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The goal of this paper is to provide computational tools able to find a solution of a system of polynomial inequalities. The set of inequalities is reformulated as a system of polynomial equations. Three different methods, two of which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Laura Menini , Corrado Possieri , Antonio Tornambè

Achieving invariance to nuisance transformations is a fundamental challenge in the construction of robust and reliable vision systems. Existing approaches to invariance scale exponentially with the dimension of the family of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Sam Buchanan , Jingkai Yan , Ellie Haber , John Wright

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

We develop an approach to estimate the probability that a program sampled from a large language model is correct. Given a natural language description of a programming problem, our method samples both candidate programs as well as candidate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Darren Key , Wen-Ding Li , Kevin Ellis

We present the notion of asymptotically non-terminating initial variable values for linear loop programs. Those values are directly associated to initial variable values for which the corresponding program does not terminate. Our…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Rachid Rebiha , Nadir Matringe , Arnaldo Vieira Moura

Research on automatic software repair is concerned with the development of systems that automatically detect and repair bugs. One well-known class of bugs is the infinite loop. Every computer programmer or user has, at least once,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Sebastian R. Lamelas Marcote , Martin Monperrus

Encoder-decoder Large Language Models (LLMs), such as BERT and RoBERTa, require that all categories in an annotation task be sufficiently represented in the training data for optimal performance. However, it is often difficult to find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Joan C. Timoneda

Permutation invariant training (PIT) is a widely used training criterion for neural network-based source separation, used for both utterance-level separation with utterance-level PIT (uPIT) and separation of long recordings with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We present an algorithm for steering the output of a linear system from a feasible initial condition to a desired target position, while satisfying input constraints and non-convex output constraints. The system input is generated by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Claus Danielson , Avishai Weiss , Karl Berntorp , Stefano Di Cairano

We consider each of the three classes of representations of cyclic groups that arise in the study of rational sphere maps. We study the possible number of terms for invariant polynomials with non-negative coefficients that are constant on…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-12-08 John P. D'Angelo , Dusty E. Grundmeier , Daniel A. Lichtblau

The main purpose of this paper is providing a simple method to generate the matrices of irreducible representations because it is useful to reduce the computational time of solving the eigenvalue problems. The only information we need to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-07 Young-Chung Hsue

Our goal is to study the feasibility of porting termination analysis techniques developed for one programming paradigm to another paradigm. In this paper, we show how to adapt termination analysis techniques based on polynomial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-12-23 Manh Thang Nguyen , Danny De Schreye , Jürgen Giesl , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Linear Programming (LP) is widely applied in industry and is a key component of various other mathematical problem-solving techniques. Recent work introduced an LP compiler translating polynomial-time, polynomial-space algorithms into…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shermin Khosravi , David Bremner

We consider the problem of computing numerical invariants of programs, for instance bounds on the values of numerical program variables. More specifically, we study the problem of performing static analysis by abstract interpretation using…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Martin Gawlitza , David Monniaux

In computer vision applications, the following problem often arises: Given a family of (Laurent) polynomial systems with the same monomial structure but varying coefficients, find a solver that computes solutions for any family member as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Evgeniy Martyushev , Snehal Bhayani , Tomas Pajdla

Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) are a popular tool for high-level modelling across many fields. They provide a range of algorithms for probabilistic inference, which analyse models by learning their parameters from a dataset or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sangho Lim , Hyoungjin Lim , Wonyeol Lee , Xavier Rival , Hongseok Yang

We address the problem of verifying automatically procedural programs manipulating parametric-size arrays of integers, encoded as a constrained Horn clauses solving problem. We propose a new algorithmic method for synthesizing loop…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Ahmed Bouajjani , Wael-Amine Boutglay , Peter Habermehl

This paper describes a way to improve the scalability of program synthesis by exploiting modularity: larger programs are synthesized from smaller programs. The key issue is to make each "larger-created-from-smaller" synthesis sub-problem be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Kanghee Park , Keith J. C. Johnson , Loris D'Antoni , Thomas Reps

Inverse problems consist in reconstructing signals from incomplete sets of measurements and their performance is highly dependent on the quality of the prior knowledge encoded via regularization. While traditional approaches focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Antonio Montanaro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

We consider the problem of synthesizing provably non-overflowing integer arithmetic expressions or Boolean relations among integer arithmetic expressions. First we use a numerical abstract domain to infer numerical properties among program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Francesco Logozzo , Matthieu Martel