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In this paper we study a polynomial time algorithms that for an input $A\subseteq {B_m}$ outputs a decision tree for $A$ of minimum depth. This problem has many applications that include, to name a few, computer vision, group testing, exact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Nader H. Bshouty , Waseem Makhoul

Discrepancy theory provides powerful tools for producing higher-quality objects which "beat the union bound" in fundamental settings throughout combinatorics and computer science. However, this quality has often come at the price of more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Arun Jambulapati , Victor Reis , Kevin Tian

We study the complexity of smoothed agnostic learning of halfspaces on $\{\pm 1\}^n$ under uniform marginals in the model of~\cite{KM25}, where each input coordinate is independently flipped with probability $\sigma \in (0, {1}/{2})$. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tim Sinen

Diameter -- the task of computing the length of a longest shortest path -- is a fundamental graph problem. Assuming the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis, there is no $O(n^{1.99})$-time algorithm even in sparse graphs [Roditty and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Matthias Bentert , André Nichterlein

A line of work initiated by Fortnow in 1997 has proven model-independent time-space lower bounds for the $\mathsf{SAT}$ problem and related problems within the polynomial-time hierarchy. For example, for the $\mathsf{SAT}$ problem, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Abhijit S. Mudigonda , R. Ryan Williams

We introduce a subexponential algorithm for geometric solving of multivariate polynomial equation systems whose bit complexity depends mainly on intrinsic geometric invariants of the solution set. From this algorithm, we derive a new…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 M. Giusti , J. Heintz , K. Hägele , J. E. Morais , L. M. Pardo , J. L. Montaña

In arXiv:1710.08163 a generalization of Boolean circuits to arbitrary finite algebras had been introduced and applied to sketch P versus NP-complete borderline for circuits satisfiability over algebras from congruence modular varieties.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Paweł M. Idziak , Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski

We present a series of almost settled inapproximability results for three fundamental problems. The first in our series is the subexponential-time inapproximability of the maximum independent set problem, a question studied in the area of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Parinya Chalermsook , Bundit Laekhanukit , Danupon Nanongkai

This paper is devoted to the construction of exponential integrators of first and second order for the time discretization of constrained parabolic systems. For this extend, we combine well-known exponential integrators for unconstrained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Robert Altmann , Christoph Zimmer

Considering the problem of risk-sensitive parameter estimation, we propose a fairly wide family of lower bounds on the exponential moments of the quadratic error, both in the Bayesian and the non--Bayesian regime. This family of bounds,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Neri Merhav

The concept of NP-completeness has been proposed for half a century, and it is conjectured that there are no subexponential-time algorithms for NP-hard problems, which is known as the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH). As a pivotal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yongming Yi

So-called separation automata are in the core of several recently invented quasi-polynomial time algorithms for parity games. An explicit $q$-state separation automaton implies an algorithm for parity games with running time polynomial in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alexander Kozachinskiy , Mikhail Vyalyi

As quantum computing resources remain scarce and error rates high, minimizing the resource consumption of quantum circuits is essential for achieving practical quantum advantage. Here we consider the natural problem of, given a circuit $C$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Adam Husted Kjelstrøm , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Jaco van de Pol

For many hard computational problems, simple algorithms that run in time $2^n \cdot n^{O(1)}$ arise, say, from enumerating all subsets of a size-$n$ set. Finding (exponentially) faster algorithms is a natural goal that has driven much of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-30 László Kozma , Junqi Tan

We develop a new technique for constructing sparse graphs that allow us to prove near-linear lower bounds on the round complexity of computing distances in the CONGEST model. Specifically, we show an $\widetilde{\Omega}(n)$ lower bound for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Amir Abboud , Keren Censor-Hillel , Seri Khoury

We present the first super-linear lower bounds for natural graph problems in the CONGEST model, answering a long-standing open question. Specifically, we show that any exact computation of a minimum vertex cover or a maximum independent set…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Keren Censor-Hillel , Seri Khoury , Ami Paz

In this paper, we consider lower bounds on the query complexity for testing CSPs in the bounded-degree model. First, for any ``symmetric'' predicate $P:{0,1}^{k} \to {0,1}$ except \equ where $k\geq 3$, we show that every (randomized)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-21 Yuichi Yoshida

Low-energy emanant and emergent symmetries can be anomalous, higher-group, or non-invertible. A way to systematically capture the properties of such symmetries is through the topological orders in one-higher dimension, known as symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-24 Zixin Jessie Chen , Ömer M. Aksoy , Cenke Xu , Xiao-Gang Wen

The complexity class $NP$ can be logically characterized both through existential second order logic $SO\exists$, as proven by Fagin, and through simulating a Turing machine via the satisfiability problem of propositional logic SAT, as…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Tuomo Kauranne

In the paper "On P versus NP," Lev Gordeev attempts to extend the method of approximation, which successfully proved exponential lower bounds for monotone circuits, to the case of De Morgan Normal (DMN) circuits. As in Razborov's proof of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-16 David Narváez , Patrick Phillips