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Neural Networks (NNs) can provide major empirical performance improvements for robotic systems, but they also introduce challenges in formally analyzing those systems' safety properties. In particular, this work focuses on estimating the…

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We develop a new technique for constructing sparse graphs that allow us to prove near-linear lower bounds on the round complexity of computing distances in the CONGEST model. Specifically, we show an $\widetilde{\Omega}(n)$ lower bound for…

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The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) and its counting counterpart appears under different guises in many areas of mathematics, computer science, and elsewhere. Its structural and algorithmic properties have demonstrated to play a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Raimundo Briceño , Andrei Bulatov , Victor Dalmau , Benoit Larose

The development of next-generation structural materials for harsh environments requires rapid assessment of mechanical performance and its dependence on microstructure. While full-field crystal plasticity (CP) models provide detailed…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 Michael D. Atkinson , Michael D. White , Adam J. Plowman , Pratheek Shanthraj

The framework of Integral Quadratic Constraints of Lessard et al. (2014) reduces the computation of upper bounds on the convergence rate of several optimization algorithms to semi-definite programming (SDP). Followup work by Nishihara et…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Guilherme França , José Bento

An important question in the study of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) is understanding how the graph or hypergraph describing the incidence structure of the constraints influences the complexity of the problem. For binary CSP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Dániel Marx

Overparametrization is a key factor in the absence of convexity to explain global convergence of gradient descent (GD) for neural networks. Beside the well studied lazy regime, infinite width (mean field) analysis has been developed for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Raphaël Barboni , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

We give new sublinear and parallel algorithms for the extensively studied problem of approximating n-variable r-CSPs (constraint satisfaction problems with constraints of arity r up to an additive error. The running time of our algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Grigory Yaroslavtsev

The promise constraint satisfaction problem (PCSP) is a recently introduced vast generalisation of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) that captures approximability of satisfiable instances. A PCSP instance comes with two forms of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alex Brandts , Stanislav Živný

We show that for constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), sub-exponential size linear programming relaxations are as powerful as $n^{\Omega(1)}$-rounds of the Sherali-Adams linear programming hierarchy. As a corollary, we obtain…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Pravesh K. Kothari , Raghu Meka , Prasad Raghavendra

Let \Gamma be a structure with a finite relational signature and a first-order definition in (R;*,+) with parameters from R, that is, a relational structure over the real numbers where all relations are semi-algebraic sets. In this article,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Manuel Bodirsky , Peter Jonsson , Timo von Oertzen

In this work, we focus on the Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) over control-flow graphs (CFGs) of programs. PCSP serves as a generalization of the well-known Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). In the CSP framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xuran Cai , Amir Goharshady

Given a sequence of random (directed and weighted) graphs, we address the problem of online monitoring and detection of changes in the underlying data distribution. Our idea is to endow sequential change-point detection (CPD) techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Bernardo Marenco , Paola Bermolen , Marcelo Fiori , Federico Larroca , Gonzalo Mateos

We propose a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework based on a direct optimal control method that ensures continuous-time constraint satisfaction and accurate evaluation of the running cost, without compromising computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Samet Uzun , Purnanand Elango , Abhinav G. Kamath , Taewan Kim , Behcet Acikmese

In the last two decades the study of random instances of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) has flourished across several disciplines, including computer science, mathematics and physics. The diversity of the developed methods, on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Konstantinos Panagiotou , Matija Pasch

This paper addresses a class of (non-)convex optimization problems subject to general convex constraints, which pose significant challenges for traditional methods due to their inherent non-convexity and diversity. Conventional convex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Xiucheng Wang , Xuan Zhao , Nan Cheng

A very popular approach for solving stochastic optimization problems is the stochastic gradient descent method (SGD). Although the SGD iteration is computationally cheap and the practical performance of this method may be satisfactory under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Andrei Patrascu , Ion Necoara

We show that several important resource allocation problems in wireless networks fit within the common framework of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Inspired by the requirements of these applications, where variables are located at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-19 K. R. Duffy , C. Bordenave , D. J. Leith

A semilinear relation is a finite union of finite intersections of open and closed half-spaces over, for instance, the reals, the rationals, or the integers. Semilinear relations have been studied in connection with algebraic geometry,…

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