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Support for arithmetic in multiple precisions and number formats is becoming increasingly common in emerging high-performance architectures. From a computational scientist's perspective, our goal is to determine how and where we can safely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Erin Claire Carson

Navigating rigid body objects through crowded environments can be challenging, especially when narrow passages are presented. Existing sampling-based planners and optimization-based methods like mixed integer linear programming (MILP)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mingxin Yu , Chuchu Fan

Counterfactual explanations provide actionable insights to achieve desired outcomes by suggesting minimal changes to input features. However, existing methods rely on fixed sets of mutable features, which makes counterfactual explanations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Stig Hellemans , Andres Algaba , Sam Verboven , Vincent Ginis

Machine learning algorithms generally suffer from a problem of explainability. Given a classification result from a model, it is typically hard to determine what caused the decision to be made, and to give an informative explanation. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Jonathan Moore , Nils Hammerla , Chris Watkins

The fundamental question considered in algorithms on strings is that of indexing, that is, preprocessing a given string for specific queries. By now we have a number of efficient solutions for this problem when the queries ask for an exact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Paweł Gawrychowski , Garance Gourdel , Tatiana Starikovskaya , Teresa Anna Steiner

The search for information on the web is faced with several problems, which arise on the one hand from the vast number of available sources, and on the other hand from their heterogeneity. A promising approach is the use of multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 T. Eiter , M. Fink , G. Sabbatini , H. Tompits

The data structure at the core of large-scale search engines is the inverted index, which is essentially a collection of sorted integer sequences called inverted lists. Because of the many documents indexed by such engines and stringent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Rossano Venturini

There are many different probabilistic programming languages that are specialized to specific kinds of probabilistic programs. From a usability and scalability perspective, this is undesirable: today, probabilistic programmers are forced…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Sam Stites , John M. Li , Steven Holtzen

In this paper we propose a global optimization-based approach to jointly matching a set of images. The estimated correspondences simultaneously maximize pairwise feature affinities and cycle consistency across multiple images. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Xiaowei Zhou , Menglong Zhu , Kostas Daniilidis

Joint object matching, also known as multi-image matching, namely, the problem of finding consistent partial maps among all pairs of objects within a collection, is a crucial task in many areas of computer vision. This problem subsumes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Antonio De Rosa , Aida Khajavirad

We survey and unify recent results on the existence of accurate algorithms for evaluating multivariate polynomials, and more generally for accurate numerical linear algebra with structured matrices. By "accurate" we mean that the computed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-21 James Demmel , Ioana Dumitriu , Olga Holtz , Plamen Koev

Search techniques make use of elementary information such as term frequencies and document lengths in computation of similarity weighting. They can also exploit richer statistics, in particular the number of documents in which any two terms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Bodo Billerbeck , Justin Zobel , Nicholas Lester , Nick Craswell

Document retrieval aims at finding the most important documents where a pattern appears in a collection of strings. Traditional pattern-matching techniques yield brute-force document retrieval solutions, which has motivated the research on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Gonzalo Navarro , Simon J. Puglisi , Jouni Sirén

In this paper we present several novel efficient techniques and multidimensional data structures which can improve the decision making process in many domains. We consider online range aggregation, range selection and range weighted median…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-01-12 Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Nicolae Cataniciu

Our goal is to build classification models using a combination of free-text and structured data. To do this, we represent structured data by text sentences, DataWords, so that similar data items are mapped into the same sentence. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Stephen I. Gallant , Mirza Nasir Hossain

Recursive calls over recursive data are useful for generating probability distributions, and probabilistic programming allows computations over these distributions to be expressed in a modular and intuitive way. Exact inference is also…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Chiang , Colin McDonald , Chung-chieh Shan

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Counterfactual explanations interpret the recommendation mechanism via exploring how minimal alterations on items or users affect the recommendation decisions. Existing counterfactual explainable approaches face huge search space and their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xiangmeng Wang , Qian Li , Dianer Yu , Guandong Xu

Explainability has become a crucial concern in today's world, aiming to enhance transparency in machine learning and deep learning models. Information retrieval is no exception to this trend. In existing literature on explainability of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Bhavik Chandna , Procheta Sen

This work introduces a framework to address the computational complexity inherent in Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) models by harnessing the potential of deep learning. By employing deep learning, we construct problem-specific heuristics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Niki Triantafyllou , Maria M. Papathanasiou