Hard decision problems, in computational complexity theory known as NP-complete, are of universal importance. From a conceptual perspective, an efficient solution to one such complete problem is ...

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The Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) asks whether a given logical formula can be made true by assigning values to its variables. As the canonical NP-complete decision problem, SAT underpins a vast ...

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The propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) was the first to be shown NP-complete by Cook and Levin. SAT remained the embodiment of theoretical worst-case hardness. However, in stark contrast to ...

Network of neurons in the brain apply—unlike processors in our current generation of computer hardware—an event-based processing strategy, where short pulses (spikes) are emitted sparsely by neurons ...