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Programming with replicated objects is difficult. Developers must face the fundamental trade-off between consistency and performance head on, while struggling with the complexity of distributed storage stacks. We introduce Correctables, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Rachid Guerraoui , Matej Pavlovic , Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi

Contrastive learning has recently seen tremendous success in self-supervised learning. So far, however, it is largely unclear why the learned representations generalize so effectively to a large variety of downstream tasks. We here prove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Roland S. Zimmermann , Yash Sharma , Steffen Schneider , Matthias Bethge , Wieland Brendel

Counterfactual instances are a powerful tool to obtain valuable insights into automated decision processes, describing the necessary minimal changes in the input space to alter the prediction towards a desired target. Most previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Robert-Florian Samoilescu , Arnaud Van Looveren , Janis Klaise

Interval linear programming provides a tool for solving real-world optimization problems under interval-valued uncertainty. Instead of approximating or estimating crisp input data, the coefficients of an interval program may perturb…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Elif Garajová , Milan Hladík , Miroslav Rada

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is the problem of learning the preferences of an agent from the observations of its behavior on a task. While this problem has been well investigated, the related problem of {\em online} IRL---where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Saurabh Arora , Prashant Doshi , Bikramjit Banerjee

Interpolation is an important property of classical and many non-classical logics that has been shown to have interesting applications in computer science and AI. Here we study the Interpolation Property for the the non-monotonic system of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Dov Gabbay , David Pearce , Agustín Valverde

We show that verification of object-oriented programs by means of the assertional method can be achieved in a simple way by exploiting a syntax-directed transformation from object-oriented programs to recursive programs. This transformation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Krzysztof R. Apt , Frank S. de Boer , Ernst-Ruediger Olderog , Stijn de Gouw

Dataflow languages provide natural support for specifying constraints between objects in dynamic applications, where programs need to react efficiently to changes of their environment. Researchers have long investigated how to take…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-04-13 Camil Demetrescu , Irene Finocchi , Andrea Ribichini

Context: Many systems require receiving data from multiple information sources, which act as distributed network devices that asynchronously send the latest data at their own pace to generalize various kinds of devices and connections,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Tetsuo Kamina , Tomoyuki Aotani , Hidehiko Masuhara

Data-driven inverse optimization for mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs), which seeks to learn an objective function and constraints consistent with observed decisions, is important for building accurate mathematical models in a variety…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Akira Kitaoka

Inverse problems are characterized by their inherent non-uniqueness and sensitivity with respect to data perturbations. Their stable solution requires the application of regularization methods including variational and iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Aviv Gibali , Markus Haltmeier

Causality serves as an abstract notion of time for concurrent systems. A computation is causal, or simply valid, if each observation of a computation event is preceded by the observation of its causes. The present work establishes that this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Clément Aubert , Jean Krivine

Modern languages are equipped with static type checking/inference that helps programmers to keep a clean programming style and to reduce errors. However, the ever-growing size of programs and their continuous evolution require building fast…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Matteo Busi , Pierpaolo Degano , Letterio Galletta

Machine learning (ML) models that learn and predict properties of computer programs are increasingly being adopted and deployed. These models have demonstrated success in applications such as auto-completing code, summarizing large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Shashank Srikant , Sijia Liu , Tamara Mitrovska , Shiyu Chang , Quanfu Fan , Gaoyuan Zhang , Una-May O'Reilly

Materialisation precomputes all consequences of a set of facts and a datalog program so that queries can be evaluated directly (i.e., independently from the program). Rewriting optimises materialisation for datalog programs with equality by…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Boris Motik , Yavor Nenov , Robert Piro , Ian Horrocks

Asynchronous programming has appeared as a programming style that overcomes undesired properties of concurrent programming. Typically in asynchronous models of programming, methods are posted into a post list for latter execution. The order…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Mohamed A. El-Zawawy

An incremental version of the ELMVIS+ method is proposed in this paper. It iteratively selects a few best fitting data samples from a large pool, and adds them to the model. The method keeps high speed of ELMVIS+ while allowing for much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Anton Akusok , Emil Eirola , Yoan Miche , Ian Oliver , Kaj-Mikael Björk , Andrey Gritsenko , Stephen Baek , Amaury Lendasse

We present a contrasting learning approach with data augmentation techniques to learn document representations in an unsupervised manner. Inspired by recent contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms used for image and NLP pretraining,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Dongsheng Luo , Wei Cheng , Jingchao Ni , Wenchao Yu , Xuchao Zhang , Bo Zong , Yanchi Liu , Zhengzhang Chen , Dongjin Song , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

We propose a framework for training non-autoregressive sequence-to-sequence models for editing tasks, where the original input sequence is iteratively edited to produce the output. We show that the imitation learning algorithms designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Sweta Agrawal , Marine Carpuat

Block matrix structure is commonly arising is various physics and engineering applications. There are various advantages in preserving the blocks structure while computing the inversion of such partitioned matrices. In this context, using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-22 R. Thiru Senthil