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We study the counting version of the Boolean satisfiability problem #SAT using the ZH-calculus, a graphical language originally introduced to reason about quantum circuits. Using this, we generalize #SAT to a weighted variant we call…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tuomas Laakkonen , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , John van de Wetering

The Acceptance Probability Estimation Problem (APEP) is to additively approximate the acceptance probability of a Boolean circuit. This problem admits a probabilistic approximation scheme. A central question is whether we can design a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Peter Dixon , A. Pavan , N. V. Vinodchandran

The prohibitive sizes of Large Language Models (LLMs) today make it difficult to deploy them on memory-constrained edge devices. This work introduces $\rm CALDERA$ -- a new post-training LLM compression algorithm that harnesses the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Rajarshi Saha , Naomi Sagan , Varun Srivastava , Andrea J. Goldsmith , Mert Pilanci

We aim to create the highest possible quality of treatment-control matches for categorical data in the potential outcomes framework. Matching methods are heavily used in the social sciences due to their interpretability, but most matching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Yameng Liu , Aw Dieng , Sudeepa Roy , Cynthia Rudin , Alexander Volfovsky

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved near-human performance across diverse reasoning tasks, yet their deployment on resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices remains impractical due to massive parameter footprints and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mingyu Sung , Vikas Palakonda , Suhwan Im , Sunghwan Moon , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae-Mo Kang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) are propelling us toward artificial general intelligence with their remarkable emergent abilities and reasoning capabilities. However, the substantial computational and memory requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ruihao Gong , Yang Yong , Shiqiao Gu , Yushi Huang , Chengtao Lv , Yunchen Zhang , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

We study a variant of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm [ E. Farhi, J. Goldstone, and S. Gutmann, arXiv:1411.4028] with slightly different parametrization and different objective: rather than looking for a state which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 D. Wecker , M. B. Hastings , M. Troyer

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized AI applications, yet their enormous computational demands severely limit deployment and real-time performance. Quantization methods can help reduce computational costs, however, attaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shaobo Ma , Chao Fang , Haikuo Shao , Zhongfeng Wang

Asadpour, Feige, and Saberi proved that the integrality gap of the configuration LP for the restricted max-min allocation problem is at most $4$. However, their proof does not give a polynomial-time approximation algorithm. A lot of efforts…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Siu-Wing Cheng , Yuchen Mao

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in coding and math problem-solving, but evaluation on advanced research-level problems in hard sciences remains scarce. To fill this gap, we present CMT-Benchmark, a dataset of 50…

It is common to reject undesired outputs of Large Language Models (LLMs); however, current methods to do so require an excessive amount of computation to re-sample after a rejection, or distort the distribution of outputs by constraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Daniel Melcer , Sujan Gonugondla , Pramuditha Perera , Haifeng Qian , Wen-Hao Chiang , Yanjun Wang , Nihal Jain , Pranav Garg , Xiaofei Ma , Anoop Deoras

Training large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by GPU memory limitations. To alleviate memory pressure, activation recomputation and data compression have been proposed as two major strategies. However, both approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ping Chen , Zhuohong Deng , Ping Li , Shuibing He , Hongzi Zhu , Yi Zheng , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai , Minyi Guo

In nearly every discipline, scientific computations are limited by the cost and speed of computation. For example, the best-known exact algorithms for the canonical Traveling Salesman Problem would take centuries to run on an instance of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jeffery Li , Jayson Lynch , Liva Olina , Cecilia Chen , Andrew Lucas , Neil Thompson

We consider approximate circular pattern matching (CPM, in short) under the Hamming and edit distance, in which we are given a length-$n$ text $T$, a length-$m$ pattern $P$, and a threshold $k>0$, and we are to report all starting positions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Tomasz Kociumaka , Jakub Radoszewski , Solon P. Pissis , Wojciech Rytter , Tomasz Waleń , Wiktor Zuba

Many problems in machine learning can be solved by rounding the solution of an appropriate linear program (LP). This paper shows that we can recover solutions of comparable quality by rounding an approximate LP solution instead of the ex-…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Srikrishna Sridhar , Victor Bittorf , Ji Liu , Ce Zhang , Christopher Ré , Stephen J. Wright

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities, yet their direct application to NP-hard combinatorial problems (CPs) remains underexplored. In this work, we systematically investigate the reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Henrik Abgaryan , Tristan Cazenave , Ararat Harutyunyan

While vision-language pre-trained models (VL-PTMs) have advanced multimodal research in recent years, their mastery in a few languages like English restricts their applicability in broader communities. To this end, there is an increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Bang Yang , Yong Dai , Xuxin Cheng , Yaowei Li , Asif Raza , Yuexian Zou

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional proficiency in code completion, they typically adhere to a Hard Completion (HC) paradigm, compelling the generation of fully concrete code even amidst insufficient context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Liang Zhu , Haolin Chen , Lidong Zhao , Xian Wu

We propose an algorithm for generating explicit solutions of multiparametric mixed-integer convex programs to within a given suboptimality tolerance. The algorithm is applicable to a very general class of optimization problems, but is most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

The problem of model counting, also known as #SAT, is to compute the number of models or satisfying assignments of a given Boolean formula $F$. Model counting is a fundamental problem in computer science with a wide range of applications.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jiong Yang , Kuldeep S. Meel