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Quantization-Aware Pre-Training (QAPT) is an effective technique to reduce the compute and memory overhead of Deep Neural Networks while improving their energy efficiency on edge devices. Existing QAPT methods produce models stored in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ningfeng Yang , Tor M. Aamodt

Certain answers are a principled method for coping with uncertainty that arises in many practical data management tasks. Unfortunately, this method is expensive and may exclude useful (if uncertain) answers. Thus, users frequently resort to…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Su Feng , Aaron Huber , Boris Glavic , Oliver Kennedy

A framework is presented for a computational theory of probabilistic argument. The Probabilistic Reasoning Environment encodes knowledge at three levels. At the deepest level are a set of schemata encoding the system's domain knowledge.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Kathryn Blackmond Laskey

Independence-based (IB) assignments to Bayesian belief networks were originally proposed as abductive explanations. IB assignments assign fewer variables in abductive explanations than do schemes assigning values to all evidentially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Eugene Santos , Solomon Eyal Shimony

In its most basic form, decision-making can be viewed as a computational process that progressively eliminates alternatives, thereby reducing uncertainty. Such processes are generally costly, meaning that the amount of uncertainty that can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sebastian Gottwald , Daniel A. Braun

This paper explores algorithms for processing probabilistic and deterministic information when the former is represented as a belief network and the latter as a set of boolean clauses. The motivating tasks are 1. evaluating beliefs networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Rina Dechter , David Ephraim Larkin

We explore the connection between deep learning and information theory through the paradigm of diffusion models. A diffusion model converts noise into structured data by reinstating, imperfectly, information that is erased when data was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Akhil Premkumar

Incomplete data are a common feature in many domains, from clinical trials to industrial applications. Bayesian networks (BNs) are often used in these domains because of their graphical and causal interpretations. BN parameter learning from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-13 Andrea Ruggieri , Francesco Stranieri , Fabio Stella , Marco Scutari

Model-based testing (MBT) is a well-known technology, which allows for automatic test case generation, execution and evaluation. To test non-functional properties, a number of test MBT frameworks have been developed to test systems with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Marcus Gerhold , Mariëlle Stoelinga

We consider the task of aggregating beliefs of severalexperts. We assume that these beliefs are represented as probabilitydistributions. We argue that the evaluation of any aggregationtechnique depends on the semantic context of this task.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Pedrito Maynard-Reid , Urszula Chajewska

In Non - ergodic belief networks the posterior belief OF many queries given evidence may become zero.The paper shows that WHEN belief propagation IS applied iteratively OVER arbitrary networks(the so called, iterative OR loopy belief…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Rina Dechter , Robert Mateescu

This paper studies an integrated system of political and economic systems from a systematic perspective to explore the complex interaction between them, and specially analyzes the case of the US presidential election forecasting. Based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-30 Lingbo Li , Ying Fan , An Zeng , Zengru Di

We propose a data-driven control method for systems with aleatoric uncertainty, for example, robot fleets with variations between agents. Our method leverages shared trajectory data to increase the robustness of the designed controller and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Alexander von Rohr , Dmitrii Likhachev , Sebastian Trimpe

Many Artificial Intelligence systems depend on the agent's updating its beliefs about the world on the basis of experience. Experiments constitute one type of experience, so scientific methodology offers a natural environment for examining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Harold P. Lehmann

Apriori Algorithm is one of the most important algorithm which is used to extract frequent itemsets from large database and get the association rule for discovering the knowledge. It basically requires two important things: minimum support…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Akshita Bhandari , Ashutosh Gupta , Debasis Das

This Letter presents a neural estimator for entropy production, or NEEP, that estimates entropy production (EP) from trajectories of relevant variables without detailed information on the system dynamics. For steady state, we rigorously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-06 Dong-Kyum Kim , Youngkyoung Bae , Sangyun Lee , Hawoong Jeong

Probabilistic databases (PDBs) are used to model uncertainty in data in a quantitative way. In the standard formal framework, PDBs are finite probability spaces over relational database instances. It has been argued convincingly that this…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Martin Grohe , Peter Lindner

In previous work [BGHK92, BGHK93], we have studied the random-worlds approach -- a particular (and quite powerful) method for generating degrees of belief (i.e., subjective probabilities) from a knowledge base consisting of objective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Fahiem Bacchus , Adam J. Grove , Joseph Y. Halpern , Daphne Koller

In the last couple of decades, there has been major advancements in the domain of missing data imputation. The techniques in the domain include amongst others: Expectation Maximization, Neural Networks with Evolutionary Algorithms or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Collins Leke , Tshilidzi Marwala , Satyakama Paul

Information theoretic measures (entropies, entropy rates, mutual information) are nowadays commonly used in statistical signal processing for real-world data analysis. The present work proposes the use of Auto Mutual Information (Mutual…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-07-24 C Granero-Belinchón , S. Roux , P. Abry , N. Garnier