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Recent studies have found that removing the norm-bounded projection and increasing search steps in adversarial training can significantly improve robustness. However, we observe that a too large number of search steps can hurt accuracy. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Bin Zhu , Zhaoquan Gu , Le Wang , Jinyin Chen , Qi Xuan

Training large language models (LLMs) from scratch can yield models with unique functionalities and strengths, but it is costly and often leads to redundant capabilities. A more cost-effective alternative is to fuse existing pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Runjia Zeng , James Chenhao Liang , Cheng Han , Zhiwen Cao , Jiahao Liu , Xiaojun Quan , Yingjie Victor Chen , Lifu Huang , Tong Geng , Qifan Wang , Dongfang Liu

The resilience of a Boolean query is the minimum number of tuples that need to be deleted from the input tables in order to make the query false. A solution to this problem immediately translates into a solution for the more widely known…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Cibele Freire , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Neil Immerman , Alexandra Meliou

This paper depicts an algorithm for solving the Decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem using the binary numerical properties of a Special Decision Satisfiability Problem, parallel execution, object oriented, and short termination. The two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Carlos Barrón-Romero

Recently, there has been significant work studying distribution testing under the Conditional Sampling model. In this model, a query specifies a subset $S$ of the domain, and the output received is a sample drawn from the distribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Shyam Narayanan

A commonly used model for fault-tolerant computation is that of cellular automata. The essential difficulty of fault-tolerant computation is present in the special case of simply remembering a bit in the presence of faults, and that is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-25 Mark McCann , Nicholas Pippenger

We prove a lower bound of $\tilde{\Omega}(n^{1/3})$ for the query complexity of any two-sided and adaptive algorithm that tests whether an unknown Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n\rightarrow \{0,1\}$ is monotone or far from monotone. This…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Xi Chen , Erik Waingarten , Jinyu Xie

We show conflict complexity of every total Boolean function, recently introduced in [Swagato Sanyal. A composition theorem via conict complexity. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.03285, 2018.] to prove a composition theorem of randomized decision…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yaqiao Li

We consider the problem of testing and learning quantum $k$-juntas: $n$-qubit unitary matrices which act non-trivially on just $k$ of the $n$ qubits and as the identity on the rest. As our main algorithmic results, we give (a) a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Thomas Chen , Shivam Nadimpalli , Henry Yuen

For any Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ with a complexity measure having value $k \ll n$, is it possible to restrict the function $f$ to $\Theta(k)$ variables while keeping the complexity preserved at $\Theta(k)$? This question,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chandrima Kayal , Rajat Mittal , Sai Soumya Nalli , Manaswi Paraashar , Karthikeya Polisetty , Jayalal Sarma , Nitin Saurabh

The BabyLM Challenge is a community effort to close the data-efficiency gap between human and computational language learners. Participants compete to optimize language model training on a fixed language data budget of 100 million words or…

The framework of distribution testing is currently ubiquitous in the field of property testing. In this model, the input is a probability distribution accessible via independently drawn samples from an oracle. The testing task is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sourav Chakraborty , Eldar Fischer , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Sayantan Sen

This is the second in a series of articles aimed at exploring the relationship between the complexity classes of P and NP. The research in this article aims to find conditions of an algorithmic nature that are necessary and sufficient to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Stepan G. Margaryan

We share the findings of the first shared task on improving robustness of Machine Translation (MT). The task provides a testbed representing challenges facing MT models deployed in the real world, and facilitates new approaches to improve…

We give nearly optimal bounds on the sample complexity of $(\widetilde{\Omega}(\epsilon),\epsilon)$-tolerant testing the $\rho$-independent set property in the dense graph setting. In particular, we give an algorithm that inspects a random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Cameron Seth

This paper proves the threshold result, which asserts that quantum computation can be made robust against errors and inaccuracies, when the error rate, $\eta$, is smaller than a constant threshold, $\eta_c$. The result holds for a very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or

Debiased collaborative filtering aims to learn an unbiased prediction model by removing different biases in observational datasets. To solve this problem, one of the simple and effective methods is based on the propensity score, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Haoxuan Li , Chunyuan Zheng , Yanghao Xiao , Peng Wu , Zhi Geng , Xu Chen , Peng Cui

Test Time Adaptation (TTA) addresses the problem of distribution shift by adapting a pretrained model to a new domain during inference. When faced with challenging shifts, most methods collapse and perform worse than the original pretrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sabyasachi Sahoo , Mostafa ElAraby , Jonas Ngnawe , Yann Pequignot , Frederic Precioso , Christian Gagne

Sensitivity, block sensitivity and certificate complexity are basic complexity measures of Boolean functions. The famous sensitivity conjecture claims that sensitivity is polynomially related to block sensitivity. However, it has been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Andris Ambainis , Krišjānis Prūsis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

We consider the problem of fault-tolerant quantum computation in the presence of slow error diagnostics, either caused by measurement latencies or slow decoding algorithms. Our scheme offers a few improvements over previously existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Christopher Chamberland , Pavithran Iyer , David Poulin