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This paper addresses the problem of finding multiple near-optimal, spatially-dissimilar paths that can be considered as alternatives in the decision making process, for finding optimal corridors in which to construct a new road. We further…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Yasha Pushak , Warren Hare , Yves Lucet

The problem of finding a path between two points while avoiding obstacles is critical in robotic path planning. We focus on the feasibility problem: determining whether such a path exists. We model the robot as a query-specific rectangular…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Alex Fan , Alicia Li , Arul Kolla , Jason Gonzalez

Trying to be effective (no matter who exactly and in what field) a person face the problem which inevitably destroys all our attempts to easily get to a desired goal. The problem is the existence of some insuperable barriers for our mind,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kirill A. Sorudeykin

Reasoning in interactive problem solving scenarios requires models to construct reasoning threads that reflect user understanding and align with structured domain knowledge. However, current reasoning models often lack explicit semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Daniel Burkhardt , Xiangwei Cheng

Tackling complex reasoning tasks typically relies on massive monolithic LLMs, which suffer from severe computational redundancy. While task decomposition through structured pipelines or multi-agent collaborations offers an alternative,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yanxing Guo , Zihao Zheng , Fangzhou Wu , Ling Liang , Lin Bao , Zongwei Wang , Yimao Cai

The problem of robust distributed control arises in several large-scale systems, such as transportation networks and power grid systems. In many practical scenarios controllers might not have enough information to make globally optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Luca Furieri , Maryam Kamgarpour

This work characterizes large language models' chain-of-thought generation as a structured trajectory through representation space. We show that mathematical reasoning traverses functionally ordered, step-specific subspaces that become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Lihao Sun , Hang Dong , Bo Qiao , Qingwei Lin , Dongmei Zhang , Saravan Rajmohan

Combinatorial Optimization underpins many real-world applications and yet, designing performant algorithms to solve these complex, typically NP-hard, problems remains a significant research challenge. Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a…

Conventional algorithms in autonomous exploration face challenges due to their inability to accurately and efficiently identify the spatial distribution of convex regions in the real-time map. These methods often prioritize navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qiming Wang , Yulong Gao , Yang Wang , Xiongwei Zhao , Yijiao Sun , Xiangyan Kong

In this paper, we construct and investigate a hierarchy of spatio-temporal formalisms that result from various combinations of propositional spatial and temporal logics such as the propositional temporal logic PTL, the spatial logics RCC-8,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-13 D. Gabelaia , R. Kontchakov , A. Kurucz , F. Wolter , M. Zakharyaschev

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become central to post-training reasoning models, yet a key limitation of existing studies is their narrow view of the reasoning space: difficulty is treated as reasoning depth…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yihua Zhu , Qianying Liu , Fei Cheng , Jiaxin Wang , Akiko Aizawa , Sadao Kurohashi , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with knowledge-intensive tasks due to a lack of background knowledge and a tendency to hallucinate. To address these limitations, integrating knowledge graphs (KGs) with LLMs has been intensively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yilin Xiao , Chuang Zhou , Qinggang Zhang , Bo Li , Qing Li , Xiao Huang

Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) aims at recovering a low-rank subspace from grossly corrupted high-dimensional (often visual) data and is a cornerstone in many machine learning and computer vision applications. Even though RPCA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Niannan Xue , Yannis Panagakis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Humans intuitively solve complex problems by flexibly shifting among reasoning modes: they plan, execute, revise intermediate goals, resolve ambiguity through associative judgment, and apply formal procedures to well-specified subproblems.…

Chart reasoning presents unique challenges due to its inherent complexity -- requiring precise numerical comprehension, multi-level visual understanding, and logical inference across interconnected data elements. Existing vision-language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lei Chen , Xuanle Zhao , Zhixiong Zeng , Jing Huang , Yufeng Zhong , Lin Ma

Incorporating geometric inductive biases into models can aid interpretability and generalization, but encoding to a specific geometric structure can be challenging due to the imposed topological constraints. In this paper, we theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Babak Esmaeili , Robin Walters , Heiko Zimmermann , Jan-Willem van de Meent

Understanding how LLMs reason is hindered by a practical asymmetry: while their generated outputs are observable, the underlying reasoning patterns remain opaque. Relying on single probes, such as Mutual Information Peak (MIP) or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Leonardo Matthew Yauw , Wei-Bin Kou , Yujiu Yang

The growing complexity of factual claims in real-world scenarios presents significant challenges for automated fact verification systems, particularly in accurately aggregating and reasoning over multi-hop evidence. Existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Liwen Zheng , Chaozhuo Li , Haoran Jia , Xi Zhang

Topology reasoning aims to comprehensively understand road scenes and present drivable routes in autonomous driving. It requires detecting road centerlines (lane) and traffic elements, further reasoning their topology relationship, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Dongming Wu , Jiahao Chang , Fan Jia , Yingfei Liu , Tiancai Wang , Jianbing Shen

This is the full version of a paper submitted to the Computability in Europe (CiE 2023) conference, with all proofs omitted there. In 2012 P. D. Azar and S. Micali introduced a new model of interactive proofs, called "Rational Interactive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Daniil Musatov , Georgii Potapov