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Majorization is a partial order on real vectors which plays an important role in a variety of subjects, ranging from algebra and combinatorics to probability and statistics. In this paper, we consider a generalized notion of majorization…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Colin McSwiggen , Jonathan Novak

We define a class of functions termed "Computable in the Limit", based on the Machine Learning paradigm of "Identification in the Limit". A function is Computable in the Limit if it defines a property P_p of a recursively enumerable class A…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Antony Van der Mude

Neural fields, which represent signals as a function parameterized by a neural network, are a promising alternative to traditional discrete vector or grid-based representations. Compared to discrete representations, neural representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jeffrey Gu , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Serena Yeung

Submodularity is a discrete domain functional property that can be interpreted as mimicking the role of the well-known convexity/concavity properties in the continuous domain. Submodular functions exhibit strong structure that lead to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Ehsan Tohidi , Rouhollah Amiri , Mario Coutino , David Gesbert , Geert Leus , Amin Karbasi

We call an Ising model tractable when it is possible to compute its partition function value (statistical inference) in polynomial time. The tractability also implies an ability to sample configurations of this model in polynomial time. The…

Computation · Statistics 2021-12-07 Valerii Likhosherstov , Yury Maximov , Michael Chertkov

We present an extension to the $\mathtt{mathlib}$ library of the Lean theorem prover formalizing the foundations of computability theory. We use primitive recursive functions and partial recursive functions as the main objects of study, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Mario Carneiro

Deep learning models benefit from rich (e.g., multi-modal) input features. However, multimodal models might be challenging to deploy, because some inputs may be missing at inference. Current popular solutions include marginalization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Minh Nguyen , Batuhan K. Karaman , Heejong Kim , Alan Q. Wang , Fengbei Liu , Mert R. Sabuncu

Data refinement is the standard extension of a refinement relation from programs to datatypes (i.e. a behavioural subtyping relation). Forward/backward simulations provide a tractable method for establishing data refinement, and have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chris Chen , Annabelle McIver , Carroll Morgan

Despite their omnipresence in modern NLP, characterizing the computational power of transformer neural nets remains an interesting open question. We prove that transformers whose arithmetic precision is logarithmic in the number of input…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-28 William Merrill , Ashish Sabharwal

We consider the multiplicative complexity of Boolean functions with multiple bits of output, studying how large a multiplicative complexity is necessary and sufficient to provide a desired nonlinearity. For so-called $\Sigma\Pi\Sigma$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Magnus Gausdal Find , Joan Boyar

Consider the representations of an algebraic group G. In general, polynomial invariant functions may fail to separate orbits. The invariant subring may not be finitely generated, or the number and complexity of the generators may grow…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-24 Harlan Kadish

Probabilistic circuits are a unifying representation of functions as computation graphs of weighted sums and products. Their primary application is in probabilistic modeling, where circuits with non-negative weights (monotone circuits) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Benjie Wang , Guy Van den Broeck

We investigate three related and important problems connected to machine learning: approximating a submodular function everywhere, learning a submodular function (in a PAC-like setting [53]), and constrained minimization of submodular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Rishabh Iyer , Stefanie Jegelka , Jeff Bilmes

We describe some "unrestricted" algorithms which are useful for the computation of elementary and special functions when the precision required is not known in advance. Several general classes of algorithms are identified and illustrated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-22 Richard P. Brent

SHAP explanations are a popular feature-attribution mechanism for explainable AI. They use game-theoretic notions to measure the influence of individual features on the prediction of a machine learning model. Despite a lot of recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Guy Van den Broeck , Anton Lykov , Maximilian Schleich , Dan Suciu

Abduction is a fundamental and important form of non-monotonic reasoning. Given a knowledge base explaining how the world behaves it aims at finding an explanation for some observed manifestation. In this paper we focus on propositional…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Nadia Creignou , Johannes Schmidt , Michael Thomas

Satisfiability of Boolean circuits is among the most known and important problems in theoretical computer science. This problem is NP-complete in general but becomes polynomial time when restricted either to monotone gates or linear gates.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Paweł M. Idziak , Jacek Krzaczkowski

Functional data analysis involves data described by regular functions rather than by a finite number of real valued variables. While some robust data analysis methods can be applied directly to the very high dimensional vectors obtained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-01-06 Fabrice Rossi , Yves Lechevallier

computable functions are defined by abstract finite deterministic algorithms on many-sorted algebras. We show that there exist finite universal algebraic specifications that specify uniquely (up to isomorphism) (i) all abstract computable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. V. Tucker , J. I. Zucker

We use deep sparsely connected neural networks to measure the complexity of a function class in $L^2(\mathbb R^d)$ by restricting connectivity and memory requirement for storing the neural networks. We also introduce representation system -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Khay Boon Hong