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We study a model where two opposing provers debate over the membership status of a given string in a language, trying to convince a weak verifier whose coins are visible to all. We show that the incorporation of just two qubits to an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say , H. Gökalp Demirci

We introduce an automata-theoretic method for the verification of distributed algorithms running on ring networks. In a distributed algorithm, an arbitrary number of processes cooperate to achieve a common goal (e.g., elect a leader).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-27 C. Aiswarya , Benedikt Bollig , Paul Gastin

As models become increasingly sophisticated, conventional algorithm benchmarks are increasingly saturated, underscoring the need for more challenging benchmarks to guide future improvements in algorithmic reasoning. This paper introduces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yaoming Zhu , Junxin Wang , Yiyang Li , Lin Qiu , ZongYu Wang , Jun Xu , Xuezhi Cao , Yuhuai Wei , Mingshi Wang , Xunliang Cai , Rong Ma

This paper introduces DebateBrawl, an innovative AI-powered debate platform that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs), Genetic Algorithms (GA), and Adversarial Search (AS) to create an adaptive and engaging debating experience.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Prakash Aryan

Algorithmic accountability scholarship has focused heavily on explanation, helping affected parties understand why decisions were made. We argue this focus is insufficient. Explanation without evidentiary access does not enable meaningful…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Matthew Stewart

The proliferation of misinformation in digital platforms reveals the limitations of traditional detection methods, which mostly rely on static classification and fail to capture the intricate process of real-world fact-checking. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Chen Han , Wenzhen Zheng , Xijin Tang

How can we construct an automated debate judge to evaluate an extensive, vibrant, multi-turn debate? This task is challenging, as judging a debate involves grappling with lengthy texts, intricate argument relationships, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jingcong Liang , Rong Ye , Meng Han , Ruofei Lai , Xinyu Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

The boardgame Diplomacy is a challenging setting for communicative and cooperative artificial intelligence. The most prominent communicative Diplomacy AI, Cicero, has excellent strategic abilities, exceeding human players. However, the best…

We introduce a new paradigm for task-oriented dialogue systems: safety certification as a computational primitive for answer reuse. Current systems treat each turn independently, recomputing answers via retrieval or generation even when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Cosimo Spera

Following the rapid increase in Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities in recent years, the AI community has voiced concerns regarding possible safety risks. To support decision-making on the safe use and development of AI systems, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Gil Gekker , Meirav Segal , Dan Lahav , Omer Nevo

Population protocols are a popular model of distributed computing, in which randomly-interacting agents with little computational power cooperate to jointly perform computational tasks. Inspired by developments in molecular computation, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Dan Alistarh , James Aspnes , David Eisenstat , Rati Gelashvili , Ronald L. Rivest

This paper explores how generative AI can help automate and improve key steps in systems engineering. It examines AI's ability to analyze system requirements based on INCOSE's "good requirement" criteria, identifying well-formed and poorly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Oz Levy , Ilya Dikman , Natan Levy , Michael Winokur

The security of blockchain systems is fundamentally based on the decentralized consensus in which the majority of parties behave honestly, and the content verification process is essential to maintaining the robustness of blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zishuo Zhao , Xi Chen , Yuan Zhou

This paper explores the potential benefits of quantum coherence and quantum discord in the non-universal quantum computing model called deterministic quantum computing with one qubit (DQC1) in supervised machine learning. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Mahsa Karimi , Ali Javadi-Abhari , Christoph Simon , Roohollah Ghobadi

The complexities of table structures and question logic make table-based question answering (TQA) tasks challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs), often requiring task simplification before solving. This paper reveals that the reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ruya Jiang , Chun Wang , Weihong Deng

Organizations increasingly deploy multiple AI systems across task domains, but selecting a small, high-performing ensemble can require costly model calls, benchmark runs, and human evaluation. We study this selection problem as a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh , Je Qin Chooi , Paul W. Goldberg , Milind Tambe

A basic goal in complexity theory is to understand the communication complexity of number-on-the-forehead problems $f\colon(\{0,1\}^n)^{k}\to\{0,1\}$ with $k\gg\log n$ parties. We study the problems of inner product and set disjointness and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Vladimir V. Podolskii , Alexander A. Sherstov

Much of the success of multi-agent debates depends on carefully choosing the right parameters. The decision-making protocol stands out as it can highly impact final model answers, depending on how decisions are reached. Systematic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Lars Benedikt Kaesberg , Jonas Becker , Jan Philip Wahle , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

Open domain question answering (ODQA) is a longstanding task aimed at answering factual questions from a large knowledge corpus without any explicit evidence in natural language processing (NLP). Recent works have predominantly focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Qin Zhang , Shangsi Chen , Dongkuan Xu , Qingqing Cao , Xiaojun Chen , Trevor Cohn , Meng Fang

Time series analysis is quickly proceeding towards long and complex tasks. In recent years, fast approximate algorithms for discord search have been proposed in order to compensate for the increasing size of the time series. It is more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Paolo Avogadro , Matteo Alessandro Dominoni