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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique commonly used in multivariate data analysis. However, PCA can be difficult to interpret and explain since the principal components (PCs) are linear combinations of the original…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-12-24 W. Liu , H. Zhang , D. Tao , Y. Wang , K. Lu

This paper introduces Completion Pruning Policy Optimization (CPPO) to accelerate the training of reasoning models based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). GRPO, while effective, incurs high training costs due to the need to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhihang Lin , Mingbao Lin , Yuan Xie , Rongrong Ji

SISSO (sure-independence screening and sparsifying operator) is an artificial intelligence (AI) method based on symbolic regression and compressed sensing widely used in materials science research. SISSO++ is its C++ implementation that…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Sebastian Eibl , Yi Yao , Matthias Scheffler , Markus Rampp , Luca M. Ghiringhelli , Thomas A. R. Purcell

In this work we show that randomized (block) coordinate descent methods can be accelerated by parallelization when applied to the problem of minimizing the sum of a partially separable smooth convex function and a simple separable convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

To put static program analysis at the fingertips of the software developer, we propose a framework for interactive abstract interpretation. While providing sound analysis results, abstract interpretation in general can be quite costly. To…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Julian Erhard , Simmo Saan , Sarah Tilscher , Michael Schwarz , Karoliine Holter , Vesal Vojdani , Helmut Seidl

We introduce Parametric Density Path Optimization (PDPO), a novel method for computing action-minimizing paths between probability densities. The core idea is to represent the target probability path as the pushforward of a reference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Sebastian Gutierrez Hernandez , Peng Chen , Haomin Zhou

Combinatorial optimization problems are computationally hard in general, but they are ubiquitous in our modern life. A coherent Ising machine (CIM) based on a multiple-pulse degenerate optical parametric oscillator (DOPO) is an alternative…

Clustering multidimensional points is a fundamental data mining task, with applications in many fields, such as astronomy, neuroscience, bioinformatics, and computer vision. The goal of clustering algorithms is to group similar objects…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yihao Huang , Shangdi Yu , Julian Shun

Prior work on Automatically Scalable Computation (ASC) suggests that it is possible to parallelize sequential computation by building a model of whole-program execution, using that model to predict future computations, and then…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Peter Kraft , Amos Waterland , Daniel Y Fu , Anitha Gollamudi , Shai Szulanski , Margo Seltzer

The relationship between abstract interpretation and partial deduction has received considerable attention and (partial) integrations have been proposed starting from both the partial deduction and abstract interpretation perspectives. In…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 German Puebla , Elvira Albert , Manuel Hermenegildo

We present a new parallel algorithm for probabilistic graphical model optimization. The algorithm relies on data-parallel primitives (DPPs), which provide portable performance over hardware architecture. We evaluate results on CPUs and GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Brenton Lessley , Talita Perciano , Colleen Heinemann , David Camp , Hank Childs , E. Wes Bethel

Expander decompositions have become one of the central frameworks in the design of fast algorithms. For an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, a near-optimal $\phi$-expander decomposition is a partition $V_1, V_2, \ldots, V_k$ of the vertex set $V$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Daoyuan Chen , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and other parallel devices are widely available and have the potential for accelerating a wide class of algorithms. However, expert programming skills are required to achieving maximum performance. hese…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Robert Atkey , Michel Steuwer , Sam Lindley , Christophe Dubach

We present methods to compute least fixed points of multiple monotone inflationary functions in parallel and distributed settings. While the classic Knaster-Tarski theorem addresses a single function with sequential iteration, modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Vijay K. Garg , Rohan Garg

Probabilistic computers built from p-bits offer a promising path for combinatorial optimization, but the dense connectivity required by real-world problems scales poorly in hardware. Here, we address this through graph sparsification with…

The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art algorithm for causal structure discovery on observational data. It can be computationally expensive in the worst case due to the conditional independence tests are performed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kai Zhang , Chao Tian , Kun Zhang , Todd Johnson , Xiaoqian Jiang

A dynamic partial order reduction (DPOR) algorithm is optimal when it always explores at most one representative per Mazurkiewicz trace. Existing literature suggests that the reduction obtained by the non-optimal, state-of-the-art…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Huyen T. T Nguyen , César Rodríguez , Marcelo Sousa , Camille Coti , Laure Petrucci

This technical note describes a monotone and continuous fixpoint operator to compute the answer sets of programs with aggregates. The fixpoint operator relies on the notion of aggregate solution. Under certain conditions, this operator…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli

We study robust PCA for the fully observed setting, which is about separating a low rank matrix $\boldsymbol{L}$ and a sparse matrix $\boldsymbol{S}$ from their sum $\boldsymbol{D}=\boldsymbol{L}+\boldsymbol{S}$. In this paper, a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 HanQin Cai , Jian-Feng Cai , Ke Wei

Discrete optimization is a central problem in artificial intelligence. The optimization of the aggregated cost of a network of cost functions arises in a variety of problems including (W)CSP, DCOP, as well as optimization in stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Ferdinando Fioretto , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh , Rina Dechter