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This work introduces ParAMS -- a versatile Python package that aims to make parameterization workflows in computational chemistry and physics more accessible, transparent and reproducible. We demonstrate how ParAMS facilitates the parameter…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Leonid Komissarov , Robert Rüger , Matti Hellström , Toon Verstraelen

Mining specifications from execution traces presents an automated way of capturing characteristic system behaviors. However, existing approaches are largely restricted to Boolean abstractions of events, limiting their ability to express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sam Nicholas Kouteili , William Fishell , Christian Scaff , Mark Santolucito , Ruzica Piskac

The structural analysis of shape boundaries leads to the characterization of objects as well as to the understanding of shape properties. The literature on graphs and networks have contributed to the structural characterization of shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Gisele H. B. Miranda , Jeaneth Machicao , Odemir M. Bruno

Information about user preferences plays a key role in automated decision making. In many domains it is desirable to assess such preferences in a qualitative rather than quantitative way. In this paper, we propose a qualitative graphical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 C. Boutilier , R. I. Brafman , C. Domshlak , H. H. Hoos , D. Poole

Molecular function is largely determined by structure. Accurately aligning molecular structure with natural language is therefore essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to reason about downstream chemical tasks. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Feiyang Cai , Guijuan He , Yi Hu , Jingjing Wang , Joshua Luo , Tianyu Zhu , Srikanth Pilla , Gang Li , Ling Liu , Feng Luo

Virtually all verification techniques using formal methods rely on the availability of a formal specification, which describes the design requirements precisely. However, formulating specifications remains a manual task that is notoriously…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

Parametric linear systems are linear systems of equations in which some symbolic parameters, that is, symbols that are not considered to be candidates for elimination or solution in the course of analyzing the problem, appear in the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Robert M. Corless , Mark Giesbrecht , Leili Rafiee Sevyeri , B. David Saunders

This article introduces Newton, a specification language for notating the analytic form, units of measure, and sensor signal properties for physical-object-specific invariants and general physical laws. We designed Newton to provide a means…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jonathan Lim , Phillip Stanley-Marbell

Symbolic execution is a classical program analysis technique used to show that programs satisfy or violate given specifications. In this work we generalize symbolic execution to support program analysis for relational specifications in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Gian Pietro Farina , Stephen Chong , Marco Gaboardi

Formal verification of memory-manipulating programs critically depends on precise function specifications that capture memory states written by experts. This requirement has become a major bottleneck as large language models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Liao Zhang , Tong Chen , Xiwei Wu , Qi Liu , Xiyu Zhai , Xinqi Wang , Qinxiang Cao

Machine learning potentials are an important tool for molecular simulation, but their development is held back by a shortage of high quality datasets to train them on. We describe the SPICE dataset, a new quantum chemistry dataset for…

A method is reported for creating, generating, and measuring parametrically shaped pulses for time-bandwidth product >>5, which consists of a parametric pulse-shaping algorithm, a spatial light modulation system and a single shot…

Chemical reaction mechanisms are the foundation of how chemists evaluate reactivity and feasibility, yet current Computer-Assisted Synthesis Planning (CASP) systems operate without this mechanistic reasoning. We introduce a computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Théo A. Neukomm , Zlatko Jončev , Philippe Schwaller

Continuous prompts, or "soft prompts", are a widely-adopted parameter-efficient tuning strategy for large language models, but are often less favorable due to their opaque nature. Prior attempts to interpret continuous prompts relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Dana Ramati , Daniela Gottesman , Mor Geva

Symbolic regression has excelled in uncovering equations from physics, chemistry, biology, and related disciplines. However, its effectiveness becomes less certain when applied to experimental data lacking inherent closed-form expressions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Krzysztof Kacprzyk , Mihaela van der Schaar

Explaining complex or seemingly simple machine learning models is an important practical problem. We want to explain individual predictions from a complex machine learning model by learning simple, interpretable explanations. Shapley values…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-07 Kjersti Aas , Martin Jullum , Anders Løland

Structural quantities such as order parameters and correlation functions are often employed to gain insight into the physical behavior and properties of condensed matter systems. While standard quantities for characterizing structure exist,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

We present a novel explicit shape representation for instance segmentation. Based on how to model the object shape, current instance segmentation systems can be divided into two categories, implicit and explicit models. The implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Tutian Tang , Wenqiang Xu , Ruolin Ye , Lixin Yang , Cewu Lu

Large Language Models (LLMs), deep learning architectures with typically over 10 billion parameters, have recently begun to be integrated into various cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as robotics, industrial automation, and autopilot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Weizhe Xu , Mengyu Liu , Fanxin Kong

Shapes do not define a linear space. This paper explores the linear structure of deformations as a representation of shapes. This transforms shape optimization to a variant of optimal control. The numerical challenges of this point of view…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Stephan Schmidt , Volker H. Schulz