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Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) has emerged as a powerful method for improving generalization in machine learning models by minimizing the sharpness of the loss landscape. However, despite its success, several important questions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Dimitris Oikonomou , Nicolas Loizou

We consider a stochastic bandit problem with infinitely many arms. In this setting, the learner has no chance of trying all the arms even once and has to dedicate its limited number of samples only to a certain number of arms. All previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Alexandra Carpentier , Michal Valko

Batch normalization (BN) is a popular and ubiquitous method in deep learning that has been shown to decrease training time and improve generalization performance of neural networks. Despite its success, BN is not theoretically well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Susanna Lange , Kyle Helfrich , Qiang Ye

This paper presents a new approach to selecting knots at the same time as estimating the B-spline regression model. Such simultaneous selection of knots and model is not trivial, but our strategy can make it possible by employing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Shotaro Yagishita , Jun-ya Gotoh

We study a variant of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm [ E. Farhi, J. Goldstone, and S. Gutmann, arXiv:1411.4028] with slightly different parametrization and different objective: rather than looking for a state which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 D. Wecker , M. B. Hastings , M. Troyer

We study the learnability of symbolic finite state automata (SFA), a model shown useful in many applications in software verification. The state-of-the-art literature on this topic follows the query learning paradigm, and so far all…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Dana Fisman , Hadar Frenkel , Sandra Zilles

In this paper, we present a proof of the NP-completeness of computing the smallest Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA) that distinguishes two given regular languages as DFAs. A distinguishing DFA is an automaton that recognizes a language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jan Martens

Previous works on meta-learning either relied on elaborately hand-designed network structures or adopted specialized learning rules to a particular domain. We propose a universal framework to optimize the meta-learning process automatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xinyue Zheng , Peng Wang , Qigang Wang , Zhongchao shi , Feiyu Xu

Algorithm selection is typically based on models of algorithm performance, learned during a separate offline training sequence, which can be prohibitively expensive. In recent work, we adopted an online approach, in which a performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Matteo Gagliolo , Juergen Schmidhuber

This paper focuses on the noiseless complete dictionary learning problem, where the goal is to represent a set of given signals as linear combinations of a small number of atoms from a learned dictionary. There are two main challenges faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Geyu Liang , Gavin Zhang , Salar Fattahi , Richard Y. Zhang

We study the reinforcement learning problem for discounted Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) under the tabular setting. We propose a model-based algorithm named UCBVI-$\gamma$, which is based on the \emph{optimism in the face of uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Jiafan He , Dongruo Zhou , Quanquan Gu

A mean field feedback artificial neural network algorithm is developed and explored for the set covering problem. A convenient encoding of the inequality constraints is achieved by means of a multilinear penalty function. An approximate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mattias Ohlsson , Carsten Peterson , Bo Söderberg

This work considers weak deterministic B\"uchi automata reading encodings of non-negative $d$-vectors of reals in a fixed base. A saturated language is a language which contains all encoding of elements belonging to a set of $d$-vectors of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Arthur Milchior

Finite-state models, such as finite-state machines (FSMs), aid software engineering in many ways. They are often used in formal verification and also can serve as visual software models. The latter application is associated with the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Vladimir Ulyantsev , Igor Buzhinsky , Anatoly Shalyto

In this paper, we propose an architecture of oritatami systems with which one can simulate an arbitrary nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) in a unified manner. The oritatami system is known to be Turing-universal but the simulation…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Yo-Sub Han , Hwee Kim , Yusei Masuda , Shinnosuke Seki

We propose several heuristics for mitigating one of the main causes of combinatorial explosion in rank-based complementation of B\"{u}chi automata (BAs): unnecessarily high bounds on the ranks of states. First, we identify elevator…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Vojtěch Havlena , Ondřej Lengál , Barbora Šmahlíková

Minimal deterministic finite automata (DFAs) can be reduced further at the expense of a finite number of errors. Recently, such minimization algorithms have been improved to run in time O(n log n), where n is the number of states of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Andreas Maletti , Daniel Quernheim

A binary decision task, like yes-no questions or answer verification, reflects a significant real-world scenario such as where users look for confirmation about the correctness of their decisions on specific issues. In this work, we observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Sangwon Yu , Jongyoon Song , Bongkyu Hwang , Hoyoung Kang , Sooah Cho , Junhwa Choi , Seongho Joe , Taehee Lee , Youngjune L. Gwon , Sungroh Yoon

Since the seminal work by Angluin and the introduction of the L*-algorithm, active learning of automata by membership and equivalence queries has been extensively studied to learn various extensions of automata. For weighted automata,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Laure Daviaud , Marianne Johnson

We construct a probabilistic finite automaton (PFA) with 7 states and an input alphabet of 5 symbols for which the PFA Emptiness Problem is undecidable. The only input for the decision problem is the starting distribution. For the proof, we…

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