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Sequence generation and prediction form a cornerstone of modern machine learning, with applications spanning natural language processing, program synthesis, and time-series forecasting. These tasks are typically modeled in an autoregressive…

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We introduce Conflict-Aware Replicated Data Types (CARDs). CARDs are significantly more expressive than Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) as they support operations that can conflict with each other. Introducing conflicting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Nicholas V. Lewchenko , Arjun Radhakrishna , Akash Gaonkar , Pavol Černý

Program specialization is a program transformation methodology which improves program efficiency by exploiting the information about the input data which are available at compile time. We show that current techniques for program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti , Sophie Renault

Scalable and automatic formal verification for concurrent systems is always demanding. In this paper, we propose a verification framework to support automated compositional reasoning for concurrent programs with shared variables. Our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fuyuan Zhang , Yongwang Zhao , David Sanan , Yang Liu , Alwen Tiu , Shang-Wei Lin , Jun Sun

Dynamic logic is a powerful framework for reasoning about imperative programs. An extension with a concurrent operator [18] was introduced to formalise programs running in parallel. In other direction, other authors proposed a systematic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Leandro Gomes

A verification method for distributed systems based on decoupling forward and backward behaviour is proposed. This method uses an event structure based algorithm that, given a CCS process, constructs its causal compression relative to a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jean Krivine

This work introduces Information Inference Diagrams (I2Ds), a modeling framework aiming to complement existing approaches for privacy and security analysis of distributed systems. It is intended to support established threat modeling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sebastian Rehms , Stefan Köpsell , Verena Klös , Florian Tschorsch

We consider the problem of scheduling non preemptively a set of jobs on parallel identical machines with prior setup operations on a single shared server, where the objective is to minimise the makespan. We develop an arc-flow formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Alessandro Druetto , Andrea Grosso , Jully Jeunet , Fabio Salassa

To maximize the information gained from a single execution when verifying a concurrent system, one can derive all concurrency-aware equivalent executions and check them against linear specifications. This paper offers an alternative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Martin Leucker

The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art algorithm for causal structure discovery on observational data. It can be computationally expensive in the worst case due to the conditional independence tests are performed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kai Zhang , Chao Tian , Kun Zhang , Todd Johnson , Xiaoqian Jiang

With the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has become increasingly essential across a growing number of safety-critical application domains. Applying a GPU is indispensable for parallel…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yuanhai Zhang , Songyang He , Ruizhe Gou , Mingyue Cui , Boyang Li , Shuai Zhao , Kai Huang

Static analysis approximates the results of a program by examining only its syntax. For example, control-flow analysis (CFA) determines which syntactic lambdas (for functional languages) or (for object-oriented) methods may be invoked at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Davis Ross Silverman , Yihao Sun , Kristopher Micinski , Thomas Gilray

A computing job in a big data system can take a long time to run, especially for pipelined executions on data streams. Developers often need to change the computing logic of the job such as fixing a loophole in an operator or changing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zuozhi Wang , Shengquan Ni , Avinash Kumar , Chen Li

Traffic of Industrial Control System (ICS) between the Human Machine Interface (HMI) and the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is known to be highly periodic. However, it is sometimes multiplexed, due to asynchronous scheduling. Modeling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Amit Kleinmann , Avishai Wool

Data association problems are an important component of many computer vision applications, with multi-object tracking being one of the most prominent examples. A typical approach to data association involves finding a graph matching or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Samuel Schulter , Paul Vernaza , Wongun Choi , Manmohan Chandraker

We give a process for verifying numerical programs against their functional specifications. Our implementation is capable of automatically verifying programs against tight error bounds featuring common elementary functions. We demonstrate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Junaid Rasheed , Michal Konečný

We tackle the problem of automatically designing concurrent data structure operations given a sequential data structure specification and knowledge about concurrent behavior. Designing concurrent code is a non-trivial task even in simplest…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Sarat Chandra Varanasi , Neeraj Mittal , Gopal Gupta

Federated learning has been identified as an efficient decentralized training paradigm for scaling the machine learning model training on a large number of devices while guaranteeing the data privacy of the trainers. FedAvg has become a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Haotian Xu , Zhaorui Zhang , Sheng Di , Benben Liu , Khalid Ayed Alharthi , Jiannong Cao

Preserving invariants while designing distributed applications under weak consistency models is difficult. The CEC (Correct Eventual Consistency Tool) is meant to aid the application designer in this task. It provides information about the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Sreeja Nair , Marc Shapiro

Recent efforts to improve the performance of neural network (NN) accelerators that meet today's application requirements have given rise to a new trend of logic-based NN inference relying on fixed-function combinational logic (FFCL). This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jingkai Hong , Arash Fayyazi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Mahdi Nazemi , Massoud Pedram