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The paper presents our research on quantifier elimination (QE) for compositional reasoning and verification. For compositional reasoning, QE provides the foundation of our approach, serving as the calculus for composition to derive the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hao Ren , Ratnesh Kumar , Matthew Clark

We introduce Probabilistic Object Detection, the task of detecting objects in images and accurately quantifying the spatial and semantic uncertainties of the detections. Given the lack of methods capable of assessing such probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 David Hall , Feras Dayoub , John Skinner , Haoyang Zhang , Dimity Miller , Peter Corke , Gustavo Carneiro , Anelia Angelova , Niko Sünderhauf

Recently, there has been a growing interest in utilizing machine learning for accurate classification of power quality events (PQEs). However, most of these studies are performed assuming an ideal situation, while in reality, we can have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Ahmad Mohammad Saber , Amr Youssef , Davor Svetinovic , Hatem Zeineldin , Deepa Kundur , Ehab El-Saadany

The biggest challenge in hybrid systems verification is the handling of differential equations. Because computable closed-form solutions only exist for very simple differential equations, proof certificates have been proposed for more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Andre Platzer

Product Quantization (PQ) has long been a mainstream for generating an exponentially large codebook at very low memory/time cost. Despite its success, PQ is still tricky for the decomposition of high-dimensional vector space, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lianli Gao , Xiaosu Zhu , Jingkuan Song , Zhou Zhao , Heng Tao Shen

This work explores the query complexity of property testing for general piecewise functions on the real line, in the active and passive property testing settings. The results are proven under an abstract zero-measure crossings condition,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Steve Hanneke , Liu Yang

In this paper, we study the following question: given a black box performing some unknown quantum measurement on a multi-qudit system, how do we test whether this measurement has certain property or is far away from having this property. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 Guoming Wang

This work introduces a novel method for embedding continuous variables into quantum circuits via piecewise polynomial features, utilizing low-rank tensor networks. Our approach, termed Piecewise Polynomial Tensor Network Quantum Feature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Mazen Ali , Matthias Kabel

The kernel is the most safety- and security-critical component of many computer systems, as the most severe bugs lead to complete system crash or exploit. It is thus desirable to guarantee that a kernel is free from these bugs using formal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Olivier Nicole , Matthieu Lemerre , Sébastien Bardin , Xavier Rival

In recent years, many computational tasks have been proposed as candidates for showing a quantum computational advantage, that is an advantage in the time needed to perform the task using a quantum instead of a classical machine.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Federico Centrone , Niraj Kumar , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis

Wave-particle duality has long been considered a fundamental signature of the non-classical behavior of quantum phenomena, specially in a delayed choice experiment (DCE), where the experimental setup revealing either the particle or wave…

We give a new theoretical solution to a leading-edge experimental challenge, namely to the verification of quantum computations in the regime of high computational complexity. Our results are given in the language of quantum interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Anne Broadbent

TThe organization and structure of bipartite mixed-state quantum entanglement (QE) are more complex and less well understood compared to bipartite pure-state QE. Bipartite mixed-state QEs and their measures play a crucial role in both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jing-Min Zhu

We introduce a new variant of Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE), called Iterative QAE (IQAE), which does not rely on Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) but is only based on Grover's Algorithm, which reduces the required number of qubits and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Dmitry Grinko , Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Stefan Woerner

Current methods for verifying quantum computers are predominately based on interactive or automatic theorem provers. Considering that quantum computers are dynamical in nature, this paper employs and extends the concepts from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Marco Lewis , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

We present here a quantum tripwire, which is a quantum optical interrogation technique capable of detecting an intrusion with very low probability of the tripwire being revealed to the intruder. Our scheme combines interaction-free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-04 Petr M. Anisimov , Daniel J. Lum , S. Blane McCracken , Hwang Lee , Jonathan P. Dowling

Computer-aided analysis of security protocols heavily relies on equational theories to model cryptographic primitives. Most automated verifiers for security protocols focus on equational theories that satisfy the Finite Variant Property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Vincent Cheval , Caroline Fontaine

The purpose of this article is to delve into the properties of invariants. The properties, explained in [2], reveal new ways to develop algorithms that allow us to test the primality of a number. In this article, some of these are shown,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Juan Hernandez-Toro

The rapid advancement of quantum computing has led to the development of various quantum libraries, empowering compilation, simulation, and hardware backend interfaces. However, ensuring the correctness of these libraries remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jiaming Ye , Fuyuan Zhang , Shangzhou Xia , Xiaoyu Guo , Xiongfei Wu , Jianjun Zhao , Yinxing Xue

Information-flow control mechanisms are difficult both to design and to prove correct. To reduce the time wasted on doomed proof attempts due to broken definitions, we advocate modern random testing techniques for finding counterexamples…