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Naor, Parter, and Yogev [SODA 2020] recently designed a compiler for automatically translating standard centralized interactive protocols to distributed interactive protocols, as introduced by Kol, Oshman, and Saxena [PODC 2018]. In…

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Test-time algorithms that combine the generative power of language models with process verifiers that assess the quality of partial generations offer a promising lever for eliciting new reasoning capabilities, but the algorithmic design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Dhruv Rohatgi , Abhishek Shetty , Donya Saless , Yuchen Li , Ankur Moitra , Andrej Risteski , Dylan J. Foster

Stepwise inference protocols, such as scratchpads and chain-of-thought, help language models solve complex problems by decomposing them into a sequence of simpler subproblems. Despite the significant gain in performance achieved via these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mikail Khona , Maya Okawa , Jan Hula , Rahul Ramesh , Kento Nishi , Robert Dick , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Hidenori Tanaka

There is little debate about the importance of the ancestral recombination graph in population genetics. An important theoretical tool, the main obstacle to its widespread usage is the computational cost required to match the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-14 Patrick Fournier , Fabrice Larribe

In real-world social networks, there is an increasing interest in tracking the evolution of groups of users and detecting the various changes they are liable to undergo. Several approaches have been proposed for this. In studying these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Ziwei He , Etienne Gael Tajeuna , Shengrui Wang , Mohamed Bouguessa

Knowledge Graphs are repositories of information that gather data from a multitude of domains and sources in the form of semantic triples, serving as a source of structured data for various crucial applications in the modern web landscape,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Gabriel Amaral , Odinaldo Rodrigues , Elena Simperl

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems remains a challenging task: existing metrics often collapse heterogeneous behaviors into single scores and provide little insight into whether errors arise from retrieval,reasoning, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Keerthana Murugaraj , Salima Lamsiyah , Martin Theobald

Population protocols have been introduced as a model of sensor networks consisting of very limited mobile agents with no control over their own movement. A population protocol corresponds to a collection of anonymous agents, modeled by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-20 Olivier Bournez , Philippe Chassaing , Johanne Cohen , Lucas Gerin , Xavier Koegler

The evolution of machine learning has increasingly prioritized the development of powerful models and more scalable supervision signals. However, the emergence of foundation models presents significant challenges in providing effective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xinyan Guan , Yanjiang Liu , Xinyu Lu , Boxi Cao , Ben He , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Jie Lou , Bowen Yu , Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin

We show that interactive protocols between a prover and a verifier, a well-known tool of complexity theory, can be used in practice to certify the correctness of automated reasoning tools. Theoretically, interactive protocols exist for all…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Eszter Couillard , Philipp Czerner , Javier Esparza , Rupak Majumdar

Population protocols are a well established model of computation by anonymous, identical finite state agents. A protocol is well-specified if from every initial configuration, all fair executions reach a common consensus. The central…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Michael Blondin , Javier Esparza , Stefan Jaax , Philipp J. Meyer

Complex multi-step attacks have caused significant damage to numerous critical infrastructures. To detect such attacks, graph neural network based methods have shown promising results by modeling the system's events as a graph. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wei Liu , Peng Gao , Haotian Zhang , Ke Li , Weiyong Yang , Xingshen Wei , Jiwu Shu

Peer-to-Peer protocols currently form the most heavily used protocol class in the Internet, with BitTorrent, the most popular protocol for content distribution, as its flagship. A high number of studies and investigations have been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Răzvan Deaconescu , Marius Sandu-Popa , Adriana Drăghici , Nicolae Tăpus

Population protocols have been introduced by Angluin et al. as a model in which n passively mobile anonymous finite-state agents stably compute a predicate on the multiset of their inputs via interactions by pairs. The model has been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Olivier Bournez , Johanne Cohen , Mikaël Rabie

We present Perceive-Represent-Generate (PRG), a novel three-stage framework that maps perceptual information of different modalities (e.g., visual or sound), corresponding to a sequence of instructions, to an adequate sequence of movements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fábio Vital , Miguel Vasco , Alberto Sardinha , Francisco Melo

Population protocols are a distributed computation model in which a collection of anonymous, finite-state agents interact in randomly chosen pairs and update their states according to a fixed transition function. The computation is defined…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michael Blondin , Michaël Cadilhac , Benjamin Courchesne , Lucie Guillou , Corto Mascle , Isa Vialard

Runtime verification offers scalable solutions to improve the safety and reliability of systems. However, systems that require verification or monitoring by a third party to ensure compliance with a specification might contain sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mahyar Karimi , K. S. Thejaswini

Auto2 is a recently introduced prover for the proof assistant Isabelle. It is designed to be both highly customizable from within Isabelle, and also have a powerful proof search mechanism. In this paper, we apply auto2 to the verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Bohua Zhan

Signcryption is a cryptographic primitive which performs encryption and signature in a single logical step. In conventional signcryption only receiver of the signcrypted text can verify the authenticity of the origin i.e. signature of the…

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Pedestrian dynamics is an interdisciplinary field of research. Psychologists, sociologists, traffic engineers, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists all strive to understand the dynamics of a moving crowd. In principle,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Benedikt Kleinmeier , Benedikt Zönnchen , Marion Gödel , Gerta Köster