Questions tagged [reference-request]
Reference-request is used when the author needs to know about work related to the question.
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Automata as term rewriting systems
It came to my mind that automata (say to start DFA) can be thought as a special kind of rewriting systems. So if one has a word w , one tries to reduce it to the $\epsilon$ word. In other words ...
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For which $R$ is $\{0^a10^b10^c\mid R(a,b,c)\}$ context-free?
Unless I'm mistaken, a language of the form $\{0^a10^b\mid R(a,b)\}$ is context-free if and only if $R$ is a finite union of linear (in)equalities involving integer constants and the variables $a$ and ...
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Coordinate descent in integer programing: when does it work?
Denote $N_i=\{0,1,\dots,\bar{n}_i\}$ and define $N=N_1\times \dots \times N_I$. I want to minimize a function $f:N\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. It is very easy to minimize $f$ coordinate by coordinate so ...
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Immutable Space Model
I have heard it said that time is more precious than space because we can reuse space but not time. What if we treat space with this much reverence?
What is generally known about models of ...
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What is a good route for a math student to self study computer science systematically and efficiently?
I decided to ask this question after being attracted by how much one can do with the knowledge in computer science, including iOS application development, game(or mods) development, website creating, ...
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Soundness of type (systems)
For someone without strong background in theoretical computer science: can soundness be a property of a type (given a type system), or a property of type systems only? In other words, can we say that ...
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Optimally fair stable matching
There's a nice post by Gil Kalai which outlines the inherent bias in stable matching algorithms quantitatively.
In the traditional loyd shapeley algorithm for $n$ men and $n$ women, given randomly ...
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What is the right term/theory for prediction of Binary Variables based upon their continuous value?
I am working with a linear programming problem in which we have around 3500 binary variables.
Usually IBM's Cplex takes around 72 hours to get an objective with a gap of around 15-20% with best ...
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Is there a counterexample to this work?
Is there a counterexample to this claim https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00353? They claim a $O(n^6)$ LP model with simulations to support. I think asking validity is not a reasonable problem. However ...
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A categorized (?) list of functional pearls in JFP and ICFP
Is there a list of (categorized preferred) functional pearls ever published in ICFP and JFP? I could go to the ICFP proceedings and JFP issues and find all of them, but this would be time-consuming.
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Problems and theories in CS that uses Fibonacci numbers
I want to know problems and theories where Fibonacci sequence is used and where we have some possibility to use Fibonacci numbers. I have found that-
In counting number of steps for Euclidean ...
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Hereditary substitution with a universe hierarchy
I've read about hereditary substitution for the Simple Lambda Calculus and for The Logical Framework with distinct terms and types.
I'm wondering, are there any examples of hereditary substitution in ...
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Does Max Planar 3-SAT admit a PTAS?
Suppose we are given a formula $\phi$ of 3-SAT, with variables $x_1,\dots, x_n$ and clauses $C_1,\dots, C_m$. Consider the graph $G_\phi$ where there is one node for each clause $C_i$, for each ...
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Possible to do Complexity theory with only counting and Pigeonhole
Most of the proofs in the book Computational complexity by Barak and Arora seem to be Pigeonhole in disguise. What are some places in Complexity theory where counting and Pigeonhole was insufficient ...
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Classification of randomized approximation algorithms
Is there a known classification of randomized approximation algorithms, in the same vein as the distinction between Monte Carlo and Las Vegas algorithms for decision problems? (Or equivalently ...
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Best known asymptotic PCP sizes / 3-SAT
What are the best known asymptotic upper bounds on sizes of probabilistically checkable proofs? Ideally, I am looking for a contemporary survey on this broad question, but if there is none, I am ...
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Preservation under Substitution with Telescopes
In the simply typed lambda calculus, one can show the following result, known as "preservation under substitution":
If $\Gamma \vdash v : \tau_1$ and $(x : \tau_1) \vdash t : \tau_2$,
then $\Gamma \...
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Proof techniques for showing that dependent type checking is decidable
I'm in a situation where I need to show that typechecking is decidable for a dependently-typed calculus I'm working on. So far, I've been able to prove that the system is strongly normalizing, and ...
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Boolean circuits which correspond to L/poly
Branching programs are usually used as a computation model for non-uniform logarithmic space $\mathsf{L}/\mathrm{poly}$.
Is there a reference about Boolean circuits corresponding to $\mathsf{L}/\...
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What's the difference between Moggi's computational metalanguage and Moggi's lambda calculus?
This is a reference confusion. Sometimes I see people use the term "Moggi's computational metalanguage" to refer to the calculus presented by Moggi, and sometimes to "Moggi's computational lambda ...
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Complexity of isotopy of embedded graphs
I am looking for previous work on the following problem: given two graphs embedded in the plane without crossing, determine if they are isotopic. By isotopic I mean that there is a continuous ...
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Examples/Textbooks on amortized analysis of algorithms
I am trying to get the amortized analysis for a complicated algorithm. I am wondering whether there are textbooks or illustrative examples that could serve as inspiration of techniques in amortized ...
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How to know if a problem is distributable?
I am new to the world of Parallel computing and that is why don't know exactly where I should look at or search to get the answer.
Is there any theorem or just general theory determining which code ...
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An algebra of complexity classes
A key feature of unrelativized computation is its composability out of smaller fragments, and to partially capture the composability, I came up with an algebra of fine-grained complexity classes.
For ...
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Decidability of type inference and type checking in MLTT
In Martin-Löf's An Intuitionistic Theory of Types: Predicative Part it is proved that type checking $a \colon A$ is decidable subject to $a$ being typeable in the first place, by proving a ...
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Is there a useful notion of being “approximately computable”
It seems that we can define a notion of being “approximately computable” where a set, $S$, is approximately computable if there is a family of computable functions $f_n(x)$ such that $$\lim_{n\to\...
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Sorting a programs instructions until it works
Lets say I have a computer program below.
(define (factorial x)
(if (= x 0)
1
(else (* x (factorial (- x 1)))))
I then take each line of the ...
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Rademacher complexity for piecewise-linear convex function
Consider a function family $$\ell(x)=\max_{1\leq k\leq K} a_k^\top x + b_k,$$ where $a_k,b_k \in \mathbb{R}^d$ are bounded in the sense of some norm and $K\geq 2$. What is the best upper bound on the ...
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Graphs with minimal-size induced subgraphs
I consider undirected graphs $G = (V, E)$ for which I write $\text{n}(G) := |V|$ the number of vertices and $\text{m}(G) := |E|$ the number of edges. For $d \in \mathbb{N}$, I say that $G$ is $d$-...
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Reference request: transforming a grammar to Greibach normal form preserves the number of parse trees
I believe that most "natural" ways of transforming a grammar to the GNF should preserve the number
of parse trees for each string. For example, Urbanek's construction from the paper
"On Greibach ...
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Variability of gradient estimates and convergence rate in stochastic gradient descent/ascent
I am aware that convergence in stochastic gradient problems is very sensitive to the variance of your gradient estimator. One issue I'm running into is that the gradient is a random vector and so ...
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For each edge, find a matching that containing it and has maximum weight
Given a weighted graph $G=(V,E)$. For each edge $e\in E$, we are interested in finding a maximum weight matching over all matchings that contains edge $e$.
If $G$ is bipartite, then this can be done ...
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Algebraic topology for termination proofs
I'm reading about various ways in which termination proofs of software verifiers are built: ad-hoc methods that detect recursions, term-rewriting, synthesis of lexicographic orderings...
From the ad-...
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Any reference on the hardness of Monroe rule for the case of Borda satisfaction function?
I'm considering the computational hardness of winner determination under two well-known rules, i.e., the Monroe and Chamberlin-Courant rules. Skowron et al. have mentioned in Achieving fully ...
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Max cut problem between two connected subgraphs
Let $G$ be a connected graph.
Consider the problem of finding a partition $G = A \cup B$ into connected subgraphs, so that the cut between $A$ and $B$ is maximized. Is there anything which is known ...
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Exact algorithm or parameterized algorithm for Maximum Edge Biclique Problem?
The Maximum Edge Biclique(MEB) problem is to find a biclique with as many edges as possible in a bipartite graph. It was proved to be NP-complete by Peeters in 2003, and then the inapproximability ...
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Expected value of the evaluation of Boolean circuits of depth $2n$
I am not an expert on circuits and I wonder whether the following problem was already studied (and possibly solved). Any reference or suitable method to solve this question would be welcome.
Let $C_{...
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Another planar separator ref question
Do any of you know a reference for the following (surprisingly tedious to prove) result?
Given a connected planar graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $n+t$ edges, it has a vertex separator of size $O( \...
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Fast algorithm to find a maximum connected subgraph of k vertices
Given an undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ and a function $f: 2^V \to \mathbb{R}^+,$ where $2^V$ is the set of all subsets of $V$. Find a connected subgraph $T = (V_T, E_T)$ of k vertices such that $f(V_T)...
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Critical Assignments vs Read-Once Branching Programs - Reference Request
Straight to the point:
I'm looking for a reference for the fact that the complexity of a read-once branching program solving the search problem for an unsatisfiable formula $F$ is at least the ...
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Have people looked for parameterized algorithms for problems that are not in NP?
Are there problems that are not in NP (e.g., NEXP-complete problems) but admit FPT algorithms for a reasonable parameterization (and specifically, the standard parameterization of a problem -- the ...
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Communication complexity of approximating the size of set intersection
Consider the set-intersection problem: Alice and Bob each get a subset of $\left\{ 1,\ldots, n\right\}$, and they would like to know whether their sets intersect. This is a canonical problem of ...
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The originator of the fixed point theorem for DCPOs
Pataraia proved in
"A constructive proof of Tarski’s fixed-point theorem for dcpo's", presented in the 65th Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic, in Aarhus, Denmark, November 1997
that in a ...
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Directed NP Hard Problem on DAG
There are problems that are NP-Hard on undirected graphs(maximum weight independent set and graph coloring) but are polynomial time solvable on trees. Tree decomposition is a good tool to talk about ...
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maximization of non-negative monotone supermodular set function with cardinality constraints
the following link Maximizing a monotone supermodular function s.t. cardinality says no kind approximation possible for maximizing non negative supermodular function subject to maximum cardinality ...
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BQNC and Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem
We know integer factorization is in $BPP^{BQNC}$ from Cleve and Watrous.
Is Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem also in $BPP^{BQNC}$?
In particular is Discrete Logarithm in $BQNC$ or at least in $BPP^{...
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How to solve this generalization of binary search?
Let $f:\{1,\ldots,n\}$ be a monotonically non-decreasing function.
Consider, for some unknown threshold $1\le T\le n$, a threshold function
$$g(x)= \begin{cases}
0&\text{x<T}\\
1&\text{...
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Reduction between functions that preserves time and space-complexity
Under which reduction(s) is the class $\mathsf{FTISP}(t(n), s(n))$ closed?
Let $\mathsf{FTISP}(t(n), s(n))$ the class of functions from $\{0,1\}^*$ to itself that are computable by a Turing machine ...
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Seminal papers related to SMT theories (particularly QF_ABV)
I am working on an application using Quantifier-Free Bit-Vector/Array satisfiability which may or may not require mucking around with the internals of an SMT solver, and would like to understand what'...
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What is the deterministic complexity of counting the number of global minimum cuts on an unweighted undirected graph?
I know as a consequence of Karger's algorithm that the number of minimum cuts is bounded by $\binom{n}{2}$. In the comments of
Counting the number of distinct s-t cuts in a oriented graph
It says ...
