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Nonuniformity is a central concept in computational complexity with powerful connections to circuit complexity and randomness. Nonuniform reductions have been used to study the isomorphism conjecture for NP and completeness for larger…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-19 John M. Hitchcock , Hadi Shafei

The problem of lifting a preference order on a set of objects to a preference order on a family of subsets of this set is a fundamental problem with a wide variety of applications in AI. The process is often guided by axioms postulating…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Jan Maly

The oracle property of model selection procedures has attracted a large volume of favorable publications in the literature, but also faced criticisms of being ineffective and misleading in applications. In this paper, we introduce a class…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Xianyi Wu , Xian Zhou

In this paper,we consider a high-dimensional statistical estimation problem in which the the number of parameters is comparable or larger than the sample size. We present a unified analysis of the performance guarantees of exponential…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Tung Duy Luu , Jalal Fadili , Christophe Chesneau

For a field $\mathbb{F}$ and integers $d$ and $k$, a set ${\cal A} \subseteq \mathbb{F}^d$ is called $k$-nearly orthogonal if its members are non-self-orthogonal and every $k+1$ vectors of ${\cal A}$ include an orthogonal pair. We prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Ishay Haviv , Sam Mattheus , Aleksa Milojević , Yuval Wigderson

Fagin defined the class $NP$ by the means of Existential Second-Order logic. Feder and Vardi expressed it (up to polynomial equivalence) by special fragments of Existential Second-Order logic (SNP), while the authors used forbidden expanded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Gábor Kun , Jaroslav Nešetřil

We propose a general solution approach for min-max-robust counterparts of combinatorial optimization problems with uncertain linear objectives. We focus on the discrete scenario case, but our approach can be extended to other types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Enrico Bettiol , Christoph Buchheim , Marianna De Santis , Francesco Rinaldi

Maximum satisfiability is a canonical NP-hard optimization problem that appears empirically hard for random instances. Let us say that a Conjunctive normal form (CNF) formula consisting of $k$-clauses is $p$-satisfiable if there exists a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dimitris Achlioptas , Assaf Naor , Yuval Peres

We present three different perspectives of oracle. First, an oracle is a blackbox; second, an oracle is a tool to change the way we access mathematical objects; and third, an oracle is a factor that causes a change in truth values.…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Takayuki Kihara

The paper deals with two issues: the existence of universal models of a theory T and related properties when cardinal arithmetic does not give this existence offhand. In the first section we prove that simple theories (e.g., theories…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Saharon Shelah

We define a hierarchy of systems with topological completely positive entropy in the context of continuous countable amenable group actions on compact metric spaces. For each countable ordinal we construct a dynamical system on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Sebastián Barbieri , Felipe García-Ramos

Compositionality proofs in higher-order languages are notoriously involved, and general semantic frameworks guaranteeing compositionality are hard to come by. In particular, Turi and Plotkin's bialgebraic abstract GSOS framework, which has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sergey Goncharov , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder , Stelios Tsampas , Henning Urbat

This paper obtains a completeness result for inequational reasoning with applicative terms without variables in a setting where the intended semantic models are the full structures, the full type hierarchies over preorders for the base…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Lawrence S. Moss , Thomas F. Icard

The polynomial hierarchy has been widely studied in classical complexity theory. In this paper, we will generalize some commonly known results about the polynomial hierarchy to a version of the hierarchy extended to promise problems. This…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Chirag Falor , Shu Ge , Anand Natarajan

Using recent results in topos theory, two systems of higher-order logic are shown to be complete with respect to sheaf models over topological spaces---so-called ``topological semantics''. The first is classical higher-order logic, with…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Steve Awodey , Carsten Butz

We explore the possibility of extending Mardare et al. quantitative algebras to the structures which naturally emerge from Combinatory Logic and the lambda-calculus. First of all, we show that the framework is indeed applicable to those…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Ugo Dal Lago , Furio Honsell , Marina Lenisa , Paolo Pistone

Prediction sets can wrap around any ML model to cover unknown test outcomes with a guaranteed probability. Yet, it remains unclear how to use them optimally for downstream decision-making. Here, we propose a decision-theoretic framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Tao Wang , Edgar Dobriban

Conformal prediction (CP) quantifies the uncertainty of machine learning models by constructing sets of plausible outputs. These sets are constructed by leveraging a so-called conformity score, a quantity computed using the input point of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-07 Michal Klein , Louis Bethune , Eugene Ndiaye , Marco Cuturi

Incomplete preferences are likely to arise in real-world preference aggregation scenarios. This paper deals with determining whether an incomplete preference profile is single-peaked. This is valuable information since many intractable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Zack Fitzsimmons , Martin Lackner

An elegant characterization of the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems has emerged in the form of the the algebraic dichotomy conjecture of [BKJ00]. Roughly speaking, the characterization asserts that a CSP {\Lambda} is tractable…

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