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We propose a novel hierarchical reinforcement learning framework for quadruped locomotion over challenging terrain. Our approach incorporates a two-layer hierarchy in which a high-level policy (HLP) selects optimal goals for a low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jeremiah Coholich , Muhammad Ali Murtaza , Seth Hutchinson , Zsolt Kira

The smooth heap and the closely related slim heap are recently invented self-adjusting implementations of the heap (priority queue) data structure. We analyze the efficiency of these data structures. We obtain the following amortized bounds…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Corwin Sinnamon , Robert E. Tarjan

Directly solving large-scale Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) using traditional solvers is slow due to their NP-hard nature. While recent frameworks based on Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) can accelerate the solving process, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ning Xu , Junkai Zhang , Yang Wu , Huigen Ye , Hua Xu , Huiling Xu , Yifan Zhang

Research in robotic planning with temporal logic specifications, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), has relied on single formulas. However, as task complexity increases, LTL formulas become lengthy, making them difficult to interpret and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu

Convolution and pooling are the key operations to learn hierarchical representation for graph classification, where more expressive $k$-order($k>1$) method requires more computation cost, limiting the further applications. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhangyang Gao , Haitao Lin , Stan. Z Li

Optimization of high-dimensional black-box functions is an extremely challenging problem. While Bayesian optimization has emerged as a popular approach for optimizing black-box functions, its applicability has been limited to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-06 Zi Wang , Chengtao Li , Stefanie Jegelka , Pushmeet Kohli

Traditional on-die, three-level cache hierarchy design is very commonly used but is also prone to latency, especially at the Level 2 (L2) cache. We discuss three distinct ways of improving this design in order to have better performance.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Pranjal Singh Rajput , Sonnya Dellarosa , Kanya Satis

An efficient and fair node scheduling is a big challenge in multihop wireless networks. In this work, we propose a distributed node scheduling algorithm, called Local Voting. The idea comes from the finding that the shortest delivery time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Dimitrios J. Vergados , Natalia Amelina , Yuming Jiang , Katina Kralevska , Oleg Granichin

We consider the hash function $h(x) = ((ax+b) \bmod p) \bmod n$ where $a,b$ are chosen uniformly at random from $\{0,1,\ldots,p-1\}$. We prove that when we use $h(x)$ in hashing with chaining to insert $n$ elements into a table of size $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen

We study the following combinatorial problem. Given a set of $n$ y-monotone wires, a tangle determines the order of the wires on a number of horizontal layers such that the orders of the wires on any two consecutive layers differ only in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Oksana Firman , Philipp Kindermann , Alexander Ravsky , Alexander Wolff , Johannes Zink

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization has long been favored for its biological plausibility and its capacity to handle non-differentiable objectives, yet its computational complexity has historically limited its application in deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sansheng Cao , Zhengyu Ma , Yonghong Tian

Data-driven materials design often encounters challenges where systems require or possess qualitative (categorical) information. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an example of such material systems. The representation of MOFs through…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-16 Yigitcan Comlek , Thang Duc Pham , Randall Snurr , Wei Chen

We introduce a computational method for global optimization of structure and ordering in atomic systems. The method relies on interpolation between chemical elements, which is incorporated in a machine learning structural fingerprint. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-18 Sami Kaappa , Casper Larsen , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

Real-time analytics systems employ hybrid data layouts in which data are stored in different formats throughout their lifecycle. Recent data are stored in a row-oriented format to serve OLTP workloads and support high insert rates, while…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Hemant Saxena , Lukasz Golab , Stratos Idreos , Ihab F. Ilyas

In this paper, we introduce a higher-order multiscale method for time-dependent problems with highly oscillatory coefficients. Building on the localized orthogonal decomposition (LOD) framework, we construct enriched correction operators to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Balaje Kalyanaraman , Felix Krumbiegel , Roland Maier , Siyang Wang

Priority queues are container data structures essential to many high performance computing (HPC) applications. In this paper, we introduce multiresolution priority queues, a data structure that improves the performance of the standard heap…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Jordi Ros-Giralt , Alan Commike , Peter Cullen , Jeff Lucovsky , Dilip Madathil , Richard Lethin

Ranking over sets arise when users choose between groups of items. For example, a group may be of those movies deemed $5$ stars to them, or a customized tour package. It turns out, to model this data type properly, we need to investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

We study polynomial optimization problems whose objective has a composition or tensor train structure. These polynomials can be evaluated as a sequence of maps, giving rise to intermediate variables (``states'') of dimension lower than the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Llorenç Balada Gaggioli , Didier Henrion , Milan Korda

Hierarchies are frequently used for the organization of objects. Given a hierarchy of classes, two main approaches are used, to automatically classify new instances: flat classification and cascade classification. Flat classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Aris Kosmopoulos , Georgios Paliouras , Ion Androutsopoulos

In a classical problem in scheduling, one has $n$ unit size jobs with a precedence order and the goal is to find a schedule of those jobs on $m$ identical machines as to minimize the makespan. It is one of the remaining four open problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Elaine Levey , Thomas Rothvoss