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Spreadsheet computing is one of the more popular computing methodologies in today's modern society. The spreadsheet application's ease of use and usefulness has enabled non-programmers to perform programming-like tasks in a familiar setting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ezana N. Beyenne

We investigate the expressive power of spreadsheets. We consider spreadsheets which contain only formulas, and assume that they are small templates, which can be filled to a larger area of the grid to process input data of variable size.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Jerzy Tyszkiewicz

Merging models becomes a fundamental procedure in some applications that consider model efficiency and robustness. The training randomness or Non-I.I.D. data poses a huge challenge for averaging-based model fusion. Previous research efforts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yichu Xu , Xin-Chun Li , Le Gan , De-Chuan Zhan

Spreadsheets in financial markets are frequently used as database, calculator and reporting application combined. This paper describes an alternative approach in which spreadsheet design and database technology have been brought together in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Brian Sentence

This paper presents a taxonomy for analytical spreadsheet models. It considers both the use case that a spreadsheet is meant to serve, and the engineering resources devoted to its development. We extend a previous three-type taxonomy, to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Thomas A. Grossman , Vijay Mehrotra

The use of spreadsheets is widespread. Be it in business, finance, engineering or other areas, spreadsheets are created for their flexibility and ease to quickly model a problem. Very often they evolve from simple prototypes to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-30 José Pedro Correia , Miguel A. Ferreira

The rapid development of high-throughput technologies has enabled the generation of data from biological or disease processes that span multiple layers, like genomic, proteomic or metabolomic data, and further pertain to multiple sources,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-25 Subhabrata Majumdar , George Michailidis

Statistical matching aims to integrate two statistical sources. These sources can be two samples or a sample and the entire population. If two samples have been selected from the same population and information has been collected on…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-04 Raphaël Jauslin , Yves Tillé

Improvement of time series forecasting accuracy through combining multiple models is an important as well as a dynamic area of research. As a result, various forecasts combination methods have been developed in literature. However, most of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Ratnadip Adhikari , R. K. Agrawal

Combining the results of different search engines in order to improve upon their performance has been the subject of many research papers. This has become known as the "Data Fusion" task, and has great promise in dealing with the vast…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Weinan Huang , Junyi Chen , Lei Meng , David Lillis

Model merging combines the parameters of multiple neural networks into a single model without additional training. As fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) proliferate, merging offers a computationally efficient alternative to ensembles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mingyang Song , Mao Zheng

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of textual commonsense knowledge bases, aimed at providing more nuanced and context-rich knowledge. The integration of external commonsense into language models has been shown to be a key enabler in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Wanyun Cui , Xingran Chen

The most widely used method for finding relationships between several quantities is multiple regression. This however is restricted to a single dependent variable. We present a more general method which allows models to be constructed with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-06 Chris Tofallis

The spreadsheet application is among the most widely used computing tools in modern society. It provides excellent usability and usefulness, and it easily enables a non-programmer to perform programming-like tasks in a visual tabular "pen…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Ezana N. Beyenne , Hai-Feng Guo

Model merging combines multiple fine-tuned models into a single model by adding their weight updates, providing a lightweight alternative to retraining. Existing methods primarily target resolving conflicts between task updates, leaving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yayuan Li , Ze Peng , Jian Zhang , Jintao Guo , Yue Duan , Yinghuan Shi

This paper proposes a new theory and methodology to tackle the problem of unifying distributed analyses and inferences on shared parameters from multiple sources, into a single coherent inference. This surprisingly challenging problem…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-22 Hongsheng Dai , Murray Pollock , Gareth Roberts

In ESOP 2008, Gulwani and Musuvathi introduced a notion of cover and exploited it to handle infinite-state model checking problems. Motivated by applications to the verification of data-aware processes, we proved in a previous paper that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Diego Calvanese , Silvio Ghilardi , Alessandro Gianola , Marco Montali , Andrey Rivkin

Spreadsheets are end-user programs and domain models that are heavily employed in administration, financial forecasting, education, and science because of their intuitive, flexible, and direct approach to computation. As a result,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Michael Kohlhase , Corneliu Prodescu , Christian Liguda

Model merging has attracted significant attention as a powerful paradigm for model reuse, facilitating the integration of task-specific models into a singular, versatile framework endowed with multifarious capabilities. Previous studies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhengqi Xu , Han Zheng , Jie Song , Li Sun , Mingli Song

Spreadsheets are the go-to tool for computerized calculation and modelling, but are hard to comprehend and adapt after reaching a certain complexity. In general, cognition of complex systems is facilitated by having a higher order mental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Patrick Koch