English
Related papers

Related papers: Progress-Space Tradeoffs in Single-Writer Memory I…

200 papers

We prove that in asynchronous message-passing systems where at most one process may crash, there is no lock-free strongly linearizable implementation of a weak object that we call Test-or-Set (ToS). This object allows a single distinguished…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 David Yu Cheng Chan , Vassos Hadzilacos , Xing Hu , Sam Toueg

Memory-augmented neural networks consisting of a neural controller and an external memory have shown potentials in long-term sequential learning. Current RAM-like memory models maintain memory accessing every timesteps, thus they do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Hung Le , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

We study the design of storage-efficient algorithms for emulating atomic shared memory over an asynchronous, distributed message-passing system. Our first algorithm is an atomic single-writer multi-reader algorithm based on a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Marwen Zorgui , Robert Mateescu , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Zhiying Wang

This paper is concerned with the problem of implementing an unbounded timestamp object from multi-writer atomic registers, in an asynchronous distributed system of n processors with distinct identifiers where timestamps are taken from an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-22 Maryam Helmi , Lisa Higham , Eduardo Pacheco , Philipp Woelfel

We introduce the poly-streaming model, a generalization of streaming models of computation in which $k$ processors process $k$ data streams containing a total of $N$ items. The algorithm is allowed $O\left(f(k)\cdot M_1\right)$ space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ahammed Ullah , S. M. Ferdous , Alex Pothen

This thesis develops signal-processing algorithms and implementation schemes under constraints of minimal parallelism and memory space, with the goal of improving energy efficiency of low-power computing hardware. We propose (i) a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Sergey Salishev

The test-and-set object is a fundamental synchronization primitive for shared memory systems. A test-and-set object stores a bit, initialized to 0, and supports one operation, test&set(), which sets the bit's value to 1 and returns its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-23 George Giakkoupis , Maryam Helmi , Lisa Higham , Philipp Woelfel

Previous papers have proposed to add memory registers to the dynamics of discrete-time linear systems in order to accelerate their convergence. In particular, it has been proved that adding one memory slot per agent allows faster…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Alain Sarlette

The wakeup problem in distributed computing asks for a symmetric protocol that enables one of several processors to eventually guarantee that all (or, in a more general setting, enough) other processors have acted, using a shared register…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 John Haslegrave , Paul A. Russell , Mark Walters

Agent memory systems accumulate experience but currently lack a principled operational metric for memory quality governance -- deciding which memories to trust, suppress, or deprecate as the agent's task distribution shifts. Write-time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Baris Simsek

We investigate the time and space complexity of detecting and preventing ABAs in shared memory algorithms for systems with n processes and bounded base objects. To that end, we define ABA-detecting registers, which are similar to normal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Zahra Aghazadeh , Philipp Woelfel

Cumulative memory -- the sum of space used per step over the duration of a computation -- is a fine-grained measure of time-space complexity that was introduced to analyze cryptographic applications like password hashing. It is a more…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Paul Beame , Niels Kornerup

This paper introduces a combinatorial optimization approach to register allocation and instruction scheduling, two central compiler problems. Combinatorial optimization has the potential to solve these problems optimally and to exploit…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Roberto Castañeda Lozano , Mats Carlsson , Gabriel Hjort Blindell , Christian Schulte

Simulating a shared register can mask the intricacies of designing algorithms for asynchronous message-passing systems subject to crash failures, since it allows them to run algorithms designed for the simpler shared-memory model. Typically…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Hagit Attiya , Hyun Chul Chung , Faith Ellen , Saptaparni Kumar , Jennifer L. Welch

A stabilizing Byzantine single-writer single-reader (SWSR) regular register, which stabilizes after the first invoked write operation, is first presented. Then, new/old ordering inversions are eliminated by the use of a (bounded) sequence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Silvia Bonomi , Shlomi Dolev , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Michel Raynal

We present a multi-word atomic (1,N) register for multi-core machines exploiting Read-Modify-Write (RMW) instructions to coordinate the writer and the readers in a wait-free manner. Our proposal, called Anonymous Readers Counting (ARC),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Mauro Ianni , Alessandro Pellegrini , Francesco Quaglia

The notion of an anonymous shared memory (recently introduced in PODC 2017) considers that processes use different names for the same memory location. Hence, there is permanent disagreement on the location names among processes. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Zahra Aghazadeh , Damien Imbs , Michel Raynal , Gadi Taubenfeld , Philipp Woelfel

The memory model for RISC-V, a newly developed open source ISA, has not been finalized yet and thus, offers an opportunity to evaluate existing memory models. We believe RISC-V should not adopt the memory models of POWER or ARM, because…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Sizhuo Zhang , Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan , Arvind

Safe reinforcement learning has been a promising approach for optimizing the policy of an agent that operates in safety-critical applications. In this paper, we propose an algorithm, SNO-MDP, that explores and optimizes Markov decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Akifumi Wachi , Yanan Sui

We study the shared processor scheduling problem with a single shared processor where a unit time saving (weight) obtained by processing a job on the shared processor depends on the job. A polynomial-time optimization algorithm has been…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Dariusz Dereniowski , Wieslaw Kubiak