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Many intended uses of differential privacy involve a $\textit{continual mechanism}$ that is set up to run continuously over a long period of time, making more statistical releases as either queries come in or the dataset is updated. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Monika Henzinger , Roodabeh Safavi , Salil Vadhan

Domain generalization addresses domain shift in real-world applications. Most approaches adopt a domain angle, seeking invariant representation across domains by aligning their marginal distributions, irrespective of individual classes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Meng Cao , Songcan Chen

Discovering the set of closed frequent patterns is one of the fundamental problems in Data Mining. Recent Constraint Programming (CP) approaches for declarative itemset mining have proven their usefulness and flexibility. But the wide use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Mehdi Maamar , Nadjib Lazaar , Samir Loudni , Yahia Lebbah

This paper presents Diffusion Forcing, a new training paradigm where a diffusion model is trained to denoise a set of tokens with independent per-token noise levels. We apply Diffusion Forcing to sequence generative modeling by training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Boyuan Chen , Diego Marti Monso , Yilun Du , Max Simchowitz , Russ Tedrake , Vincent Sitzmann

We enable efficient and effective coordination in unpredictable environments, i.e., in environments whose future evolution is unknown a priori and even adversarial. We are motivated by the future of autonomy that involves multiple robots…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Zirui Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Vasileios Tzoumas

We have previously reported a Bayesian algorithm for determining the coordinates of points in three-dimensional space from uncertain constraints. This method is useful in the determination of biological molecular structure. It is limited,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Russ B. Altman , Cheng C. Chen , William B. Poland , Jaswinder Pal Singh

We present new constraint qualification conditions for nonlinear semidefinite programming that extend some of the constant rank-type conditions from nonlinear programming. As an application of these conditions, we provide a unified global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Roberto Andreani , Gabriel Haeser , Leonardo M. Mito , Héctor Ramírez C

A wide range of problems can be modelled as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), that is, a set of constraints that must be satisfied simultaneously. Constraints can either be represented extensionally, by explicitly listing allowed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Evgenij Thorstensen

A wide range of applications, most notably in comparative genomics, involve the computation of a shortest sorting sequence of operations for a given permutation, where the set of allowed operations is fixed beforehand. Such sequences are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Carlo Comin , Anthony Labarre , Romeo Rizzi , Stéphane Vialette

This paper explores the potential of Lagrangian duality for learning applications that feature complex constraints. Such constraints arise in many science and engineering domains, where the task amounts to learning optimization problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Terrence WK Mak , Cuong Tran , Federico Baldo , Michele Lombardi

A major obstacle to achieving global convergence in distributed and federated learning is the misalignment of gradients across clients, or mini-batches due to heterogeneity and stochasticity of the distributed data. In this work, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yatin Dandi , Luis Barba , Martin Jaggi

In this work, we study the task of distributed optimization over a network of learners in which each learner possesses a convex cost function, a set of affine equality constraints, and a set of convex inequality constraints. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Zaid J. Towfic , Ali H. Sayed

We consider the broad problem of analyzing safety properties of asynchronous concurrent programs under arbitrary thread interleavings. Delay-bounded deterministic scheduling, introduced in prior work, is an efficient bug-finding technique…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Andrew Johnson , Thomas Wahl

The notion of omnipredictors (Gopalan, Kalai, Reingold, Sharan and Wieder ITCS 2021), suggested a new paradigm for loss minimization. Rather than learning a predictor based on a known loss function, omnipredictors can easily be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Lunjia Hu , Inbal Livni-Navon , Omer Reingold , Chutong Yang

This work considers a number of optimization problems and reductive relations between them. The two main problems we are interested in are the \emph{Optimal Decision Tree} and \emph{Set Cover}. We study these two fundamental tasks under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Michał Szyfelbein , Dariusz Dereniowski

We introduce a class of concurrent learning (CL) algorithms designed to solve parameter estimation problems with convergence rates ranging from hyperexponential to prescribed-time while utilizing alternating datasets during the learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Daniel E. Ochoa , Jorge I. Poveda

As a well-known optimization framework, the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has achieved tremendous success in many classification and regression applications. Recently, it has attracted the attention of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Junxiang Wang , Hongyi Li , Liang Zhao

We consider the rigidity and global rigidity of bar-joint frameworks in Euclidean $d$-space under additional dilation constraints in specified coordinate directions. In this setting we obtain a complete characterisation of generic rigidity.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Sean Dewar , Anthony Nixon , Andrew Sainsbury

Reasoning about the physical world requires models that are endowed with the right inductive biases to learn the underlying dynamics. Recent works improve generalization for predicting trajectories by learning the Hamiltonian or Lagrangian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Marc Finzi , Ke Alexander Wang , Andrew Gordon Wilson

In this work, we study the problem of scheduling a maximal set of transmitters subjected to an interference constraint across all the nodes. Given a set of nodes, the problem reduces to finding the maximum cardinality of a subset of nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Rakshith Jagannath , Radha Krishna Ganti , Neelesh S Upadhye