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We examine two different ways of encoding a counting function, as a rational generating function and explicitly as a function (defined piecewise using the greatest integer function). We prove that, if the degree and number of input…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-08 Sven Verdoolaege , Kevin Woods

This paper develops a parallel computational solver for computing all satifying assignments of a Boolean system of equations defined by Boolean functions of several variables. While there are we known solvers for satisfiability of Boolean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Virendra Sule

We study provably correct and efficient instantiations of Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) inference in the context of formal operational semantics of Probabilistic Programs (PPs). We focus on universal PPs featuring sampling from arbitrary…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Michele Boreale , Luisa Collodi

We study provably correct and efficient instantiations of Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) inference in the context of formal operational semantics of Probabilistic Programs (PPs). We focus on universal PPs featuring sampling from arbitrary…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Michele Boreale , Luisa Collodi

Elementary function calls are a common feature in numerical programs. While their implementions in library functions are highly optimized, their computation is nonetheless very expensive compared to plain arithmetic. Full accuracy is,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Eva Darulova , Anastasia Volkova

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is arguably the archetypical NP-complete decision problem. Progress in SAT solving algorithms has motivated an ever increasing number of practical applications in recent years. However, many practical uses of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Joao Marques-Silva , Mikolas Janota

In this paper we investigate the problem of quantifying the contribution of each variable to the satisfying assignments of a Boolean function based on the Shapley value. Our main result is a polynomial-time equivalence between computing…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ahmet Kara , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

The stochastic knapsack problem is the stochastic variant of the classical knapsack problem in which the algorithm designer is given a a knapsack with a given capacity and a collection of items where each item is associated with a profit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Anindya De

The Skolem Problem asks to determine whether a given linear recurrence sequence (LRS) $\langle u_n \rangle_{n=0}^\infty$ over the integers has a zero term, that is, whether there exists $n$ such that $u_n = 0$. Decidability of the problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Piotr Bacik , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

We present a simple randomized algorithm that approximates the number of satisfying assignments of Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form. To the best of our knowledge this is the first algorithm which approximates #k-SAT for any k >=…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Marc Thurley

Large language models (LLMs) excel at function calling, but inference scaling has been explored mainly for unstructured generation. We propose an inference-scaling framework for structured outputs that combines fine-grained beam search with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jianghao Lin , Yuanyuan Shi , Xin Peng , Renjie Ding , Hairui Wang , Yuxuan Peng , Bizhe Bai , Weixi Song , Fengshuo Bai , Huacan Chai , Weinan Zhang , Fei Huang , Ying Wen

We present an exact synthesis approach for computing Exclusive-or Sum-of-Products (ESOP) forms with a minimum number of product terms using Boolean satisfiability. Our approach finds one or more ESOP forms for a given Boolean function. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Heinz Riener , Rüdiger Ehlers , Bruno Schmitt , Giovanni De Micheli

Let us assume that $f$ is a continuous function defined on the unit ball of $\mathbb R^d$, of the form $f(x) = g (A x)$, where $A$ is a $k \times d$ matrix and $g$ is a function of $k$ variables for $k \ll d$. We are given a budget $m \in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-18 Massimo Fornasier , Karin Schnass , Jan Vybiral

We propose a quantum algorithm (in the form of a quantum oracle) that estimates the closeness of a given Boolean function to one that satisfies the ``strict avalanche criterion'' (SAC). This algorithm requires $n$ queries of the Boolean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-29 C. A. Jothishwaran , Abhishek Chakraborty , Vishvendra Singh Poonia , Pantelimon Stanica , Sugata Gangopadhyay

We show that computing the strongest polynomial invariant for single-path loops with polynomial assignments is at least as hard as the Skolem problem, a famous problem whose decidability has been open for almost a century. While the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Julian Müllner , Marcel Moosbrugger , Laura Kovács

We study the problem of multiset prediction. The goal of multiset prediction is to train a predictor that maps an input to a multiset consisting of multiple items. Unlike existing problems in supervised learning, such as classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Sean Welleck , Zixin Yao , Yu Gai , Jialin Mao , Zheng Zhang , Kyunghyun Cho

Solving systems of Boolean equations is a fundamental task in symbolic computation and algebraic cryptanalysis, with wide-ranging applications in cryptography, coding theory, and formal verification. Among existing approaches, the Boolean…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Minzhong Luo , Yudong Sun , Yin Long

We say that a function is rare-case hard against a given class of algorithms (the adversary) if all algorithms in the class can compute the function only on an $o(1)$-fraction of instances of size $n$ for large enough $n$. Starting from any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tejas Nareddy , Abhishek Mishra

We propose an explainable probabilistic framework for characterizing spoofed speech by decomposing it into probabilistic attribute embeddings. Unlike raw high-dimensional countermeasure embeddings, which lack interpretability, the proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Jagabandhu Mishra , Manasi Chhibber , Hye-jin Shim , Tomi H. Kinnunen

A Boolean function of n bits is balanced if it takes the value 1 with probability 1/2. We exhibit a balanced Boolean function with a randomized evaluation procedure (with probability 0 of making a mistake) so that on uniformly random…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Itai Benjamini , Oded Schramm , David B. Wilson