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Value-based static analysis techniques express computed program invariants as logical formula over program variables. Researchers and practitioners use these invariants to aid in software engineering and verification tasks. When selecting…

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ion is one of the most promising approaches to improve the performance of problem solvers. In several domains abstraction by dropping sentences of a domain description -- as used in most hierarchical planners -- has proven useful. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 R. Bergmann , W. Wilke

To incorporate spatial (neighborhood) and bidirectional hierarchical relationships as well as features and priors of the samples into their classification, we formulated the classification problem on three variants of multiresolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Faezeh Fallah

We apply a novel framework for decomposing and reasoning about free space in an environment to a multi-agent persistent monitoring problem. Our decomposition method represents free space as a collection of ellipsoids associated with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Aaron Ray , Alyssa Pierson , Daniela Rus

We present ShapeLib, the first method that leverages the priors of LLMs to design libraries of programmatic 3D shape abstractions. Our system accepts two forms of design intent: text descriptions of functions to include in the library and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 R. Kenny Jones , Paul Guerrero , Niloy J. Mitra , Daniel Ritchie

Variable sharing is a fundamental property in the static analysis of logic programs, since it is instrumental for ensuring correctness and increasing precision while inferring many useful program properties. Such properties include modes,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Daniel Jurjo-Rivas , Jose F. Morales , Pedro López-García , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Developing suitable formal semantics can be of great help in the understanding, design and implementation of a programming language, and act as a guide for software development tools like analyzers or partial evaluators. In this sense, full…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-02-16 F. J. López-Fraguas , J. Rodríguez-Hortalá

Crafting automation systems tailored for specific domains requires aligning the space of human experts' semantics with the space of robot executable actions, and scheduling the required resources and system layout accordingly. Regrettably,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yu-Zhe Shi , Qiao Xu , Fanxu Meng , Lecheng Ruan , Qining Wang

We consider the problem of representing multidimensional data where the domain of each dimension is organized hierarchically, and the queries require summary information at a different node in the hierarchy of each dimension. This is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Nieves R. Brisaboa , Ana Cerdeira-Pena , Narciso López-López , Gonzalo Navarro , Miguel R. Penabad , Fernando Silva-Coira

Broadly intelligent agents should form task-specific abstractions that selectively expose the essential elements of a task, while abstracting away the complexity of the raw sensorimotor space. In this work, we present Neuro-Symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yichao Liang , Nishanth Kumar , Hao Tang , Adrian Weller , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tom Silver , João F. Henriques , Kevin Ellis

We propose a method for automatically generating abstract transformers for static analysis by abstract interpretation. The method focuses on linear constraints on programs operating on rational, real or floating-point variables and…

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In this paper, we focus on the two tasks of 3D shape abstraction and semantic analysis. This is in contrast to current methods, which focus solely on either 3D shape abstraction or semantic analysis. In addition, previous methods have had…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Haiyue Fang , Xiaogang Wang , Zheyuan Cai , Yahao Shi , Xun Sun , Shilin Wu , Bin Zhou

In this paper, we develop a framework to obtain graph abstractions for decision-making by an agent where the abstractions emerge as a function of the agent's limited computational resources. We discuss the connection of the proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Daniel T. Larsson , Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Learning abstractions directly from data is a core challenge in robotics. Humans naturally operate at an abstract level, reasoning over high-level subgoals while delegating execution to low-level motor skills -- an ability that enables…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Abhiroop Ajith , Constantinos Chamzas

We design various logics for proving hyper properties of iterative programs by application of abstract interpretation principles. In part I, we design a generic, structural, fixpoint abstract interpreter parameterized by an algebraic…

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Storing tabular data to balance storage and query efficiency is a long-standing research question in the database community. In this work, we argue and show that a novel DeepMapping abstraction, which relies on the impressive memorization…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Lixi Zhou , K. Selçuk Candan , Jia Zou

The use of automatic methods, often referred to as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), in designing neural network architectures has recently drawn considerable attention. In this work, we present an efficient NAS approach, named HM- NAS,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shen Yan , Biyi Fang , Faen Zhang , Yu Zheng , Xiao Zeng , Hui Xu , Mi Zhang

Building systems that autonomously create temporal abstractions from data is a key challenge in scaling learning and planning in reinforcement learning. One popular approach for addressing this challenge is the options framework (Sutton et…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Matthew Riemer , Miao Liu , Gerald Tesauro

We propose a novel hierarchical reinforcement learning framework for control with continuous state and action spaces. In our framework, the user specifies subgoal regions which are subsets of states; then, we (i) learn options that serve as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Kishor Jothimurugan , Osbert Bastani , Rajeev Alur

Abstract separation systems provide a simple general framework in which both tree-shape and high cohesion of many combinatorial structures can be expressed, and their duality proved. Applications range from tangle-type duality and tree…

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