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In this paper we study the role of cliquewidth in succinct representation of Boolean functions. Our main statement is the following: Let $Z$ be a Boolean circuit having cliquewidth $k$. Then there is another circuit $Z^*$ computing the same…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Igor Razgon , Justyna Petke

Many real world scientific and industrial applications require optimizing multiple competing black-box objectives. When the objectives are expensive-to-evaluate, multi-objective Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular approach because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Samuel Daulton , David Eriksson , Maximilian Balandat , Eytan Bakshy

Binary Neural Networks (BiNNs), which employ single-bit precision weights, have emerged as a promising solution to reduce memory usage and power consumption while maintaining competitive performance in large-scale systems. However, training…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Luca Nepote , Alix Lhéritier , Nicolas Bondoux , Marios Kountouris , Maurizio Filippone

Quantum error correction is believed to be essential for scalable quantum computation, but its implementation is challenging due to its considerable space-time overhead. Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating efficient manipulation…

Bayesian optimization has recently emerged as a popular method for the sample-efficient optimization of expensive black-box functions. However, the application to high-dimensional problems with several thousand observations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 David Eriksson , Michael Pearce , Jacob R Gardner , Ryan Turner , Matthias Poloczek

A software tool, computing observed and expected upper limits on Poissonian process rates using a hybrid frequentist-Bayesian CLs method, is presented. This tool can be used for simple counting experiments where only signal, background and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-26 Emmanuel Busato , David Calvet , Timothée Theveneaux-Pelzer

Software bugs typically result from errors in specifications or code translation. While classical software engineering has evolved with various tools and methodologies to tackle such bugs, the emergence of quantum computing presents unique…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mushahid Khan , Prashant J. Nair , Olivia Di Matteo

We introduce a new formulation of the Conviqt convolution algorithm in terms of spin harmonics, and apply this to the problem of sidelobe correction for BeyondPlanck, the first end-to-end Bayesian Gibbs sampling framework for CMB analysis.…

Large language models (LLMs) can generate structured artifacts, but using them as dependable optimizers for scientific design requires a mechanism for iterative improvement under black-box evaluation. Here, we cast quantum circuit synthesis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Adriano Macarone-Palmieri , Rosario Lo Franco

Several fundamental problems in science and engineering consist of global optimization tasks involving unknown high-dimensional (black-box) functions that map a set of controllable variables to the outcomes of an expensive experiment.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Mohamed Aziz Bhouri , Michael Joly , Robert Yu , Soumalya Sarkar , Paris Perdikaris

Since numbers in the computer are represented with a fixed number of bits, loss of accuracy during calculation is unavoidable. At high precision where more bits (e.g. 64) are allocated to each number, round-off errors are typically small.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Yizhou Chen , Xiaoyun Gong , Xiang Ji

Currently, transformer-based algorithms are making a splash in the domain of image deblurring. Their achievement depends on the self-attention mechanism with CNN stem to model long range dependencies between tokens. Unfortunately, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xingchi Chen , Xiuyi Jia , Zhuoran Zheng

We present new multi-test Bayesian optimization models and algorithms for use in large scale material screening applications. Our screening problems are designed around two tests, one expensive and one cheap. This paper differs from other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-14 James Hook , Calum Hand , Emma Whitfield

Circuit cutting was originally designed to retrieve the expectation value of an observable with respect to a large quantum circuit by executing smaller circuit fragments. In this work, however, we demonstrate the application of circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Friedrich Wagner , Christian Ufrecht , Martin Braun , Daniel D. Scherer

In this paper, we propose EasyBO, an Efficient ASYnchronous Batch Bayesian Optimization approach for analog circuit synthesis. In this proposed approach, instead of waiting for the slowest simulations in the batch to finish, we accelerate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Shuhan Zhang , Fan Yang , Dian Zhou , Xuan Zeng

Fault injection attacks deliberately inject faults into a device via physical channels to disturb its regular execution. Adversaries can effectively deduce secrets by analyzing both the normal and faulty outputs, posing serious threats to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xi Yang , Taolue Chen , Yuqi Chen , Fu Song , Chundong Wang , Zhilin Wu

Combinatorial optimization problems are one of the areas where near-term noisy quantum computers may have practical advantage against classical computers. Recently a novel feedback-based quantum optimization algorithm has been proposed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Don Arai , Ken N. Okada , Yuichiro Nakano , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

As a broadly applied technique in numerous optimization problems, recently, local search has been employed to solve Pseudo-Boolean Optimization (PBO) problem. A representative local search solver for PBO is LSPBO. In this paper, firstly, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Zhihan Chen , Peng Lin , Hao Hu , Shaowei Cai

This paper studies the problem of globally optimizing a variable of interest that is part of a causal model in which a sequence of interventions can be performed. This problem arises in biology, operational research, communications and,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-27 Virginia Aglietti , Xiaoyu Lu , Andrei Paleyes , Javier González

The minimum circuit size problem (MCSP) is a string compression problem with a parameter $s$ in which, given the truth table of a Boolean function over inputs of length $n$, one must answer whether it can be computed by a Boolean circuit of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Augusto Modanese