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Distributed systems, such as state machine replication, are critical infrastructures for modern applications. Practical distributed protocols make minimum assumptions about the underlying network: They typically assume a partially…

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For many years, Herlihy's elegant computability based Consensus Hierarchy has been our best explanation of the relative power of various types of multiprocessor synchronization objects when used in deterministic algorithms. However, key to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Faith Ellen , Rati Gelashvili , Nir Shavit , Leqi Zhu

In current chip design processes, using multiple tools to obtain a gate-level netlist often results in the loss of source code correlation. SynAlign addresses this challenge by automating the alignment process, simplifying iterative design,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Sakshi Garg , Jose Renau

Consensus protocols are fundamental in distributed systems as they enable software with strong consistency properties. However, designing optimized protocols for specific use-cases under certain system assumptions is typically a laborious…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Julian Haas , Ragnar Mogk , Annette Bieniusa , Mira Mezini

We describe a methodology for designing efficient parallel and distributed scientific software. This methodology utilizes sequences of mechanizable algebra--based optimizing transformations. In this study, we apply our methodology to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-11-18 Harry B. Hunt , Lenore R. Mullin , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz , James E. Raynolds

Synchronous computation models simplify the design and the verification of fault-tolerant distributed systems. For efficiency reasons such systems are designed and implemented using an asynchronous semantics. In this paper, we bridge the…

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Min-Cut queries are fundamental: Preprocess an undirected edge-weighted graph, to quickly report a minimum-weight cut that separates a query pair of nodes $s,t$. The best data structure known for this problem simply builds a cut-equivalent…

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We introduce logical synchrony, a framework that allows distributed computing to be coordinated as tightly as in synchronous systems without the distribution of a global clock or any reference to universal time. We develop a model of events…

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Recent studies revealed an important interplay between the detailed structure of fibration symmetric circuits and the functionality of biological and non-biological networks within which they have be identified. The presence of these…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-06 Higor S. Monteiro , Ian Leifer , Saulo D. S. Reis , José S. Andrade, , Hernan A. Makse

We propose a new technique for constructing low-rank approximations of matrices that arise in kernel methods for machine learning. Our approach pairs a novel automatically constructed analytic expansion of the underlying kernel function…

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We propose a novel and efficient, custom frame synchronization architecture aimed at rapid deployment on any hardware platform. Frame synchronization is the process of discerning valid data frames from an incoming transmission and in this…

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As two fundamental problems, graph cuts and graph matching have been investigated over decades, resulting in vast literature in these two topics respectively. However the way of jointly applying and solving graph cuts and matching receives…

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Linearizability is the commonly accepted notion of correctness for concurrent data structures. It requires that any execution of the data structure is justified by a linearization --- a linear order on operations satisfying the data…

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This paper studies a scheduling problem in a parallel machine setting, where each machine must adhere to a predetermined fixed order for processing the jobs. Given $n$ jobs, each with processing times and deadlines, we aim to minimize the…

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This work proposes and studies the distributed resource allocation problem in asynchronous and stochastic settings. We consider a distributed system with multiple workers and a coordinating server with heterogeneous computation and…

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This paper investigates the synchronization problems for general high-dimensional linear networks over finite fields. By using the technique of linear transformations and invariant subspaces for linear spaces over finite fields, several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Siyu Zou , Ting Li , Jiandong Zhu

A major bottleneck in search-based program synthesis is the exponentially growing search space which makes learning large programs intractable. Humans mitigate this problem by leveraging the compositional nature of the real world: In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jonas Witt , Sebastijan Dumančić , Tias Guns , Claus-Christian Carbon

This paper presents a {theoretical study} of the problem of verifying linearizability at runtime, where one seeks for a concurrent algorithm for verifying that the current execution of a given concurrent shared object implementation is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Armando Castañeda , Gilde Valeria Rodríguez

In the literature, besides the assumption of strict complementarity, superlinear convergence of implementable polynomial-time interior point algorithms using known search directions, namely, the HKM direction, its dual or the NT direction,…

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