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We present a simple deterministic reduction which, assuming the Exponential Time Hypothesis ($\mathsf{ETH}$), yields tight lower bounds for approximating the parameterized Maximum Likelihood Decoding problem ($\mathsf{MLD}$) and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rishav Gupta , Bingkai Lin , Xin Zheng

We demonstrate a method that merges the quantum filter diagonalization (QFD) approach for hybrid quantum/classical solution of the time-independent electronic Schr\"odinger equation with a low-rank double factorization (DF) approach for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Jeffrey Cohn , Mario Motta , Robert M. Parrish

Consider a high-multiplicity Bin Packing instance $I$ with $d$ distinct item types. In 2014, Goemans and Rothvoss gave an algorithm with runtime ${{|I|}^2}^{O(d)}$ for this problem~[SODA'14], where $|I|$ denotes the encoding length of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Klaus Jansen , Felix Ohnesorge , Lis Pirotton

We examine the complexity of the standard High-Order Control Barrier Function (HOCBF) approach and propose a truncated Taylor-based approach that reduces design parameters. First, we derive the explicit inequality condition for the HOCBF…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Jianye Xu , Bassam Alrifaee

We initiate the study of parameterized complexity of $\textsf{QMA}$ problems in terms of the number of non-Clifford gates in the problem description. We show that for the problem of parameterized quantum circuit satisfiability, there exists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Sergey Bravyi , Chinmay Nirkhe , Bryan O'Gorman

The adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics states that the error between an instantaneous eigenstate of a time-dependent Hamiltonian and the state given by quantum evolution of duration $\tau$ is upper bounded by $C/\tau$ for some positive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Daniel A. Lidar

Bin Packing with $k$ bins is a fundamental optimisation problem in which we are given a set of $n$ integers and a capacity $T$ and the goal is to partition the set into $k$ subsets, each of total sum at most $T$. Bin Packing is NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Karl Bringmann , Anita Dürr , Karol Węgrzycki

We introduce a new algorithm for checking satisfiability based on a calculus of Dependency sequents (D-sequents). Given a CNF formula F(X), a D-sequent is a record stating that under a partial assignment a set of variables of X is redundant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-23 Eugene Goldberg , Panagiotis Manolios

We consider the problem of existential quantifier elimination for Boolean formulas in Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF). We present a new method for solving this problem called Derivation of Dependency-Sequents (DDS). A Dependency-sequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Eugene Goldberg , Panagiotis Manolios

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

We define a new query measure we call quantum distinguishing complexity, denoted QD(f) for a Boolean function f. Unlike a quantum query algorithm, which must output a state close to |0> on a 0-input and a state close to |1> on a 1-input, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari

Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is one of the core problems in computer science. As one of the fundamental NP-complete problems, it can be used - by known reductions - to represent instances of variety of hard decision problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Michał Karpiński

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 introduce techniques for proving superlinear conditional lower bounds for polynomial time problems. In particular, we show that CircuitSAT for circuits with m gates and log(m) inputs (denoted by log-CircuitSAT) is not decidable in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-18 András Z. Salamon , Michael Wehar

The key to reconciling the polynomial-time intractability of many machine learning tasks in the worst case with the surprising solvability of these tasks by heuristic algorithms in practice seems to be exploiting restrictions on real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Todd Wareham

QCTL extends the temporal logic CTL with quantifications over atomic propositions. This extension is known to be very expressive: QCTL allows us to express complex properties over Kripke structures (it is as expressive as MSO). Several…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Akash Hossain , Francois Laroussinie

A CSP with n variables ranging over a domain of d values can be solved by brute-force in d^n steps (omitting a polynomial factor). With a more careful approach, this trivial upper bound can be improved for certain natural restrictions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Iyad Kanj , Stefan Szeider

Inspired by a recent article by Anthony Zaleski and Doron Zeilberger, we investigate the question of determining the largest k for which there exists boolean formulas in disjunctive normal form (DNF) with n variables, none of whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Manuel Kauers , Martina Seidl , Doron Zeilberger

Using canonical quantisation, and eschewing the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral, we derive a version of the Worldline Quantum Field Theory (WQFT) formalism suitable for both scattering and bound configurations of the classical two-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Riccardo Gonzo , Gustav Mogull

We consider systems of polynomial equations and inequalities in $\mathbb{Q}[\boldsymbol{y}][\boldsymbol{x}]$ where $\boldsymbol{x} = (x_1, \ldots, x_n)$ and $\boldsymbol{y} = (y_1, \ldots,y_t)$. The $\boldsymbol{y}$ indeterminates are…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Louis Gaillard , Mohab Safey El Din