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Heterogeneous systems commonly adopt dynamic scheduling algorithms to improve resource utilization and enhance scheduling flexibility. However, such flexibility may introduce timing anomalies, wherein locally reduced execution times can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yixuan Zhu , Yinkang Gao , Lei Gong , Binze Jiang , Xiaohang Gong , Zihan Wang , Cheng Tang , Wenqi Lou , Teng Wang , Chao Wang , Xi Li , Xuehai Zhou

Survival analysis is complicated by censored data, high-dimensional features, and non-linear interactions. Classical models offer interpretability and superior calibration but are restricted to linear or predefined functional forms, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mohammad Ashhad , Robert Hoehndorf , Ricardo Henao

Posterior inference with an intractable likelihood is becoming an increasingly common task in scientific domains which rely on sophisticated computer simulations. Typically, these forward models do not admit tractable densities forcing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-29 Joeri Hermans , Volodimir Begy , Gilles Louppe

We introduce the technique of adaptive discretization to design an efficient model-based episodic reinforcement learning algorithm in large (potentially continuous) state-action spaces. Our algorithm is based on optimistic one-step value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sean R. Sinclair , Tianyu Wang , Gauri Jain , Siddhartha Banerjee , Christina Lee Yu

We consider a piecewise deterministic Markov decision process, where the expected exponential utility of total (nonnegative) cost is to be minimized. The cost rate, transition rate and post-jump distributions are under control. The state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Xin Guo , Yi Zhang

Markov automata combine non-determinism, probabilistic branching, and exponentially distributed delays. This compositional variant of continuous-time Markov decision processes is used in reliability engineering, performance evaluation and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Tim Quatmann , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen

We consider the setting of distributed empirical risk minimization where multiple machines compute the gradients in parallel and a centralized server updates the model parameters. In order to reduce the number of communications required to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Hadrien Hendrikx , Lin Xiao , Sebastien Bubeck , Francis Bach , Laurent Massoulie

This paper provides a comprehensive estimation framework for large covariance matrices via a log-det heuristics augmented by a nuclear norm plus $\ell_{1}$-norm penalty. We develop the model framework, which includes high-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Enrico Bernardi , Matteo Farnè

The key innovation of our analytical method, CaRT, lies in establishing a new hierarchical, distributed architecture to guarantee the safety and robustness of a given learning-based motion planning policy. First, in a nominal setting, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hiroyasu Tsukamoto , Benjamin Rivière , Changrak Choi , Amir Rahmani , Soon-Jo Chung

Reservoir computing has proven effective for tasks such as time-series prediction, particularly in the context of chaotic systems. However, conventional reservoir computing frameworks often face challenges in achieving high prediction…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Felix Köster , Kazutaka Kanno , Atsushi Uchida

Computing expected predictions of discriminative models is a fundamental task in machine learning that appears in many interesting applications such as fairness, handling missing values, and data analysis. Unfortunately, computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Pasha Khosravi , YooJung Choi , Yitao Liang , Antonio Vergari , Guy Van den Broeck

We consider the problem of developing automated techniques for solving recurrence relations to aid the expected-runtime analysis of programs. Several classical textbook algorithms have quite efficient expected-runtime complexity, whereas…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Hongfei Fu , Aniket Murhekar

The time-ordered exponential of a time-dependent matrix $\mathsf{A}(t)$ is defined as the function of $\mathsf{A}(t)$ that solves the first-order system of coupled linear differential equations with non-constant coefficients encoded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Pierre-Louis Giscard , Stefano Pozza

Recent quantum algorithms pertaining to electronic structure theory primarily focus on threshold-based dynamic construction of ansatz by selectively including important many-body operators. These methods can be made systematically more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Chayan Patra , Debaarjun Mukherjee , Sonaldeep Halder , Dibyendu Mondal , Rahul Maitra

This paper combines probabilistic and algebraic techniques for computing quantum expectations of operator exponentials (and their products) of quadratic forms of quantum variables in Gaussian states. Such quadratic-exponential functionals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen , Matthew R. James

There exist many techniques for automatically deriving parametric resource (or cost) bounds by analyzing the source code of a program. These techniques work effectively for a large class of programs and language features. However, non-local…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ethan Chu , Yiyang Guo , Jan Hoffmann

Gradient descent is an important class of iterative algorithms for minimizing convex functions. Classically, gradient descent has been a sequential and synchronous process. Distributed and asynchronous variants of gradient descent have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Yun Kuen Cheung , Richard Cole

Datasets often incorporate various functional patterns related to different aspects or regimes, which are typically not equally present throughout the dataset. We propose a novel, general-purpose partitioning algorithm that utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Marius Tacke , Matthias Busch , Kevin Linka , Christian J. Cyron , Roland C. Aydin

Type-based amortised resource analysis following Hofmann and Jost---where resources are associated with individual elements of data structures and doled out to the programmer under a linear typing discipline---have been successful in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Robert Atkey

Probability estimation is an elementary building block of every statistical data compression algorithm. In practice probability estimation is often based on relative letter frequencies which get scaled down, when their sum is too large.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Christopher Mattern