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Source code processing heavily relies on the methods widely used in natural language processing (NLP), but involves specifics that need to be taken into account to achieve higher quality. An example of this specificity is that the semantics…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Nadezhda Chirkova

Chain-of-thought prompting has emerged as a powerful technique for enabling large language models (LLMs) to solve complex reasoning tasks. However, these reasoning chains can be verbose, raising concerns about efficiency. In response,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Ayeong Lee , Ethan Che , Tianyi Peng

List Accessing Problem is a well studied research problem in the context of linear search. Input to the list accessing problem is an unsorted linear list of distinct elements along with a sequence of requests, where each request is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Rakesh Mohanty , Burle Sharma , Sasmita Tripathy

For the discrete memoryless sources with a countably infinite alphabet, we prove that for any positive integer $k$, there exists a corresponding probability interval such that if the largest symbol probability $p_{1}$ falls in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongyang Liu , Wei Yan

A lot of work has been done in the field of image compression via machine learning, but not much attention has been given to the compression of natural language. Compressing text into lossless representations while making features easily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Gabriele Prato , Mathieu Duchesneau , Sarath Chandar , Alain Tapp

Linear constraints are the linear counterpart of Haskell's class constraints. Linearly typed parameters allow the programmer to control resources such as file handles and manually managed memory as linear arguments. Indeed, a linear type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Arnaud Spiwack , Csongor Kiss , Jean-Philippe Bernardy , Nicolas Wu , Richard A. Eisenberg

Search is a key service within constraint programming systems, and it demands the restoration of previously accessed states during the exploration of a search tree. Restoration proceeds either bottom-up within the tree to roll back…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Yong Lin , Martin Henz

Searching for all occurrences of a pattern in a text is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many other fields, like natural language processing, information retrieval and computational biology. In the last two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Simone Faro , M. Oguzhan Külekci

We investigate an application in the automatic tuning of computer codes, an area of research that has come to prominence alongside the recent rise of distributed scientific processing and heterogeneity in high-performance computing…

Applications · Statistics 2013-04-17 Robert B. Gramacy , Matt Taddy , Stefan M. Wild

In shared-memory concurrent programming, shared resources can be protected using synchronization mechanisms such as monitors or channels. The connection between these mechanisms and the resources they protect is, however, only given…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-07 Mischael Schill , Sebastian Nanz , Bertrand Meyer

A single-letter characterization is provided for the capacity region of finite-state multiple-access channels, when the channel state process is an independent and identically distributed sequence, the transmitters have access to partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-10 Giacomo Como , Serdar Yüksel

In this paper, we study three applications of recursion to problems in coding and random permutations. First, we consider locally recoverable codes with partial locality and use recursion to estimate the minimum distance of such codes. Next…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

We study the problem of evaluating a Monadic Second Order (MSO) query over strings under updates in the setting of direct access. We present an algorithm that, given an MSO query with first-order free variables represented by an unambiguous…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Pierre Bourhis , Florent Capelli , Stefan Mengel , Cristian Riveros

In network communication, the source often transmits messages at several different information rates within a session. How to deal with information transmission and network error correction simultaneously under different rates is introduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu , Zhen Zhang

Compression of integer sets and sequences has been extensively studied for settings where elements follow a uniform probability distribution. In addition, methods exist that exploit clustering of elements in order to achieve higher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-11 N. Jesper Larsson

Modern language models are internally -- and mathematically -- distributions over $\it{token}$ strings rather than $\it{character}$ strings, posing numerous challenges for programmers building user applications on top of them. For example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Tim Vieira , Ben LeBrun , Mario Giulianelli , Juan Luis Gastaldi , Brian DuSell , John Terilla , Timothy J. O'Donnell , Ryan Cotterell

Random-access quantum memories may offer computational advantages for quantum computers and networks. In this paper, we advance arrays of solid-state quantum memories towards their usage as random-access quantum memory. We perform quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Markus Teller , Susana Plascencia , Samuele Grandi , Hugues de Riedmatten

In many important applications -- such as search engines and relational database systems -- data is stored in the form of arrays of integers. Encoding and, most importantly, decoding of these arrays consumes considerable CPU time.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Daniel Lemire , Leonid Boytsov

The multi-access variant of the coded caching problem in the presence of an external wiretapper is investigated . A multi-access coded caching scheme with $K$ users, $K$ caches and $N$ files, where each user has access to $L$ neighbouring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

Constrained sequence (CS) codes, including fixed-length CS codes and variable-length CS codes, have been widely used in modern wireless communication and data storage systems. Sequences encoded with constrained sequence codes satisfy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Congzhe Cao , Duanshun Li , Ivan Fair