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Translating formal language into natural language is a foundational challenge in NLP, driving various downstream applications in semantic parsing, theorem validation, and question answering. In this study, we introduce First-Order Logic to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mei Jia

We consider the class of counting problems,i.e. functions in $\#$P, which are self reducible, and have easy decision version, i.e. for every input it is easy to decide if the value of the function $f(x)$ is zero. For example,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Eleni Bakali

Computing accurate periodic responses in strongly nonlinear or even non-smooth vibration systems remains a fundamental challenge in nonlinear dynamics. Existing numerical methods, such as the Harmonic Balance Method (HBM) and the Shooting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Limin Cao , Yanmao Chen , Li Wang , Loic Salles , Zechang Zheng

In this paper, we consider a control synthesis problem for a class of polynomial dynamical systems subject to bounded disturbances and with input constraints. More precisely, we aim at synthesizing at the same time a controller and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-11 Mohamed Amin Ben Sassi , Antoine Girard

The following paper proposes a new approach to determine whether a logical (CNF) formula is satisfiable or not using probability theory methods. Furthermore, we will introduce an algorithm that speeds up the standard solution for (CNF-SAT)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Hazem J. Alkhatib , Majd N. Bohssas , Rawad H. Hatem , Odey N. Kassam Alhennawi

The Systematic Normal Form (SysNF) is a canonical form of lattices introduced in [Eldar,Shor '16], in which the basis entries satisfy a certain co-primality condition. Using a "smooth" analysis of lattices by SysNF lattices we design a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Lior Eldar , Peter W. Shor

We introduce a problem class we call Polynomial Constraint Satisfaction Problems, or PCSP. Where the usual CSPs from computer science and optimization have real-valued score functions, and partition functions from physics have monomials,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Alexander D. Scott , Gregory B. Sorkin

We consider stochastic second-order methods for minimizing smooth and strongly-convex functions under an interpolation condition satisfied by over-parameterized models. Under this condition, we show that the regularized subsampled Newton…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Si Yi Meng , Sharan Vaswani , Issam Laradji , Mark Schmidt , Simon Lacoste-Julien

The class of Basic Feasible Functionals BFF is the second-order counterpart of the class of first-order functions computable in polynomial time. We present several implicit characterizations of BFF based on a typed programming language of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Emmanuel Hainry , Bruce M. Kapron , Jean-Yves Marion , Romain Péchoux

First of all we give some reasons that "natural proofs" built not a barrier to prove P $\not=$ NP using Boolean complexity. Then we investigate the approximation method for its extension to prove super-polynomial lower bounds for the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Norbert Blum

Reactive synthesis from high-level specifications that combine hard constraints expressed in Linear Temporal Logic LTL with soft constraints expressed by discounted-sum (DS) rewards has applications in planning and reinforcement learning.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Suguman Bansal , Lydia Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi , Andrew Wells

We show that one can approximate the least fixed point solution for a multivariate system of monotone probabilistic max(min) polynomial equations, referred to as maxPPSs (and minPPSs, respectively), in time polynomial in both the encoding…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-24 Kousha Etessami , Alistair Stewart , Mihalis Yannakakis

The classical heuristic complexity of the Number Field Sieve (NFS) is the solution of an optimization problem that involves an unknown function, usually noted $o(1)$ and called $\xi(N)$ throughout this paper, which tends to zero as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Aude Le Gluher , Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer , Emmanuel Thomé

The recent decade has witnessed a surge of research in modelling and computing from two-way data (matrices) to multiway data (tensors). However, there is a drastic phase transition for most tensor optimization problems when the order of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Haodong Hu , Bo Jiang , Zhening Li

A class of discrete event synthesis problems can be reduced to solving language equations f . X ⊆ S, where F is the fixed component and S the specification. Sequential synthesis deals with FSMs when the automata for F and S are prefix…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Alan Mishchenko , Robert Brayton , Roland Jiang , Tiziano Villa , Nina Yevtushenko

We show that deep neural networks (DNNs) can efficiently learn any composition of functions with bounded $F_{1}$-norm, which allows DNNs to break the curse of dimensionality in ways that shallow networks cannot. More specifically, we derive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-07 Arthur Jacot , Seok Hoan Choi , Yuxiao Wen

We present parametric breadth-first search (PBFS), a new algorithm for solving the parametric minimum cut problem in a network with source-sink-monotone capacities. The objective is to find the set of breakpoints, i.e., the points at which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Arne Beines , Michael Kaibel , Philip Mayer , Petra Mutzel , Jonas Sauer

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which knowledge compilation can be used to improve inference from propositional weighted bases. We present a general notion of compilation of a weighted base that is parametrized by any…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adnan Darwiche , Pierre Marquis

This paper presents an automatic formal controller synthesis method for nonlinear sampled-data systems with safety and reachability specifications. Fundamentally, the presented method is not restricted to polynomial systems and controllers.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Cees F. Verdier , Manuel Mazo

In sphere of research of discrete optimization algorithms efficiency the important place occupies a method of polynomial reducibility of some problems to others with use of special purpose components. In this paper a novel method of compact…

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