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We prove that functions over the reals computable in polynomial time can be characterised using discrete ordinary differential equations (ODE), also known as finite differences. We also provide a characterisation of functions computable in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Manon Blanc , Olivier Bournez

For Boolean functions computed by read-once, depth-$D$ circuits with unbounded fan-in over the de Morgan basis, we present an explicit pseudorandom generator with seed length $\tilde{O}(\log^{D+1} n)$. The previous best seed length known…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Sitan Chen , Thomas Steinke , Salil Vadhan

Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) have attracted much attention as continuous-time counterparts of deep residual neural networks (NNs), and numerous extensions for recurrent NNs have been proposed. Since the 1980s, ODEs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kazuki Irie , Francesco Faccio , Jürgen Schmidhuber

In numerous robotics and mechanical engineering applications, among others, data is often constrained on smooth manifolds due to the presence of rotational degrees of freedom. Common datadriven and learning-based methods such as neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Xuechen Zhang , Samet Oymak , Fabio Pasqualetti

We show that sharp thresholds for Boolean functions directly imply average-case circuit lower bounds. More formally we show that any Boolean function exhibiting a sharp enough threshold at \emph{arbitrary} critical density cannot be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-17 David Gamarnik , Elchanan Mossel , Ilias Zadik

We propose a new approach to learning the subgrid-scale model when simulating partial differential equations (PDEs) solved by the method of lines and their representation in chaotic ordinary differential equations, based on neural ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Shinhoo Kang , Emil M. Constantinescu

Neural differential equations are a promising new member in the neural network family. They show the potential of differential equations for time series data analysis. In this paper, the strength of the ordinary differential equation (ODE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Mansura Habiba , Barak A. Pearlmutter

We introduce a new family of deep neural network models. Instead of specifying a discrete sequence of hidden layers, we parameterize the derivative of the hidden state using a neural network. The output of the network is computed using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ricky T. Q. Chen , Yulia Rubanova , Jesse Bettencourt , David Duvenaud

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODE) have garnered significant attention for their design of continuous-depth neural networks and the ability to learn data/feature dynamics. However, for high-dimensional systems, estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Muhao Guo , Haoran Li , Yang Weng

In complex physical systems, conventional differential equations often fall short in capturing non-local and memory effects, as they are limited to local dynamics and integer-order interactions. This study introduces a stepwise data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Xiangnan Yu , Hao Xu , Zhiping Mao , HongGuang Sun , Yong Zhang , Dongxiao Zhang , Yuntian Chen

To better understand and improve the behavior of neural networks, a recent line of works bridged the connection between ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and deep neural networks (DNNs). The connections are made in two folds: (1) View…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xinshi Chen

We introduce the polynomial coefficient matrix and identify maximum rank of this matrix under variable substitution as a complexity measure for multivariate polynomials. We use our techniques to prove super-polynomial lower bounds against…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheshwari , Jayalal Sarma M. N

$ \newcommand{\cclass}[1]{{\normalfont\textsf{##1}}} $We show average-case lower bounds for explicit Boolean functions against bounded-depth threshold circuits with a superlinear number of wires. We show that for each integer $d > 1$, there…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ruiwen Chen , Rahul Santhanam , Srikanth Srinivasan

We explore the power of the unbounded Fan-Out gate and the Global Tunable gates generated by Ising-type Hamiltonians in constructing constant-depth quantum circuits, with particular attention to quantum memory devices. We propose two types…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jonathan Allcock , Jinge Bao , Joao F. Doriguello , Alessandro Luongo , Miklos Santha

Asymptotic dynamics of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are commonly understood by looking at eigenvalues of a matrix, and transient dynamics can be bounded above and below by considering the corresponding pseudospectra. While…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Amanda Hood , David Bindel

We investigate monotone circuits with local oracles [K., 2016], i.e., circuits containing additional inputs $y_i = y_i(\vec{x})$ that can perform unstructured computations on the input string $\vec{x}$. Let $\mu \in [0,1]$ be the locality…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jan Krajicek , Igor C. Oliveira

$\mathrm{QAC}^0$ is the family of constant-depth polynomial-size quantum circuits consisting of arbitrary single qubit unitaries and multi-qubit Toffoli gates. It was introduced by Moore [arXiv: 9903046] as a quantum counterpart of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Anurag Anshu , Yangjing Dong , Fengning Ou , Penghui Yao

Recently Bravyi, Gosset and K\"onig (Science 2018) proved an unconditional separation between the computational powers of small-depth quantum and classical circuits for a relation. In this paper we show a similar separation in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 François Le Gall

There has been a long history of using ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to understand the dynamics of discrete-time algorithms (DTAs). Surprisingly, there are still two fundamental and unanswered questions: (i) it is unclear how to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Haihao Lu

Fractional partial differential equations (FDEs) are used to describe phenomena that involve a "non-local" or "long-range" interaction of some kind. Accurate and practical numerical approximation of their solutions is challenging due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Justin Crum , Joshua A. Levine , Andrew Gillette