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The $\textbf{P}$ vs. $\textbf{NP}$ problem is an important problem in contemporary mathematics and theoretical computer science. Many proofs have been proposed to this problem. This paper proposes a theoretic proof for $\textbf{P}$ vs.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Changlin Wan , Zhongzhi Shi

Text classification is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP). Several recent studies show the success of deep learning on text processing. Convolutional neural network (CNN), as a popular deep learning model, has shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Ali Jarrahi , Ramin Mousa , Leila Safari

Regular languages (RL) are the simplest family in Chomsky's hierarchy. Thanks to their simplicity they enjoy various nice algebraic and logic properties that have been successfully exploited in many application fields. Practically all of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Dino Mandrioli , Matteo Pradella

The problem of model checking procedural programs has fostered much research towards the definition of temporal logics for reasoning on context-free structures. The most notable of such results are temporal logics on Nested Words, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Michele Chiari , Dino Mandrioli , Matteo Pradella

This survey paper proposes a clearer view of natural language reasoning in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), both conceptually and practically. Conceptually, we provide a distinct definition for natural language reasoning in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Fei Yu , Hongbo Zhang , Prayag Tiwari , Benyou Wang

Yamakami [2011, Theoret. Comput. Sci.] studies context-free languages with advice functions. Here, the length of an advice is assumed to be the same as that of an input. Let CFL and CFL/n denote the class of all context-free languages and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Toshio Suzuki

Recent progress in language modeling has been driven not only by advances in neural architectures, but also through hardware and optimization improvements. In this paper, we revisit the neural probabilistic language model (NPLM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Simeng Sun , Mohit Iyyer

We deal with a normal form for context-free grammars, called Dyck normal form. This normal form is a syntactical restriction of the Chomsky normal form, in which the two nonterminals occurring on the right-hand side of a rule are paired…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Liliana Cojocaru

What is here called controlled natural language (CNL) has traditionally been given many different names. Especially during the last four decades, a wide variety of such languages have been designed. They are applied to improve communication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Tobias Kuhn

Extending results of Schindler [math.LO/0106087] and Hamkins and Welch [math.LO/0212046], we establish in the context of infinite time Turing machines that P is properly contained in NP intersect coNP. Furthermore, NP intersect coNP is…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vinay Deolalikar , Joel David Hamkins , Ralf-Dieter Schindler

We show that there cannot be any algorithm that for a given nondeterministic polynomial-time Turing machine determinates whether or not the language recognized by this machine belongs to P

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-09 V. G. Naidenko

In this article, we discuss the question of whether P equals NP, we do not follow the line of research of many researchers, which is to try to find such a problem Q, and the problem Q belongs to the class of NP-complete, if the problem Q is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jian-Gang Tang

Recently, the development of pre-trained language models has brought natural language processing (NLP) tasks to the new state-of-the-art. In this paper we explore the efficiency of various pre-trained language models. We pre-train a list of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Tong Guo

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance across diverse domains. Many practical applications of LLMs, such as code completion and structured data extraction, require adherence to syntactic constraints specified by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Niels Mündler , Jasper Dekoninck , Martin Vechev

Pretrained language models have achieved a new state of the art on many NLP tasks, but there are still many open questions about how and why they work so well. We investigate the contextualization of words in BERT. We quantify the amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Mengjie Zhao , Philipp Dufter , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Hinrich Schütze

We prove that persuasion is an NP-complete problem.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Alban Grastien

This article finds the answer to the question: for any problem from which a non-deterministic algorithm can be derived which verifies whether an answer is correct or not in polynomial time (complexity class NP), is it possible to create an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Daniel Cardona Delgado

Transformer components such as non-linear activations and normalization are inherently non-injective, suggesting that different inputs could map to the same output and prevent exact recovery of the input from a model's representations. In…

We investigate the complexity of a puzzle that turns out to be NL-complete.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Holger Petersen

Compound probabilistic context-free grammars (C-PCFGs) have recently established a new state of the art for unsupervised phrase-structure grammar induction. However, due to the high space and time complexities of chart-based representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yanpeng Zhao , Ivan Titov