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The definition of factor space and a unified optimization based classification model were developed for linear programming. Intelligent behaviour appeared in a decision process can be treated as a point y, the dynamic state observed and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Jing He , Qi-Wei Kong , Ho-Chung Lui , Hai-Tao Liu , Yi-Mu Ji , Hai-Chang Yao , Mo-Zhengfu Liu

Current structured pruning methods often result in considerable accuracy drops due to abrupt network changes and loss of information from pruned structures. To address these issues, we introduce the Decay Pruning Method (DPM), a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Minghao Yang , Linlin Gao , Pengyuan Li , Wenbo Li , Yihong Dong , Zhiying Cui

Automated Program Repair (APR) is a fast growing area with numerous new techniques being developed to tackle one of the most challenging software engineering problems. APR techniques have shown promising results, giving us hope that one day…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Aldeida Aleti , Matias Martinez

In order to design and implement tracers, one must decide what exactly to trace and how to produce this trace. On the one hand, trace designs are too often guided by implementation concerns and are not as useful as they should be. On the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mireille Ducasse , Ludovic Langevine , Pierre Deransart

Many applications using large datasets require efficient methods for minimizing a proximable convex function subject to satisfying a set of linear constraints within a specified tolerance. For this task, we present a proximal projection…

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Analysis of execution traces plays a fundamental role in many program analysis approaches, such as runtime verification, testing, monitoring, and specification mining. Execution traces are frequently parametric, i.e., they contain events…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Grigore Rosu , Feng Chen

Many of today's probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) have brittle inference performance: the performance of the underlying inference algorithm is very sensitive to the precise way in which the probabilistic program is written. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ellie Y. Cheng , Todd Millstein , Guy Van den Broeck , Steven Holtzen

The aim of a probabilistic output analysis is to derive a probability distribution of possible output values for a program from a probability distribution of its input. We present a method for performing static output analysis, based on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Mads Rosendahl , Maja H. Kirkeby

We present a method to automatically extract ("carve") parameterized unit tests from system executions. The unit tests execute the same functions as the system tests they are carved from, but can do so much faster as they call functions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Alexander Kampmann , Andreas Zeller

Recent work targeting large language models (LLMs) for code generation demonstrated that increasing the amount of training data through synthetic code generation often leads to exceptional performance. In this paper we explore data pruning…

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Combining efficient and safe control for safety-critical systems is challenging. Robust methods may be overly conservative, whereas probabilistic controllers require a trade-off between efficiency and safety. In this work, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Tim Brüdigam , Robert Jacumet , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

This paper examines the Evolutionary programming (EP) method for optimizing PID parameters. PID is the most common type of regulator within control theory, partly because it's relatively simple and yields stable results for most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Adam Nyberg

The aim is to identify faulty predicates which have strong effect on program failure. Statistical debugging techniques are amongst best methods for pinpointing defects within the program source code. However, they have some drawbacks. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Farid Feyzi , Esmaeel Nikravan , Saeed Parsa

Short spanning trees subject to additional constraints are important building blocks in various approximation algorithms. Especially in the context of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), new techniques for finding spanning trees with…

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There are two kinds of approaches for termination analysis of logic programs: "transformational" and "direct" ones. Direct approaches prove termination directly on the basis of the logic program. Transformational approaches transform a…

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Pruning is a core technique for compressing neural networks to improve computational efficiency. This process is typically approached in two ways: one-shot pruning, which involves a single pass of training and pruning, and iterative…

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Computing an optimal classification tree that provably maximizes training performance within a given size limit, is NP-hard, and in practice, most state-of-the-art methods do not scale beyond computing optimal trees of depth three.…

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Profile guided optimization is an effective technique for improving the optimization ability of compilers based on dynamic behavior, but collecting profile data is expensive, cumbersome, and requires regular updating to remain fresh. We…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Nadav Rotem , Chris Cummins

New model of software safety is offered. Distribution of mistakes in program on stages of life cycle is researched. Study of ways of increase of reliability of software at help simulation program is leaded.

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-07-02 Arkadiy Khandjian

Testing probabilistic programs is non-trivial due to their stochastic nature. Given an input, the program may produce different outcomes depending on the underlying stochastic choices in the program. This means testing the expected outcomes…

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