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Symbolic execution is a powerful technique for software testing, but suffers from limitations when encountering external functions, such as native methods or third-party libraries. Existing solutions often require additional context,…

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Many offline unsupervised change point detection algorithms rely on minimizing a penalized sum of segment-wise costs. We extend this framework by proposing to minimize a sum of discrepancies between segments. In particular, we propose to…

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Entropy Search (ES) and Predictive Entropy Search (PES) are popular and empirically successful Bayesian Optimization techniques. Both rely on a compelling information-theoretic motivation, and maximize the information gained about the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-06 Zi Wang , Stefanie Jegelka

Symmetry reduction is a well-known approach for alleviating the state explosion problem in model checking. Automatically identifying symmetries in concurrent systems, however, is computationally expensive. We propose a symbolic framework…

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The ability of large language models to solve complex mathematical problems has progressed significantly, particularly for tasks requiring advanced reasoning. However, the scarcity of sufficiently challenging problems, particularly at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xueliang Zhao , Wei Wu , Jian Guan , Lingpeng Kong

Medical automatic diagnosis aims to imitate human doctors in real-world diagnostic processes and to achieve accurate diagnoses by interacting with the patients. The task is formulated as a sequential decision-making problem with a series of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hongyi Yuan , Sheng Yu

State-space exploration is an essential step in many modeling and analysis problems. Its goal is to find the states reachable from the initial state of a discrete-state model described. The state space can used to answer important…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-16 Gianfranco Ciardo , Yang Zhao , Xiaoqing Jin

We exploit the idea to use the maximal-entropy method, successfully tested in information theory and statistical thermodynamics, to determine approximating function's coefficients and squared errors' weights simultaneously as output of one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Domenico Giordano , Felice Iavernaro

When neural networks are used to solve differential equations, they usually produce solutions in the form of black-box functions that are not directly mathematically interpretable. We introduce a method for generating symbolic expressions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Maysum Panju , Ali Ghodsi

We address the problem of searching for a change point in an anomalous process among a finite set of M processes. Specifically, we address a composite hypothesis model in which each process generates measurements following a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-30 Liad Lea Didi , Tomer Gafni , Kobi Cohen

Symbolic task planning for robots is computationally challenging due to the combinatorial complexity of the possible action space. This fact is amplified if there are several sub-goals to be achieved due to the increased length of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Kai Pfeiffer , Leonardo Edgar , Quang-Cuong Pham

Given a boolean formula $\Phi$(X, Y, Z), the Max\#SAT problem asks for finding a partial model on the set of variables X, maximizing its number of projected models over the set of variables Y. We investigate a strict generalization of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Thomas Vigouroux , Marius Bozga , Cristian Ene , Laurent Mounier

The past few decades have seen great leaps in technologies to analyze cells and tissues. Omics methods in particular now allow us unprecedented access to their the molecular composition where the base-level resolution of transcripts and…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-20 Ashika-Sita Jayanthy

We present an exact synthesis approach for computing Exclusive-or Sum-of-Products (ESOP) forms with a minimum number of product terms using Boolean satisfiability. Our approach finds one or more ESOP forms for a given Boolean function. The…

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The problem of detecting anomalies in multiple processes is considered. We consider a composite hypothesis case, in which the measurements drawn when observing a process follow a common distribution with an unknown parameter (vector), whose…

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Sample-efficient exploration is crucial not only for discovering rewarding experiences but also for adapting to environment changes in a task-agnostic fashion. A principled treatment of the problem of optimal input synthesis for system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Matthias Schultheis , Boris Belousov , Hany Abdulsamad , Jan Peters

We describe algorithms for symbolic reasoning about executable models of type systems, supporting three queries intended for designers of type systems. First, we check for type soundness bugs and synthesize a counterexample program if such…

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We study synthesis problems with constraints in partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), where the objective is to compute a strategy for an agent that is guaranteed to satisfy certain safety and performance specifications.…

Given a multi-modal dynamical system, optimal switching logic synthesis involves generating the conditions for switching between the system modes such that the resulting hybrid system satisfies a quantitative specification. We formalize and…

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In a regression task, a function is learned from labeled data to predict the labels at new data points. The goal is to achieve small prediction errors. In symbolic regression, the goal is more ambitious, namely, to learn an interpretable…

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