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The backbone of a Boolean formula is the set of literals that must be true in every assignment that satisfies the formula. This concept is fundamental to key operations on variability models, including propagating user configuration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Luis Cambelo , Ruben Heradio , Jose-Miguel Horcas , Dictino Chaos , David Fernandez-Amoros

In recent years, with the successful application of DNN in fields such as NLP and CV, its security has also received widespread attention. (Author) proposed the method of backdoor attack in Badnet. Switch implanted backdoor into the model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Han Gao

Order of magnitude reasoning - reasoning by rough comparisons of the sizes of quantities - is often called 'back of the envelope calculation', with the implication that the calculations are quick though approximate. This paper exhibits an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 E. Davis

We introduce $\textit{Backward Conformal Prediction}$, a method that guarantees conformal coverage while providing flexible control over the size of prediction sets. Unlike standard conformal prediction, which fixes the coverage level and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-13 Etienne Gauthier , Francis Bach , Michael I. Jordan

By analogy with the theory of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations, we define Backward Stochastic Difference Equations on spaces related to discrete time, finite state processes. This paper considers these processes as constructions…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-12 Samuel N. Cohen , Robert J. Elliott

The min-knapsack problem with compactness constraints extends the classical knapsack problem, in the case of ordered items, by introducing a restriction ensuring that they cannot be too far apart. This problem has applications in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Hubert Villuendas , Mathieu Besançon , Jérôme Malick

We consider constraint satisfaction problems parameterized above or below tight bounds. One example is MaxSat parameterized above $m/2$: given a CNF formula $F$ with $m$ clauses, decide whether there is a truth assignment that satisfies at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-25 G. Gutin , A. Yeo

We present a first theoretical analysis of the power of polynomial-time preprocessing for important combinatorial problems from various areas in AI. We consider problems from Constraint Satisfaction, Global Constraints, Satisfiability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-12 Stefan Szeider

Here we present a combinatorial decision problem, inspired by the celebrated quiz show called the countdown, that involves the computation of a given target number T from a set of k randomly chosen integers along with a set of arithmetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Lucas Lacasa , Bartolo Luque

It is commonplace to produce application-specific models by fine-tuning large pre-trained models using a small bespoke dataset. The widespread availability of foundation model checkpoints on the web poses considerable risks, including the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuxin Wen , Leo Marchyok , Sanghyun Hong , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein , Nicholas Carlini

Compared with constraint satisfaction problems, counting problems have received less attention. In this paper, we survey research works on the problems of counting the number of solutions to constraints. The constraints may take various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Jian Zhang , Cunjing Ge , Feifei Ma

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a computational problem that includes a range of important problems in computer science. We point out that fundamental concepts of the CSP, such as the solution set of an instance and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Soichiro Fujii , Yuni Iwamasa , Kei Kimura

Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is one of the core problems in computer science. As one of the fundamental NP-complete problems, it can be used - by known reductions - to represent instances of variety of hard decision problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Michał Karpiński

Optimization is a key task in a number of applications. When the set of feasible solutions under consideration is of combinatorial nature and described in an implicit way as a set of constraints, optimization is typically NP-hard.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-27 Daniel Le Berre , Emmanuel Lonca , Pierre Marquis

A pattern p (i.e., a string of variables and terminals) matches a word w, if w can be obtained by uniformly replacing the variables of p by terminal words. The respective matching problem, i.e., deciding whether or not a given pattern…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Florin Manea , Markus L. Schmid

The CSP (constraint satisfaction problems) is a class of problems deciding whether there exists a homomorphism from an instance relational structure to a target one. The CSP dichotomy is a profound result recently proved by Zhuk (2020, J.…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Azza Gaysin

The homomorphism problem for relational structures is an abstract way of formulating constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) and various problems in database theory. The decision version of the homomorphism problem received a lot of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Andrei A. Bulatov , Victor Dalmau , Martin Grohe , Daniel Marx

A fertile area of recent research has demonstrated concrete polynomial time lower bounds for solving natural hard problems on restricted computational models. Among these problems are Satisfiability, Vertex Cover, Hamilton Path, Mod6-SAT,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Ryan Williams

As an emerging approach to explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), backdoor learning has attracted increasing interest in recent years, and many seminal backdoor attack and defense algorithms are being developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Baoyuan Wu , Hongrui Chen , Mingda Zhang , Zihao Zhu , Shaokui Wei , Danni Yuan , Mingli Zhu , Ruotong Wang , Li Liu , Chao Shen

Upper bounds to the size of a family of subsets of an n-element set that avoids certain configurations are proved. These forbidden configurations can be described by inclusion patterns and some sets having the same size. Our results are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Dániel T. Nagy