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The increasing digitalization in industry and society leads to a growing abundance of data available to be processed and exploited. However, the high volume of data requires considerable computational resources for applying machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Joel Luís Carbonera

It was previously shown that control-flow refinement can be achieved by a program specializer incorporating property-based abstraction, to improve termination and complexity analysis tools. We now show that this purpose-built specializer…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-10 John P. Gallagher , Robert Glück

Abstraction is crucial for effective sequential decision making in domains with large state spaces. In this work, we propose an information bottleneck method for learning approximate bisimulations, a type of state abstraction. We use a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Ondrej Biza , Robert Platt , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Lawson L. S. Wong

Abstraction is a commonly used process to represent some low-level system by a more coarse specification with the goal to omit unnecessary details while preserving important aspects. While recent work on abstraction in the situation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Till Hofmann , Vaishak Belle

Sparse support recovery arises in many applications in communications and signal processing. Existing methods tackle sparse support recovery problems for a given measurement matrix, and cannot flexibly exploit the properties of sparsity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Shuaichao Li , Wanqing Zhang , Ying Cui , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Transformers' quadratic complexity with respect to the input sequence length has motivated a body of work on efficient sparse approximations to softmax. An alternative path, used by entmax transformers, consists of having built-in exact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Marcos Treviso , António Góis , Patrick Fernandes , Erick Fonseca , André F. T. Martins

This paper provides a compositional scheme based on dissipativity approaches for constructing finite abstractions of continuous-time continuous-space stochastic control systems. The proposed framework enjoys the structure of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Ameneh Nejati , Majid Zamani

Large-scale networked systems typically operate under resource constraints, and it is also difficult to exactly obtain the network structure between nodes. To address these issues, this paper investigates a sparse optimal control for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Takuya Ikeda , Masaaki Nagahara

Humans are capable of abstracting away irrelevant details when studying problems. This is especially noticeable for problems over grid-cells, as humans are able to disregard certain parts of the grid and focus on the key elements important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Thomas Eiter , Zeynep G. Saribatur , Peter Schüller

Abstraction or substitution and aggregation are the most widely used simulation model simplification operations. Abstraction involves replacing subsystems within a discrete-event simulation (DES) with one or more quantities - typically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Mohd Shoaib , Navonil Mustafee , Varun Ramamohan

We present a fully automatic framework for synthesising compact, finite-state deterministic abstractions of deterministic, continuous-state autonomous systems under locally specified resolution requirements. Our approach builds on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Rudi Coppola , Yannik Schnitzer , Mirco Giacobbe , Alessandro Abate , Manuel Mazo

State-space search with explicit abstraction heuristics is at the state of the art of cost-optimal planning. These heuristics are inherently limited, nonetheless, because the size of the abstract space must be bounded by some, even if a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Michael Katz , Carmel Domshlak

Sculptors often deviate from geometric accuracy in order to enhance the appearance of their sculpture. These subtle stylizations may emphasize anatomy, draw the viewer's focus to characteristic features of the subject, or symbolize textures…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Jan Jachnik , Dan B Goldman , Linjie Luo , Andrew J. Davison

In this work, we derive conditions under which compositional abstractions of networks of stochastic hybrid systems can be constructed using the interconnection topology and joint dissipativity-type properties of subsystems and their…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Asad Ullah Awan , Majid Zamani

Abstraction is essential for reducing the complexity of systems across diverse fields, yet designing effective abstraction methodology for probabilistic models is inherently challenging due to stochastic behaviors and uncertainties. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

This paper introduces a general approach for synthesizing procedural models of the state-transitions of a given discrete system. The approach is general in that it accepts different target languages for modeling the state-transitions of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Javier Segovia-Aguas , Jonathan Ferrer-Mestres , Sergio Jiménez

While the self-attention mechanism has been widely used in a wide variety of tasks, it has the unfortunate property of a quadratic cost with respect to the input length, which makes it difficult to deal with long inputs. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xiaoya Li , Yuxian Meng , Mingxin Zhou , Qinghong Han , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Neural network models are widely used in solving many challenging problems, such as computer vision, personalized recommendation, and natural language processing. Those models are very computationally intensive and reach the hardware limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Fei Sun , Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Liu Liu , Yen-Kuang Chen , Yuan Xie

The computational demands of self-attention mechanisms pose a critical challenge for transformer-based video generation, particularly in synthesizing ultra-long sequences. Current approaches, such as factorized attention and fixed sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Qirui Li , Guangcong Zheng , Qi Zhao , Jie Li , Bin Dong , Yiwu Yao , Xi Li

We study the problem of synthesizing a controller for a robot with a surveillance objective, that is, the robot is required to maintain knowledge of the location of a moving, possibly adversarial target. We formulate this problem as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Suda Bharadwaj , Rayna Dimitrova , Ufuk Topcu