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Publications (13)

cs.CG2026

Covering and Partitioning Complex Objects with Small Pieces

Anders Aamand, Mikkel Abrahamsen, Reilly Browne +6

We study the problems of covering or partitioning a polygon (possibly with holes) using a minimum number of small pieces, where a small piece is a connected sub-polygon contain…

cs.CG2024

Reconfiguration of unit squares and disks: PSPACE-hardness in simple settings

Mikkel Abrahamsen, Kevin Buchin, Maike Buchin +5

We study two well-known reconfiguration problems. Given a start and a target configuration of geometric objects in a polygon, we wonder whether we can move the objects from the sta…

cs.CG2025

Bounding a Polygon by a Minimum Number of Vertices

Mikkel Abrahamsen, Jack Stade, Shuyi Yan +1

Suppose that a polygon is given as an array containing the vertices in counterclockwise order. We analyze how many vertices (including the index of each of these vertices) we n…

cs.CC2026

Probabilistically checkable proofs for the Existential Theory of the Reals

Jack Stade

We prove a PCP theorem for the existential theory of the reals, showing that MAX-ETR-INV is -hard to approximate to within some constant factor. The existential…

cs.CG2025

The Point-Boundary Art Gallery Problem is -hard

Jack Stade

We resolve the complexity of the point-boundary variant of the art gallery problem, showing that it is -complete, meaning that it is equivalent under polynomial…

cs.CG2023

Topological Universality of the Art Gallery Problem

Jack Stade, Jamie Tucker-Foltz

We prove that any compact semi-algebraic set is homeomorphic to the solution space of some art gallery problem. Previous works have established similar universality theorems, but h…

cs.LG2026

Better Neural Network Expressivity: Subdividing the Simplex

Egor Bakaev, Florestan Brunck, Christoph Hertrich +2

This work studies the expressivity of ReLU neural networks with a focus on their depth. A sequence of previous works showed that hidden layers are suffi…

cs.CG2026

NP-membership for the boundary-boundary art-gallery problem

Jack Stade

The boundary-boundary art-gallery problem asks, given a polygon representing an art-gallery, for a minimal set of guards that can see the entire boundary of (the wall of th…

cs.CG2025

Devil's Games and : Continuous Games complete for the First-Order Theory of the Reals

Lucas Meijer, Arnaud de Mesmay, Tillmann Miltzow +2

We introduce the complexity class Quantified Reals (). Let FOTR be the set of true sentences in the first-order theory of the reals. A language is in $\text…

cs.LG2026

Humanity's Last Exam

Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han +1144

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achi…

cs.CG2024

Hardness of Packing, Covering and Partitioning Simple Polygons with Unit Squares

Mikkel Abrahamsen, Jack Stade

We show that packing axis-aligned unit squares into a simple polygon is NP-hard, even when is an orthogonal and orthogonally convex polygon with half-integer coordinates. I…

cs.LG2026

Shallower ReLU Network Representations via Exact Linear Algebra

Kilian Rueß, Gennadiy Averkov, Florestan Brunck +7

We prove that the maximum of real numbers is exactly representable by a ReLU network with two hidden layers for every . The constructions are obtained by reducing the…

cs.CG2025

Two Tiling is Undecidable

Jack Stade

We show that the following problem is undecidable: given two polygonal prototiles, determine whether the plane can be tiled with rotated and translated copies of them. This improve…