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A system of nested dichotomies is a method of decomposing a multi-class problem into a collection of binary problems. Such a system recursively splits the set of classes into two subsets, and trains a binary classifier to distinguish…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-06 Tim Leathart , Bernhard Pfahringer , Eibe Frank

A polynomial algorithm is obtained for the NP-complete linear ordering problem.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Givi Bolotashvili

We propose logical characterizations of problems solvable in deterministic polylogarithmic time (PolylogTime) and polylogarithmic space (PolylogSpace). We introduce a novel two-sorted logic that separates the elements of the input domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Flavio Ferrarotti , Senén González , José María Turull Torres , Jan Van den Bussche , Jonni Virtema

Classic algorithms and machine learning systems like neural networks are both abundant in everyday life. While classic computer science algorithms are suitable for precise execution of exactly defined tasks such as finding the shortest path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Felix Petersen

We consider the distinct elements problem, where the goal is to estimate the number of distinct colors in an urn containing $ k $ balls based on $n$ samples drawn with replacements. Based on discrete polynomial approximation and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Yihong Wu , Pengkun Yang

Subclasses of TFNP (total functional NP) are usually defined by specifying a complete problem, which is necessarily in TFNP, and including all problems many-one reducible to it. We study two notions of how a TFNP problem can be reducible to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Neil Thapen

Feature selection is one of the most prominent learning tasks, especially in high-dimensional datasets in which the goal is to understand the mechanisms that underly the learning dataset. However most of them typically deliver just a flat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Jun Wang , Alexandros Kalousis

We show how the separability problem is dual to that of decomposing any given matrix into a conic combination of rank-one partial isometries, thus offering a duality approach different to the positive maps characterization problem. Several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Salgado , J. L. Sanchez-Gomez , M. Ferrero

We survey a collective achievement of a group of researchers: the PCP Theorems. They give new definitions of the class \np, and imply that computing approximate solutions to many \np-hard problems is itself \np-hard. Techniques developed to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-15 Sanjeev Arora

The Whitehead minimization problem consists in finding a minimum size element in the automorphic orbit of a word, a cyclic word or a finitely generated subgroup in a finite rank free group. We give the first fully polynomial algorithm to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-01-06 Abdó Roig , Enric Ventura , Pascal Weil

This is the latest in a series of articles aimed at exploring the relationship between the complexity classes of P and NP. In the previous papers, we have proved that the sat CNF problem is polynomially reduced to the problem of finding a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Stepan G. Margaryan

This paper gives a classification of classes of discrete dynamical systems (a set equipped with an endofunction) closed under finite limits and small colimits. The conclusion is simple: they bijectively correspond to the ideals of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Ryuya Hora , Yuhi Kamio

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for all non-negative weighted counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). This caps a long series of important results on counting problems including unweighted and weighted graph homomorphisms…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen , Pinyan Lu

The class of known constraint automata for which the constrained synchronization problem is in NP all admit a special form. In this work, we take a closer look at them. We characterize a wider class of constraint automata that give…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Stefan Hoffmann

We consider several subgroup-related algorithmic questions in groups, modeled after the classic computational lattice problems, and study their computational complexity. We find polynomial time solutions to problems like finding a subgroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Alexei Myasnikov , Andrey Nikolaev , Alexander Ushakov

An artificially designed Turing Machine algorithm $\mathbf{M}_{}^{o}$ generates the instances of the satisfiability problem, and check their satisfiability. Under the assumption $\mathcal{P}=\mathcal{NP}$, we show that $\mathbf{M}_{}^{o}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Joonmo Kim

We propose a neural network-based algorithm for solving forward and inverse problems for partial differential equations in unsupervised fashion. The solution is approximated by a deep neural network which is the minimizer of a cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Leah Bar , Nir Sochen

We develop a randomized Newton's method for solving differential equations, based on a fully connected neural network discretization. In particular, the randomized Newton's method randomly chooses equations from the overdetermined nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Qipin Chen , Wenrui Hao

To compute solutions of sparse polynomial systems efficiently we have to exploit the structure of their Newton polytopes. While the application of polyhedral methods naturally excludes solutions with zero components, an irreducible…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Danko Adrovic , Jan Verschelde

We are given n base elements and a finite collection of subsets of them. The size of any subset varies between p to k (p < k). In addition, we assume that the input contains all possible subsets of size p. Our objective is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Asaf Levin , Uri Yovel