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This paper presents a refined complexity calculus model: r-Complexity, a new asymptotic notation that offers better complexity feedback for similar programs than the traditional Bachmann-Landau notation, providing subtle insights even for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Rares Folea , Emil-Ioan Slusanschi

Implicit computational complexity, which aims at characterizing complexity classes by machine-independent means, has traditionally been based, on the one hand, on programs and deductive formalisms for free algebras, and on the other hand on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Daniel Leivant , Jean-Yves Marion

We show how complexity theory can be introduced in machine learning to help bring together apparently disparate areas of current research. We show that this new approach requires less training data and is more generalizable as it shows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Santiago Hernández-Orozco , Hector Zenil , Jürgen Riedel , Adam Uccello , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

The system PL permits the translation of abstract proofs of program correctness into programs in a variety of programming languages. A programming language satisfying certain axioms may be the target of such a translation. The system PL…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David A. Plaisted

Normal forms for wide classes of closed IL formulas were given in [4]. Here we quantify asymptotically, in exact numbers, how wide those classes are. As a consequence, we show that the "majority" of closed IL formulas have GL-equivalents,…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Vedran Čačić , Vjekoslav Kovač

A recent trend in object oriented (OO) programming languages is the use of Access Permissions (APs) as an abstraction for controlling concurrent executions of programs. The use of AP source code annotations defines a protocol specifying how…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Carlos Olarte , Elaine Pimentel , Camilo Rueda

Code complexity metrics such as cyclomatic complexity have long been used to assess software quality and maintainability. With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) on coding tasks, an important yet underexplored question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chen Xie , Xiaodong Gu , Yuling Shi , Beijun Shen

In this paper, it is shown that the solutions of general differentiable constrained optimization problems can be viewed as asymptotic solutions to sets of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). The construction of the ODE associated to the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Mazen Alamir

GP 2 is a non-deterministic programming language for computing by graph transformation. One of the design goals for GP 2 is syntactic and semantic simplicity, to facilitate formal reasoning about programs. In this paper, we demonstrate with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Detlef Plump

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

Motivated by certain applications from physics, biochemistry, economics, and computer science, in which the objects under investigation are not accessible because of various limitations, we propose a trial-and-error model to examine…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Xiaohui Bei , Ning Chen , Shengyu Zhang

One approach to confronting computational hardness is to try to understand the contribution of various parameters to the running time of algorithms and the complexity of computational tasks. Almost no computational tasks in real life are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-23 Rodney G. Downey , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Computational complexity is a core theory of computer science, which dictates the degree of difficulty of computation. There are many problems with high complexity that we have to deal, which is especially true for AI. This raises a big…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Chuyu Xiong

Python is a high-level interpreted language that has become an industry standard in a wide variety of applications. In this paper, we take a first step towards using ACL2s to reason about Python code by developing an embedding of a subset…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Samuel Xifaras , Panagiotis Manolios , Andrew T. Walter , William Robertson

Interactive theorem proving requires a lot of human guidance. Proving a property involves (1) figuring out why it holds, then (2) coaxing the theorem prover into believing it. Both steps can take a long time. We explain how to use GL, a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-10-24 Sol Swords , Jared Davis

We consider the problem of learning temporal logic formulas from examples of system behavior. Learning temporal properties has crystallized as an effective mean to explain complex temporal behaviors. Several efficient algorithms have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

Measuring software complexity plays an important role to meet the demands of complex software. The cyclomatic complexity is one of most used and renowned metric among the other three proposed and researched metrics that are namely: Line of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Ankita Garg

Analytic combinatorics studies the asymptotic behaviour of sequences through the analytic properties of their generating functions. This article provides effective algorithms required for the study of analytic combinatorics in several…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Stephen Melczer , Bruno Salvy

We construct an asymptotic approximation to the solution of a transmission problem for a body containing a region occupied by many small inclusions. The cluster of inclusions is characterised by two small parameters that determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Michael Nieves

Formal reasoning about the time complexity of algorithms and data structures is usually done in interactive theorem provers like Isabelle/HOL. This includes reasoning about amortized time complexity which looks at the worst case performance…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jan van Brügge