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A low-complexity tree search approach is presented that achieves the maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding performance of Reed-Muller (RM) codes. The proposed approach generates a bit-flipping tree that is traversed to find the ML decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Warren J. Gross , John Cioffi , Andrea Goldsmith

Given an array A containing arbitrary (positive and negative) numbers, we consider the problem of supporting range maximum-sum segment queries on A: i.e., given an arbitrary range [i,j], return the subrange [i' ,j' ] \subseteq [i,j] such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Pawel Gawrychowski , Patrick K. Nicholson

We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mahdi Soleymani , Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

Code summarization provides a high level natural language description of the function performed by code, as it can benefit the software maintenance, code categorization and retrieval. To the best of our knowledge, most state-of-the-art…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yao Wan , Zhou Zhao , Min Yang , Guandong Xu , Haochao Ying , Jian Wu , Philip S. Yu

We study the problem of probability distribution matching and sampling on near-term quantum computers, aiming to construct parameterized circuits that generate samples from a target distribution while minimizing resource overhead. This task…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Nicholas S. DiBrita , Jason Han , Krishna Bhatia , Younghyun Cho , Hengrui Luo , Tirthak Patel

Two-level logic minimization is a central problem in logic synthesis, and has applications in reliability analysis and automated reasoning. This paper represents a method of minimizing Boolean sum of products function with binary decision…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Debajit Sensarma , Subhashis Banerjee , Krishnendu Basuli , Saptarshi Naskar , Samar Sen Sarma

We study some essential arithmetic properties of a new tree-based number representation, {\em hereditarily binary numbers}, defined by applying recursively run-length encoding of bijective base-2 digits. Our representation expresses giant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Paul Tarau

Several recently proposed code-based cryptosystems base their security on a slightly generalized version of the classical (syndrome) decoding problem. Namely, in the so-called restricted (syndrome) decoding problem, the error values stem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Marco Baldi , Sebastian Bitzer , Alessio Pavoni , Paolo Santini , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Violetta Weger

Source code summaries are short natural language descriptions of code snippets that help developers better understand and maintain source code. There has been a surge of work on automatic code summarization to reduce the burden of writing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yanlin Wang , Ensheng Shi , Lun Du , Xiaodi Yang , Yuxuan Hu , Shi Han , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang

A source code summary of a subroutine is a brief description of that subroutine. Summaries underpin a majority of documentation consumed by programmers, such as the method summaries in JavaDocs. Source code summarization is the task of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Alexander LeClair , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

We present algorithms for length-constrained maximum sum segment and maximum density segment problems, in particular, and the problem of finding length-constrained heaviest segments, in general, for a sequence of real numbers. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Md. Shafiul Alam , Asish Mukhopadhyay

Huffman coding is well known to be useful in certain decision problems involving minimizing the average number of (freely chosen) queries to determine an unknown random variable. However, in problems where the queries are more constrained,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shuyuan Zhang , Jichen Sun , Shengkang Chen

We study the problem of computing the tightest upper and lower bounds on the probability that the sum of $n$ dependent Bernoulli random variables exceeds an integer $k$. Under knowledge of all pairs of bivariate distributions denoted by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Divya Padmanabhan , Karthik Natarajan

We propose Vec2Summ, a novel method for abstractive summarization that frames the task as semantic compression. Vec2Summ represents a document collection using a single mean vector in the semantic embedding space, capturing the central…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Mao Li , Fred Conrad , Johann Gagnon-Bartsch

We present the first sublinear-in-$n$ round algorithm for sampling an approximately uniform spanning tree of an $n$-vertex graph in the CongestedClique model of distributed computing. In particular, our algorithm requires…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Sourya Roy , Joshua Z. Sobel

This paper addresses the Restricted Longest Common Subsequence (RLCS) problem, an extension of the well-known Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem. This problem has significant applications in bioinformatics, particularly for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Marko Djukanović , Jaume Reixach , Ana Nikolikj , Tome Eftimov , Aleksandar Kartelj , Christian Blum

The neural text generation suffers from the text degeneration issue such as repetition. Traditional stochastic sampling methods only focus on truncating the unreliable "tail" of the distribution, and do not address the "head" part, which we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Xinran Zhang , Maosong Sun , Jiafeng Liu , Xiaobing Li

Even though it is well known that for most relevant computational problems different algorithms may perform better on different classes of problem instances, most researchers still focus on determining a single best algorithmic…

The typical multi-task learning methods for spatio-temporal data prediction involve low-rank tensor computation. However, such a method have relatively weak performance when the task number is small, and we cannot integrate it into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Qichen Li , Jiaxin Pei , Jianding Zhang , Bo Han

This paper gives a new algorithm for sampling tree-weighted partitions of a large class of planar graphs. Formally, the tree-weighted distribution on $k$-partitions of a graph weights $k$-partitions proportional to the product of the number…

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