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Although Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) can be computed in polynomial time for simple models like decision trees, they unfortunately become NP-hard to compute for more expressive black-box models like neural networks - where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Reda Marzouk , Shahaf Bassan , Guy Katz

We prove that a space whose topological complexity equals 1 is homotopy equivalent to some odd-dimensional sphere. We prove a similar result, although not in complete generality, for spaces X whose higher topological complexity TC_n(X) is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-07-20 Mark Grant , Gregory Lupton , John Oprea

Computability theory is used to evaluate the complexity of classifying various kinds of Lebesgue spaces and associated isometric isomorphism problems.

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Tyler Brown , Alexander G. Melnikov , Timothy H. McNicholl

This is a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Robotics. It is devoted to the study of complexity of complete (or exact) algorithms for robot motion planning. The term ``complete'' indicates that an approach is guaranteed to find the correct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Kiril Solovey

Makespan scheduling on identical machines is one of the most basic and fundamental packing problems studied in the discrete optimization literature. It asks for an assignment of $n$ jobs to a set of $m$ identical machines that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Klaus Jansen , Kim-Manuel Klein , José Verschae

Spatial aspects of computation are becoming increasingly relevant in Computer Science, especially in the field of collective adaptive systems and when dealing with systems distributed in physical space. Traditional formal verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Vincenzo Ciancia , Diego Latella , Michele Loreti , Mieke Massink

Computer models are widely used across a range of scientific disciplines to describe various complex physical systems, however to perform full uncertainty quantification we often need to employ emulators. An emulator is a fast statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-20 Ian Vernon , Jonathan Owen , Jonathan Carter

We study connections between classical asymptotic density and c.e. sets. We prove that a c.e. Turing degree d is not low if and only if d contains a c.e. set A of density 1 which has no computable subsets of density 1, giving a natural…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Rodney G. Downey , Carl G. Jockusch , Paul E. Schupp

We study the precise computational complexity of deciding satisfiability of first-order quantified formulas over the theory of fixed-size bit-vectors with binary-encoded bit-widths and constants. This problem is known to be in EXPSPACE and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Martin Jonáš , Jan Strejček

In process mining, alignments quantify the degree of deviation between an observed event trace and a business process model and constitute the most important conformance checking technique. We study the algorithmic complexity of computing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Christopher T. Schwanen , Wied Pakusa , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

There is a natural relationship between Jones polynomials and quantum computation. We use this relationship to show that the complexity of evaluating relative-error approximations of Jones polynomials can be used to bound the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Ryan L. Mann , Michael J. Bremner

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for a class of Holant problems on planar 3-regular bipartite graphs. The complexity dichotomy states that for every weighted constraint function $f$ defining the problem (the weights can even be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jin-Yi Cai , Austen Z. Fan

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Arash Beikmohammadi , Andrei A. Bulatov

Discrete probabilistic programs (DPPs) provide a highly expressive formalism for compactly defining arbitrary finite probabilistic models. This expressivity comes at a price: DPP inference is PSPACE-hard. In this work, we show that DPP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Benedikt Peterseim , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg

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 the era of rapidly increasing amounts of time series data, classification of variable objects has become the main objective of time-domain astronomy. Classification of irregularly sampled time series is particularly difficult because the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-21 Sven Dennis Kügler , Nikos Gianniotis , Kai Lars Polsterer

Weighted counting problems are a natural generalization of counting problems where a weight is associated with every computational path of polynomial-time non-deterministic Turing machines and the goal is to compute the sum of the weights…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Cassio P. de Campos , Georgios Stamoulis , Dennis Weyland

Mechanistic models with differential equations are a key component of scientific applications of machine learning. Inference in such models is usually computationally demanding, because it involves repeatedly solving the differential…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-06 Jonathan Schmidt , Nicholas Krämer , Philipp Hennig

The theory of computer science is based around Universal Turing Machines (UTMs): abstract machines able to execute all possible algorithms. Modern digital computers are physical embodiments of UTMs. The nondeterministic polynomial (NP) time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Andrew Currin , Konstantin Korovin , Maria Ababi , Katherine Roper , Douglas B. Kell , Philip J. Day , Ross D. King

In Monoidal Computer I, we introduced a categorical model of computation where the formal reasoning about computability was supported by the simple and popular diagrammatic language of string diagrams. In the present paper, we refine and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Dusko Pavlovic