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P versus NP and other resource-bounded computation.
2872 questions
Questions regarding well-defined instructions for completing a task, and relevant analysis in terms of time/memory/etc.
1751 questions
Reference-request is used when the author needs to know about work related to the question.
1531 questions
Graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects.
1478 questions
Algorithms on graphs, excluding heuristics.
981 questions
Questions related to NP-hardness and NP-completeness.
660 questions
Questions related to combinatorics and discrete mathematical structures
641 questions
Computational complexity classes and their relations
618 questions
general questions about selecting a best element from some set of available alternatives.
412 questions
A soft question is a question (possibly subjective) about the field of theoretical computer science as opposed to being a question in theoretical computer science.
402 questions
Automata Theory, including abstract machines, grammars, parsing, grammatical inference, transducers, and finite-state techniques
380 questions
Quantum computation and computational issues related to quantum mechanics
375 questions
Circuit complexity is the study of resource-bounded circuits and the functions computed by such circuits.
361 questions
Type structure is a syntactic discipline for enforcing levels of abstraction.
361 questions
Time complexity of decision problems or relations among time-bounded complexity classes. (Use the [analysis-of-algorithms] tag for the time taken by particular algorithms.)
353 questions
Programming languages, in particular, focussing on their semantics.
353 questions
Theoretical questions about Machine learning, especially Computational Learning Theory, including Algorithmic Learning Theory, PAC learning, and Bayesian Inference
333 questions
Properties and applications of data structures, such as space lower bounds, or time complexity of insertion and deletion of objects.
331 questions
SAT stands for the Boolean satisfiability problem.
306 questions
Computational Geometry is the study of geometric problems from a computational perspective. Examples of problems include: computation of geometric objects such as convex hulls, dimensionality reductio…
267 questions
questions about lowerbounds on functions, usually the complexity of an algorithm or a problem
260 questions
Theoretical aspects of cryptography and information security.
256 questions
Church's formal system used in computatability, programming languages and proof theory to represent effective functions, programs and their computation, and proofs.
244 questions
Linear algebra deals with vector spaces and linear transformations.
212 questions
The Turing machine is a fundamental model of computation, especially in theoretical work.
208 questions
Questions about Boolean functions and their analysis
202 questions
An algorithm whose behaviour is determined by its input and a generator producing uniformly random numbers.
196 questions
Mathematical and computational method for finding the best outcome in a given mathematical model where the list of requirements is represented as linear relationships.
191 questions
The big picture tag is for a "broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem."
190 questions
A reduction is the transformation of one problem into another problem. A example of using a reduction would be to be to show if a problem P is undecidable. This would be achieved by transforming or pe…
188 questions