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We study the set of image tuples arising from fixed cameras observing varying planar 3-dimensional point configurations. We derive a formula for the number of complex critical points of the triangulation problem, which seeks to reconstruct…

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We consider the problem of optimizing the locations of source nodes in transportation networks. A reduction of the fraction of surplus nodes induces a glassy transition. In contrast to most constraint satisfaction problems involving…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 C. H. Yeung , K. Y. Michael Wong

A recently proposed exact algorithm for the maximum independent set problem is analyzed. The typical running time is improved exponentially in some parameter regions compared to simple binary search. The algorithm also overcomes the core…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-02 Jun Takahashi , Satoshi Takabe , Koji Hukushima

Fixed-point iterations are at the heart of numerical computing and are often a computational bottleneck in real-time applications that typically need a fast solution of moderate accuracy. We present neural fixed-point acceleration which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Shobha Venkataraman , Brandon Amos

We study the set of solutions of random k-satisfiability formulae through the cavity method. It is known that, for an interval of the clause-to-variables ratio, this decomposes into an exponential number of pure states (clusters). We refine…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrea Montanari , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Guilhem Semerjian

The emergence of complex behaviors in cellular automata is an area that has been widely developed in recent years with the intention to generate and analyze automata that produce space-moving patterns or gliders that interact in a periodic…

We study constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in the presence of counting quantifiers $\exists^{\geq j}$, asserting the existence of $j$ distinct witnesses for the variable in question. As a continuation of our previous (CSR 2012) paper,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Barnaby Martin , Juraj Stacho

We design new algorithms for the combinatorial pure exploration problem in the multi-arm bandit framework. In this problem, we are given $K$ distributions and a collection of subsets $\mathcal{V} \subset 2^{[K]}$ of these distributions, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-29 Tongyi Cao , Akshay Krishnamurthy

With the inflation of the data, clustering analysis, as a branch of unsupervised learning, lacks unified understanding and application of its mathematical law. Based on the view of fixed point, this paper restates the model-based clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Jianhao Ding , Lansheng Han

Studies on simulation input uncertainty often built on the availability of input data. In this paper, we investigate an inverse problem where, given only the availability of output data, we nonparametrically calibrate the input models and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Aleksandrina Goeva , Henry Lam , Huajie Qian , Bo Zhang

We consider the problems of characterizing and testing the stability of cellular automata configurations that evolve on a two-dimensional torus according to threshold rules with respect to the von-Neumann neighborhood. While stable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yonatan Nakar , Dana Ron

Controllability is one of the central concepts of modern control theory that allows a good understanding of a system's behaviour. It consists in constraining a system to reach the desired state from an initial state within a given time…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-03-07 Sara Dridi , Samira El Yacoubi , Franco Bagnoli , Allyx Fontaine

The field of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) studies homomorphism problems between relational structures where the target structure is fixed. Classifying the complexity of these problems has been a central quest of the field,…

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In this paper a method is proposed which uses data mining techniques based on rough sets theory to select neighborhood and determine update rule for cellular automata (CA). According to the proposed approach, neighborhood is detected by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Bartlomiej Placzek

How do cellular automata behave in the limit of a very large number of cells? Is there a continuum limit with simple properties? We attack this problem by mapping certain classes of automata to quantum field theories for which powerful…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-12-08 C. Wetterich

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a computational problem that includes a range of important problems in computer science. We point out that fundamental concepts of the CSP, such as the solution set of an instance and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Soichiro Fujii , Yuni Iwamasa , Kei Kimura

Given a (finite) string of zeros and ones, we report a way to determine if the number of ones is less than, greater than, or equal to a prescribed number by applying two sets of cellular automaton rules in succession. Thus, we solve the…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-30 H. F. Chau , K. K. Yan , K. Y. Wan , L. W. Siu

In this paper, we study the possibility of designing non-trivial random CSP models by exploiting the intrinsic connection between structures and typical-case hardness. We show that constraint consistency, a notion that has been developed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-12 J. Culberson , Y. Gao

Various strategies are available to construct iteratively a common fixed point of nonexpansive operators by activating only a block of operators at each iteration. In the more challenging class of composite fixed point problems involving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Patrick L. Combettes , Lilian E. Glaudin