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Quantum computers are believed to surpass the classical ones. Moreover, it is claimed that this belief reaches the level of a mathematically proven fact within the oracle model of computation. Here we impair the whole class of the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antoni Wojcik , Ravindra W. Chhajlany

The classical view of epistemic logic is that an agent knows all the logical consequences of their knowledge base. This assumption of logical omniscience is often unrealistic and makes reasoning computationally intractable. One approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Yijia Chen , Abdallah Saffidine , Christoph Schwering

Recently, several claims have been made that certain fundamental problems of distributed computing, including Leader Election and Distributed Consensus, begin to admit feasible and efficient solutions when the model of distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-09 Cyril Gavoille , Adrian Kosowski , Marcin Markiewicz

Computation is commonly defined as the execution of abstract algorithms over symbolic representations, with physical systems treated as substrates that realise predefined operations. While effective for engineered machines, this separation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-21 Kimia Witte

We define a class of functions termed "Computable in the Limit", based on the Machine Learning paradigm of "Identification in the Limit". A function is Computable in the Limit if it defines a property P_p of a recursively enumerable class A…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Antony Van der Mude

We develop a formal theory of throughput in finite serial pipeline systems subject to stage multiplicative capacity perturbations, motivated by the deployment of AI tools in cybersecurity operations. A pipeline is a finite totally ordered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Surasak Phetmanee

Developers are publishing AI agent skills that replicate a colleague's communication style, encode a supervisor's mentoring heuristics, or preserve a person's behavioral repertoire beyond biological death. To explain why, we propose Gradual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhimin Zhao

Inference in large-scale AI models is typically performed on dense parameter matrices, leading to inference cost and system complexity that scale unsustainably with model size. This limitation does not arise from insufficient model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jidong Jin

Standard supervised classification trains models to imitate the exact labels provided by a perfect oracle. This imitation happens in a single pass, restricting the model to a fixed compute budget even when inputs vary in complexity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mahdi Kallel , Johannes Tölle , Ahmed Hendawy , Carlo D'Eramo

This paper explores the intricate relationship between interpretability and robustness in deep learning models. Despite their remarkable performance across various tasks, deep learning models often exhibit critical vulnerabilities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Navid Nayyem , Abdullah Rakin , Longwei Wang

Information-theoretic generalization bounds based on the supersample construction are a central tool for algorithm-dependent generalization analysis in the batch i.i.d.~setting. However, existing supersample conditional mutual information…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-13 Futoshi Futami , Masahiro Fujisawa

We propose a new architectural change, and post-training pipeline, for making LLMs more verbose reasoners by teaching a model to truncate forward passes early. We augment an existing transformer architecture with an early-exit mechanism at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Elizabeth Pavlova , Mariia Koroliuk , Karthik Viswanathan , Cameron Tice , Edward James Young , Puria Radmard

Self-improvement is a significant techniques within the realm of large language model (LLM), aiming to enhance the LLM performance without relying on external data. Despite its significance, generally how LLM performances evolve during the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yifan Sun , Yushan Liang , Zhen Zhang , Xin Liu , Jiaye Teng

Recent theoretical results in quantum machine learning have demonstrated a general trade-off between the expressive power of quantum neural networks (QNNs) and their trainability; as a corollary of these results, practical exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Eric R. Anschuetz , Xun Gao

This paper aims at carrying out termination proofs for simply typed higher-order calculi automatically by using ordering comparisons. To this end, we introduce the computability path ordering (CPO), a recursive relation on terms obtained by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Frédéric Blanqui , Jean-Pierre Jouannaud , Albert Rubio

Recent computational experiments have demonstrated the spontaneous emergence of self-replicating programs across universal automata, artificial chemistries, and self-modifying code systems. Remarkably, these results arise without explicit…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Aritra Sarkar

Recent AI systems compress the distance between capability growth and capability deployment. Earlier high-risk technologies were slowed by capital intensity, physical bottlenecks, organizational inertia, and specialized supply chains. By…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wesley Shu , Peng Wei

How does the amount of compute available to a reinforcement learning (RL) policy affect its learning? Can policies using a fixed amount of parameters, still benefit from additional compute? The standard RL framework does not provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Raj Ghugare , Michał Bortkiewicz , Alicja Ziarko , Benjamin Eysenbach

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning is known to improve Large Language Models both empirically and in terms of theoretical approximation power. However, our understanding of the inner workings and conditions of apparition of CoT capabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Vivien Cabannes , Charles Arnal , Wassim Bouaziz , Alice Yang , Francois Charton , Julia Kempe

Transformers are emerging as the new workhorse of NLP, showing great success across tasks. Unlike LSTMs, transformers process input sequences entirely through self-attention. Previous work has suggested that the computational capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Michael Hahn