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Learning abstractions directly from data is a core challenge in robotics. Humans naturally operate at an abstract level, reasoning over high-level subgoals while delegating execution to low-level motor skills -- an ability that enables…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Abhiroop Ajith , Constantinos Chamzas

Integer sequences are of central importance to the modeling of concepts admitting complete finitary descriptions. We introduce a novel view on the learning of such concepts and lay down a set of benchmarking tasks aimed at conceptual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Peter Belcák , Ard Kastrati , Flavio Schenker , Roger Wattenhofer

The automated recognition of algorithm implementations can support many software maintenance and re-engineering activities by providing knowledge about the concerns present in the code base. Moreover, recognizing inefficient algorithms like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Denis Neumüller , Florian Sihler , Raphael Straub , Matthias Tichy

Monotonic abstraction is a technique introduced in model checking parameterized distributed systems in order to cope with transitions containing global conditions within guards. The technique has been re-interpreted in a declarative setting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Francesco Alberti , Silvio Ghilardi , Natasha Sharygina

Strictly proper kernel scores are well-known tool in probabilistic forecasting, while characteristic kernels have been extensively investigated in the machine learning literature. We first show that both notions coincide, so that insights…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Ingo Steinwart , Johanna F. Ziegel

Witnesses record automated program analysis results and make them exchangeable. To validate correctness witnesses through abstract interpretation, we introduce a novel abstract operation unassume. This operator incorporates witness…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Simmo Saan , Michael Schwarz , Julian Erhard , Helmut Seidl , Sarah Tilscher , Vesal Vojdani

We define robust abstractions for synthesizing provably correct and robust controllers for (possibly infinite) uncertain transition systems. It is shown that robust abstractions are sound in the sense that they preserve robust satisfaction…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Jun Liu

We present a new idea to adapt relational abstract domains to the analysis of IEEE 754-compliant floating-point numbers in order to statically detect, through abstract Interpretation-based static analyses, potential floating-point run-time…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Antoine Miné

The Open-Domain Question Answering (ODQA) task involves retrieving and subsequently generating answers from fine-grained relevant passages within a database. Current systems leverage Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) to model the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Cunxiang Wang , Zhikun Xu , Qipeng Guo , Xiangkun Hu , Xuefeng Bai , Zheng Zhang , Yue Zhang

We develop a general framework for abstracting the behavior of an agent that operates in a nondeterministic domain, i.e., where the agent does not control the outcome of the nondeterministic actions, based on the nondeterministic situation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Bita Banihashemi , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Yves Lespérance

This draft suggests a new counterexample guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) framework that uses the combination of numerical simulation for nonlinear differential equations with linear programming for linear hybrid automata (LHA) to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Sumit Kumar Jha

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) represents sentences as directed, acyclic and rooted graphs, aiming at capturing their meaning in a machine readable format. AMR parsing converts natural language sentences into such graphs. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Juri Opitz , Anette Frank

We design various logics for proving hyper properties of iterative programs by application of abstract interpretation principles. In part I, we design a generic, structural, fixpoint abstract interpreter parameterized by an algebraic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Patrick Cousot , Jeffery Wang

Neural networks are becoming a popular tool for solving many real-world problems such as object recognition and machine translation, thanks to its exceptional performance as an end-to-end solution. However, neural networks are complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Guoliang Dong , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Yang Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Ting Dai , Jin Song Dong , Xingen Wang

Recent image degradation estimation methods have enabled single-image super-resolution (SR) approaches to better upsample real-world images. Among these methods, explicit kernel estimation approaches have demonstrated unprecedented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Royson Lee , Rui Li , Stylianos I. Venieris , Timothy Hospedales , Ferenc Huszár , Nicholas D. Lane

A major goal of computer vision is to enable computers to interpret visual situations---abstract concepts (e.g., "a person walking a dog," "a crowd waiting for a bus," "a picnic") whose image instantiations are linked more by their common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Anthony D. Rhodes , Max H. Quinn , Melanie Mitchell

Deep-learning based Super-Resolution (SR) methods have exhibited promising performance under non-blind setting where blur kernel is known. However, blur kernels of Low-Resolution (LR) images in different practical applications are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Guangpin Tao , Xiaozhong Ji , Wenzhuo Wang , Shuo Chen , Chuming Lin , Yun Cao , Tong Lu , Donghao Luo , Ying Tai

We describe a set of lower-level abstractions to improve performance on modern large scale heterogeneous systems. These provide portable access to system- and hardware-dependent features, automatically apply dynamic optimizations at run…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Erik Schnetter

In separation logic program analyses, tractability is generally achieved by restricting invariants to a finite abstract domain. As this domain cannot vary, loss of information can cause failure even when verification is possible in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Matko Botinčan , Mike Dodds , Stephen Magill

We advance the state of the art in biomolecular interaction extraction with three contributions: (i) We show that deep, Abstract Meaning Representations (AMR) significantly improve the accuracy of a biomolecular interaction extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Sahil Garg , Aram Galstyan , Ulf Hermjakob , Daniel Marcu