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Reversible simulation of irreversible algorithms is analyzed in the stylized form of a `reversible' pebble game. While such simulations incur little overhead in additional computation time, they use a large amount of additional memory space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ming Li , John Tromp , Paul Vitanyi

We present a new method for inferring complexity properties for a class of programs in the form of flowcharts annotated with loop information. Specifically, our method can (soundly and completely) decide if computed values are polynomially…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Amir M. Ben-Amram , Aviad Pineles

Inverse problems are central to a wide range of fields, including healthcare, climate science, and agriculture. They involve the estimation of inputs, typically via iterative optimization, to some known forward model so that it produces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sean Memery , Kevin Denamganai , Anna Kapron-King , Kartic Subr

In the well-known complexity class NP are combinatorial problems, whose optimization counterparts are important for many practical settings. These problems typically consider full knowledge about the input. In practical settings, however,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Christoph Grüne

Motivated by algorithmic problems from combinatorial group theory we study computational properties of integers equipped with binary operations +, -, z = x 2^y, z = x 2^{-y} (the former two are partial) and predicates < and =. Notice that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Alexei G. Myasnikov , Alexander Ushakov , Dong Wook Won

Let $S$ be a rational fraction and let $f$ be a polynomial over a finite field. Consider the transform $T(f)=\operatorname{numerator}(f(S))$. In certain cases, the polynomials $f$, $T(f)$, $T(T(f))\dots$ are all irreducible. For instance,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Alp Bassa , Gaetan Bisson , Roger Oyono

In this paper we explore fundamental concepts in computational complexity theory and the boundaries of algorithmic decidability. We examine the relationship between complexity classes \textbf{P} and \textbf{NP}, where $L \in \textbf{P}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

This article surveys quantum computational complexity, with a focus on three fundamental notions: polynomial-time quantum computations, the efficient verification of quantum proofs, and quantum interactive proof systems. Properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 John Watrous

Computing control invariant sets is paramount in many applications. The families of sets commonly used for computations are ellipsoids and polyhedra. However, searching for a control invariant set over the family of ellipsoids is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Benoît Legat , Saša V. Raković , Raphaël M. Jungers

Reversible computation is one of the most promising emerging technologies of the future. The usage of reversible circuits in computing devices can lead to a significantly lower power consumption. In this paper we study reversible logic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Dmitry V. Zakablukov

A moldable job is a job that can be executed on an arbitrary number of processors, and whose processing time depends on the number of processors allotted to it. A moldable job is monotone if its work doesn't decrease for an increasing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Klaus Jansen , Felix Land

We present an extension to the $\mathtt{mathlib}$ library of the Lean theorem prover formalizing the foundations of computability theory. We use primitive recursive functions and partial recursive functions as the main objects of study, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Mario Carneiro

We assess the computational complexity of several decision problems concerning (Murray-von Neumann) equivalence classes of projections of AF-algebras whose Elliott classifier is lattice-ordered. We construct polytime reductions among many…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Daniele Mundici

Time series classification has received great attention over the past decade with a wide range of methods focusing on predictive performance by exploiting various types of temporal features. Nonetheless, little emphasis has been placed on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Isak Karlsson , Jonathan Rebane , Panagiotis Papapetrou , Aristides Gionis

We study the computational complexity of universality and inclusion problems for unambiguous finite automata and context-free grammars. We observe that several such problems can be reduced to the universality problem for unambiguous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Lorenzo Clemente

We define a class of functions termed "Computable in the Limit", based on the Machine Learning paradigm of "Identification in the Limit". A function is Computable in the Limit if it defines a property P_p of a recursively enumerable class A…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Antony Van der Mude

We study here several variants of the covariates fine balance problem where we generalize some of these problems and introduce a number of others. We present here a comprehensive complexity study of the covariates problems providing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Dorit S. Hochbaum , Asaf Levin , Xu Rao

In computational design and fabrication, neural networks are becoming important surrogates for bulky forward simulations. A long-standing, intertwined question is that of inverse design: how to compute a design that satisfies a desired…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Navid Ansari , Hans-Peter Seidel , Vahid Babaei

We develop a theory of complexity for numerical computations that takes into account the condition of the input data and allows for roundoff in the computations. We follow the lines of the theory developed by Blum, Shub, and Smale for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Felipe Cucker

In this article, we present a geometric theoretical analysis of semidefinite feasibility problems (SDFPs). This is done by decomposing a SDFP into smaller problems, in a way that preserves most feasibility properties of the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Bruno F. Lourenço , Masakazu Muramatsu , Takashi Tsuchiya