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The rapid deployment of computing hardware different from the traditional CPU+RAM model in data centers around the world mandates a change in the design of event generators for the Large Hadron Collider, in order to provide economically and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Enrico Bothmann , Taylor Childers , Walter Giele , Stefan Höche , Joshua Isaacson , Max Knobbe

Term rewriting is a Turing complete model of computation. When taught to students of computer science, key properties of computation as well as techniques to analyze programs on an abstract level are conveyed. This paper gives a swift…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Sarah Winkler , Aart Middeldorp

Recent advancements in large language models, including GPT-4 and its variants, and Generative AI-assisted coding tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Tabnine, have significantly transformed software development. This paper analyzes how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Vijay Joshi , Iver Band

Deep Learning (DL) systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, yet they remain vulnerable to robustness issues that can lead to significant failures. While numerous Test Input Generators (TIGs) have been developed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Seif Mzoughi , Ahmed Haj yahmed , Mohamed Elshafei , Foutse Khomh , Diego Elias Costa

To guarantee that machine learning models yield outputs that are not only accurate, but also robust, recent works propose formally verifying robustness properties of machine learning models. To be applicable to realistic safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 John Törnblom , Simin Nadjm-Tehrani

This paper discusses the design and implementation of a Python-based toolset to aid in assessing the response of the UK's Advanced Gas Reactor nuclear power stations to earthquakes. The seismic analyses themselves are carried out with a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Steve Brasier , Fred Pollard

This paper presents a MATLAB toolbox for implementing robust-to-early termination model predictive control, abbreviated as REAP, which is designed to ensure a sub-optimal yet feasible solution when MPC computations are prematurely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Mohsen Amiri , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Generative, pre-trained transformers (GPTs, a.k.a. "Foundation Models") have reshaped natural language processing (NLP) through their versatility in diverse downstream tasks. However, their potential extends far beyond NLP. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Matthew B. A. McDermott , Bret Nestor , Peniel Argaw , Isaac Kohane

The Statistical Toolkit is an open source system specialized in the statistical comparison of distributions. It addresses requirements common to different experimental domains, such as simulation validation (e.g. comparison of experimental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M Batic , A. M. Paganoni , A. Pfeiffer , M. G. Pia , A. Ribon

As a powerful tool of asynchronous event sequence analysis, point processes have been studied for a long time and achieved numerous successes in different fields. Among various point process models, Hawkes process and its variants attract…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-31 Hongteng Xu , Hongyuan Zha

Modeling is a central and demanding activity in software engineering that requires skills such as abstraction, consistency maintenance, and precise communication. These skills are difficult to master and even harder to teach effectively.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Luan Lazzari , Kleinner Farias

Biological regulatory networks can be represented by computational models, which allow the study and analysis of biological behaviours, therefore providing a better understanding of a given biological process. However, as new information is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pedro T. Monteiro , Filipe Gouveia

MLtuner automatically tunes settings for training tunables (such as the learning rate, the momentum, the mini-batch size, and the data staleness bound) that have a significant impact on large-scale machine learning (ML) performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Henggang Cui , Gregory R. Ganger , Phillip B. Gibbons

We introduce a new methodology based on refinement for testing the functional correctness of hardware and low-level software. Our methodology overcomes several major drawbacks of the de facto testing methodologies used in industry: (1) it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Mitesh Jain , Panagiotis Manolios

Simulation is widely adopted in the study of modern computer networks. In this context, OMNeT++ provides a set of very effective tools that span from the definition of the network, to the automation of simulation execution and quick result…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Antonio Virdis , Carlo Vallati , Giovanni Nardini

In this research, we use user defined labels from three internet text sources (Reddit, Stackexchange, Arxiv) to train 21 different machine learning models for the topic classification task of detecting cybersecurity discussions in natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Elijah Pelofske , Lorie M. Liebrock , Vincent Urias

This paper develops a predictive modeling algorithm, denoted as Real-Time Vector Fitting (RTVF), which is capable of approximating the real-time linearized dynamics of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) dynamical systems via rational transfer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Tommaso Bradde , Samuel Chevalier , Marco De Stefano , Stefano Grivet-Talocia , Luca Daniel

Power device reliability is a major concern during operation under extreme environments, as doing so reduces the operational lifetime of any power system or sensing infrastructure. Due to a potential for system failure, devices must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Carlos Olivares , Raziur Rahman , Christopher Stankus , Jade Hampton , Andrew Zedwick , Moinuddin Ahmed

On the one hand, checking specific termination proofs by hand, say using a particular collection of matrix interpretations, can be an arduous and error-prone task. On the other hand, automation of such checks would save time and help to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Jonas Schöpf , Christian Sternagel

Despite significant advancements in Text-to-Audio (TTA) generation models achieving high-fidelity audio with fine-grained context understanding, they struggle to model the relations between audio events described in the input text. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yuhang He , Yash Jain , Xubo Liu , Andrew Markham , Vibhav Vineet