P systems with active membranes are usually defined as devices hierarchically structured that evolve through rewriting rules. These rules take the inspiration on the chemical reactions that happen within a cell and th...
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P systems with active membranes are usually defined as devices hierarchically structured that evolve through rewriting rules. These rules take the inspiration on the chemical reactions that happen within a cell and the role of both the inner and the plasma membranes as a "filter", letting components pass or not. Classically, these systems are non-cooperative, that is, the left-hand side of the rules has at most one object. Using polarizations, dissolution or cooperation, these systems have been proved to have enough power to efficiently solve computationally hard problems, obtaining new complexity frontiers with respect to their non-cooperative counterparts. In this paper, division rules are interchanged by separation rules. While the first ones produce two new membranes and two new objects, duplicating the objects within the original one, separation rules distribute the objects of the original membrane into the two new created membranes, so no new objects are created in this way. To obtain new objects, a rule of the type [a -> a(2)] would be needed to accomplish that feature that seems to be necessary to obtain efficient solutions to NP-complete problems. Here, we present the limits when using separation rules instead of division rules.
The more unambiguous statement of the P versus NP problem and the judgement of its hardness, are the key ways to find the full proof of the P versus NP problem. There are two sub-problems in the P versus NP problem. T...
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The more unambiguous statement of the P versus NP problem and the judgement of its hardness, are the key ways to find the full proof of the P versus NP problem. There are two sub-problems in the P versus NP problem. The first is the classifications of different mathematical problems (languages), and the second is the distinction between a non-deterministic Turing machine (NTM) and a deterministic Turing machine (DTM). The process of an NTM can be a power set of the corresponding DTM, which proves that the states of an NTM can be a power set of the corresponding DTM. If combining this viewpoint with Cantor's theorem, it is shown that an NTM is not equipotent to a DTM. This means that "generating the power set P(A) of a set A" is a non-canonical example to support that P is not equal to NP.
In Membrane Computing, different variants of devices can be found by changing both syntactical and semantic ingredients. These devices are usually called membrane systems or P systems, and they recall the structure an...
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In Membrane Computing, different variants of devices can be found by changing both syntactical and semantic ingredients. These devices are usually called membrane systems or P systems, and they recall the structure and behavior of living cells in the nature. In this sense, rules are introduced as a way for objects to interact with membranes, giving P systems the ability to solve computational problems. Some of these rules, as division, separation and creation rules are inspired by the membrane division through the mitosis process or new membranes are created through gemmation. These rules seem to be crucial in the path to solve computationally hard problems. In this work, creation rules are used in classical P systems with symport/antiport rules, where objects travel through membranes without changing to achieve enough computational power to efficiently solve PSPACE-complete problems. More precisely, a solution to the QSAT problem is given by means of a uniform family of these systems. This paper was originally submitted to the International Conference on Membrane Computing 2021.
In this paper, it is shown that many natural counting classes, such as PP, C = P, and MOD(k)P, are at least as computationally hard as PH (the polynomial-time hierarchy) in the following sense: for each K of the count...
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In this paper, it is shown that many natural counting classes, such as PP, C = P, and MOD(k)P, are at least as computationally hard as PH (the polynomial-time hierarchy) in the following sense: for each K of the counting classes above, every set in K(PH) is polynomial-time randomized many-one reducible to a set in K with two-sided exponentially small error probability. As a consequence of the result, it is seen that all the counting classes above are computationally harder than PH unless PH collapses to a finite level. Some other consequences are also shown.
There is a growing body of evidence that the human brain may be organized according to principles of predictive processing. An important conjecture in neuroscience is that a brain organized in this way can effectively...
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In this article we review some of the main results of descriptive complexitytheory in order to make the reader familiarity with the nature of the investigations in this area. We start by presenting the characterizati...
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In this article we review some of the main results of descriptive complexitytheory in order to make the reader familiarity with the nature of the investigations in this area. We start by presenting the characterization of automata recognizable languages by monadic second-order logic. Afterwards we explain the characterization of various logics by fixed-point logics. We assume familiarity with logic but try to keep knowledge of complexitytheory to a minimum.
If operations in a quantum computer were conditioned on the results of a subsequent post-selection measurement, then NP-complete problems could be solved in polynomial time. Using the natural connection between post-s...
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(纸本)0819463000
If operations in a quantum computer were conditioned on the results of a subsequent post-selection measurement, then NP-complete problems could be solved in polynomial time. Using the natural connection between post-selection and NP, we show that this result is un-physical by considering constraints on new kinds of measurements which depend on the future post-selection in a non-trivial way. We review practical quantum information advantages of post-selection.
Algorithmic statistics studies explanations of observed data that are good in the algorithmic sense: an explanation should be simple i.e. should have small Kolmogorov complexity and capture all the algorithmically dis...
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(纸本)9783319587479;9783319587462
Algorithmic statistics studies explanations of observed data that are good in the algorithmic sense: an explanation should be simple i.e. should have small Kolmogorov complexity and capture all the algorithmically discoverable regularities in the data. However this idea can not be used in practice because Kolmogorov complexity is not computable. In this paper we develop algorithmic statistics using space-bounded Kolmogorov complexity. We prove an analogue of one of the main result of 'classic' algorithmic statistics (about the connection between optimality and randomness deficiences). The main tool of our proof is the Nisan-Wigderson generator.
Graph embeddings of bounded Euler genus (that means, embeddings with bounded orientable or nonorientable genus) help to design time-efficient algorithms for many graph problems. Since linear-time algorithms are known ...
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(纸本)9781450327107
Graph embeddings of bounded Euler genus (that means, embeddings with bounded orientable or nonorientable genus) help to design time-efficient algorithms for many graph problems. Since linear-time algorithms are known to compute embeddings of any bounded Euler genus, one can always assume to work with embedded graphs and, thus, obtain fast algorithms for many problems on any class of graphs of bounded Euler genus. Problems on graphs of bounded Euler genus are also important from the perspective of finding space-efficient algorithms, mostly focusing on problems related to finding paths and matchings in graphs. So far, known space-bounded approaches needed the severe assumption that an embedding is given as part of the input since no space-efficient embedding procedure for nonplanar graphs was known. The present work sidesteps this assumption and shows that embeddings of any bounded Euler genus can be computed in deterministic logarithmic space (logspace);allowing to generalize results on the space complexity of path and matching problems from embedded graphs to graphs of bounded Euler genus. The techniques developed for the embedding procedure also allow to compute canonical representations and, thus, solve the isomorphism problem for graphs of bounded Euler genus in logspace.
We give an algorithm for solving unique games (UG) instances whenever low-degree sum-of-squares proofs certify good bounds on the small-set-expansion of the underlying constraint graph via a hypercontractive inequalit...
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(纸本)9781450380539
We give an algorithm for solving unique games (UG) instances whenever low-degree sum-of-squares proofs certify good bounds on the small-set-expansion of the underlying constraint graph via a hypercontractive inequality. Our algorithm is in fact more versatile, and succeeds even when the constraint graph is not a small-set expander as long as the structure of non-expanding small sets is (informally speaking) "characterized" by a low-degree sum-of-squares proof. Our results are obtained by rounding low-entropy solutions - measured via a new global potential function - to sumof-squares (SoS) semidefinite programs. This technique adds to the (currently short) list of general tools for analyzing SoS relaxations for worst-case optimization problems. As corollaries, we obtain the first polynomial-time algorithms for solving any UG instance where the constraint graph is either the noisy hypercube, the short code or the Johnson graph. The prior best algorithm for such instances was the eigenvalue enumeration algorithm of Arora, Barak, and Steurer (2010) which requires quasi-polynomial time for the noisy hypercube and nearly-exponential time for the short code and Johnson graphs. All of our results achieve an approximation of 1 - epsilon vs delta for UG instances, where epsilon > 0 and delta > 0 depend on the expansion parameters of the graph but are independent of the alphabet size.
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