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Incrementalization speeds up computations by avoiding unnecessary recomputations and by efficiently reusing previous results. While domain-specific techniques achieve impressive speedups, e.g., in the context of database queries, they are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Timon Böhler , Tobias Reinhard , David Richter , Mira Mezini

Large language models show great potential in generating and optimizing code. Widely used sampling methods such as Nucleus Sampling increase the diversity of generation but often produce repeated samples for low temperatures and incoherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Dejan Grubisic , Chris Cummins , Volker Seeker , Hugh Leather

Neural Processes (NPs), and specifically Transformer Neural Processes (TNPs), have demonstrated remarkable performance across tasks ranging from spatiotemporal forecasting to tabular data modelling. However, many of these applications are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Philip Mortimer , Cristiana Diaconu , Tommy Rochussen , Bruno Mlodozeniec , Richard E. Turner

We introduce Nominal Matching Logic (NML) as an extension of Matching Logic with names and binding following the Gabbay-Pitts nominal approach. Matching logic is the foundation of the $\mathbb{K}$ framework, used to specify programming…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-29 James Cheney , Maribel Fernández

Computational models of human language often involve combinatorial problems. For instance, a probabilistic parser may marginalize over exponentially many trees to make predictions. Algorithms for such problems often employ dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , Jason Eisner

The names of variables and functions serve as implicit documentation and are instrumental for program comprehension. But choosing good meaningful names is hard. We perform a sequence of experiments in which a total of 334 subjects are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Dror G. Feitelson , Ayelet Mizrahi , Nofar Noy , Aviad Ben Shabat , Or Eliyahu , Roy Sheffer

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential across numerous applications and have shown an emergent ability to tackle complex reasoning tasks, such as mathematical computations. However, even for the simplest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wei Zhang , Chaoqun Wan , Yonggang Zhang , Yiu-ming Cheung , Xinmei Tian , Xu Shen , Jieping Ye

Nominal sets provide a foundation for reasoning about names. They are used primarily in syntax with binders, but also, e.g., to model automata over infinite alphabets. In this paper, nominal sets are related to nominal renaming sets, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Joshua Moerman , Jurriaan Rot

Deep learning research over the past years has shown that by increasing the scope or difficulty of the learning problem over time, increasingly complex learning problems can be addressed. We study incremental learning in the context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Edwin D. de Jong

Modern languages are equipped with static type checking/inference that helps programmers to keep a clean programming style and to reduce errors. However, the ever-growing size of programs and their continuous evolution require building fast…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Matteo Busi , Pierpaolo Degano , Letterio Galletta

Research scientists increasingly rely on implementing software to support their research. While previous research has examined the impact of identifier names on program comprehension in traditional programming environments, limited work has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Gunnar Larsen , Carol Wong , Anthony Peruma

Identifier names, which comprise a significant portion of the codebase, are the cornerstone of effective program comprehension. However, research has shown that poorly chosen names can significantly increase cognitive load and hinder…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Carol Wong , Mai Abe , Silvia De Benedictis , Marissa Halim , Anthony Peruma

Formalizing syntactic proofs of properties of logics, programming languages, security protocols, and other formal systems is a significant challenge, in large part because of the obligation to handle name-binding correctly. We present an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 James Cheney

The capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in code generation have been extensively studied, particularly for implementing target functionalities from natural-language descriptions. Alternatively, input-output (I/O) examples provide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yingjie Fu , Bozhou Li , Linyi Li , Wentao Zhang , Tao Xie

Names are essential to both human cognition and vision-language models. Open-vocabulary models utilize class names as text prompts to generalize to categories unseen during training. However, the precision of these names is often overlooked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Haiwen Huang , Songyou Peng , Dan Zhang , Andreas Geiger

We define "Locally Nameless Permutation Types", which fuse permutation types as used in Nominal Isabelle with the locally nameless representation. We show that this combination is particularly useful when formalizing programming languages…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Edsko de Vries , Vasileios Koutavas

Serial pattern mining consists in extracting the frequent sequential patterns from a unique sequence of itemsets. This paper explores the ability of a declarative language, such as Answer Set Programming (ASP), to solve this issue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Thomas Guyet , Yves Moinard , René Quiniou

Labeling data for classification requires significant human effort. To reduce labeling cost, instead of labeling every instance, a group of instances (bag) is labeled by a single bag label. Computer algorithms are then used to infer the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-18 Anh T. Pham , Raviv Raich , Xiaoli Z. Fern

In this paper, a novel approach for coding nominal data is proposed. For the given nominal data, a rank in a form of complex number is assigned. The proposed method does not lose any information about the attribute and brings other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-13 Zenon Gniazdowski , Michal Grabowski

Formal languages over infinite alphabets serve as abstractions of structures and processes carrying data. Automata models over infinite alphabets, such as classical register automata or, equivalently, nominal orbit-finite automata, tend to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Florian Frank , Daniel Hausmann , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder , Henning Urbat