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We review state-of-the-art formal methods applied to the emerging field of the verification of machine learning systems. Formal methods can provide rigorous correctness guarantees on hardware and software systems. Thanks to the availability…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Caterina Urban , Antoine Miné

Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering, and while improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven dramatic progress in expanding the range of achievable optical…

Today's high-capacity telecommunication systems are unimaginable without the use of optical fibres and accompanying optical components which are briefly presented in this paper with an accent on the receivers of optical signal. An overview…

Optics · Physics 2009-12-14 Natasa Zivic

In a world where security issues have been gaining growing importance, face recognition systems have attracted increasing attention in multiple application areas, ranging from forensics and surveillance to commerce and entertainment. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam , Fernando Pereira , Paulo Lobato Correia

Optical flow estimation is a well-studied topic for automated driving applications. Many outstanding optical flow estimation methods have been proposed, but they become erroneous when tested in challenging scenarios that are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Senthil Yogamani

Designing systems is typically uncertain and ambiguous at early stages. Set-based design supports alternative exploration and gradual uncertainty reduction during the early lifecycle, making it practical for complex systems design. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Minghui Sun , Zhaoyang Chen , Georgios Bakirtzis , Hassan Jafarzadeh , Cody Fleming

We introduce Orion, a visual agent that integrates vision-based reasoning with tool-augmented execution to achieve powerful, precise, multi-step visual intelligence across images, video, and documents. Unlike traditional vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 N Dinesh Reddy , Dylan Snyder , Lona Kiragu , Mirajul Mohin , Shahrear Bin Amin , Sudeep Pillai

Many practical engineering systems and their components have multiple performance levels and failure modes. If these systems form a monotonically increasing structure function (system model) with respect to the performance of their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Shahid Ali Murtza , Waqar Ahmed , Adnan Rashid , Osman Hasan

A sound and complete embedding of conditional logics into classical higher-order logic is presented. This embedding enables the application of off-the-shelf higher-order automated theorem provers and model finders for reasoning within and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Christoph Benzmueller , Dov Gabbay , Valerio Genovese , Daniele Rispoli

We propose a novel logic, called Frame Logic (FL), that extends first-order logic (with recursive definitions) using a construct Sp(.) that captures the implicit supports of formulas -- the precise subset of the universe upon which their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Adithya Murali , Lucas Peña , Christof Löding , P. Madhusudan

Understanding the behaviour of biological systems requires a complex setting of in vitro and in vivo experiments, which attracts high costs in terms of time and resources. The use of mathematical models allows researchers to perform…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-11-30 Thomas Anung Basuki , Antonio Cerone , Rafael V. Carvalho

This paper seeks to apply categorical logic to the design of artificial intelligent agents that reason symbolically about objects more richly structured than sets. Using Johnstone's sequent calculus of terms- and formulae-in-context, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ralph Wojtowicz

Previous studies have used numerical methods to optimize the hyperpolarizability of a one-dimensional quantum system. These studies were used to suggest properties of one-dimensional organic molecules, such as the degree of modulation of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Urszula B. Szafruga , Mark G. Kuzyk , David S. Watkins

Step-by-step reasoning is widely used to enhance the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) in complex problems. Evaluating the quality of reasoning traces is crucial for understanding and improving LLM reasoning. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinu Lee , Julia Hockenmaier

Logical relations constitute a key method for reasoning about contextual equivalence of programs in higher-order languages. They are usually developed on a per-case basis, with a new theory required for each variation of the language or of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Sergey Goncharov , Stefan Milius , Stelios Tsampas , Henning Urbat

Linear optical circuits with single-photon sources offer a promising platform for quantum chemistry and machine learning. However, current applications are all based on support vector machines or gradient-free optimization methods. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Giovanni de Felice , Christopher Corlett

A graph theoretic perspective is taken for a range of phenomena in continuum physics in order to develop representations for analysis of large scale, high-fidelity solutions to these problems. Of interest are phenomena described by partial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 R. Banerjee , K. Sagiyama , G. H. Teichert , K. Garikipati

Algorithms and other formal models purportedly incorporating human values like fairness have grown increasingly popular in computer science. In response to sociotechnical challenges in the use of these models, designers and researchers have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Benjamin Fish , Luke Stark

The paper presents an explicit state-based modeling approach aimed at modeling Systems of Systems behavior. The approach allows to specify and verify incrementally safety and liveness rules without using model checking techniques. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Luca Pazzi

We study rational streams (over a field) from a coalgebraic perspective. Exploiting the finality of the set of streams, we present an elementary and uniform proof of the equivalence of four notions of representability of rational streams:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 J. J. M. M. Rutten