary on the circuit complexity are studied in two dimensional theories. The analysis is performed in the holographic realization of a conformal field theory with a boundary by employing different proposals for the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-15 Paolo Braccia , Aldo L. Cotrone , Erik Tonni

Complexity theory as practiced by physicists and computational complexity theory as practiced by computer scientists both characterize how difficult it is to solve complex problems. Here it is shown that the parameters of a specific model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 S. N. Coppersmith

Theoretical computer scientists have been debating the role of oracles since the 1970's. This paper illustrates both that oracles can give us nontrivial insights about the barrier problems in circuit complexity, and that they need not…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Scott Aaronson

Proving complexity lower bounds remains a challenging task: we only know how to prove conditional uniform lower bounds and nonuniform lower bounds in restricted circuit models. Williams (STOC 2010) showed how to derive nonuniform lower…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Nikolai Chukhin , Alexander S. Kulikov , Ivan Mihajlin , Arina Smirnova

Probabilistic Circuits (PCs) are deep generative models that support exact and efficient probabilistic inference. Yet in autoregressive language modeling, PCs still lag behind Transformer-based large language models (LLMs), suggesting an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhiyu Zhao , Xuejie Liu , Muhan Zhang , Anji Liu

Quantum circuit complexity has played a central role in recent advances in holography and many-body physics. Within quantum field theory, it has typically been studied in a Lorentzian (real-time) framework. In a departure from standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Josiah Couch , Yale Fan , Sanjit Shashi

This paper depicts algorithms for solving the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem. An extreme problem is formulated to analyze the complexity of algorithms and the complexity for solving it. A novel and easy reformulation as a lottery…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Carlos Barrón-Romero

In 1990 Subramanian defined the complexity class CC as the set of problems log-space reducible to the comparator circuit value problem (CCV). He and Mayr showed that NL \subseteq CC \subseteq P, and proved that in addition to CCV several…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Stephen A. Cook , Yuval Filmus , Dai Tri Man Le

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

Bootstrap percolation is a class of cellular automata with random initial state. Two-dimensional bootstrap percolation models have three rough universality classes, the most studied being the `critical' one. For this class the scaling of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Ivailo Hartarsky , Tamás Róbert Mezei

Circuit complexity has been used as a tool to study various properties in condensed matter systems, in particular as a way to probe the phase diagram. However, compared with measures based on entanglement, complexity has been found lacking.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Nishan C. Jayarama , Viktor Svensson

Representations of Boolean functions by real polynomials play an important role in complexity theory. Typically, one is interested in the least degree of a polynomial p(x_1,...,x_n) that approximates or sign-represents a given Boolean…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-05-15 Alexander A. Sherstov

In this article, we continue our study on universal learning machine by introducing new tools. We first discuss boolean function and boolean circuit, and we establish one set of tools, namely, fitting extremum and proper sampling set. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Chuyu Xiong

Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to revolutionize various fields, including code development, robotics, finance, and education, due to their extensive prior knowledge and rapid advancements. This paper investigates how LLMs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Liangliang Chen , Zhihao Qin , Yiming Guo , Jacqueline Rohde , Ying Zhang