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Abductive reasoning (or Abduction, for short) is among the most fundamental AI reasoning methods, with a broad range of applications, including fault diagnosis, belief revision, and automated planning. Unfortunately, Abduction is of high…

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The Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem is the canonical NP-complete problem and is fundamental to computer science, with a wide array of applications in planning, verification, and theorem proving. Developing and evaluating practical SAT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jiaxuan You , Haoze Wu , Clark Barrett , Raghuram Ramanujan , Jure Leskovec

In a series of seminal papers, Laddha and Varadarajan have developed in depth the quantisation of Parametrised Field Theory (PFT) in the kind of discontinuous representations that are employed in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). In one spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-13 Thomas Thiemann

In many QBF encodings, sequences of Boolean variables stand for binary representations of integer variables. Examples are state labels in bounded model checking or actions in planning problems. Often not the full possible range is used,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Maximilian Heisinger , Irfansha Shaik , Martina Seidl , Jaco van de Pol

Solving non-linear Diophantine systems lies at the mathematical core of integer optimization and cryptography. While the general unbounded problem is undecidable, even over bounded integer domains it remains classically intractable in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Gabriel Escrig , M. A. Martin-Delgado

This paper reports on the QBF solver QFUN that has won the non-CNF track in the recent QBF evaluation. The solver is motivated by the fact that it is easy to construct Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBFs) with short winning strategies…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Mikoláš Janota

Simulations of quantum matter rely mainly on Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT), which often fails for strongly correlated systems. Quantum embedding (QE) theories address this limitation by mapping the system onto an auxiliary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Samuele Giuli , Hasanat Hasan , Benedikt Kloss , Marius S. Frank , Tsung-Han Lee , Olivier Gingras , Yong-Xin Yao , Nicola Lanatà

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving is a fundamental problem in computer science. Finding efficient algorithms for SAT solving has broad implications in many areas of computer science and beyond. Quantum SAT solvers have been proposed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Shang-Wei Lin , Tzu-Fan Wang , Yean-Ru Chen , Zhe Hou , David Sanán , Yon Shin Teo

The post-training quantization (PTQ) challenge of bringing quantized neural net accuracy close to original has drawn much attention driven by industry demand. Many of the methods emphasize optimization of a specific degree-of-freedom (DoF),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-21 Alex Finkelstein , Ella Fuchs , Idan Tal , Mark Grobman , Niv Vosco , Eldad Meller

Quantum computing promises breakthroughs in simulating and solving complex, classically intractable problems. However, current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are relatively small and error-prone, prohibiting large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Gary J Mooney

We study QPT (quasi-polynomial tractability) in the worst case setting for linear tensor product problems defined over Hilbert spaces. We assume that the domain space is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space so that function values are well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Henryk Woźniakowski , Erich Novak

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

Currently, there is a burgeoning demand for deploying deep learning (DL) models on ubiquitous edge Internet of Things (IoT) devices attributed to their low latency and high privacy preservation. However, DL models are often large in size…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Hua Ma , Huming Qiu , Yansong Gao , Zhi Zhang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Minhui Xue , Anmin Fu , Zhang Jiliang , Said Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott

We study the computational problem of checking whether a quantified conjunctive query (a first-order sentence built using only conjunction as Boolean connective) is true in a finite poset (a reflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive directed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Simone Bova , Robert Ganian , Stefan Szeider

The Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) is a key component of many important quantum algorithms, most famously as being the essential ingredient in Shor's algorithm for factoring products of primes. Given its remarkable capability, one would…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Jielun Chen , E. M. Stoudenmire , Steven R. White

In this paper, we study the computational complexity of the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem under the functional problem FP^NP categorization. We focus on four sub-classes: (1) When all coefficients are integers…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Hirotoshi Yasuoka

The backup control barrier function (CBF) was recently proposed as a tractable formulation that guarantees the feasibility of the CBF quadratic programming (QP) via an implicitly defined control invariant set. The control invariant set is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Yuxiao Chen , Mrdjan Jankovic , Mario Santillo , Aaron D. Ames

Incremental SAT and QBF solving potentially yields improvements when sequences of related formulas are solved. An incremental application is usually tailored towards some specific solver and decomposes a problem into incremental solver…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Uwe Egly , Florian Lonsing , Johannes Oetsch

Federated Prompt Learning has emerged as a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving paradigm for adapting large vision-language models like CLIP across decentralized clients. However, the security implications of this setup remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Momin Ahmad Khan , Yasra Chandio , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

Term-resolution provides an elegant mechanism to prove that a quantified Boolean formula (QBF) is true. It is a dual to Q-resolution (also referred to as clause-resolution) and is practically highly important as it enables certifying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Mikoláš Janota