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There is often a sort of a protocol associated to each class, stating when and how certain methods should be called. Given that this protocol is, if at all, described in the documentation accompanying the class, current mainstream…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-10-20 Joana Campos , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

In many real-world settings, machine learning models need to identify user inputs that are out-of-domain (OOD) so as to avoid performing wrong actions. This work focuses on a challenging case of OOD detection, where no labels for in-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Di Jin , Shuyang Gao , Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Capabilities (whether object or reference capabilities) are fundamentally tools to restrict effects. Thus static capabilities (object or reference) and effect systems take different technical machinery to the same core problem of statically…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Colin S. Gordon

The original problem of supervised classification considers the task of automatically assigning objects to their respective classes on the basis of numerical measurements derived from these objects. Classifiers are the tools that implement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Marco Loog

A fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning is to learn policies that generalize beyond the operating domains experienced during training. In this paper, we approach this challenge through the following invariance principle: an agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Anoopkumar Sonar , Vincent Pacelli , Anirudha Majumdar

Open-set graph learning is a practical task that aims to classify the known class nodes and to identify unknown class samples as unknowns. Conventional node classification methods usually perform unsatisfactorily in open-set scenarios due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Qin Zhang , Xiaowei Li , Jiexin Lu , Liping Qiu , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chen , Junyang Chen

Undoing operations is an indispensable feature for many collaborative applications, mainly collaborative editors. It provides the ability to restore a correct state of shared data after erroneous operations. In particular, selective undo…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-04 Asma Cherif , Abdessamad Imine

The discovery of inductive invariants lies at the heart of static program verification. Presently, many automatic solutions to inductive invariant generation are inflexible, only applicable to certain classes of programs, or unpredictable.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Adam Betts , Nathan Chong , Pantazis Deligiannis , Alastair F. Donaldson , Jeroen Ketema

Haskell provides type-class-bounded and parametric polymorphism as opposed to subtype polymorphism of object-oriented languages such as Java and OCaml. It is a contentious question whether Haskell 98 without extensions, or with common…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Oleg Kiselyov , Ralf Laemmel

Order-invariant formulas access an ordering on a structure's universe, but the model relation is independent of the used ordering. Order invariance is frequently used for logic-based approaches in computer science. Order-invariant formulas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Michael Elberfeld , Marlin Frickenschmidt , Martin Grohe

When using object-oriented frameworks it is easy to overlook certain important method calls that are required at particular places in code. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive set of empirical facts on this problem, starting from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Martin Monperrus , Mira Mezini

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection has emerged as a popular technique to enhance the reliability of machine learning models by identifying unexpected inputs from unknown classes. Recent progress in pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuanwei Hu , Bo Peng , Yadan Luo , Zhen Fang , Ling Chen , Jie Lu

Invariants withstand transformations and, therefore, represent the essence of objects or phenomena. In mathematics, transformations often constitute a group action. Since the 19th century, studying the structure of various types of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Irina A. Kogan

In the work we discuss two invariants of conjugacy classes of braids. The first invariant is the conformal module which occurred in connection with the interest in the 13th Hilbert Problem. The second is a popular dynamical invariant, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Burglind Jöricke

Unrestricted mutation of shared state is a source of many well-known problems. The predominant safe solutions are pure functional programming, which bans mutation outright, and flow sensitive type systems, which depend on sophisticated…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Dimitri Racordon , Denys Shabalin , Daniel Zheng , Dave Abrahams , Brennan Saeta

Compilers can specialize programs having invariants for performance improvement. Detecting program invariants that span large and complex code, however, is difficult for compilers. Traditional compilers do not perform very expensive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Wei He

Program verification offers a framework for ensuring program correctness and therefore systematically eliminating different classes of bugs. Inferring loop invariants is one of the main challenges behind automated verification of real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Gabriel Ryan , Justin Wong , Jianan Yao , Ronghui Gu , Suman Jana

The success of machine learning has resulted from its structured representation of data. Similar data have close internal representations as compressed codes for classification or emerged labels for clustering. We observe that the frequency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sungyeop Lee , Junghyo Jo

In today\^as world designing adaptable course material requires new technical knowledge which involves a need for a uniform protocol that allows organizing resources with emphasis on quality and Learning. This can be achieved by bundling…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-07-27 Sonal Chawla , R. K. Singla

Invariant causal prediction provides a useful framework for identifying causal predictors of a response using heterogeneous data from multiple environments. One valuable property of the original invariant causal prediction method is that it…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-21 Jinzhou Li , Jelle J Goeman