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During the software lifecycle, a program can evolve several times for different reasons such as the optimisation of a bottle-neck, the refactoring of an obscure function, etc. These code changes often involve several functions or modules,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-18 David Insa , Sergio Pérez , Josep Silva , Salvador Tamarit

For robots to handle the numerous factors that can affect them in the real world, they must adapt to changes and unexpected events. Evolutionary robotics tries to solve some of these issues by automatically optimizing a robot for a specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Tønnes F. Nygaard , Charles P. Martin , Eivind Samuelsen , Jim Torresen , Kyrre Glette

Controllable Automatic Text Simplification (CATS) produces user-tailored outputs, yet controllability is often treated as a decoding problem and evaluated with metrics that are not reflective to the measure of control. We observe that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hanna Hubarava , Yingqiang Gao

The adaptation of neural codes to the statistics of their environment is well captured by efficient coding approaches. Here we solve an inverse problem: characterizing the objective and constraint functions that efficient codes appear to be…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-25 Luke Rast , Jan Drugowitsch

We present an algorithm for manipulating quantum information via a sequence of projective measurements. We frame this manipulation in the language of stabilizer codes: a quantum computation approach in which errors are prevented and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Kristina R. Colladay , Erich J. Mueller

New approach to design a dynamic model of genes with multiple autonomous regulatory modules by evolution in silico is proposed. The approach is based on Genetic Algorithms, enforced by new crossover operators, especially worked out for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-03-03 Alexander V. Spirov

Controlling a complex network is of great importance in many applications. The network can be controlled by inputting external control signals through some selected nodes, which are called input nodes. Previous works found that the majority…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Xizhe Zhang , Qian Li

With the increase of research in self-adaptive systems, there is a need to better understand the way research contributions are evaluated. Such insights will support researchers to better compare new findings when developing new knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ilias Gerostathopoulos , Thomas Vogel , Danny Weyns , Patricia Lago

Reasoning models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning tasks. However, ensuring their safety against adversarial jailbreak prompts remains a critical challenge. Due to the covert and deceptive nature of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yuhang Wang , Yanxu Zhu , Dongyuan Lu , Jitao Sang

Responsible disclosure limitation is an iterative exercise in risk assessment and mitigation. From time to time, as disclosure risks grow and evolve and as data users' needs change, agencies must consider redesigning the disclosure…

This position paper proposes a fundamental shift in designing code generation models: treating reasoning depth as a controllable resource. Rather than being an incidental byproduct of prompting, we argue that the trade-off between rapid,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Zongjie Li , Shuai Wang

The origin and organizing principles of the genetic code remain fundamental puzzles in life science. The vanishingly low probability of the natural codon-to-amino acid mapping arising by chance has spurred the hypothesis that its structure…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-14 Yudam Seo , Tsvi Tlusty , Junghyo Jo

With the increase in complexity of robotic systems and the rise in non-expert users, it can be assumed that task constraints are not explicitly known. In tasks where avoiding singularity is critical to its success, this paper provides an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Jeevan Manavalan , Matthew Howard

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with reliably generating highly structured outputs, such as program code, mathematical formulas, or well-formed markup. Constrained decoding approaches mitigate this problem by greedily restricting what…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kanghee Park , Jiayu Wang , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nadia Polikarpova , Loris D'Antoni

This paper proposes a framework for automatic formal controller synthesis for general hybrid systems with a subset of safety and reachability specifications. The framework uses genetic programming to automatically co-synthesize controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Cees F. Verdier , Manuel Mazo

The problem of automatic software generation is known as Machine Programming. In this work, we propose a framework based on genetic algorithms to solve this problem. Although genetic algorithms have been used successfully for many problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shantanu Mandal , Todd A. Anderson , Javier S. Turek , Justin Gottschlich , Shengtian Zhou , Abdullah Muzahid

Autonomous robots may be able to adapt their behavior in response to changes in the environment. This is useful, for example, to efficiently handle limited resources or to respond appropriately to unexpected events such as faults. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Martin Molina , Pablo Santamaria

The ability of animals to interact with complex dynamics is unmatched in robots. Especially important to the interaction performances is the online adaptation of body dynamics, which can be modeled as an impedance behaviour. However, the…

After initial release of a machine learning algorithm, the model can be fine-tuned by retraining on subsequently gathered data, adding newly discovered features, or more. Each modification introduces a risk of deteriorating performance and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-23 Jean Feng , Gene Pennello , Nicholas Petrick , Berkman Sahiner , Romain Pirracchio , Alexej Gossmann

Nonlinear constrained optimization problems are encountered in many scientific fields. To utilize the huge calculation power of current computers, many mathematic models are also rebuilt as optimization problems. Most of them have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-03 Wei Zhang , Xudong Shi , Liwen Wang