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Algebraic effect handlers is a programming paradigm where programmers can declare their own syntactic operations, and modularly define the semantics of these using effect handlers. However, we cannot directly define algebraic effect…

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A large class of non-smooth practical optimization problems can be written as minimization of a sum of smooth and partly smooth functions. We examine such structured problems which also depend on a parameter vector and study the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Sheheryar Mehmood , Peter Ochs

Alignment of large language models remains a central challenge in natural language processing. Preference optimization has emerged as a popular and effective method for improving alignment, typically through training-time or prompt-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Frédéric Berdoz , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , René Caky , Roger Wattenhofer

Researchers are investing substantial effort in developing powerful general-purpose agents, wherein Foundation Models are used as modules within agentic systems (e.g. Chain-of-Thought, Self-Reflection, Toolformer). However, the history of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shengran Hu , Cong Lu , Jeff Clune

Auto-formalization (AF) translates natural-language reasoning problems into solver-executable programs, enabling symbolic solvers to perform sound logical deduction. In practice, however, AF pipelines are currently brittle: programs may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhiyu Ni , Zheng Liang , Liangcheng Song , Chenrui Cao , Xian Zhang , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Program specialization is a program transformation methodology which improves program efficiency by exploiting the information about the input data which are available at compile time. We show that current techniques for program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti , Sophie Renault

We demonstrate that automatic differentiation (AD), which has become commonly available in machine learning frameworks, is an efficient way to explore ideas that lead to algorithmic improvement in multi-scale affine image registration and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Warin Watson , Cash Cherry , Rachelle Lang

Effect handlers are a powerful abstraction for defining, customising, and composing computational effects. Statically ensuring that all effect operations are handled requires some form of effect system, but using a traditional effect system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Wenhao Tang , Leo White , Stephen Dolan , Daniel Hillerström , Sam Lindley , Anton Lorenzen

The need to efficiently calculate first- and higher-order derivatives of increasingly complex models expressed in Python has stressed or exceeded the capabilities of available tools. In this work, we explore techniques from the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Bart van Merriënboer , Dan Moldovan , Alexander B Wiltschko

We show how to apply forward and reverse mode Combinatory Homomorphic Automatic Differentiation (CHAD) to total functional programming languages with expressive type systems featuring the combination of - tuple types; - sum types; -…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Matthijs Vákár

In a multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem, agents need to navigate from their start to their goal locations without colliding into each other. There are various MAPF algorithms, including Windowed Hierarchical Cooperative A*, Flow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Devon Sigurdson , Vadim Bulitko , Sven Koenig , Carlos Hernandez , William Yeoh

En este trabajo se presenta una propuesta para realizar Diferenciaci\'on Autom\'atica Anidada utilizando cualquier biblioteca de Diferenciaci\'on Autom\'atica que permita sobrecarga de operadores. Para calcular las derivadas anidadas en una…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Juan Luis Valerdi

DiffSharp is an algorithmic differentiation or automatic differentiation (AD) library for the .NET ecosystem, which is targeted by the C# and F# languages, among others. The library has been designed with machine learning applications in…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Atılım Güneş Baydin , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Jeffrey Mark Siskind

Automated code generation allows for a separation between the development of a model, expressed via a domain specific language, and lower level implementation details. Algorithmic differentiation can be applied symbolically at the level of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-27 James R. Maddison

It was previously shown that control-flow refinement can be achieved by a program specializer incorporating property-based abstraction, to improve termination and complexity analysis tools. We now show that this purpose-built specializer…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-10 John P. Gallagher , Robert Glück

Verification of AI is a challenge that has engineering, algorithmic and programming language components. For example, AI planners are deployed to model actions of autonomous agents. They comprise a number of searching algorithms that, given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Alasdair Hill , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew L. Daggitt , Ronald P. A. Petrick

Evolutionary multi-agent systems (EMASs) are very good at dealing with difficult, multi-dimensional problems, their efficacy was proven theoretically based on analysis of the relevant Markov-Chain based model. Now the research continues on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Mateusz Godzik , Jacek Dajda , Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki , Aleksander Byrski , Leszek Rutkowski , Patryk Orzechowski , Joost Wagenaar , Jason H. Moore

Automatic differentiation is a tool for numerically calculating derivatives of a given function up to machine precision. This tool is useful for quantum chemistry methods, which require the calculation of gradients either for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Fabijan Pavošević , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Accurate diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer's disease are crucial to develop new therapies and reduce the associated costs. Recently, with the advances of convolutional neural networks, methods have been proposed to automate these two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Huy-Dung Nguyen , Michaël Clément , Boris Mansencal , Pierrick Coupé

Automatic machine learning (\AML) is a family of techniques to automate the process of training predictive models, aiming to both improve performance and make machine learning more accessible. While many recent works have focused on aspects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Nadiia Chepurko , Ryan Marcus , Emanuel Zgraggen , Raul Castro Fernandez , Tim Kraska , David Karger