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Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are probabilistic models that arise in quantum physics and random matrix theory and have recently found numerous applications in computer science. DPPs define distributions over subsets of a given ground…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 L. Elisa Celis , Amit Deshpande , Tarun Kathuria , Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

In coding and information theory, it is desirable to construct maximal codes that can be either variable length codes or error control codes of fixed length. However deciding code maximality boils down to deciding whether a given NFA is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Stavros Konstantinidis , Mitja Mastnak , Nelma Moreira , Rogério Reis

Operational consistent query answering (CQA) is a recent framework for CQA based on revised definitions of repairs, which are built by applying a sequence of operations (e.g., fact deletions) starting from an inconsistent database until we…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Marco Calautti , Ester Livshits , Andreas Pieris , Markus Schneider

Indexing strings via prefix (or suffix) sorting is, arguably, one of the most successful algorithmic techniques developed in the last decades. Can indexing be extended to languages? The main contribution of this paper is to initiate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Jarno Alanko , Giovanna D'Agostino , Alberto Policriti , Nicola Prezza

This research introduces a new constraint domain for reasoning about data with uncertainty. It extends convex modeling with the notion of p-box to gain additional quantifiable information on the data whereabouts. Unlike existing approaches,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Aya Saad

Factor analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) are used in many application areas. The first step, choosing the number of components, remains a serious challenge. Our work proposes improved methods for this important problem. One of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-17 Edgar Dobriban , Art B. Owen

Fast matching of regular expressions with bounded repetition, aka counting, such as (ab){50,100}, i.e., matching linear in the length of the text and independent of the repetition bounds, has been an open problem for at least two decades.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Lukáš Holík , Juraj Síč , Lenka Turoňová , Tomáš Vojnar

Generative modeling within constrained sets is essential for scientific and engineering applications involving physical, geometric, or safety requirements (e.g., molecular generation, robotics). We present a unified framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kijung Jeon , Michael Muehlebach , Molei Tao

Detection transformers have recently shown promising object detection results and attracted increasing attention. However, how to develop effective domain adaptation techniques to improve its cross-domain performance remains unexplored and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Wen Wang , Yang Cao , Jing Zhang , Fengxiang He , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Although diffusion models (DMs) have shown promising performances in a number of tasks (e.g., speech synthesis and image generation), they might suffer from error propagation because of their sequential structure. However, this is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yangming Li , Mihaela van der Schaar

The past decade has witnessed substantial developments in string solving. Motivated by the complexity of string solving strategies adopted in existing string solvers, we investigate a simple and generic method for solving string…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Matthew Hague , Artur Jeż , Anthony W. Lin , Oliver Markgraf , Philipp Rümmer

The theory of two-sided matching has been extensively developed and applied to many real-life application domains. As the theory has been applied to increasingly diverse types of environments, researchers and practitioners have encountered…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Kei Kimura , Kwei-guu Liu , Zhaohong Sun , Kentaro Yahiro , Makoto Yokoo

We propose AllDiffPrecedence, a new global constraint that combines together an AllDifferent constraint with precedence constraints that strictly order given pairs of variables. We identify a number of applications for this global…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Christian Bessiere , Nina Narodytska , Claude-Guy Quimper , Toby Walsh

The problem of k-minimisation for a DFA M is the computation of a smallest DFA N (where the size |M| of a DFA M is the size of the domain of the transition function) such that their recognized languages differ only on words of length less…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Paweł Gawrychowski , Artur Jeż , Andreas Maletti

Families of DFAs (FDFAs) provide an alternative formalism for recognizing $\omega$-regular languages. The motivation for introducing them was a desired correlation between the automaton states and right congruence relations, in a manner…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dana Angluin , Udi Boker , Dana Fisman

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have achieved tremendous success in processing sequential data, yet understanding and analyzing their behaviours remains a significant challenge. To this end, many efforts have been made to extract finite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Zeming Wei , Xiyue Zhang , Yihao Zhang , Meng Sun

Given an order of the underlying alphabet we can lift it to the states of a finite deterministic automaton: to compare states we use the order of the strings reaching them. When the order on strings is the co-lexicographic one \emph{and}…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Giovanna D'Agostino , Davide Martincigh , Alberto Policriti

We show for a broad class of counting problems, correlation decay (strong spatial mixing) implies FPTAS on planar graphs. The framework for the counting problems considered by us is the Holant problems with arbitrary constant-size domain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Yitong Yin , Chihao Zhang

We tackle the problem of the randomized generation of slowly synchronizing deterministic automata (DFAs) by generating random primitive sets of matrices. We show that when the randomized procedure is too simple the exponent of the generated…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Costanza Catalano , Raphaël M. Jungers

Part I of this work [2] developed the exact diffusion algorithm to remove the bias that is characteristic of distributed solutions for deterministic optimization problems. The algorithm was shown to be applicable to a larger set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Kun Yuan , Bicheng Ying , Xiaochuan Zhao , Ali H. Sayed