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The current article is an interdisciplinary attempt to decipher automatic program repair processes. The review is done by the manner typical to human science known as diffraction. We attempt to spot a gap in the literature of self-healing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-06 S. Amirhossein Mousavi , Donya Azizi Babani , Francesco Flammini

Defect detection is a critical research area in artificial intelligence. Recently, synthetic data-based self-supervised learning has shown great potential on this task. Although many sophisticated synthesizing strategies exist, little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yuxuan Cai , Dingkang Liang , Dongliang Luo , Xinwei He , Xin Yang , Xiang Bai

Automated theorem provers and formal proof assistants are general reasoning systems that are in theory capable of proving arbitrarily hard theorems, thus solving arbitrary problems reducible to mathematics and logical reasoning. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Lasse Blaauwbroek , David Cerna , Thibault Gauthier , Jan Jakubův , Cezary Kaliszyk , Martin Suda , Josef Urban

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to unseen data: they may wrongly assign high confidence stcores to out-distribuion samples. Recent works try to solve the problem using representation learning methods and specific metrics. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haowei He , Jiaye Teng , Yang Yuan

Ptychography is a lensless imaging method that allows for wavefront sensing and phase-sensitive microscopy from a set of diffraction patterns. Recently, it has been shown that the optimization task in ptychography can be achieved via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Jacob Seifert , Dorian Bouchet , Lars Loetgering , Allard P. Mosk

We present a systematic analysis of automatic differentiation (AD) applications in astrophysics, identifying domains where gradient-based optimization could provide significant computational advantages. Building on our previous work with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Marc Bara

First-order automatic differentiation is a ubiquitous tool across statistics, machine learning, and computer science. Higher-order implementations of automatic differentiation, however, have yet to realize the same utility. In this paper I…

Computation · Statistics 2019-01-01 Michael Betancourt

Data augmentation (DA) techniques aim to increase data variability, and thus train deep networks with better generalisation. The pioneering AutoAugment automated the search for optimal DA policies with reinforcement learning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Yonggang Li , Guosheng Hu , Yongtao Wang , Timothy Hospedales , Neil M. Robertson , Yongxin Yang

If several independent algorithms for a computer-calculated quantity exist, then one can expect their results (which differ because of numerical errors) to follow approximately Gaussian distribution. The mean of this distribution,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Andrej Liptaj

In practice, machine learning methods commonly require anomaly detection (AD) to filter inputs or detect distributional shifts. Typically, this is implemented by running a separate AD model alongside the primary model. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luca Hinkamp , Simon Klüttermann , Emmanuel Müller

Good parameter settings are crucial to achieve high performance in many areas of artificial intelligence (AI), such as propositional satisfiability solving, AI planning, scheduling, and machine learning (in particular deep learning).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Katharina Eggensperger , Marius Lindauer , Frank Hutter

Stochastic optimization algorithms using exponential moving averages of the past gradients, such as ADAM, RMSProp and AdaGrad, have been having great successes in many applications, especially in training deep neural networks. ADAM in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ruiqi Wang , Diego Klabjan

Automated code generation allows for a separation between the development of a model, expressed via a domain specific language, and lower level implementation details. Algorithmic differentiation can be applied symbolically at the level of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-27 James R. Maddison

Thermodynamic and flash equilibrium calculations are the cornerstones of simulation process calculations. The iterative approach, a widely used nonlinear problem-solving technique, relies on derivative calculations throughout the procedure…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Shaoyi Yang

Anomaly detection (AD) is a task that distinguishes normal and abnormal data, which is important for applying automation technologies of the manufacturing facilities. For MVTec dataset that is a representative AD dataset for industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jongyub Seok , Chanjin Kang

A common cause of bugs and vulnerabilities are the violations of usage constraints associated with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). API misuses are common in software projects, and while there have been techniques proposed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Hong Jin Kang , David Lo

Many state-of-the-art algorithms for solving hard combinatorial problems in artificial intelligence (AI) include elements of stochasticity that lead to high variations in runtime, even for a fixed problem instance. Knowledge about the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Katharina Eggensperger , Marius Lindauer , Frank Hutter

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been studied for years. The traditional ADMM algorithm needs to compute, at each iteration, an (empirical) expected loss function on all training examples, resulting in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-10 Peilin Zhao , Jinwei Yang , Tong Zhang , Ping Li

Deep anomaly detection (AD) aims to provide robust and efficient classifiers for one-class and unbalanced settings. However current AD models still struggle on edge-case normal samples and are often unable to keep high performance over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Loic Jezequel , Ngoc-Son Vu , Jean Beaudet , Aymeric Histace

Numerous Optimization Algorithms have a time-varying update rule thanks to, for instance, a changing step size, momentum parameter or, Hessian approximation. In this paper, we apply unrolled or automatic differentiation to a time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Sheheryar Mehmood , Peter Ochs