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A major aspect of human reasoning involves the use of approximations. Particularly in situations where the decision-making process is under stringent time constraints, decisions are based largely on approximate, qualitative assessments of…

Recently, Zaremba et al. demonstrated that increasing inference-time computation improves robustness in large proprietary reasoning LLMs. In this paper, we first show that smaller-scale, open-source models (e.g., DeepSeek R1, Qwen3,…

AdaBoost is an important algorithm in machine learning and is being widely used in object detection. AdaBoost works by iteratively selecting the best amongst weak classifiers, and then combines several weak classifiers to obtain a strong…

Multi-core machines are ubiquitous. However, most inductive logic programming (ILP) approaches use only a single core, which severely limits their scalability. To address this limitation, we introduce parallel techniques based on…

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Reinforcement learning augmented by the representational power of deep neural networks, has shown promising results on high-dimensional problems, such as game playing and robotic control. However, the sequential nature of these problems…

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Quantum computing is becoming strategically relevant to finance because several core financial bottlenecks are already defined by combinatorial search, expectation estimation, rare-event analysis, representation learning, and long-horizon…

Evolutionary computing (EC) has proven to be effective in solving complex optimization and robotics problems. Unfortunately, typical Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are constrained by the computational capacity available to researchers. More…

We present a work-efficient parallel level-synchronous Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm for shared-memory architectures which achieves the theoretical lower bound on parallel running time. The optimality holds regardless of the shape of…

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and the dark matter distribution. Efficient lensing software is already a necessity to fully use its potential and the performance demands will only increase with the upcoming…

We present an improvement of our implementation of the Correlation Technique for the Fourier Domain Acceleration Search (FDAS) algorithm on Graphics Processor Units (GPUs) (Dimoudi & Armour 2015; Dimoudi et al. 2017). Our new improved…

Computation of a signal's estimated covariance matrix is an important building block in signal processing, e.g., for spectral estimation. Each matrix element is a sum of products of elements in the input matrix taken over a sliding window.…

Tensor Core Units (TCUs) are hardware accelerators developed for deep neural networks, which efficiently support the multiplication of two dense $\sqrt{m}\times \sqrt{m}$ matrices, where $m$ is a given hardware parameter. In this paper, we…