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The classical simulation of quantum circuits is of central importance for benchmarking near-term quantum devices. The fact that gates belonging to the Clifford group can be simulated efficiently on classical computers has motivated a range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Tomislav Begušić , Kasra Hejazi , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Groote and Wijs recently described an algorithm for deciding stuttering equivalence and branching bisimulation equivalence, acclaimed to run in $\mathcal{O}(m \log n)$ time. Unfortunately, the algorithm does not always meet the acclaimed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-23 David N. Jansen , Jeroen J. A. Keiren

Reinforcement learning improves LLM reasoning, yet sparse delayed reward over long sequences makes token-level credit assignment the key bottleneck. We study the verifiable-reward setting, where the final answer is checkable and multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hieu Tran , Zonghai Yao , Hong Yu

When comparing the fastest algorithm for computing the largest simulation preorder over Kripke structures with the one for labeled transition systems (LTS), there is a noticeable time and space complexity blow-up proportional to the size of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Lukáš Holík , Jiří Šimáček

A large number of NP-hard graph problems can be solved in $f(w)n^{O(1)}$ time and space when the input graph is provided together with a tree decomposition of width $w$, in many cases with a modest exponential dependence $f(w)$ on $w$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Stefan Kratsch

One of the key problems in tensor network based quantum circuit simulation is the construction of a contraction tree which minimizes the cost of the simulation, where the cost can be expressed in the number of operations as a proxy for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Cameron Ibrahim , Danylo Lykov , Zichang He , Yuri Alexeev , Ilya Safro

In memory-constrained algorithms we have read-only access to the input, and the number of additional variables is limited. In this paper we introduce the compressed stack technique, a method that allows to transform algorithms whose space…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Luis Barba , Matias Korman , Stefan Langerman , Kunikiko Sadakane , Rodrigo Silveira

As established in the seminal work by Berry et al.[1], expanding the time evolution operator using truncated Taylor series (up to some order $K$) makes a good candidate for simulating Hamiltonian dynamics. Here, we adapt the method but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Michelle Wynne Sze , David Zsolt Manrique , David Muñoz Ramo , Nathan Fitzpatrick

Understanding the dynamics of quantum systems is crucial in many areas of physics, but simulating many-body systems presents significant challenges due to the large Hilbert space to navigate and the exponential growth of computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Sangjin Lee , Youngseok Kim , Seung-Woo Lee

Intervals have been generated in many applications (e.g., temporal databases), and they are often associated with weights, such as prices. This paper addresses the problem of processing top-k weighted stabbing queries on interval data.…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Daichi Amagata , Junya Yamada , Yuchen Ji , Takahiro Hara

We consider a classical k-center problem in trees. Let T be a tree of n vertices and every vertex has a nonnegative weight. The problem is to find k centers on the edges of T such that the maximum weighted distance from all vertices to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Haitao Wang , Jingru Zhang

We show that any quantum circuit of treewidth $t$, built from $r$-qubit gates, requires at least $\Omega(\frac{n^{2}}{2^{O(r\cdot t)}\cdot \log^4 n})$ gates to compute the element distinctness function. Our result generalizes a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

Singular value thresholding (SVT) operation is a fundamental core module in many mathematical models in computer vision and machine learning, particularly for many nuclear norm minimizing-based problems. We presented a quantum SVT (QSVT)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Bojia Duan , Jiabin Yuan , Ying Liu , Dan Li

The Stokeslet and stresslet kernels are commonly used in boundary element simulations and singularity methods for slow viscous flow. Evaluating the velocity induced by a collection of Stokeslets and stresslets by direct summation requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Lei Wang , Svetlana Tlupova , Robert Krasny

We consider the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex tree with one shortcut in order to minimize the diameter of the resulting graph. The tree is embedded in an unknown space and we have access to an oracle that, when queried on a pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Davide Bilò

We present a quantum algorithm that analyzes risk more efficiently than Monte Carlo simulations traditionally used on classical computers. We employ quantum amplitude estimation to evaluate risk measures such as Value at Risk and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Stefan Woerner , Daniel J. Egger

We improve the number of $T$ gates needed for a $b$-bit approximation of a multiplexed quantum gate with $c$ controls applying $n$ single-qubit arbitrary phase rotations from $4n b+\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{cn b})$ to $2n b+\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{cn…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Guang Hao Low

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have exhibited strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, with further gains achievable through increased computational budgets at inference. However, current test-time scaling methods predominantly rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jie Chen , Jinhao Jiang , Yingqian Min , Zican Dong , Shijie Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

In this paper, we investigate computational power of threshold circuits and other theoretical models of neural networks in terms of the following four complexity measures: size (the number of gates), depth, weight and energy. Here the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Kei Uchizawa , Haruki Abe

High dimensional integration is essential to many areas of science, ranging from particle physics to Bayesian inference. Approximating these integrals is hard, due in part to the difficulty of locating and sampling from regions of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-25 Thomas Foster , Chon Lok Lei , Martin Robinson , David Gavaghan , Ben Lambert