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A fundamental concern in real-time planning is the presence of dead-ends in the state space, from which no goal is reachable. Recently, the SafeRTS algorithm was proposed for searching in such spaces. SafeRTS exploits a user-provided…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Bence Cserna , Kevin C. Gall , Wheeler Ruml

Experience replay is a key component in reinforcement learning for stabilizing learning and improving sample efficiency. Its typical implementation samples transitions with replacement from a replay buffer. In contrast, in supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yasuhiro Fujita

Recent works have proposed several long term tracking benchmarks and highlight the importance of moving towards long-duration tracking to bridge the gap with application requirements. The current evaluation methodologies, however, do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Shyamgopal Karthik , Abhinav Moudgil , Vineet Gandhi

This document is designed to give a new ResFrac user the tools that they need to succeed. It describes what ResFrac does and how to use it. We cover much more than just button pressing. Using ResFrac successfully requires high-level…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-05-10 Mark McClure , Garrett Fowler , Chris Hewson , Charles Kang

The NeuroSAT neural network architecture was recently introduced for predicting properties of propositional formulae. When trained to predict the satisfiability of toy problems, it was shown to find solutions and unsatisfiable cores on its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Daniel Selsam , Nikolaj Bjørner

MaxSAT, the optimization version of the well-known SAT problem, has attracted a lot of research interest in the last decade. Motivated by the many important applications and inspired by the success of modern SAT solvers, researchers have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Javier Larrosa , Emma Rollon

Oftentimes, environments for sequential decision-making problems can be quite sparse in the provision of evaluative feedback to guide reinforcement-learning agents. In the extreme case, long trajectories of behavior are merely punctuated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Akash Velu , Skanda Vaidyanath , Dilip Arumugam

We propose to use a DPLL+restart to solve SAT instances by successive simplifications based on the production of clauses that subsume the initial clauses. We show that this approach allows the refutation of pebbling formulae in polynomial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Olivier Bailleux

Current reconfiguration techniques are based on starting the system in a consistent configuration, in which all participating entities are in their initial state. Starting from that state, the system must preserve consistency as long as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Shlomi Dolev , Chryssis Georgiou , Ioannis Marcoullis , Elad M. Schiller

Universal transformers (UTs) have been widely used for complex reasoning tasks such as ARC-AGI and Sudoku, yet the specific sources of their performance gains remain underexplored. In this work, we systematically analyze UTs variants and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zitian Gao , Lynx Chen , Yihao Xiao , He Xing , Ran Tao , Haoming Luo , Joey Zhou , Bryan Dai

Backtracking search algorithms are often used to solve the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The efficiency of backtracking search depends greatly on the variable ordering heuristics. Currently, the most commonly used heuristics are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang , Andrew Lim

Heuristics are crucial tools in decreasing search effort in varied fields of AI. In order to be effective, a heuristic must be efficient to compute, as well as provide useful information to the search algorithm. However, some well-known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-04-12 David Tolpin , Solomon Eyal Shimony

Research has shown assistance can provide many benefits to novices lacking the mental models needed for problem solving in a new domain. However, varying approaches to assistance, such as subgoals and next-step hints, have been implemented…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Christa Cody , Mehak Maniktala , Nicholas Lytle , Min Chi , Tiffany Barnes

It is common in deep learning to warm up the learning rate $\eta$, often by a linear schedule between $\eta_{\text{init}} = 0$ and a predetermined target $\eta_{\text{trgt}}$. In this paper, we show through systematic experiments using SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dayal Singh Kalra , Maissam Barkeshli

Past research has defined a general process for the data-driven redesign of educational technologies and has shown that in carefully-selected instances, this process can help make systems more effective. In the current work, we test the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Qianru Lyu , Conrad Borchers , Meng Xia , Karen Xiao , Paulo F. Carvalho , Kenneth R. Koedinger , Vincent Aleven

Catastrophic forgetting - the tendency of neural networks to forget previously learned data when learning new information - remains a central challenge in continual learning. In this work, we adopt a behavioral approach, observing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Guy Hacohen , Tinne Tuytelaars

Despite their success in many natural language tasks, solving math problems remains a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs). A large gap exists between LLMs' pass-at-one and pass-at-N performance in solving math problems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yixin Liu , Avi Singh , C. Daniel Freeman , John D. Co-Reyes , Peter J. Liu

This is the second year of the TREC Deep Learning Track, with the goal of studying ad hoc ranking in the large training data regime. We again have a document retrieval task and a passage retrieval task, each with hundreds of thousands of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Nick Craswell , Bhaskar Mitra , Emine Yilmaz , Daniel Campos

Phase transition is an important feature of SAT problem. For random k-SAT model, it is proved that as r (ratio of clauses to variables) increases, the structure of solutions will undergo a sudden change like satisfiability phase transition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ke Xu , Wei Li

This paper describes diff-SAT, an Answer Set and SAT solver which combines regular solving with the capability to use probabilistic clauses, facts and rules, and to sample an optimal world-view (multiset of satisfying Boolean variable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Matthias Nickles