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User-defined keyword spotting (KWS) is crucial for personalized voice interaction, yet existing methods face several challenges: (1) insufficient discriminability among confusable words, (2) performance inconsistency across speakers with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Zhiqi Ai , Han Cheng , Shiyi Mu , Xinnuo Li , Yongjin Zhou , Shugong Xu

This paper presents the first implementation of a search tree data structure in an asynchronous shared-memory system that provides a wait-free algorithm for executing range queries on the tree, in addition to non-blocking algorithms for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Panagiota Fatourou , Eric Ruppert

Multi-letter {\it quantum finite automata} (QFAs) were a new one-way QFA model proposed recently by Belovs, Rosmanis, and Smotrovs (LNCS, Vol. 4588, Springer, Berlin, 2007, pp. 60-71), and they showed that multi-letter QFAs can accept with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-03-10 Daowen Qiu , Sheng Yu

Multi-letter {\it quantum finite automata} (QFAs) were a quantum variant of classical {\it one-way multi-head finite automata} (J. Hromkovi\v{c}, Acta Informatica 19 (1983) 377-384), and it has been shown that this new one-way QFAs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Daowen Qiu , Xiangfu Zou , Lvzhou Li , Paulo Mateus

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are useful in obtaining thermodynamic and kinetic properties of bio-molecules but are limited by the timescale barrier, i.e., we may be unable to efficiently obtain properties because we need to run…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Surl-Hee Ahn , Jay W. Grate , Eric F. Darve

A standard design pattern found in many concurrent data structures, such as hash tables or ordered containers, is alternation of parallelizable sections that incur no data conflicts and critical sections that must run sequentially and are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Vitaly Aksenov , Daniil Bolotov , Petr Kuznetsov

We present a multi-word atomic (1,N) register for multi-core machines exploiting Read-Modify-Write (RMW) instructions to coordinate the writer and the readers in a wait-free manner. Our proposal, called Anonymous Readers Counting (ARC),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Mauro Ianni , Alessandro Pellegrini , Francesco Quaglia

Consider the many shared resource scheduling problem where jobs have to be scheduled on identical parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. However, each job needs exactly one additional shared resource in order to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Malin Rau

A low-power Content-Addressable-Memory (CAM) is introduced employing a new mechanism for associativity between the input tags and the corresponding address of the output data. The proposed architecture is based on a recently developed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hooman Jarollahi , Vincent Gripon , Naoya Onizawa , Warren J. Gross

Lock-free concurrent algorithms guarantee that some concurrent operation will always make progress in a finite number of steps. Yet programmers prefer to treat concurrent code as if it were wait-free, guaranteeing that all operations always…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Dan Alistarh , Keren Censor-Hillel , Nir Shavit

We present a linearizable, non-blocking $k$-ary search tree ($k$-ST) that supports fast searches and range queries. Our algorithm uses single-word compare-and-swap (CAS) operations, and tolerates any number of crash failures. Performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Trevor Brown , Hillel Avni

The great amount of datasets generated by various data sources have posed the challenge to machine learning algorithm selection and hyperparameter configuration. For a specific machine learning task, it usually takes domain experts plenty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Tianyu Mu , Hongzhi Wang , Chunnan Wang , Zheng Liang

We present our implementation autoCAS for fully automated multi-configurational calculations, which we also make available free of charge on our webpages. The graphical user interface of autoCAS connects a general electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Christopher J. Stein , Markus Reiher

Dialogue management (DM) plays a key role in the quality of the interaction with the user in a task-oriented dialogue system. In most existing approaches, the agent predicts only one DM policy action per turn. This significantly limits the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Lei Shu , Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Piero Molino

Traditionally, multithreaded data structures have been designed for access by the threads of Operating Systems (OS). However, implementations for access by programmable alternatives known as lightweight threads (also referred to as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Taras Skazhenik , Nikolai Korobenikov , Andrei Churbanov , Anton Malakhov , Vitaly Aksenov

In modern large-scale distributed systems, analytics jobs submitted by various users often share similar work, for example scanning and processing the same subset of data. Instead of optimizing jobs independently, which may result in…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Pietro Michiardi , Damiano Carra , Sara Migliorini

Cumulative memory -- the sum of space used per step over the duration of a computation -- is a fine-grained measure of time-space complexity that was introduced to analyze cryptographic applications like password hashing. It is a more…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Paul Beame , Niels Kornerup

$K$-means, a simple and effective clustering algorithm, is one of the most widely used algorithms in multimedia and computer vision community. Traditional $k$-means is an iterative algorithm---in each iteration new cluster centers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Jingdong Wang , Jing Wang , Qifa Ke , Gang Zeng , Shipeng Li

While large language models (LLMs) show considerable promise across various fields, they have notable limitations in handling multi-document question answering (Multi-doc QA) tasks. The first challenge is long-range dependency modeling,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jiakai Li , Rongzheng Wang , Yizhuo Ma , Shuang Liang , Guangchun Luo , Ke Qin

Public key authenticated encryption with keyword search (PAEKS) represents a significant advancement of secure and searchable data sharing in public network systems, such as medical systems. It can effectively mitigate the risk of keyword…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiayin Cai , Xingwen Zhao , Dexin Li , Hui Li , Kai Fan