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Finding the optimally performing configuration of a software system for a given setting is often challenging. Recent approaches address this challenge by learning performance models based on a sample set of configurations. However, building…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Vivek Nair , Tim Menzies , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel

In this paper, we introduce rerailing automata for $\omega$-regular languages. They generalize both deterministic parity (DPW) and minimized history-deterministic co-B\"uchi automata (with transition based acceptance, HdTbcBW) while…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Rüdiger Ehlers

This paper describes an efficient reduction of the learning problem of ranking to binary classification. The reduction guarantees an average pairwise misranking regret of at most that of the binary classifier regret, improving a recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-12-07 Nir Ailon , Mehryar Mohri

This paper introduces two mechanisms for computing over-approximations of sets of reachable states, with the aim of ensuring termination of state-space exploration. The first mechanism consists in over-approximating the automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Alois Dreyfus , Pierre-Cyrille Heam , Olga Kouchnarenko

We propose a model-based, automated, bottom-up approach for design, which is applicable to various physical domains, but in this work we focus on the electrical domain. This bottom-up approach is based on a meta-topology in which each link…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Ion Matei , Maksym Zhenirovskyy , John Maxwell , Johan de Kleer

Infinite words over infinite alphabets serve as models of the temporal development of the allocation and (re-)use of resources over linear time. We approach omega-languages over infinite alphabets in the setting of nominal sets, and study…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Henning Urbat , Daniel Hausmann , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder

Personalization is a crucial aspect of many online experiences. In particular, content ranking is often a key component in delivering sophisticated personalization results. Commonly, supervised learning-to-rank methods are applied, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Beyza Ermis , Patrick Ernst , Yannik Stein , Giovanni Zappella

Using the matrix product state (MPS) representation of the recently proposed tensor ring decompositions, in this paper we propose a tensor completion algorithm, which is an alternating minimization algorithm that alternates over the factors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Wenqi Wang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Shuchin Aeron

Low Rank Approximation (LRA) of a matrix is a hot research subject, fundamental for Matrix and Tensor Computations and Big Data Mining and Analysis. Computations with low rank matrices can be performed at sublinear cost -- by using much…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Qi Luan , Victor Y. Pan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

One way to speed up the algorithm configuration task is to use short runs instead of long runs as much as possible, but without discarding the configurations that eventually do well on the long runs. We consider the problem of selecting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Daniel Karapetyan , Andrew J. Parkes , Thomas Stützle

In this work we use a framework of finite-state automata constructions based on equivalences over words to provide new insights on the relation between well-known methods for computing the minimal deterministic automaton of a language.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Pierre Ganty , Elena Gutiérrez , Pedro Valero

We adapt the quasi-monotone method from [2] for composite convex minimization in the stochastic setting. For the proposed numerical scheme we derive the optimal convergence rate in terms of the last iterate, rather than on average as it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Vladimir Shikhman

We study synchronizing automata with the shortest reset words of relatively large length. First, we refine the Frankl-Pin result on the length of the shortest words of rank $m$, and the B\'eal, Berlinkov, Perrin, and Steinberg results on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Andrzej Kisielewicz , Marek Szykuła

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for recovery of low-rank matrices from compressed linear measurements. The underlying idea of this algorithm is to closely approximate the rank function with a smooth function of singular values,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh , Mikael Skoglund

The goal of this paper is to find a low-rank approximation for a given tensor. Specifically, we give a computable strategy on calculating the rank of a given tensor, based on approximating the solution to an NP-hard problem. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Xiaofei Wang , Carmeliza Navasca

A nondeterministic automaton is semantically deterministic (SD) if different nondeterministic choices in the automaton lead to equivalent states. Semantic determinism is interesting as it is a natural relaxation of determinism, and as some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Bader Abu Radi , Orna Kupferman

Recently, $\alpha$-Rank, a graph-based algorithm, has been proposed as a solution to ranking joint policy profiles in large scale multi-agent systems. $\alpha$-Rank claimed tractability through a polynomial time implementation with respect…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Yaodong Yang , Rasul Tutunov , Phu Sakulwongtana , Haitham Bou Ammar

Convergence guarantees for optimization over bounded-rank matrices are delicate to obtain because the feasible set is a non-smooth and non-convex algebraic variety. Existing techniques include projected gradient descent, fixed-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Quentin Rebjock , Nicolas Boumal

In this paper, a reduced-rank scheme with joint iterative optimization is presented for direction of arrival estimation. A rank-reduction matrix and an auxiliary reduced-rank parameter vector are jointly optimized to calculate the output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 L. Wang , R. C. de Lamare , M. Haardt

A suffixient set is a novel combinatorial object that captures the essential information of repetitive strings in a way that, provided with a random access mechanism, supports various forms of pattern matching. In this paper, we study the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hiroto Fujimaru , Gonzalo Navarro , Giuseppe Romana , Cristian Urbina