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This paper presents a methodology for ensuring that the composition of multiple Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) always leads to feasible conditions on the control input, even in the presence of input constraints. In the case of a system…

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A classical question of propositional logic is one of the shortest proof of a tautology. A related fundamental problem is to determine the relative efficiency of standard proof systems, where the relative complexity is measured using the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Olga Tveretina

Cut generation and lifting are key components for the performance of state-of-the-art mathematical programming solvers. This work proposes a new general cut-and-lift procedure that exploits the combinatorial structure of 0-1 problems via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Margarita P. Castro , Andre A. Cire , J. Christopher Beck

This paper considers the general problem of transitioning theoretically safe controllers to hardware. Concretely, we explore the application of control barrier functions (CBFs) to sampled-data systems: systems that evolve continuously but…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Andrew Singletary , Yuxiao Chen , Aaron D. Ames

Verifying and explaining the behavior of neural networks is becoming increasingly important, especially when they are deployed in safety-critical applications. In this paper, we study verification problems for Binarized Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yedi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Guangke Chen , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are instrumental in many electronic design automation (EDA) tasks thanks to their compact representation of Boolean functions. In BDD-based reversible-circuit synthesis, which is critical for quantum…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mingkai Miao , Jianheng Tang , Guangyu Hu , Hongce Zhang

Decision Diagrams(DDs) are one of the most popular representations for boolean functions. They are widely used in the design and verification of circuits. Different types of DDs have been proven to represent important functions in…

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This paper introduces a new approach to generating strongly constrained texts. We consider standardized sentence generation for the typical application of vision screening. To solve this problem, we formalize it as a discrete combinatorial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Alexandre Bonlarron , Aurélie Calabrèse , Pierre Kornprobst , Jean-Charles Régin

Motivated by functional synthesis in sequential circuit construction and quantified boolean formulas (QBF), boolean synthesis serves as one of the core problems in Formal Methods. Recent advances show that decision diagrams (DD) are…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Lin , Moshe Y. Vardi

We follow up on the idea of Lars Arge to rephrase the Reduce and Apply procedures of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) as iterative I/O-efficient algorithms. We identify multiple avenues to simplify and improve the performance of his proposed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Steffan Christ Sølvsten , Jaco van de Pol , Anna Blume Jakobsen , Mathias Weller Berg Thomasen

Implementing a component-based system in a distributed way so that it ensures some global constraints is a challenging problem. We consider here abstract specifications consisting of a composition of components and a controller given in the…

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In many high-throughput experimental design settings, such as those common in biochemical engineering, batched queries are more cost effective than one-by-one sequential queries. Furthermore, it is often not possible to directly choose…

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Multi-label learning poses significant challenges in extracting reliable supervisory signals from the label space. Existing approaches often employ continuous pseudo-labels to replace binary labels, improving supervisory information…

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Modern experimental designs often face the so-called treatment cardinality constraint, which is the constraint on the number of included factors in each treatment. Experiments with such constraints are commonly encountered in engineering…

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We consider a variant of the Boolean satisfiability problem where a subset E of the propositional variables appearing in formula Fsat encode a symmetric, transitive, binary relation over N elements. Each of these relational variables,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Randal E. Bryant , Miroslav N. Velev

Finding tight bounds on the optimal solution is a critical element of practical solution methods for discrete optimization problems. In the last decade, decision diagrams (DDs) have brought a new perspective on obtaining upper and lower…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Quentin Cappart , Emmanuel Goutierre , David Bergman , Louis-Martin Rousseau

Predicting and executing a sequence of actions without intermediate replanning, known as action chunking, is increasingly used in robot learning from human demonstrations. Yet, its effects on the learned policy remain inconsistent: some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yuejiang Liu , Jubayer Ibn Hamid , Annie Xie , Yoonho Lee , Maximilian Du , Chelsea Finn

Nowadays, ensuring the quality becomes challenging for most modern software systems when constraints are given for the combinations of configurations. Combinatorial interaction strategies can systematically reduce the number of test cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Imad H. Hasan , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Moayad Y. Potrus , Kamal Z. Zamli