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Reliably knowing when a language model is correct is almost as important as being correct. We introduce prover-verifier deliberation (PVD), an inference-time protocol grounded in interactive proof theory, as a mechanism for selective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 João Sedoc , Baotong Zhang , Dean Foster

Distributed protocols are generally parametric and can be executed on a system with any number of nodes, and hence proving their correctness becomes an infinite state verification problem. The most popular approach for verifying distributed…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shreesha G. Bhat , Kartik Nagar

This paper studies current-state opacity and initial-state opacity verification of distributed discrete event systems. The distributed system's global model is the parallel composition of multiple local systems: each of which represents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Kai Cai

We propose a simple protocol for the verification of quantum computation after the computation has been performed. Our construction can be seen as an improvement on previous results in that it requires only a single prover, who is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-19 Tomoyuki Morimae , Joseph F. Fitzsimons

Distributed in-network programs are increasingly deployed in data centers for their performance benefits, but shifting application logic to switches also enlarges the failure domain. Ensuring their correctness before deployment is thus…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mingyuan Song , Huan Shen , Jinghui Jiang , Qiang Su , Qingyu Song , Lu Tang , Wanjian Feng , Fei Yuan , Qiao Xiang , Jiwu Shu

Existing neural network verifiers compute a proof that each input is handled correctly under a given perturbation by propagating a symbolic abstraction of reachable values at each layer. This process is repeated from scratch independently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Marc Fischer , Christian Sprecher , Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Gagandeep Singh , Martin Vechev

A distance bounding system guarantees an upper bound on the physical distance between a verifier and a prover. However, in contrast to a conventional wireless communication system, distance bounding systems introduce tight requirements on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Aanjhan Ranganathan , Boris Danev , Srdjan Capkun

A single-sensor two-detectors system is considered where the sensor communicates with both detectors and Detector 1 communicates with Detector 2, all over noise-free rate-limited links. The sensor and both detectors observe discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Pierre Escamilla , Michèle Wigger , Abdellatif Zaidi

Broadcast networks are often used in modern communication systems. A common broadcast network is a single hop shared media system, where a transmitted message is heard by all neighbors, such as some LAN networks. In this work we consider a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Israel Cidon , Osnat Mokryn

Permissioned ledger technologies have gained significant traction over the last few years. For practical reasons, their applications have focused on transforming narrowly scoped use-cases in isolation. This has led to a proliferation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ermyas Abebe , Yining Hu , Allison Irvin , Dileban Karunamoorthy , Vinayaka Pandit , Venkatraman Ramakrishna , Jiangshan Yu

The growing popularity and adoption of differential privacy in academic and industrial settings has resulted in the development of increasingly sophisticated algorithms for releasing information while preserving privacy. Accompanying this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

A protocol for distributed estimation of discrete distributions is proposed. Each agent begins with a single sample from the distribution, and the goal is to learn the empirical distribution of the samples. The protocol is based on a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Anand D. Sarwate , Tara Javidi

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is a geometric intersection graph if every node $v \in V$ is identified with a geometric object of some particular type, and two nodes are adjacent if the corresponding objects intersect. Geometric intersection graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Benjamin Jauregui , Pedro Montealegre , Ivan Rapaport

Following an early work of Dwork and Stockmeyer on interactive proof systems whose verifiers are two-way probabilistic finite automata, the authors initiated in 2004 a study on the computational power of quantum interactive proof systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Harumichi Nishimura , Tomoyuki Yamakami

This report describes the state of the art in verifiable computation. The problem being solved is the following: The Verifiable Computation Problem (Verifiable Computing Problem) Suppose we have two computing agents. The first agent is the…

We address the problem of distributed matching of features in networks with vision systems. Every camera in the network has limited communication capabilities and can only exchange local matches with its neighbors. We propose a distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Eduardo Montijano , Rosario Aragues , Carlos Sagues

Suppose we have been sold on the idea that formalised proofs in an LCF system should resemble their written counterparts, and so consist of formulas that only provide signposts for a fully verified proof. To be practical, most of the fully…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Phil Scott , Steven Obua , Jacques Fleuriot

Despite significant developments in Proof Theory, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the concept of proof verifier. In particular, the mathematical community may be interested in studying different types of proof verifiers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Roman V. Yampolskiy

This paper presents an approach to using decentralized distributed digital (DDD) ledgers like blockchain with multi-level verification. In regular DDD ledgers like Blockchain, only a single level of verification is available, which makes it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Ayush Thada , Aanchal Kandpal , Dipanwita Sinha Mukharjee

Recent developments in deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to their adoption in safety-critical systems, which in turn has heightened the need for guaranteeing their safety. These safety properties of DNNs can be proven using tools…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Remi Desmartin , Omri Isac , Grant Passmore , Kathrin Stark , Guy Katz , Ekaterina Komendantskaya