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This paper studies binary quadratic programs in which the objective is defined by a Euclidean distance matrix, subject to a general polyhedral constraint set. This class of nonconcave maximisation problems includes the capacitated,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Hoa T. Bui , Sandy Spiers , Ryan Loxton

We show that the regular separability problem of VASS reachability languages is decidable and $\mathbf{F}_{\omega}$-complete. At the heart of our decision procedure are doubly-marked graph transition sequences, a new proof object that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Eren Keskin , Roland Meyer

Unsupervised word segmentation in audio utterances is challenging as, in speech, there is typically no gap between words. In a preliminary experiment, we show that recent deep self-supervised features are very effective for word…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Tzeviya Sylvia Fuchs , Yedid Hoshen

The classical decision problem, as it is understood today, is the quest for a delineation between the decidable and the undecidable parts of first-order logic based on elegant syntactic criteria. In this paper, we treat the concept of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Marco Voigt

We address the separability problem for straight-line string constraints. The separability problem for languages of a class C by a class S asks: given two languages A and B in C, does there exist a language I in S separating A and B (i.e.,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Vrunda Dave , Shankara Narayanan Krishna

Segmentation of handwritten document images into text lines and words is one of the most significant and challenging tasks in the development of a complete Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system. This paper addresses the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Pawan Kumar Singh , Shubham Sinha , Sagnik Pal Chowdhury , Ram Sarkar , Mita Nasipuri

Determining the minimum number of states required by a finite automaton to separate a given pair of different words is an important problem. In this paper, we consider this problem for quantum automata (QFAs). We show that 2-state QFAs can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Aleksandrs Belovs , Juan Andres Montoya , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

In this paper we explore fundamental concepts in computational complexity theory and the boundaries of algorithmic decidability. We examine the relationship between complexity classes \textbf{P} and \textbf{NP}, where $L \in \textbf{P}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

In this paper, we concentrate on generating cutting planes for the unsplittable capacitated network design problem. We use the unsplittable flow arc-set polyhedron of the considered problem as a substructure and generate cutting planes by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Liang Chen , Wei-Kun Chen , Mu-Ming Yang , Yu-Hong Dai

The element distinctness problem is to determine whether a string $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_N)$ of $N$ elements contains two elements of the same value (a.k.a colliding pair), for which Ambainis proposed an optimal quantum algorithm. The idea behind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Guanzhong Li , Lvzhou Li

It is a major open problem whether the $(\min,+)$-product of two $n\times n$ matrices has a truly sub-cubic (i.e. $O(n^{3-\epsilon})$ for $\epsilon>0$) time algorithm, in particular since it is equivalent to the famous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Karl Bringmann , Fabrizio Grandoni , Barna Saha , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

In the trace reconstruction problem our goal is to learn an unknown string $x\in \{0,1\}^n$ given independent traces of $x$. A trace is obtained by independently deleting each bit of $x$ with some probability $\delta$ and concatenating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Anders Aamand , Allen Liu , Shyam Narayanan

The aim of the paper is to separate handwritten and printed text from a real document embedded with noise, graphics including annotations. Relying on run-length smoothing algorithm (RLSA), the extracted pseudo-lines and pseudo-words are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Abdel Belaïd , K. C. Santosh , Vincent Poulain D'Andecy

The singularity degree of a semidefinite programming problem is the smallest number of facial reduction steps to make the problem strictly feasible. We introduce two new graph parameters, called the singularity degree and the nondegenerate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Shin-ichi Tanigawa

We present an algorithm which given a presentation of a group $G$ without 2-torsion, a solution to the word problem with respect to this presentation, and an acylindricity constant ${\kappa}$, outputs a collection of tracks in an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Nicholas W. M. Touikan

The words separation problem, originally formulated by Goralcik and Koubek (1986), is stated as follows. Let $Sep(n)$ be the minimum number such that for any two words of length $\le n$ there is a deterministic finite automaton with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Andrei A. Bulatov , Olga Karpova , Arseny M. Shur , Konstantin Startsev

Indexed languages are a classical notion in formal language theory. As the language equivalent of second-order pushdown automata, they have received considerable attention in higher-order model checking. Unfortunately, counting properties…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Laura Ciobanu , Georg Zetzsche

The pursue of what are properties that can be identified to permit an automated reasoning program to generate and find new and interesting theorems is an interesting research goal (pun intended). The automatic discovery of new theorems is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Pedro Quaresma , Pierluigi Graziani , Stefano M. Nicoletti

The word problem for discrete groups is well-known to be undecidable by a Turing Machine; more precisely, it is reducible both to and from and thus equivalent to the discrete Halting Problem. The present work introduces and studies a real…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Ziegler , Klaus Meer

Bayesian structure learning is the NP-hard problem of discovering a Bayesian network that optimally represents a given set of training data. In this paper we study the computational worst-case complexity of exact Bayesian structure learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider