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This paper introduces a new methodology for the complexity analysis of higher-order functional programs, which is based on three components: a powerful type system for size analysis and a sound type inference procedure for it, a ticking…

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The aim of a probabilistic resource analysis is to derive a probability distribution of possible resource usage for a program from a probability distribution of its input. We present an automated multi- phase rewriting based method to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Maja H. Kirkeby , Mads Rosendahl

Bounded linear types have proved to be useful for automated resource analysis and control in functional programming languages. In this paper we introduce an affine bounded linear typing discipline on a general notion of resource which can…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Dan R. Ghica , Alex Smith

In this paper we consider multiple constrained resource allocation problems, where the constraints can be specified by formulating activity dependency restrictions or by using game-theoretic models. All the problems are focused on generic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-19 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Costel Visan

Algorithmic efficiency is essential to reducing energy and time usage for computational problems. Optimizing efficiency is important for tasks involving multiple resources, for example in stochastic calculations where the size of the random…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Run Yan Teh , Manushan Thenabadu , Peter D Drummond

The focus of this paper is the analysis of real-time systems with recursion, through the development of good theoretical techniques which are implementable. Time is modeled using clock variables, and recursion using stacks. Our technique…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 S. Akshay , Paul Gastin , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Ilias Sarkar

This chapter compiles a number of results that apply the theory of parameterized algorithmics to the running-time analysis of randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms. The parameterized approach articulates the running…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Frank Neumann , Andrew M. Sutton

Policy networks are a central feature of deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for continuous control, enabling the estimation and sampling of high-value actions. From the variational inference perspective on RL, policy networks, when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Joseph Marino , Alexandre Piché , Alessandro Davide Ialongo , Yisong Yue

Amortized analysis is a program cost analysis technique for data structures in which the cost of operations is specified in aggregate, under the assumption of continued sequential use. Typically, amortized analyses are presented…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Harrison Grodin , Robert Harper

Enumeration algorithms have been one of recent hot topics in theoretical computer science. Different from other problems, enumeration has many interesting aspects, such as the computation time can be shorter than the total output size, by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Takeaki Uno

A type system is introduced for a generic Object Oriented programming language in order to infer resource upper bounds. A sound andcomplete characterization of the set of polynomial time computable functions is obtained. As a consequence,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux

Modern learning systems increasingly rely on amortized learning - the idea of reusing computation or inductive biases shared across tasks to enable rapid generalization to novel problems. This principle spans a range of approaches,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sarthak Mittal , Divyat Mahajan , Guillaume Lajoie , Mohammad Pezeshki

A general kind of models with hierarchically constrained dynamics is shown to exhibit logarithmic anomalous relaxation, similarly to a variety of complex strongly interacting materials. The logarithmic behavior describes most of the decay…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Brey , A. Prados

Timed systems, such as timed automata, are usually analyzed using their operational semantics on timed words. The classical region abstraction for timed automata reduces them to (untimed) finite state automata with the same time-abstract…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 S. Akshay , Paul Gastin , Shankara Narayanan Krishna

In this work, we propose D3-Tree, a dynamic distributed deterministic structure for data management in decentralized networks. We present in brief the theoretical algorithmic analysis, in which our proposed structure is based on, and we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Efrosini Sourla , Spyros Sioutas , Kostas Tsichlas , Christos Zaroliagis

We consider the problem of developing automated techniques for solving recurrence relations to aid the expected-runtime analysis of programs. Several classical textbook algorithms have quite efficient expected-runtime complexity, whereas…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Hongfei Fu , Aniket Murhekar

Smoothed analysis of complexity bounds and condition numbers has been done, so far, on a case by case basis. In this paper we consider a reasonably large class of condition numbers for problems over the complex numbers and we obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Buergisser , Felipe Cucker , Martin Lotz

The Automatic Amortized Resource Analysis (AARA) derives program-execution cost bounds using types. To do so, AARA often makes use of cost-free types, which are critical for the composition of types and cost bounds. However, inferring…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-30 David M Kahn , Jan Hoffmann , Thomas Reps , Jessie Grosen

For delivering products or services to their clients, organizations execute manifold business processes. During such execution, upcoming process tasks need to be allocated to internal resources. Resource allocation is a complex…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Luise Pufahl , Sven Ihde , Fabian Stiehle , Mathias Weske , Ingo Weber

In this paper, we develop approximate dynamic programming methods for stochastic systems modeled as Markov Decision Processes, given both soft performance criteria and hard constraints in a class of probabilistic temporal logic called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Lening Li , Jie Fu