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Motivated by queueing applications, we consider a certain class of two-dimensional random walks for which their invariant measure is written as a linear combination of a finite number of product-form terms. In this work, we investigate…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Ivo J. B. F. Adan , Ioannis Dimitriou

Inferring inductive invariants is one of the main challenges of formal verification. The theory of abstract interpretation provides a rich framework to devise invariant inference algorithms. One of the latest breakthroughs in invariant…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Mooly Sagiv , Sharon Shoham , James R. Wilcox

Conditional independence (CI) constraints are critical for defining and evaluating fairness in machine learning, as well as for learning unconfounded or causal representations. Traditional methods for ensuring fairness either blindly learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jensen Hwa , Qingyu Zhao , Aditya Lahiri , Adnan Masood , Babak Salimi , Ehsan Adeli

Machine-learning based methods like physics-informed neural networks and physics-informed neural operators are becoming increasingly adept at solving even complex systems of partial differential equations. Boundary conditions can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Niklas Göschel , Sebastian Götschel , Daniel Ruprecht

In this work, we study the learning theory of reward modeling with pairwise comparison data using deep neural networks. We establish a novel non-asymptotic regret bound for deep reward estimators in a non-parametric setting, which depends…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Yuanhang Luo , Yeheng Ge , Ruijian Han , Guohao Shen

In theory, boundary and initial conditions are important for the wellposedness of partial differential equations (PDEs). Numerically, these conditions can be enforced exactly in classical numerical methods, such as finite difference method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Liyao Lyu , Keke Wu , Rui Du , Jingrun Chen

We propose a hybrid physics-informed machine learning framework to approximate invariant manifolds (IMs) of discrete-time dynamical systems driven by exogenous autonomous dynamics (exosystems). Such systems appear in applications ranging…

Ensuring neural networks adhere to domain-specific constraints is crucial for addressing safety and trustworthiness while also enhancing inference accuracy. Despite the nonlinear nature of most real-world tasks, the majority of existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Giacomo Lastrucci , Artur M. Schweidtmann

Inverse reinforcement learning is the problem of inferring a reward function from an optimal policy or demonstrations by an expert. In this work, it is assumed that the reward is expressed as a reward machine whose transitions depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Mohamad Louai Shehab , Antoine Aspeel , Necmiye Ozay

Quantum linear optics without post-selection is not powerful enough to produce any quantum state from a given input state. This limits its utility since some applications require entangled resources that are difficult to prepare. Thus, we…

We consider the problem of checking whether a proposed invariant $\varphi$ expressed in first-order logic with quantifier alternation is inductive, i.e. preserved by a piece of code. While the problem is undecidable, modern SMT solvers can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Oded Padon , Neil Immerman , Mooly Sagiv , Sharon Shoham

Recent studies show that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples which can be generated via certain types of transformations. Being robust to a desired family of adversarial attacks is then equivalent to being invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Jiawei Chen , Janusz Konrad , Prakash Ishwar

Current physics-informed (standard or deep operator) neural networks still rely on accurately learning the initial and/or boundary conditions of the system of differential equations they are solving. In contrast, standard numerical methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Rüdiger Brecht , Dmytro R. Popovych , Alex Bihlo , Roman O. Popovych

We consider the problem of learning by demonstration from agents acting in unknown stochastic Markov environments or games. Our aim is to estimate agent preferences in order to construct improved policies for the same task that the agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Aristide Tossou , Christos Dimitrakakis

We consider the problem of learning by demonstration from agents acting in unknown stochastic Markov environments or games. Our aim is to estimate agent preferences in order to construct improved policies for the same task that the agents…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-16 Aristide C. Y. Tossou , Christos Dimitrakakis

Recently, innovative adaptations of the Ritz Method incorporating deep learning have been developed, known as the Deep Ritz Method. This approach employs a neural network as the test function for variational problems. However, the neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Rafael Florencio , Julio Guerrero

We introduce a formal notion of defendability against backdoors using a game between an attacker and a defender. In this game, the attacker modifies a function to behave differently on a particular input known as the "trigger", while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Paul Christiano , Jacob Hilton , Victor Lecomte , Mark Xu

Ill-posed linear inverse problems appear frequently in various signal processing applications. It can be very useful to have theoretical characterizations that quantify the level of ill-posedness for a given inverse problem and the degree…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Justin P. Haldar

This article introduces an imitation learning method for learning maximum entropy policies that comply with constraints demonstrated by expert trajectories executing a task. The formulation of the method takes advantage of results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 George Papadopoulos , George A. Vouros

Decidability and synthesis of inductive invariants ranging in a given domain play an important role in many software and hardware verification systems. We consider here inductive invariants belonging to an abstract domain $A$ as defined in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Francesco Ranzato