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This paper studies the expressive and computational power of discrete Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs), a.k.a. (Ordinary) Difference Equations. It presents a new framework using these equations as a central tool for computation and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Olivier Bournez , Arnaud Durand

We show that a language model's ability to predict text is tightly linked to the breadth of its embedding space: models that spread their contextual representations more widely tend to achieve lower perplexity. Concretely, we find that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yanhong Li , Ming Li , Karen Livescu , Jiawei Zhou

The wealth of functionality in the Excel software package means it can go beyond use as a static evaluator of predefined cell formulae, to be used actively in manipulating and transforming data. Due to human error it is impossible to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-22 Colin A. Kerr

The sheer sizes of modern datasets are forcing data-structure designers to consider seriously both parallel construction and compactness. To achieve those goals we need to design a parallel algorithm with good scalability and with low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Leo Ferres , José Fuentes-Sepúlveda , Travis Gagie , Meng He , Gonzalo Navarro

Structural subtyping and parametric polymorphism provide similar flexibility and reusability to programmers. For example, both features enable the programmer to provide a wider record as an argument to a function that expects a narrower…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Wenhao Tang , Daniel Hillerström , James McKinna , Michel Steuwer , Ornela Dardha , Rongxiao Fu , Sam Lindley

A myriad of applications ranging from engineering and scientific simulations, image and signal processing as well as high-sensitive data retrieval demand high processing power reaching up to teraflops for their efficient execution. While a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Patrick Mukala

In the last two decades, the continuous increase of computational power has produced an overwhelming flow of data which has called for a paradigm shift in the computing architecture and large scale data processing mechanisms. MapReduce is a…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Sherif Sakr , Anna Liu , Ayman G. Fayoumi

Scaling neural network models has delivered dramatic quality gains across ML problems. However, this scaling has increased the reliance on efficient distributed training techniques. Accordingly, as with other distributed computing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Suchita Pati , Shaizeen Aga , Mahzabeen Islam , Nuwan Jayasena , Matthew D. Sinclair

In this work we study the computational power of graph-based models of distributed computing in which each node additionally has access to a global whiteboard. A node can read the contents of the whiteboard and, when activated, can write…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Florent Becker , Adrian Kosowski , Nicolas Nisse , Ivan Rapaport , Karol Suchan

Spreadsheet formula prediction has been an important program synthesis problem with many real-world applications. Previous works typically utilize input-output examples as the specification for spreadsheet formula synthesis, where each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xinyun Chen , Petros Maniatis , Rishabh Singh , Charles Sutton , Hanjun Dai , Max Lin , Denny Zhou

Classical models of computation have been successful in capturing the very essence of individual computing devices. Although they are useful to understand computability power and limitations in the small, such models are not suitable to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Damian Arellanes

Since their appearance in the 1950s, computational models capable of performing probabilistic choices have received wide attention and are nowadays pervasive in almost every areas of computer science. Their development was also inextricably…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Melissa Antonelli , Ugo Dal Lago , Paolo Pistone

With infinitely many high-quality data points, infinite computational power, an infinitely large foundation model with a perfect training algorithm and guaranteed zero generalization error on the pretext task, can the model be used for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yang Yuan

We study the expressive power of kernel methods and the algorithmic feasibility of multiple kernel learning for a special rich class of kernels. Specifically, we define \emph{Euclidean kernels}, a diverse class that includes most, if not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Pravesh K. Kothari , Roi Livni

We study the problem of computing a conjunctive query q in parallel, using p of servers, on a large database. We consider algorithms with one round of communication, and study the complexity of the communication. We are especially…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Paul Beame , Paraschos Koutris , Dan Suciu

Data processing systems impose multiple views on data as it is processed by the system. These views include spreadsheets, databases, matrices, and graphs. The common theme amongst these views is the need to store and operate on data as…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Jeremy Kepner , Julian Chaidez , Vijay Gadepally , Hayden Jansen

We introduce the notion of universal memcomputing machines (UMMs): a class of brain-inspired general-purpose computing machines based on systems with memory, whereby processing and storing of information occur on the same physical location.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Fabio L. Traversa , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Hyperdimensional (HD) computing is built upon its unique data type referred to as hypervectors. The dimension of these hypervectors is typically in the range of tens of thousands. Proposed to solve cognitive tasks, HD computing aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Lulu Ge , Keshab K. Parhi

We present a calculus, called the scheme-calculus, that permits to express natural deduction proofs in various theories. Unlike $\lambda$-calculus, the syntax of this calculus sticks closely to the syntax of proofs, in particular, no names…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Gilles Dowek , Ying Jiang

Paper describes the theoretical and practical aspects of the proposed model that uses distributed computing to a global network of Internet communication. Distributed computing are widely used in modern solutions such as research, where the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-08 Lukasz Swierczewski