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SQL/PGQ is a new standard that integrates graph querying into relational systems, allowing users to freely switch between graph patterns and SQL. Our experiments show performance gaps between these models, as queries written in both…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hadar Rotschield , Liat Peterfreund

Any system which performs goal-directed continual learning must not only learn incrementally but process and absorb information incrementally. Such a system also has to understand when its goals have been achieved. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Samira Abnar , Tania Bedrax-weiss , Tom Kwiatkowski , William W. Cohen

Grokking is the phenomenon whereby, unlike the training performance, which peaks early in the training process, the test/generalization performance of a model stagnates over arbitrarily many epochs and then suddenly jumps to usually close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ali Saheb Pasand , Elvis Dohmatob

Despite decades of research into query optimization, optimizing queries with disjunctive predicate expressions remains a challenge. Solutions employed by existing systems (if any) are often simplistic and lead to much redundant work being…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Albert Kim , Samuel Madden

Answering complex questions over knowledge bases (KB-QA) faces huge input data with billions of facts, involving millions of entities and thousands of predicates. For efficiency, QA systems first reduce the answer search space by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Philipp Christmann , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

Line-search methods are commonly used to solve optimization problems. The simplest line search method is steepest descent where one always moves in the direction of the negative gradient. Newton's method on the other hand is a second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Shikhar Saxena , Tejas Bodas , Arti Yardi

Optimising queries with many joins is known to be a hard problem. The explosion of intermediate results as opposed to a much smaller final result poses a serious challenge to modern database management systems (DBMSs). This is particularly…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Matthias Lanzinger , Reinhard Pichler , Alexander Selzer

Task planning with temporally extended goals (TEGs) is a critical challenge in AI and robotics, enabling agents to achieve complex sequences of objectives over time rather than addressing isolated, immediate tasks. Linear Temporal Logic on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuliia Suprun , Khen Elimelech , Lydia E. Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi

In this paper we present an alternative approach to formalize the theory of logic programming. In this formalization we allow existential quantified variables and equations in queries. In opposite to standard approaches the role of answer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ján Komara

While discounted payoff games and classic games that reduce to them, like parity and mean-payoff games, are symmetric, their solutions are not. We have taken a fresh view on the properties that optimal solutions need to have, and devised a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Daniele Dell'Erba , Arthur Dumas , Sven Schewe

Materialisation facilitates Datalog reasoning by precomputing all consequences of the facts and the rules so that queries can be directly answered over the materialised facts. However, storing all materialised facts may be infeasible in…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Xinyue Zhang , Pan Hu , Yavor Nenov , Ian Horrocks

Cooperative database systems support a database user by searching for answers that are closely related to his query and hence are informative answers. Common operators to relax the user query are Dropping Condition, Anti-Instantiation and…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Lena Wiese

We study the enumeration of answers to ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) where the ontology is a set of guarded TGDs or formulated in the description logic ELI and the query is a conjunctive query (CQ). In addition to the traditional notion…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Carsten Lutz , Marcin Przybyłko

Text-based Question Generation (QG) aims at generating natural and relevant questions that can be answered by a given answer in some context. Existing QG models suffer from a "semantic drift" problem, i.e., the semantics of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Shiyue Zhang , Mohit Bansal

Existential rules, long known as tuple-generating dependencies in database theory, have been intensively studied in the last decade as a powerful formalism to represent ontological knowledge in the context of ontology-based query answering.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Michel Leclere , Marie-Laure Mugnier , Michael Thomazo , Federico Ulliana

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in assisting users to query databases in natural language. While LLM-based techniques provide state-of-the-art results on many standard benchmarks, their performance significantly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nina Narodytska , Shay Vargaftik

Dataset distillation compresses large datasets into compact synthetic ones to reduce storage and computational costs. Among various approaches, distribution matching (DM)-based methods have attracted attention for their high efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fengli Ran , Xiao Pu , Bo Liu , Xiuli Bi , Bin Xiao

Generating goal-oriented questions in Visual Dialogue tasks is a challenging and long-standing problem. State-Of-The-Art systems are shown to generate questions that, although grammatically correct, often lack an effective strategy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Alberto Testoni , Raffaella Bernardi

For Time-Domain Global Similarity (TDGS) method, which transforms the data cleaning problem into a binary classification problem about the physical similarity between channels, directly adopting common performance measures could only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Ting Lan , Jian Liu , Hong Qin

Mining large corpora can generate useful discoveries but is time-consuming for humans. We formulate a new task, D5, that automatically discovers differences between two large corpora in a goal-driven way. The task input is a problem…

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