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A randomized algorithm for a search problem is *pseudodeterministic* if it produces a fixed canonical solution to the search problem with high probability. In their seminal work on the topic, Gat and Goldwasser posed as their main open…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Lijie Chen , Zhenjian Lu , Igor C. Oliveira , Hanlin Ren , Rahul Santhanam

We connect the study of pseudodeterministic algorithms to two major open problems about the structural complexity of $\mathsf{BPTIME}$: proving hierarchy theorems and showing the existence of complete problems. Our main contributions can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhenjian Lu , Igor C. Oliveira , Rahul Santhanam

Spatial-temporal reasoning is a challenging task in Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to its demanding but unique nature: a theoretic requirement on representing and reasoning based on spatial-temporal knowledge in mind, and an applied…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chi Zhang , Baoxiong Jia , Song-Chun Zhu , Yixin Zhu

Time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) often develop sharp fronts, localized peaks, and other moving structures that occupy only a small portion of the space--time domain but dominate the approximation error. This makes fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Beining Xu , Bocheng Zhang , Haijun Yu , Zhao Zhang , Jiayu Zhai

We present a nondeterministic model of computation based on reversing edge directions in weighted directed graphs with minimum in-flow constraints on vertices. Deciding whether this simple graph model can be manipulated in order to reverse…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Robert A. Hearn , Erik D. Demaine

We consider the following problem: given a program, find tight asymptotic bounds on the values of some variables at the end of the computation (or at any given program point) in terms of its input values. We focus on the case of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 A. M. Ben-Amram , G. W. Hamilton

Standard approaches to probabilistic reasoning require that one possesses an explicit model of the distribution in question. But, the empirical learning of models of probability distributions from partial observations is a problem for which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Brendan Juba

State-space models (SSMs) are a highly expressive model class for learning patterns in time series data and for system identification. Deterministic versions of SSMs (e.g. LSTMs) proved extremely successful in modeling complex time series…

We study a well-known technique of using absoluteness for giving choice-free proofs to some statements which are known to be provable with the axiom of choice. The idea is to reduce the problem to an inner model where the axiom of choice…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Asaf Karagila

We examine the power of silent constant-space probabilistic verifiers that watch asymmetric debates (where one side is unable to see some of the messages of the other) between two deterministic provers, and try to determine who is right. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-09-25 H. Gökalp Demirci , A. C. Cem Say , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Nondeterministic polynomial-time Blum-Shub-Smale Machines over the reals give rise to a discrete complexity class between NP and PSPACE. Several problems, mostly from real algebraic geometry / polynomial systems, have been shown complete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Christian Herrmann , Johanna Sokoli , Martin Ziegler

By unifying various earlier extensions of alternating sign matrices (ASMs), we introduce the notion of prefix-bounded matrices (PBMs). It is shown that the convex hull of these matrices forms the intersection of two special generalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Nóra A. Borsik , András Frank , Péter Madarasi , Tamás Takács

This paper establishes new Positivstellens\"atze for polynomials that are positive on sets defined by polynomial matrix inequalities (PMIs). We extend the classical Handelman and Krivine-Stengle theorems from the scalar inequality setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Feng Guo

The goal of this paper is to provide exact and terminating algorithms for the formal analysis of deterministic continuous-time control systems with affine input and polynomial state dynamics (in short, polynomial systems). We consider the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lorenzo Clemente

In this paper we present a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for testing if a symbolic matrix in non-commuting variables over $\mathbb{Q}$ is invertible or not. The analogous question for commuting variables is the celebrated…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Ankit Garg , Leonid Gurvits , Rafael Oliveira , Avi Wigderson

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

While finite-variable fragments of the propositional modal logic S5--complete with respect to reflexive, symmetric and transitive frames--are polynomial-time decidable, the restriction to finite-variable formulas for logics of reflexive and…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Mikhail Rybakov , Dmitry Shkatov

In probabilistic program analysis, quantitative analysis aims at deriving tight numerical bounds for probabilistic properties such as expectation and assertion probability. Most previous works consider numerical bounds over the whole…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tengshun Yang , Shenghua Feng , Hongfei Fu , Naijun Zhan , Jingyu Ke , Shiyang Wu

In recent years much effort has been concentrated towards achieving polynomial time lower bounds on algorithms for solving various well-known problems. A useful technique for showing such lower bounds is to prove them conditionally based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Isaac Goldstein , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Moshe Lewenstein , Ely Porat

Testing whether a set $\mathbf{f}$ of polynomials has an algebraic dependence is a basic problem with several applications. The polynomials are given as algebraic circuits. Algebraic independence testing question is wide open over finite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Zeyu Guo , Nitin Saxena , Amit Sinhababu