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Since the breakthrough superpolynomial multilinear formula lower bounds of Raz (Theory of Computing 2006), proving such lower bounds against multilinear algebraic branching programs (mABPs) has been a longstanding open problem in algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Deepanshu Kush

We present a formally verified global optimization framework. Given a semialgebraic or transcendental function $f$ and a compact semialgebraic domain $K$, we use the nonlinear maxplus template approximation algorithm to provide a certified…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Victor Magron , Xavier Allamigeon , Stéphane Gaubert , Benjamin Werner

We show that any nonzero polynomial in the ideal generated by the $r \times r$ minors of an $n \times n$ matrix $X$ can be used to efficiently approximate the determinant. For any nonzero polynomial $f$ in this ideal, we construct a small…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Robert Andrews , Michael A. Forbes

We formalize a framework of algebraically natural lower bounds for algebraic circuits. Just as with the natural proofs notion of Razborov and Rudich for boolean circuit lower bounds, our notion of algebraically natural lower bounds captures…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Michael A. Forbes , Amir Shpilka , Ben Lee Volk

For any unsatisfiable CNF formula we give an exponential lower bound on the size of resolution refutations of a propositional statement that the formula has a resolution refutation. We describe three applications. (1) An open question in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Michal Garlík

We study implicational formulas in the context of proof complexity of intuitionistic propositional logic (IPC). On the one hand, we give an efficient transformation of tautologies to implicational tautologies that preserves the lengths of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Emil Jeřábek

Performative prediction is a framework accounting for the shift in the data distribution induced by the prediction of a model deployed in the real world. Ensuring rapid convergence to a stable solution where the data distribution remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Pedram Khorsandi , Rushil Gupta , Mehrnaz Mofakhami , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Gauthier Gidel

When a system commits to a hypothesis, much of the evidential structure behind that commitment is lost to compression. Standard accounts assume that selected content and scalar confidence suffice for downstream control. This paper argues…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mark Walsh

This paper presents uniform-in-time finite-sample bounds for regularized linear regression with vector-valued outputs and conditionally zero-mean subgaussian noise. By revisiting classical self-normalized martingale arguments, we obtain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Léo Simpson , Katrin Baumgärtner , Johannes Köhler , Moritz Diehl

We present a new method to propagate lower bounds on conditional probability distributions in conventional Bayesian networks. Our method guarantees to provide outer approximations of the exact lower bounds. A key advantage is that we can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Daniel Andrade , Bernhard Sick

The celebrated result of Kabanets and Impagliazzo (Computational Complexity, 2004) showed that PIT algorithms imply circuit lower bounds, and vice versa. Since then it has been a major challenge to understand the precise connections between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Robert Andrews , Deepanshu Kush , Roei Tell

We observe that a certain kind of algebraic proof - which covers essentially all known algebraic circuit lower bounds to date - cannot be used to prove lower bounds against VP if and only if what we call succinct hitting sets exist for VP.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Joshua A. Grochow , Mrinal Kumar , Michael Saks , Shubhangi Saraf

In this paper we prove lower bounds for sizes of refutations of unsatisfiable vector Subset Sum instances $\overrightarrow{a}_1 x_1 + \dots + \overrightarrow{a}_n x_n = \overrightarrow{b}$ in the proof system Res(lin$_{\mathbb{F}_q}$) where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Fedor Part

We present a comprehensive programme analysing the decomposition of proof systems for non-classical logics into proof systems for other logics, especially classical logic, using an algebra of constraints. That is, one recovers a proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , David J. Pym

Hitting formulas have been studied in many different contexts at least since [Iwama,89]. A hitting formula is a set of Boolean clauses such that any two of them cannot be simultaneously falsified. [Peitl,Szeider,05] conjectured that hitting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yuval Filmus , Edward A. Hirsch , Artur Riazanov , Alexander Smal , Marc Vinyals

The purpose of this article is to further explore how the structure of the affine group can be used to deduce new incidence theorems, and to explore sum-product type applications of these incidence bounds, building on the recent work of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Oliver Roche-Newton , Audie Warren

The paper has established and verified the theory prevailing widely among image and pattern recognition specialists that the bottom-up indirect regional matching process is the more stable and the more robust than the global matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Liang Chen , Naoyuki Tokuda

This paper is the third part of the series "Spherical higher order Fourier analysis over finite fields", aiming to develop the higher order Fourier analysis method along spheres over finite fields, and to solve the geometric Ramsey…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Wenbo Sun

This article presents a fast direct solver, termed Algebraic Inverse Fast Multipole Method (from now on abbreviated as AIFMM), for linear systems arising out of $N$-body problems. AIFMM relies on the following three main ideas: (i) Certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Vaishnavi Gujjula , Sivaram Ambikasaran

We analyze the asymptotic convergence of all infinite products of matrices taken in a given finite set, by looking only at finite or periodic products. It is known that when the matrices of the set have a common nonincreasing polyhedral…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Pierre-Yves Chevalier , Julien M. Hendrickx , Raphaël M. Jungers