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Automatically generating invariants, key to computer-aided analysis of probabilistic and deterministic programs and compiler optimisation, is a challenging open problem. Whilst the problem is in general undecidable, the goal is settled for…

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We propose a method for learning dynamical systems from high-dimensional empirical data that combines variational autoencoders and (spatio-)temporal attention within a framework designed to enforce certain scientifically-motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kai Lagemann , Christian Lagemann , Sach Mukherjee

Indexing intervals is a fundamental problem, finding a wide range of applications. Recent work on managing large collections of intervals in main memory focused on overlap joins and temporal aggregation problems. In this paper, we propose…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-08 George Christodoulou , Panagiotis Bouros , Nikos Mamoulis

This paper shows the debugging facilities provided by the SLAM system. The SLAM system includes i) a specification language that integrates algebraic specifications and model-based specifications using the object oriented model. Class…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Angel Herrranz-Nieva Juan Jose Moreno Navarro

In addition to pre- and postconditions, program specifications in recent separation logics for concurrency have employed an algebraic structure of resources---a form of state transition system---to describe the state-based program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Aleksandar Nanevski , Anindya Banerjee , Germán Andrés Delbianco , Ignacio Fábregas

Trace slicing is a widely used technique for execution trace analysis that is effectively used in program debugging, analysis and comprehension. In this paper, we present a backward trace slicing technique that can be used for the analysis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-07 María Alpuente , Demis Ballis , Javier Espert , Daniel Romero

Advanced probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) using hybrid particle filtering combine symbolic exact inference and Monte Carlo methods to improve inference performance. These systems use heuristics to partition random variables within…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ellie Y. Cheng , Eric Atkinson , Guillaume Baudart , Louis Mandel , Michael Carbin

In probabilistic reasoning, the traditionally discrete domain has been elevated to the hybrid domain encompassing additionally continuous random variables. Inference in the hybrid domain, however, usually necessitates to condone trade-offs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires , Anton Dries , Luc De Raedt

Design generation requires tight integration of neural and symbolic reasoning, as good design must meet explicit user needs and honor implicit rules for aesthetics, utility, and convenience. Current automated design tools driven by neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Maxwell Joseph Jacobson , Yexiang Xue

Automatically generating invariants, key to computer-aided analysis of probabilistic and deterministic programs and compiler optimisation, is a challenging open problem. Whilst the problem is in general undecidable, the goal is settled for…

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Formally specifying, let alone verifying, properties of systems involving multiple programming languages is inherently challenging. We introduce Heterogeneous Dynamic Logic (HDL), a framework for combining reasoning principles from distinct…

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Urban flow prediction is a classic spatial-temporal forecasting task that estimates the amount of future traffic flow for a given location. Though models represented by Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (STGNNs) have established…

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In spatial databases, incompatibilities often arise due to different choices of origin or unit of measurement (e.g., centimeters versus inches). By representing and querying the data in an affine-invariant manner, we can avoid these…

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We investigate array separation logic (ASL), a variant of symbolic-heap separation logic in which the data structures are either pointers or arrays, i.e., contiguous blocks of allocated memory. This logic provides a language for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-21 James Brotherston , Nikos Gorogiannis , Max Kanovich

Programmers frequently maintain implicit data invariants, which are relations between different data structures in a program. Traditionally, such invariants are manually enforced and checked by programmers. This ad-hoc practice is difficult…

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In this paper we describe COLIN, a forward-chaining heuristic search planner, capable of reasoning with COntinuous LINear numeric change, in addition to the full temporal semantics of PDDL. Through this work we make two advances to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Amanda J. Coles , Andrew I. Coles , Maria Fox , Derek Long

Pull-tabbing is an evaluation technique for functional logic programs which computes all non-deterministic results in a single graph structure. Pull-tab steps are local graph transformations to move non-deterministic choices towards the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Michael Hanus , Finn Teegen

Problem decomposition plays a vital role when applying cooperative coevolution (CC) to large scale global optimization problems. However, most learning-based decomposition algorithms either only apply to additively separable problems or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-20 An Chen , Zhigang Ren , Muyi Wang , Yongsheng Liang , Hanqing Liu , Wenhao Du

Dynamic slicing techniques compute program dependencies to find all statements that affect the value of a variable at a program point for a specific execution. Despite their many potential uses, applicability is limited by the fact that…

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