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We show how two techniques from statistical physics can be adapted to solve a variant of the notorious Unique Games problem, potentially opening new avenues towards the Unique Games Conjecture. The variant, which we call Count Unique Games,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Matthew Coulson , Ewan Davies , Alexandra Kolla , Viresh Patel , Guus Regts

This paper is concerned with complexity theoretic aspects of a general formulation of quantum game theory that models strategic interactions among rational agents that process and exchange quantum information. In particular, we prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-28 John Bostanci , John Watrous

The fixed template Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a recently proposed significant generalization of the fixed template CSP, which includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. All the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Libor Barto

We unconditionally prove that it is NP-hard to compute a constant multiplicative approximation to the QUANTUM MAX-CUT problem on an unweighted graph of constant bounded degree. The proof works in two stages: first we demonstrate a generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Stephen Piddock

Understanding the limits of quantum theory in terms of uncertainty and correlation has always been a topic of foundational interest. Surprisingly this pursuit can also bear interesting applications such as device-independent quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Le Phuc Thinh

Computational aspects of solution notions such as Nash equilibrium have been extensively studied, including settings where the ultimate goal is to find an equilibrium that possesses some additional properties. Furthermore, in order to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bruce M. Kapron , Koosha Samieefar

Quantum counting is the task of determining the dimension of the subspace of states that are accepted by a quantum verifier circuit. It is the quantum analog of counting the number of valid solutions to NP problems -- a problem well-studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Mason L. Rhodes , Sam Slezak , Anirban Chowdhury , Yiğit Subaşı

The projection games (aka Label-Cover) problem is of great importance to the field of approximation algorithms, since most of the NP-hardness of approximation results we know today are reductions from Label-Cover. In this paper we design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Pasin Manurangsi , Dana Moshkovitz

Classical satisfiability (SAT) and quantum satisfiability (QSAT) are complete problems for the complexity classes NP and QMA which are believed to be intractable for classical and quantum computers, respectively. Statistical ensembles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Ionut-Dragos Potirniche , C. R. Laumann , S. L. Sondhi

We analyse some quantum multiplets associated with extended supersymmetries. We study in detail the general form of the causal (anti)commutation relations. The condition of positivity of the scalar product imposes severe restrictions on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dan Radu Grigore , Gunter Scharf

$\delta$-Covering, for some covering range $\delta>0$, is a continuous facility location problem on undirected graphs where all edges have unit length. The facilities may be positioned on the vertices as well as on the interior of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Tim A. Hartmann , Tom Janßen

The utility of satisfiability (SAT) as an application focused hard computational problem is well established. We explore the potential of quantum annealing to enhance classical SAT solving, especially where sampling from the space of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Kristen L. Pudenz , Gregory S. Tallant , Todd R. Belote , Steven H. Adachi

Quantum satisfiability is a constraint satisfaction problem that generalizes classical boolean satisfiability. In the quantum k-SAT problem, each constraint is specified by a k-local projector and is satisfied by any state in its nullspace.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 David Gosset , Daniel Nagaj

In complexity theory, gap-preserving reductions play a crucial role in studying hardness of approximation and in analyzing the relative complexity of multiprover interactive proof systems. In the quantum setting, multiprover interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Laura Mančinska , Pieter Spaas , Taro Spirig , Matthijs Vernooij

We prove the existence of (one-way) communication tasks with a subconstant versus superconstant asymptotic gap, which we call "doubly infinite," between their quantum information and communication complexities. We do so by studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Zi-Wen Liu , Christopher Perry , Yechao Zhu , Dax Enshan Koh , Scott Aaronson

Recent successes of game-theoretic formulations in ML have caused a resurgence of research interest in differentiable games. Overwhelmingly, that research focuses on methods and upper bounds on their speed of convergence. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Adam Ibrahim , Waïss Azizian , Gauthier Gidel , Ioannis Mitliagkas

The $k$-ExactCover problem is a parameterized version of the ExactCover problem, in which we are given a universe $U$, a collection $S$ of subsets of $U$, and an integer $k$, and the task is to determine whether $U$ can be partitioned into…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Venkatesan Guruswami , Patrick Lin

A previously developed quantum search algorithm for solving 1-SAT problems in a single step is generalized to apply to a range of highly constrained k-SAT problems. We identify a bound on the number of clauses in satisfiability problems for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 T. Hogg

The complexity and approximability of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) has been actively studied over the last 20 years. A new version of the CSP, the promise CSP (PCSP) has recently been proposed, motivated by open questions about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Libor Barto , Jakub Bulín , Andrei Krokhin , Jakub Opršal

A theory is universal contextual if its prediction cannot be reproduced by an ontological model satisfying both preparation and measurement noncontextuality assumptions. In this report, we first generalize the logical proofs of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 A. K. Pan