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A classical theorem states that the set of languages given by a pushdown automaton coincides with the set of languages given by a context-free grammar. In previous work, we proved the pendant of this theorem in a setting with interaction:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jos C. M. Baeten , Bas Luttik

In this note, we provide complexity characterizations of model checking multi-pushdown systems. Multi-pushdown systems model recursive concurrent programs in which any sequential process has a finite control. We consider three standard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-10 Kshitij Bansal , Stéphane Demri

Probabilistic programming is a programming paradigm for expressing flexible probabilistic models. Implementations of probabilistic programming languages employ a variety of inference algorithms, where sequential Monte Carlo methods are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Daniel Lundén , David Broman , Fredrik Ronquist , Lawrence M. Murray

We show that abstract interpretation-based static program analysis can be made efficient and precise enough to formally verify a class of properties for a family of large programs with few or no false alarms. This is achieved by refinement…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Bruno Blanchet , Patrick Cousot , Radhia Cousot , Jerôme Feret , Laurent Mauborgne , Antoine Miné , David Monniaux , Xavier Rival

Normalizing flow-based generative models have been widely used in applications where the exact density estimation is of major importance. Recent research proposes numerous methods to improve their expressivity. However, conditioning on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Denis Gudovskiy , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata

Acceleration in symbolic verification consists in computing the exact effect of some control-flow loops in order to speed up the iterative fix-point computation of reachable states. Even if no termination guarantee is provided in theory,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-11 Jérôme Leroux , Gregoire Sutre

Recurrence equations have played a central role in static cost analysis, where they can be viewed as abstractions of programs and used to infer resource usage information without actually running the programs with concrete data. Such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Louis Rustenholz , Pedro Lopez-Garcia , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Key-point-based scene understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving applications. At the same time, optical flow plays an important role in many vision tasks. However, due to the implicit bias of equal attention on all points, classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhonghua Yi , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Qi Jiang , Yaozu Ye , Ze Wang , Huajian Ni , Kaiwei Wang

Performance analysis is challenging as different components (e.g.,different libraries, and applications) of a complex system can interact with each other. However, few existing tools focus on understanding such interactions. To bridge this…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Steven , Tang , Mingcan Xiang , Yang Wang , Bo Wu , Jianjun Chen , Tongping Liu

We present an approach for representing abstract argumentation frameworks based on an encoding into classical higher-order logic. This provides a uniform framework for computer-assisted assessment of abstract argumentation frameworks using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Alexander Steen , David Fuenmayor

This paper studies the design of programming languages with handlers of higher-order effectful operations -- effectful operations that may take in computations as arguments or return computations as output. We present and analyse a core…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhixuan Yang , Nicolas Wu

We propose a projection-free conditional gradient-type algorithm for smooth stochastic multi-level composition optimization, where the objective function is a nested composition of $T$ functions and the constraint set is a closed convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Tesi Xiao , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Saeed Ghadimi

Predicate pushdown is a long-standing performance optimization that filters data as early as possible in a computational workflow. In modern data pipelines, this transformation is especially important because much of the computation occurs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Robert Zhang , Eric Hayden Campbell , Dixin Tang , Isil Dillig

We provide a novel computer-assisted technique for systematically analyzing first-order methods for optimization. In contrast with previous works, the approach is particularly suited for handling sublinear convergence rates and stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

We present a new flow-based formulation for identical parallel machine scheduling with a regular objective function and without idle time. The formulation is constructed with the help of a decision diagram that represents all job sequences…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Daniel Kowalczyk , Roel Leus , Christopher Hojny , Stefan Røpke

Analyzing the behavior of a program running on a processor that supports speculative execution is crucial for applications such as execution time estimation and side channel detection. Unfortunately, existing static analysis techniques…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Meng Wu , Chao Wang

Many data-driven software engineering tasks such as discovering programming patterns, mining API specifications, etc., perform source code analysis over control flow graphs (CFGs) at scale. Analyzing millions of CFGs can be expensive and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ramanathan Ramu , Ganesha B Upadhyaya , Hoan Anh Nguyen , Hridesh Rajan

Dominance is a fundamental concept in compilers based on static single assignment (SSA) form. It underpins a wide range of analyses and transformations and defines a core property of SSA: every use must be dominated by its definition. We…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Roland Leißa , Johannes Griebler

This thesis develops exact analytical tools to study strongly correlated stochastic systems, with a focus on extreme value statistics, gap statistics, and full counting statistics in multi-particle processes. A central contribution is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-19 Marco Biroli

We present an underapproximation for context-free languages by filtering out runs of the underlying pushdown automaton depending on how the stack height evolves over time. In particular, we assign to each run a number quantifying the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Pierre Ganty , Damir Valput