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We consider the problem of solving floating-point constraints obtained from software verification. We present UppSAT --- a new implementation of a systematic approximation refinement framework [ZWR17] as an abstract SMT solver. Provided…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aleksandar Zeljic , Peter Backeman , Christoph M. Wintersteiger , Philipp Ruemmer

Convolutional neural networks have recently achieved significant breakthroughs in various image classification tasks. However, they are computationally expensive,which can make their feasible mplementation on embedded and low-power devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mir Khan , Heikki Huttunen , Jani Boutellier

Finite-precision floating point arithmetic unavoidably introduces rounding errors which are traditionally bounded using a worst-case analysis. However, worst-case analysis might be overly conservative because worst-case errors can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Fredrik Dahlqvist , Rocco Salvia , George A Constantinides

Presented here are algorithms for converting between (decimal) scientific-notation and (binary) IEEE-754 double-precision floating-point numbers. By employing a rounding integer quotient operation these algorithms are much simpler than…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Aubrey Jaffer

A new deterministic floating-point arithmetic called precision arithmetic is developed to track precision for arithmetic calculations. It uses a novel rounding scheme to avoid excessive rounding error propagation of conventional…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chengpu Wang

Generating 2-by-2 unitary matrices in floating-precision arithmetic is a delicate task. One way to reduce the accumulation error is to use less floating-point operations to compute each of the entries in the 2-by-2 unitary matrix. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Weslley da Silva Pereira , Ali Lotfi , Julien Langou

Recent advances in convolutional neural networks have considered model complexity and hardware efficiency to enable deployment onto embedded systems and mobile devices. For example, it is now well-known that the arithmetic operations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Daisuke Miyashita , Edward H. Lee , Boris Murmann

The problem of exactly summing n floating-point numbers is a fundamental problem that has many applications in large-scale simulations and computational geometry. Unfortunately, due to the round-off error in standard floating-point…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Michael T. Goodrich , Ahmed Eldawy

Data files often consist of numbers having only a few significant decimal digits, whose information content would allow storage in only 32 bits. However, we may require that arithmetic operations involving these numbers be done with 64-bit…

Computation · Statistics 2015-04-14 Radford M. Neal

In this paper, we improve the usual relative error bound for the computation of x^n through iterated multiplications by x in binary floating-point arithmetic. The obtained error bound is only slightly better than the usual one, but it is…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Stef Graillat , Vincent Lefèvre , Jean-Michel Muller

In recent years, machine learning (ML) and neural networks (NNs) have gained widespread use and attention across various domains, particularly in transportation for achieving autonomy, including the emergence of flying taxis for urban air…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Fabien Geyer , Johannes Freitag , Tobias Schulz , Sascha Uhrig

We compute the most general embedding space two-point function in arbitrary Lorentz representations in the context of the recently introduced formalism in arXiv:1905.00036 and arXiv:1905.00434. This work provides a first explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Jean-François Fortin , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

Today, almost all computer systems use IEEE-754 floating point to represent real numbers. Recently, posit was proposed as an alternative to IEEE-754 floating point as it has better accuracy and a larger dynamic range. The configurable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Varun Gohil , Sumit Walia , Joycee Mekie , Manu Awasthi

Mainstream math libraries for floating point (FP) do not produce correctly rounded results for all inputs. In contrast, CR-LIBM and RLIBM provide correctly rounded implementations for a specific FP representation with one rounding mode.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jay P. Lim , Santosh Nagarakatte

From a theoretical point of view, finding the solution set of a system of inequalities in only two variables is easy. However, if we want to get rigorous bounds on this set with floating point arithmetic, in all possible cases, then things…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Walter F. Mascarenhas

We describe various issues caused by the lack of round-to-nearest mode in the \textit{gcc} compiler implementation of the fixed-point arithmetic data types and operations. We demonstrate that round-to-nearest is not performed in the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Mantas Mikaitis

High-throughput QR decomposition is a key operation in many advanced signal processing and communication applications. For some of these applications, using floating-point computation is becoming almost compulsory. However, there are scarce…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Javier Hormigo , Sergio D. Muñoz

We mechanize the fundamental properties of a rounding error model for floating-point arithmetic based on relative precision, a measure of error proposed as a substitute for relative error in rounding error analysis. A key property of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Max Fan , Ariel E. Kellison , Samuel D. Pollard

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be computationally demanding, particularly when dealing with large models. Recent work has aimed to mitigate this computational challenge by introducing 8-bit floating-point (FP8) formats for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sami Ben Ali , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Olivier Sentieys

We introduce a rotation-invariant representation of planar shapes. In particular, this representation encodes shapes as vectors such that the Euclidean distance between them serves as a valid shape distance. For standardized, star-shaped…

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