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Entanglement is the defining characteristic of quantum mechanics. Bipartite entanglement is characterized by the von Neumann entropy. Entanglement is not just described by a number, however; it is also characterized by its level of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Sarah True , Alioscia Hamma

In our companion paper \cite{Stojnicclupint19} we introduced a powerful mechanism that we referred to as the Controlled Loosening-up (CLuP) for handling MIMO ML-detection problems. It turned out that the algorithm has many remarkable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Mihailo Stojnic

We investigate in a method for proving separation results for abstract classes of languages. A well established method to characterize varieties of regular languages are identities. We use a recently established generalization of these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Silke Czarnetzki , Andreas Krebs

Many algorithms for processing probabilistic networks are dependent on the topological properties of the problem's structure. Such algorithms (e.g., clustering, conditioning) are effective only if the problem has a sparse graph captured by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Yousri El Fattah , Rina Dechter

The decision problems of the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle or of a Hamiltonian path in a given graph, and of the existence of a truth assignment satisfying a given Boolean formula $C$, are well-known {\it NP}-complete problems. Here we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Olivier Hudry , Antoine Lobstein

In a \emph{separability problem}, we are given two sets $K$ and $L$ from a class $\mathcal{C}$, and we want to decide whether there exists a set $S$ from a class $\mathcal{S}$ such that $K\subseteq S$ and $S\cap L=\emptyset$. In this case,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Elias Rojas Collins , Chris Köcher , Georg Zetzsche

Predicting the runtime complexity of a programming code is an arduous task. In fact, even for humans, it requires a subtle analysis and comprehensive knowledge of algorithms to predict time complexity with high fidelity, given any code. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jagriti Sikka , Kushal Satya , Yaman Kumar , Shagun Uppal , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Roger Zimmermann

We show two novel concentration inequalities for suprema of empirical processes when sampling without replacement, which both take the variance of the functions into account. While these inequalities may potentially have broad applications…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-27 Ilya Tolstikhin , Gilles Blanchard , Marius Kloft

In the classic Correlation Clustering problem introduced by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla (FOCS 2002), the input is a complete graph where edges are labeled either $+$ or $-$, and the goal is to find a partition of the vertices that minimizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Shi Li , Alantha Newman , Lukas Vogl

Ever since entanglement was identified as a computational and cryptographic resource, researchers have sought efficient ways to tell whether a given density matrix represents an unentangled, or separable, state. This paper gives the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lawrence M. Ioannou

\emph{Circuit analysis} is a promising technique for understanding the internal mechanisms of language models. However, existing analyses are done in small models far from the state of the art. To address this, we present a case study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tom Lieberum , Matthew Rahtz , János Kramár , Neel Nanda , Geoffrey Irving , Rohin Shah , Vladimir Mikulik

We investigate the possibility to separate the bisimulation-invariant fragment of P from that of NP, resp. PSPACE. We build on Otto's Theorem stating that the bisimulation-invariant queries in P are exactly those that are definable in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Florian Bruse , Martin Lange

In this paper we analyze the notion of "stopping time complexity", informally defined as the amount of information needed to specify when to stop while reading an infinite sequence. This notion was introduced by Vovk and Pavlovic (2016). It…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Mikhail Andreev , Gleb Posobin , Alexander Shen

The complexity of bilinear maps (equivalently, of $3$-mode tensors) has been studied extensively, most notably in the context of matrix multiplication. While circuit complexity and tensor rank coincide asymptotically for $3$-mode tensors,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Cornelius Brand , Radu Curticapean , Petteri Kaski , Baitian Li , Ian Orzel , Tim Seppelt , Jiaheng Wang

Circuits are fundamental objects in linear programming and oriented matroid theory, representing the elementary difference vectors of a polyhedron between points in its affine space. A recent concept introduced by Ekbatani, Natura, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Steffen Borgwardt , Nicholas Crawford , Sean Kafer , Jon Lee , Angela Morrison

We study a polynomial-time decision problem in which each input encodes a depth-$N$ causal execution in which a single non-duplicable token must traverse an ordered sequence of steps, revealing at most $O(1)$ bits of routing information at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Jing-Yuan Wei

For a Boolean function $\Phi\colon\{0,1\}^d\to\{0,1\}$ and an assignment to its variables $\mathbf{x}=(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_d)$ we consider the problem of finding the subsets of the variables that are sufficient to determine the function…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Stephan Wäldchen , Jan Macdonald , Sascha Hauch , Gitta Kutyniok

Since their appearance in the 1950s, computational models capable of performing probabilistic choices have received wide attention and are nowadays pervasive in almost every areas of computer science. Their development was also inextricably…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Melissa Antonelli , Ugo Dal Lago , Paolo Pistone

We study the complexity of locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems on $\mathbb{Z}^n$ from the point of view of descriptive set theory, computability theory, and factors of i.i.d. Our results separate various complexity classes that were…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Katalin Berlow , Anton Bernshteyn , Clark Lyons , Felix Weilacher

We study the phase diagram and the algorithmic hardness of the random `locked' constraint satisfaction problems, and compare them to the commonly studied 'non-locked' problems like satisfiability of boolean formulas or graph coloring. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-09 Lenka Zdeborová , Marc Mézard