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The trust region subproblem with a fixed number m additional linear inequality constraints, denoted by (Tm), have drawn much attention recently. The question as to whether Problem (Tm) is in Class P or Class NP remains open. So far, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Yong Hsia , Ruey-Lin Sheu

Modern practice for training classification deepnets involves a Terminal Phase of Training (TPT), which begins at the epoch where training error first vanishes; During TPT, the training error stays effectively zero while training loss is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Vardan Papyan , X. Y. Han , David L. Donoho

Neural Collapse (NC) is a well-known phenomenon of deep neural networks in the terminal phase of training (TPT). It is characterized by the collapse of features and classifier into a symmetrical structure, known as simplex equiangular tight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Peifeng Gao , Qianqian Xu , Yibo Yang , Peisong Wen , Huiyang Shao , Zhiyong Yang , Bernard Ghanem , Qingming Huang

Recent studies on Neural Collapse (NC) reveal that, under class-balanced conditions, the class feature means and classifier weights spontaneously align into a simplex equiangular tight frame (ETF). In long-tailed regimes, however, severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jinping Wang , Zhiqiang Gao , Zhiwu Xie

We study deep neural networks for the multi-label classification (MLab) task through the lens of neural collapse (NC). Previous works have been restricted to the multi-class classification setting and discovered a prevalent NC phenomenon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pengyu Li , Xiao Li , Yutong Wang , Qing Qu

In view of the extended formulations (EFs) developments (e.g. "Fiorini, S., S. Massar, S. Pokutta, H.R. Tiwary, and R. de Wolf [2015]. Exponential Lower Bounds for Polytopes in Combinatorial Optimization. Journal of the ACM 62:2"), we focus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Moustapha Diaby , Mark Karwan , Lei Sun

Federated prompt learning (FPL) for vision-language models is a powerful approach to collaboratively adapt models across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, existing FPL approaches suffer from a trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xinting Liao , Weiming Liu , Jiaming Qian , Pengyang Zhou , Jiahe Xu , Wenjie Wang , Chaochao Chen , Xiaolin Zheng , Tat-Seng Chua

We study the existence of optimal and p-optimal proof systems for classes in the Boolean hierarchy over $\mathrm{NP}$. Our main results concern $\mathrm{DP}$, i.e., the second level of this hierarchy: If all sets in $\mathrm{DP}$ have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Fabian Egidy , Christian Glaßer , Martin Herold

A continuous constraint satisfaction problem (CCSP) is a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) with an interval domain $U \subset \mathbb{R}$. We engage in a systematic study to classify CCSPs that are complete of the Existential Theory of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Tillmann Miltzow , Reinier F. Schmiermann

Recent advances in theoretical Deep Learning have introduced geometric properties that occur during training, past the Interpolation Threshold -- where the training error reaches zero. We inquire into the phenomena coined Neural Collapse in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Ido Ben-Shaul , Shai Dekel

The complexity classification of the Holant problem has remained unresolved for the past fifteen years. Counting complex-weighted Eulerian orientation problems, denoted as #EO, is regarded as one of the most significant challenges to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Boning Meng , Juqiu Wang , Mingji Xia

It is shown that the knapsack problem, which was introduced by Myasnikov et al. for arbitrary finitely generated groups, can be solved in NP for graph groups. This result even holds if the group elements are represented in a compressed form…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Markus Lohrey , Georg Zetzsche

We report progress on the \NL vs \UL problem. [-] We show unconditionally that the complexity class $\ReachFewL\subseteq\UL$. This improves on the earlier known upper bound $\ReachFewL \subseteq \FewL$. [-] We investigate the complexity of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Aduri Pavan , Raghunath Tewari , N. V. Vinodchandran

Neural Collapse (NC) is a recently observed phenomenon in neural networks that characterises the solution space of the final classifier layer when trained until zero training loss. Specifically, NC suggests that the final classifier layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Evan Markou , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Stephen Gould

The question of whether all problems in NP class are also in P class is generally considered one of the most important open questions in mathematics and theoretical computer science as it has far-reaching consequences to other problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Wenhong Tian

We address the problem of model checking context-free specifications for probabilistic pushdown automata, which has relevant applications in the verification of recursive probabilistic programs. Operator Precedence Languages (OPLs) are an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Francesco Pontiggia , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

We build on a working program initiated by Pudl\'ak [Pud17] and construct an oracle relative to which each $\mathrm{coNP}$-complete set has $\mathrm{P}$-optimal proof systems and $\mathrm{NP}\cap\mathrm{coNP}$ does not have complete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Titus Dose

We present a complete classification of minimal problems for generic arrangements of points and lines in space observed partially by three calibrated perspective cameras when each line is incident to at most one point. This is a large class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Timothy Duff , Kathlén Kohn , Anton Leykin , Tomas Pajdla

Itsykson and Sokolov [IS14] identified resolution over parities, denoted by $\text{Res}(\oplus)$, as a natural and simple fragment of $\text{AC}^0[2]$-Frege for which no super-polynomial lower bounds on size of proofs are known. Building on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sreejata Kishor Bhattacharya , Arkadev Chattopadhyay

We introduce ocLTL, the case of LTL+P modulo {\omega}-categorical theories. We reduce its realizability and synthesis problems into the corresponding problems in propositional LTL+P. The core of the reduction replaces each data subformula…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ohad Asor