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Causal abstraction offers a principled framework for mechanistic interpretability, aligning a high-level causal model with the low-level computation realized by a neural network through counterfactual intervention analysis. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jonathn Chang , Arya Datla , Ziv Goldfeld

Training long-horizon robotic policies in complex physical environments is essential for many applications, such as robotic manipulation. However, learning a policy that can generalize to unseen tasks is challenging. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Stone Tao , Xiaochen Li , Tongzhou Mu , Zhiao Huang , Yuzhe Qin , Hao Su

interpretation is a general methodology for building static analyses of programs. It was introduced by P. and R. Cousot in \cite{cc}. We present, in this paper, an application of a generic abstract interpretation to domain of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-12 Kaninda Musumbu

Controller synthesis techniques for continuous systems with respect to temporal logic specifications typically use a finite-state symbolic abstraction of the system. Constructing this abstraction for the entire system is computationally…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Kaushik Mallik , Sadegh Esmaeil Zadeh Soudjani , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Rupak Majumdar

This paper studies the algorithms for the minimisation of weighted automata. It starts with the definition of morphisms-which generalises and unifies the notion of bisimulation to the whole class of weighted automata-and the unicity of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Sylvain Lombardy , Jacques Sakarovitch

The system PL permits the translation of abstract proofs of program correctness into programs in a variety of programming languages. A programming language satisfying certain axioms may be the target of such a translation. The system PL…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David A. Plaisted

Abstraction reasoning is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent studies suggest that many of the deep architectures that have triumphed over other domains failed to work well in abstract reasoning. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Kecheng Zheng , Zheng-jun Zha , Wei Wei

Working with causal models at different levels of abstraction is an important feature of science. Existing work has already considered the problem of expressing formally the relation of abstraction between causal models. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Fabio Massimo Zennaro , Paolo Turrini , Theodoros Damoulas

This paper describes an abstract machine for linguistic formalisms that are based on typed feature structures, such as HPSG. The core design of the abstract machine is given in detail, including the compilation process from a high-level…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Shuly Wintner , Nissim Francez

Modern software-based systems operate under rapidly changing conditions and face ever-increasing uncertainty. In response, systems are increasingly adaptive and reliant on artificial-intelligence methods. In addition to the ubiquity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Nelly Bencomo , Jordi Cabot , Marsha Chechik , Betty H. C. Cheng , Benoit Combemale , Andrzej Wąsowski , Steffen Zschaler

We present a control design procedure for nonlinear control systems in which we represent a potentially high dimensional system with a low dimensional continuous-state abstraction. The abstraction generates a reference which the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Stanley W. Smith , He Yin , Murat Arcak

Abstraction-based techniques are an attractive approach for synthesizing correct-by-construction controllers to satisfy high-level temporal requirements. A main bottleneck for successful application of these techniques is the memory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Rupak Majumdar , Mahmoud Salamati , Sadegh Soudjani

According to a mainstream position in contemporary cognitive science and philosophy, the use of abstract compositional concepts is both a necessary and a sufficient condition for the presence of genuine thought. In this article, we show how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Katja Ried , Benjamin Eva , Thomas Müller , Hans J. Briegel

Causal abstractions allow us to relate causal models on different levels of granularity. To ensure that the models agree on cause and effect, frameworks for causal abstractions define notions of consistency. Two distinct methods for causal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Willem Schooltink , Fabio Massimo Zennaro

This paper describes a first step towards the definition of an abstract machine for linguistic formalisms that are based on typed feature structures, such as HPSG. The core design of the abstract machine is given in detail, including the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Shuly Wintner , Nissim Francez

Randomized experiments are the gold standard for evaluating the effects of changes to real-world systems. Data in these tests may be difficult to collect and outcomes may have high variance, resulting in potentially large measurement error.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-27 Benjamin Letham , Brian Karrer , Guilherme Ottoni , Eytan Bakshy

Designing controllers to satisfy temporal requirements has proven to be challenging for dynamical systems that are affected by uncertainty. This is mainly due to the states evolving in a continuous uncountable space, the stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Birgit C. van Huijgevoort , Ruohan Wang , Sadegh Soudjani , Sofie Haesaert

Abstractive text summarization aims to shorten long text documents into a human readable form that contains the most important facts from the original document. However, the level of actual abstraction as measured by novel phrases that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Romain Paulus , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

The accuracy of simulation-based forecasting in chaotic systems is heavily dependent on high-quality estimates of the system state at the time the forecast is initialized. Data assimilation methods are used to infer these initial conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Michael McCabe , Jed Brown

In this work, we derive conditions under which compositional abstractions of networks of stochastic hybrid systems can be constructed using the interconnection topology and joint dissipativity-type properties of subsystems and their…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Asad Ullah Awan , Majid Zamani