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Benchmark 5 QP solvers (OSQP, qpOASES, Gurobi, ECOS, CVXPY+SCS) on MPC problems with horizon N=5-200 for 3 system dimensions (2-state, 10-state, 50-state). Computation time t(N): theoretical O(N³) for dense QP.

Compare 5 PID tuning methods (Ziegler-Nichols ZN, Cohen-Coon CC, IMC, SIMC, autotuning relay) on 8 nonlinear plant models (pH neutralization, exothermic CSTR, inverted pendulum, ball-and-beam, hydraulic servo, thermal process, bioreactor, DC motor with backlash). Performance metric: IAE (integral absolute error) normalized to optimal PID (found via Bayesian optimization).

Reproduce convergence experiments from 25 published AEC papers (LMS, NLMS, RLS, affine projection). Using the exact parameters reported, convergence rates match published claims in only 15/25 papers (60%).

Analyze recovery of structured sparse signals (block-sparse, tree-sparse, group-sparse) when sparsity assumptions are violated. Standard RIP-based guarantees assume exact sparsity; we characterize performance for approximately sparse signals with sparsity defect δ = ||x - x_s||₁/||x_s||₁ where x_s is the best s-sparse approximation.

Compare ADVI (automatic differentiation variational inference) against HMC (NUTS) on 6 hierarchical models from the Stan case studies (8-schools, radon, election forecasting, disease mapping, IRT, occupancy). ADVI posterior means match HMC within 3% (mean absolute deviation).

Cross-country regression (N=45 OECD+emerging) of AI adoption index (Stanford HAI) on GDP/capita, labor market flexibility (OECD EPL index), education expenditure, internet penetration, and R&D spending. Bivariate: GDP/capita r=0.

Develop and implement an algorithm to compute Hodge numbers h^{p,q} of complete intersection Calabi-Yau manifolds (CICYs) in products of projective spaces P^{n1}×...×P^{nk}.

Verify Witten's conjecture (Kontsevich's theorem) by independently computing intersection numbers ⟨τ_{d1}...τ_{dn}⟩_g on M̄_{g,n} for genus g=0-5 using two methods: (1) Virasoro constraints (recursive) and (2) direct integration via Chern class computations in Sage/Macaulay2.

Compute exact point counts #E(F_q) for all elliptic curves over F_q, q=2-97 (prime and prime power). Compare with Hasse-Weil bound |#E - q - 1| ≤ 2√q.

Apply transfer matrix method to count independent sets i(G_{m×n}) for m=2-8 and arbitrary n. The transfer matrix T_m has dimension 2^m × 2^m (reduced by symmetry to Fib(m+2) × Fib(m+2)).

Test 4 GI heuristics (1-WL, 2-WL, VF2, nauty) on 15 families of strongly regular graphs (SRGs) with parameters (v,k,λ,μ). 1-WL fails to distinguish non-isomorphic SRGs in 100% of tested pairs (by construction).

Study χ(G(n,r)) for n=100-10000 nodes uniformly in [0,1]² with connection radius r chosen at the connectivity threshold r_c = √(ln n / (πn)). Empirically: χ concentrates around c·√(n/ln n) with c=1.

Compute Ramsey numbers R(K_{s,t}, K_{s,t}) for s,t ≤ 8 via SAT solving and ILP. The growth rate exhibits a sharp transition: for t/s < 0.

Measure gradient variance ⟨(∂C/∂θᵢ)²⟩ as a function of qubit count n (4-24) for 3 ansatz types: hardware-efficient (HEA, random 2-qubit gates), chemistry-inspired (UCCSD), and QAOA. HEA: variance decays as 2^{-2n} (barren plateau at n≈12).

Simulate surface codes (d=3-21) with 4 decoders: MWPM (minimum weight perfect matching), Union-Find, neural network, and lookup table. Standard threshold (assuming instant decoding): 10.

Run VQE (UCCSD ansatz) on statevector simulator and noisy simulator for H₂, H₃⁺, H₄, H₆, H₈, LiH, BeH₂. Noiseless VQE achieves chemical accuracy (1.

Simulate random Clifford circuits (up to 256 qubits) with variable measurement rate p (fraction of qubits measured per layer). Entanglement entropy S_A of half-chain: at p=0 (no measurement), S_A scales as volume law S_A ∝ L.

Compare LSTM, Transformer, GRU, random forest against simple persistence (forecast = current value) for 1-min to 60-min ahead wind speed at 5 NREL stations (3 years data). Persistence outperforms all ML methods for horizons ≤15 min (RMSE ratio ML/persistence > 1.

Record AE events during uniaxial compression of glass (brittle), concrete (quasi-brittle), and alumina ceramics. Waiting time distributions: glass follows exponential (Poisson process, KS p=0.

Evaluate 4 preprocessing pipelines (fMRIPrep, FSL, SPM, AFNI) × 3 classifiers (SVM, random forest, MLP) on HCP working memory task (200 subjects). Main effect of pipeline: F(3,2388)=47.