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The Matrix Element Method is a promising multi-variate analysis tool which offers an optimal approach to compare theory and experiment according to the Neyman-Pearson lemma. However, until recently its usage has been limited by the fact…
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This paper examines the verification of stability, a control requirement, over discrete control systems represented as Simulink diagrams, using different model checking approaches and tools. Model checking comprises the (exhaustive)…
We consider the consensual distributed optimization problem and propose an asynchronous version of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm to solve it. The `asynchronous' part here refers to the fact that only one…
Decision tree (and its extensions such as Gradient Boosting Decision Trees and Random Forest) is a widely used machine learning algorithm, due to its practical effectiveness and model interpretability. With the emergence of big data, there…
The problem of electing a unique leader is central to all distributed systems, including programmable matter systems where particles have constant size memory. In this paper, we present a silent self-stabilising, deterministic, stationary,…
In this talk, we will describe a framework for assertion-based verification (ABV) of quantum circuits by applying model checking techniques for quantum systems developed in our previous work, in which: (i) Noiseless and noisy quantum…
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The parameters of support vector machines (SVMs) such as the penalty parameter and the kernel parameters have a great impact on the classification accuracy and the complexity of the SVM model. Therefore, the model selection in SVM involves…
Probabilistic model checking can provide formal guarantees on the behavior of stochastic models relating to a wide range of quantitative properties, such as runtime, energy consumption or cost. But decision making is typically with respect…
Verifying the robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks at test time is an important research problem. Unfortunately, prior work established that this problem is NP-hard for decision tree ensembles, hence bound to be…
Statistical Model Checking (SMC) is a trade-off between testing and formal verification. The core idea of the approach is to conduct some simulations of the system and verify if they satisfy some given property. In this paper we show that…
We study the uniform verification problem for infinite state processes, which consists of proving that the parallel composition of an arbitrary number of processes satisfies a temporal property. Our practical motivation is to build a…