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We study three problems related to the computational complexity of the popular game Minesweeper. The first is consistency: given a set of clues, is there any arrangement of mines that satisfies it? This problem has been known to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-24 MIT Hardness Group , Della Hendrickson , Andy Tockman

We consider the maximum likelihood estimation of sparse inverse covariance matrices. We demonstrate that current heuristic approaches primarily encourage robustness, instead of the desired sparsity. We give a novel approach that solves the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Dimitris Bertsimas , Jourdain Lamperski , Jean Pauphilet

We develop an algorithm to invert the $j$--function in quasilinear time, and apply this to testing whether an elliptic curve has complex multiplication.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-19 John Armitage

We prove that it is NP-complete to decide whether a given string can be factored into palindromes that are each unique in the factorization.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Hideo Bannai , Travis Gagie , Shunsuke Inenaga , Juha Karkkainen , Dominik Kempa , Marcin Piatkowski , Simon J. Puglisi , Shiho Sugimoto

We propose a new method that uses deep learning techniques to solve the inverse problems. The inverse problem is cast in the form of learning an end-to-end mapping from observed data to the ground-truth. Inspired by the splitting strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Kai Fan , Qi Wei , Wenlin Wang , Amit Chakraborty , Katherine Heller

A P-matrix is a square matrix $X$ such that all principal submatrices of $X$ have positive determinant. Such matrices appear naturally in instances of the linear complementarity problem, where these are precisely the matrices for which the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Spencer Gordon , Kevin Shu

This article presents a technique for proving problems hard for classes of the polynomial hierarchy or for PSPACE. The rationale of this technique is that some problem restrictions are able to simulate existential or universal quantifiers.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-08-31 Paolo Liberatore

While 3-SAT is NP-hard, 2-SAT is solvable in polynomial time. Austrin, Guruswami, and H\r{a}stad roved a result known as "$(2+\varepsilon)$-SAT is NP-hard" [FOCS'14/SICOMP'17]. They showed that the problem of distinguishing k-CNF formulas…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Alex Brandts , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

Inverse problems are inherently ill-posed, suffering from non-uniqueness and instability. Classical regularization methods provide mathematically well-founded solutions, ensuring stability and convergence, but often at the cost of reduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Markus Haltmeier , Gyeongha Hwang

In this paper, the recoverable robust shortest path problem in acyclic digraphs is considered. The interval budgeted uncertainty representation is used to model the uncertain second-stage costs. The computational complexity of this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

We consider numerical certification of approximate solutions to a system of polynomial equations with more equations than unknowns by first certifying solutions to a square subsystem. We give several approaches that certifiably select which…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Timothy Duff , Nickolas Hein , Frank Sottile

The area of inverse problems in mathematics is highly interdisciplinary. In various fields of science, engineering, medicine, and industry, there arises a need to reconstruct information about unknown entities that cannot be directly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Manabu Machida

It is well known that sparse approximation problem is \textsf{NP}-hard under general dictionaries. Several algorithms have been devised and analyzed in the past decade under various assumptions on the \emph{coherence} $\mu$ of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Ali Çivril

Recovering binary programs' call graphs is crucial for inter-procedural analysis tasks and applications based on them.transfer One of the core challenges is recognizing targets of indirect calls (i.e., indirect callees). Existing solutions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Wenyu Zhu , Zhiyao Feng , Zihan Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Zhijian Ou , Min Yang , Chao Zhang

It is already shown that a Boolean function for a NP-complete problem can be computed by a polynomial-sized circuit if its variables have enough number of automorphisms. Looking at this previous study from the different perspective gives us…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Satoshi Tazawa

The main contribution of this paper is to develop a hierarchical Bayesian formulation of PINNs for linear inverse problems, which is called BPINN-IP. The proposed methodology extends PINN to account for prior knowledge on the nature of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Ali Mohammad-Djafari

Two decision problems related to the computation of stopping sets in Tanner graphs are shown to be NP-complete. NP-hardness of the problem of computing the stopping distance of a Tanner graph follows as a consequence

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-21 K. Murali Krishnan , Priti Shankar

This paper investigates why and when the edge-based districting problem becomes computationally intractable. The overall problem is represented as an exact mathematical programming formulation consisting of an objective function and several…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Niklas Jost , Adolfo Escobedo , Alice Kirchheim

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been utilized for various applications ranging from drug discovery to network design and social networks. In many applications, it is impossible to observe some properties of the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Moshe Eliasof , Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Eldad Haber

The main purpose of this note is to investigate some kinds of nonlinear complementarity problems (NCP). For the structured tensors, such as, symmetric positive definite tensors and copositive tensors, we derive the existence theorems on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Maolin Che , Liqun Qi , Yimin Wei