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Transitivity, the existence of periodic points and positive topological entropy can be used to characterize complexity in dynamical systems. It is known that for graphs that are not trees, for every $\varepsilon>0,$ there exist (complicate)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Lluís Alsedà , Liane Bordignon , Jorge Groisman

We study two measures of the complexity of heterogeneous extended systems, taking random Boolean networks as prototypical cases. A measure defined by Shalizi et al. for cellular automata, based on a criterion for optimal statistical…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-06-12 Xinwei Gong , Joshua E. S. Socolar

We introduce a framework for proving lower bounds on computational problems over distributions against algorithms that can be implemented using access to a statistical query oracle. For such algorithms, access to the input distribution is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Vitaly Feldman , Elena Grigorescu , Lev Reyzin , Santosh Vempala , Ying Xiao

The determinisation problem for min-plus (tropical) weighted automata was recently shown to be decidable. However, the proof is purely existential, relying on several non-constructive arguments. Our contribution in this work is twofold:…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shaull Almagor , Guy Arbel , Sarai Sheinvald

Typestate systems ensure many desirable properties of imperative programs, including initialization of object fields and correct use of stateful library interfaces. Abstract sets with cardinality constraints naturally generalize typestate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Bruno Marnette , Viktor Kuncak , Martin Rinard

Rice's theorem shows that nontrivial extensional properties of partial recursive functions are undecidable. For finite weighted Boolean optimization/CSP-style slices, a Rice-style structural analogue holds for tractability classification:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tristan Simas

This paper studies infinite graphs produced from a natural unfolding operation applied to finite graphs. Graphs produced via such operations are of finite degree and automatic over the unary alphabet (that is, they can be described by…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-09-22 Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Jiamou Liu , Mia Minnes

A graph is called $t$-tough if the removal of any vertex set $S$ that disconnects the graph leaves at most $|S|/t$ components. The toughness of a graph is the largest $t$ for which the graph is $t$-tough. A graph is minimally $t$-tough if…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Gyula Y Katona , István Kovács , Kitti Varga

The locality of a graph problem is the smallest distance $T$ such that each node can choose its own part of the solution based on its radius-$T$ neighborhood. In many settings, a graph problem can be solved efficiently with a distributed or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yi-Jun Chang , Jan Studený , Jukka Suomela

This paper is concerned with the computational complexity of equivalence and minimisation for automata with transition weights in the field Q of rational numbers. We use polynomial identity testing and the Isolation Lemma to obtain…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Stefan Kiefer , Andrzej Murawski , Joel Ouaknine , Bjoern Wachter , James Worrell

A main open question in contemporary AI research is quantifying the forms of reasoning neural networks can perform when perfectly trained. This paper answers this by interpreting reasoning tasks as circuit emulation, where the gates define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anastasis Kratsios , Dennis Zvigelsky , Bradd Hart

Emerging reconfigurable optical communication technologies allow to enhance datacenter topologies with demand-aware links optimized towards traffic patterns. This paper studies the algorithmic problem of jointly optimizing topology and…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wenkai Dai , Michael Dinitz , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Long Luo , Stefan Schmid

In order to choose a neural network architecture that will be effective for a particular modeling problem, one must understand the limitations imposed by each of the potential options. These limitations are typically described in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Jesse Johnson

Inspired by Solomonoffs theory of inductive inference, we propose a prior based on circuit complexity. There are several advantages to this approach. First, it relies on a complexity measure that does not depend on the choice of UTM. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Cole Wyeth , Carl Sturtivant

We present a simple model of network dynamics that can be solved analytically for uniform networks. We obtain the dynamics of response of the system to perturbations. The analytical solution is an excellent approximation for random…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. M. de Aguiar , Irving R. Epstein , Yaneer Bar-Yam

Quantum algorithms for graph problems are considered, both in the adjacency matrix model and in an adjacency list-like array model. We give almost tight lower and upper bounds for the bounded error quantum query complexity of Connectivity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Christoph Durr , Mark Heiligman , Peter Hoyer , Mehdi Mhalla

Segment Routing is a recent network technology that helps optimizing network throughput by providing finer control over the routing paths. Instead of routing directly from a source to a target, packets are routed via intermediate waypoints.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Cristina Bazgan , Morgan Chopin , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

Analogous to regular string and tree languages, regular languages of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are defined in the literature. Although called regular, those DAG-languages are more powerful and, consequently, standard problems have a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yvo Ad Meeres

{\em Algorithms with predictions} incorporate machine learning predictions into algorithm design. A plethora of recent works incorporated predictions to improve on worst-case optimal bounds for online problems. In this paper, we initiate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Monika Henzinger , Barna Saha , Martin P. Seybold , Christopher Ye

We present an intuitive formalism for implementing cellular automata on arbitrary topologies. By that means, we identify a symmetry operation in the class of elementary cellular automata. Moreover, we determine the subset of topologically…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-13 Carsten Marr , Marc-Thorsten Huett