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Solving Sudoku puzzles is one of the most popular pastimes in the world. Puzzles range in difficulty from easy to very challenging; the hardest puzzles tend to have the most empty cells. The current paper explains and compares three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Eric C. Chi , Kenneth Lange

We describe a thermodynamic-inspired computing paradigm based on oscillatory neural networks (ONNs). While ONNs have been widely studied as Ising machines for tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems, this work investigates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 George Tsormpatzoglou , Filip Sabo , Aida Todri-Sanial

Memristor networks are capable of low-power and massive parallel processing and information storage. Moreover, they have presented the ability to apply for a vast number of intelligent data analysis applications targeting mobile edge…

Sudoku is a popular combinatorial puzzle. A new method of solving Sudoku is presented, which involves formulating a puzzle as a special type of transportation problem. This model allows one to solve puzzles with more than one solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Mansour Moufid

Despite their proficiency in various language tasks, Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with combinatorial problems like Satisfiability, Traveling Salesman Problem, or even basic arithmetic. We address this gap through a novel trial &…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Panagiotis Giannoulis , Yorgos Pantis , Christos Tzamos

Recently many neural models have been proposed to solve combinatorial puzzles by implicitly learning underlying constraints using their solved instances, such as sudoku or graph coloring (GCP). One drawback of the proposed architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yatin Nandwani , Vidit Jain , Mausam , Parag Singla

A coupled spintronic oscillator array has been considered attractive for neuromorphic computing applications. Experimental reports have shown the nano-constriction geometry to be a relatively easier-to-fabricate platform for implementing…

Sudoku is a widely popular $\mathcal{NP}$-Complete combinatorial puzzle whose prospects for studying human computation have recently received attention, but the algorithmic hardness of Sudoku solving is yet largely unexplored. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Marcelo Prates , Luis Lamb

Recently, message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) have shown potential for solving combinatorial and continuous optimization problems due to their ability to capture variable-constraint interactions. While existing approaches leverage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Chendi Qian , Christopher Morris

We investigate the problem of efficiently computing optimal transport (OT) distances, which is equivalent to the node-capacitated minimum cost maximum flow problem in a bipartite graph. We compare runtimes in computing OT distances on data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yihe Dong , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Ilya Razenshteyn , Saurabh Sawlani

The Sudoku puzzle has achieved worldwide popularity recently, and attracted great attention of the computational intelligence community. Sudoku is always considered as Satisfiability Problem or Constraint Satisfaction Problem. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-11 Zhe Chen

We show that single-digit "Nishio" subproblems in nxn Sudoku puzzles may be solved in time o(2^n), faster than previous solutions such as the pattern overlay method. We also show that single-digit deduction in Sudoku is NP-hard.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-06 David Eppstein

The algorithms that simple feedback neural circuits representing a brain area can rapidly carry out are often adequate to solve only easy problems, and for more difficult problems can return incorrect answers. A new excitatory-inhibitory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 J. J. Hopfield

Topological solitons, which are stable, localized solutions of nonlinear differential equations, are crucial in various fields of physics and mathematics, including particle physics and cosmology. However, solving these solitons presents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Koji Hashimoto , Koshiro Matsuo , Masaki Murata , Gakuto Ogiwara

Deep Neural Networks have achieved great success in some of the complex tasks that humans can do with ease. These include image recognition/classification, natural language processing, game playing etc. However, modern Neural Networks fail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Ashutosh Hathidara , Lalit Pandey

Combinatorial optimization problems are pervasive across science and industry. Modern deep learning tools are poised to solve these problems at unprecedented scales, but a unifying framework that incorporates insights from statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Martin J. A. Schuetz , J. Kyle Brubaker , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Neural-symbolic learning, an intersection of neural networks and symbolic reasoning, aims to blend neural networks' learning capabilities with symbolic AI's interpretability and reasoning. This paper introduces an approach designed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Fadi Al Machot

Recent research has proposed neural architectures for solving combinatorial problems in structured output spaces. In many such problems, there may exist multiple solutions for a given input, e.g. a partially filled Sudoku puzzle may have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yatin Nandwani , Deepanshu Jindal , Mausam , Parag Singla

In this paper the Sudoku problem is solved using stochastic search techniques and these are: Cultural Genetic Algorithm (CGA), Repulsive Particle Swarm Optimization (RPSO), Quantum Simulated Annealing (QSA) and the Hybrid method that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-04-25 Meir Perez , Tshilidzi Marwala

Today, hardware constraints are an important limitation on quantum adiabatic optimization algorithms. Firstly, computational problems must be formulated as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) in the presence of noisy coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Andrew Lucas
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