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We consider a coded cooperative data exchange problem with the goal of generating a secret key. Specifically, we investigate the number of public transmissions required for a set of clients to agree on a secret key with probability one,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Thomas A. Courtade , Thomas R. Halford

A relation modification problem gets a logical structure and a natural number k as input and asks whether k modifications of the structure suffice to make it satisfy a predefined property. We provide a complete classification of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Florian Chudigiewitsch , Marlene Gründel , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Till Tantau

Testing if a given graph $G$ contains the $k$-vertex path $P_k$ as a minor or as an induced minor is trivial for every fixed integer $k\geq 1$. However, the situation changes for the problem of checking if a graph can be modified into $P_k$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Daniël Paulusma

We consider the problem of determining, given x, y in Z^k and a finite set F of affine functions on Z^k, whether y is reachable from x by applying the functions F. We also consider the analogous problem over N^k. These problems are known to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Daniel Fremont

We exhibit a total search problem with classically verifiable solutions whose communication complexity in the quantum SMP model is exponentially smaller than in the classical two-way randomized model. Our problem is a bipartite version of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Mika Göös , Tom Gur , Siddhartha Jain , Jiawei Li

We introduce a simple model illustrating the role of context in communication and the challenge posed by uncertainty of knowledge of context. We consider a variant of distributional communication complexity where Alice gets some information…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Badih Ghazi , Ilan Komargodski , Pravesh Kothari , Madhu Sudan

In this paper we investigate formal verification problems for Neural Network computations. Various reachability problems will be in the focus, such as: Given symbolic specifications of allowed inputs and outputs in form of Linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Adrian Wurm

Here we study the computational complexity of the constrained synchronization problem for the class of regular commutative constraint languages. Utilizing a vector representation of regular commutative constraint languages, we give a full…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Stefan Hoffmann

We call $F:\{0, 1\}^n\times \{0, 1\}^n\to\{0, 1\}$ a symmetric XOR function if for a function $S:\{0, 1, ..., n\}\to\{0, 1\}$, $F(x, y)=S(|x\oplus y|)$, for any $x, y\in\{0, 1\}^n$, where $|x\oplus y|$ is the Hamming weight of the bit-wise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-20 Yaoyun Shi , Zhiqiang Zhang

We survey results on the formalization and independence of mathematical statements related to major open problems in computational complexity theory. Our primary focus is on recent findings concerning the (un)provability of complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Igor C. Oliveira

The Collision problem is to decide whether a given list of numbers $(x_1,\ldots,x_n)\in[n]^n$ is $1$-to-$1$ or $2$-to-$1$ when promised one of them is the case. We show an $n^{\Omega(1)}$ randomised communication lower bound for the natural…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Mika Göös , Siddhartha Jain

A decision problem is called parameterized if its input is a pair of strings. One of these strings is referred to as a parameter. The problem: given a propositional logic program P and a non-negative integer k, decide whether P has a stable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski

We give a forbidden pattern characterization for the class of generalized definite languages, show that the corresponding problem is NL-complete and can be solved in quadratic time. We also show that their syntactic complexity coincides…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Szabolcs Ivan , Judit Nagy-Gyorgy

Answering conjunctive queries (CQs) over $\mathcal{EL}$ knowledge bases (KBs) with complex role inclusions is PSPACE-hard and in PSPACE in certain cases; however, if complex role inclusions are restricted to role transitivity, the tight…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Giorgio Stefanoni , Boris Motik

The K-way vertex cut problem} consists in, given a graph G, finding a subset of vertices of a given size, whose removal partitions G into the maximum number of connected components. This problem has many applications in several areas. It…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Mohammed Lalou

We consider the following natural graph cut problem called Critical Node Cut (CNC): Given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, and two positive integers $k$ and $x$, determine whether $G$ has a set of $k$ vertices whose removal leaves $G$ with at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Danny Hermelin , Moshe Kaspi , Christian Komusiewicz , Barak Navon

A given subset $A$ of natural numbers is said to be complete if every element of $\mathbb{N}$ is the sum of distinct terms taken from $A$. This topic is strongly connected to the knapsack problem which is known to be NP complete.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Norbert Hegyvári

A central question in computer science and statistics is whether efficient algorithms can achieve the information-theoretic limits of statistical problems. Many computational-statistical tradeoffs have been shown under average-case…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Guy Blanc , Caleb Koch , Carmen Strassle , Li-Yang Tan

How hard is it to invert NP-problems? We show that all superlinearly certified inverses of NP problems are coNP-hard. To do so, we develop a novel proof technique that builds diagonalizations against certificates directly into a circuit.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Edith Hemaspaandra , Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Harald Hempel

We study the complexity of reasoning in abstracts argumentation frameworks close to graph classes that allow for efficient reasoning methods, i.e.\ to one of the classes of acyclic, noeven, biparite and symmetric AFs. In this work we show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Wolfgang Dvořák