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Choiceless Polynomial Time (CPT) is currently the only candidate logic for capturing PTIME (that is, it is contained in PTIME and has not been separated from it). A prominent example of a decision problem in PTIME that is not known to be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Benedikt Pago

Choiceless Polynomial Time (CPT) is one of the few remaining candidate logics for capturing PTIME. In this paper, we make progress towards separating CPT from polynomial time by firstly establishing a connection between the expressive power…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Benedikt Pago

We extend Choiceless Polynomial Time (CPT), the currently only remaining promising candidate in the quest for a logic capturing PTime, so that this extended logic has the following property: for every class of structures for which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Moritz Lichter , Pascal Schweitzer

In the search for a logic capturing polynomial time the most promising candidates are Choiceless Polynomial Time (CPT) and rank logic. Rank logic extends fixed-point logic with counting by a rank operator over prime fields. We show that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Moritz Lichter

This paper extends prior work on the connections between logics from finite model theory and propositional/algebraic proof systems. We show that if all non-isomorphic graphs in a given graph class can be distinguished in the logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Benedikt Pago

In this article choiceless polynomial time (CPT) is extended using non-determini\-stic Abstract State Machines (ASMs), which are restricted by three conditions: (1) choice is restricted to choice among atoms; (2) update sets in a state must…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Klaus-Dieter Schewe

The central open question in Descriptive Complexity is whether there is a logic that characterizes deterministic polynomial time (PTIME) on relational structures. Towards this goal, we define a logic that is obtained from first-order logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Eugenia Ternovska

Turing machines define polynomial time (PTime) on strings but cannot deal with structures like graphs directly, and there is no known, easily computable string encoding of isomorphism classes of structures. Is there a computation model…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich , Saharon Shelah

This paper is motivated by the question whether there exists a logic capturing polynomial time computation over unordered structures. We consider several algorithmic problems near the border of the known, logically defined complexity…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich , Saharon Shelah

Motivated by the quest for a logic for PTIME and recent insights that the descriptive complexity of problems from linear algebra is a crucial aspect of this problem, we study the solvability of linear equation systems over finite groups and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Anuj Dawar , Eryk Kopczynski , Bjarki Holm , Erich Grädel , Wied Pakusa

In the quest for a logic capturing PTime the next natural classes of structures to consider are those with bounded color class size. We present a canonization procedure for graphs with dihedral color classes of bounded size in the logic of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Moritz Lichter , Pascal Schweitzer

We describe simple algebraic and combinatorial characterisations of finite relational core structures admitting finitely many obstructions. As a consequence, we show that it is decidable to determine whether a constraint satisfaction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Benoit Larose , Cynthia Loten , Claude Tardif

A polynomial Turing compression (PTC) for a parameterized problem $L$ is a polynomial time Turing machine that has access to an oracle for a problem $L'$ such that a polynomial in the input parameter bounds each query. Meanwhile, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Weidong Luo

We study probabilistic complexity classes and questions of derandomisation from a logical point of view. For each logic L we introduce a new logic BPL, bounded error probabilistic L, which is defined from L in a similar way as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Kord Eickmeyer , Martin Grohe

At the core of the quest for a logic for PTime is a mismatch between algorithms making arbitrary choices and isomorphism-invariant logics. One approach to overcome this problem is witnessed symmetric choice. It allows for choices from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Moritz Lichter

One way to study the physical plausibility of closed timelike curves (CTCs) is to examine their computational power. This has been done for Deutschian CTCs (D-CTCs) and post-selection CTCs (P-CTCs), with the result that they allow for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Mateus Araújo , Philippe Allard Guérin , Ämin Baumeler

This paper talk about the complexity of computation by Turing Machine. I take attention to the relation of symmetry and order structure of the data, and I think about the limitation of computation time. First, I make general problem named…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-24 Koji Kobayashi

In this article, we study parameterized complexity theory from the perspective of logic, or more specifically, descriptive complexity theory. We propose to consider parameterized model-checking problems for various fragments of first-order…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joerg Flum , Martin Grohe

Black-box tuning has attracted recent attention due to that the structure or inner parameters of advanced proprietary models are not accessible. Proxy-tuning provides a test-time output adjustment for tuning black-box language models. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yuanyang He , Zitong Huang , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Salman Khan , Wangmeng Zuo , Yong Liu , Chun-Mei Feng

Due to the limitation on computational power of existing computers, the polynomial time does not works for identifying the tractable problems in big data computing. This paper adopts the sublinear time as the new tractable standard to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Xiangyu Gao , Jianzhong Li , Dongjing Miao , Xianmin Liu
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