English
Related papers

Related papers: A Pairwise T-Way Test Suite Generation Strategy Us…

200 papers

In many scientific and engineering applications, one has to solve not one but a sequence of instances of the same problem. Often times, the problems in the sequence are linked in a way that allows intermediate results to be reused. A…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Diego Fabregat-Traver , Paolo Bientinesi

We study scheduling problems on a machine with varying speed. Assuming a known speed function we ask for a cost-efficient scheduling solution. Our main result is a PTAS for minimizing the total weighted completion time in this setting. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nicole Megow , José Verschae

Program synthesis aims to {\it automatically} find programs from an underlying programming language that satisfy a given specification. While this has the potential to revolutionize computing, how to search over the vast space of programs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuan Yuan , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Predicting stable and metastable structures is central to molecular and materials discovery, but remains limited by the cost of searching high-dimensional energy landscapes. Deep generative models offer efficient structure sampling, yet…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yifang Qin , Yu Shi , Junfu Tan , Chang Liu , Ming Zhang , Ziheng Lu

As Gaussian processes are used to answer increasingly complex questions, analytic solutions become scarcer and scarcer. Monte Carlo methods act as a convenient bridge for connecting intractable mathematical expressions with actionable…

This paper presents a novel scalable GPU-based method for Test Paths (TPs) and Prime Paths (PPs) Generation, called TPGen, used in structural testing and in test data generation. TPGen outperforms existing methods for PPs and TPs generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ebrahim Fazli , Ali Ebnenasir

Scenario-based testing with driving simulators is extensively used to identify failing conditions of automated driving assistance systems (ADAS). However, existing studies have shown that repeated test execution in the same as well as in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lev Sorokin , Matteo Biagiola , Andrea Stocco

Ensuring the functional safety of highly configurable systems often requires testing representative subsets of all possible configurations to reduce testing effort and save resources. The ratio of covered t-wise feature interactions (i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Tobias Pett , Sebastian Krieter , Thomas Thüm , Ina Schaefer

The soft-argmax operation is widely adopted in neural network-based stereo matching methods to enable differentiable regression of disparity. However, network trained with soft-argmax is prone to being multimodal due to absence of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Baiyu Pan , jichao jiao , Bowen Yao , Jianxin Pang , Jun Cheng

Many scientific-software projects test their codes inadequately, or not at all. Despite its well-known benefits, adopting routine testing is often not easy. Development teams may have doubts about establishing effective test procedures,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Paul Madden , Eduardo G. Valente

Randomised field experiments, such as A/B testing, have long been the gold standard for evaluating the value that new software brings to customers. However, running randomised field experiments is not always desired, possible or even…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yuchu Liu , David Issa Mattos , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson , Jonn Lantz

We analyse and explain the increased generalisation performance of iterate averaging using a Gaussian process perturbation model between the true and batch risk surface on the high dimensional quadratic. We derive three phenomena…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Diego Granziol , Xingchen Wan , Samuel Albanie , Stephen Roberts

Test-time scaling (TTS) has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Verification plays a key role in TTS, simultaneously influencing (1) reasoning performance and (2) compute efficiency, due…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hao Mark Chen , Guanxi Lu , Yasuyuki Okoshi , Zhiwen Mo , Masato Motomura , Hongxiang Fan

In Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) families of systems are designed, rather than developing the individual systems independently. Combinatorial Interaction Testing has proven to be effective for testing in the context of SPLE,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Evelyn Nicole Haslinger , Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon , Alexander Egyed

Test Case Selection (TCS) aims to select a subset of the test suite to run for regression testing. The selection is typically based on past coverage and execution cost data. Researchers have successfully used multi-objective evolutionary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Mitchell Olsthoorn , Annibale Panichella

In this paper, a robust weighted score for unbalanced data (ROWSU) is proposed for selecting the most discriminative feature for high dimensional gene expression binary classification with class-imbalance problem. The method addresses one…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-24 Zardad Khan , Amjad Ali , Saeed Aldahmani

A new algorithm is developed to tackle the issue of sampling non-Gaussian model parameter posterior probability distributions that arise from solutions to Bayesian inverse problems. The algorithm aims to mitigate some of the hurdles faced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-19 Leen Alawieh , Jonathan Goodman , John B. Bell

Gradient sampling (GS) has proved to be an effective methodology for the minimization of objective functions that may be nonconvex and/or nonsmooth. The most computationally expensive component of a contemporary GS method is the need to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Frank E. Curtis , Minhan Li

Test-time data augmentation$-$averaging the predictions of a machine learning model across multiple augmented samples of data$-$is a widely used technique that improves the predictive performance. While many advanced learnable data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-23 Dmitry Molchanov , Alexander Lyzhov , Yuliya Molchanova , Arsenii Ashukha , Dmitry Vetrov

The travelling salesman problem (TSP) of space trajectory design is complicated by its complex structure design space. The graph based tree search and stochastic seeding combinatorial approaches are commonly employed to tackle the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Liqiang Hou , Shufan Wu , Zhongcheng Mu , Meilin Liu