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Constrained codes are used to prevent errors from occurring in various data storage and data transmission systems. They can help in increasing the storage density of magnetic storage devices, in managing the lifetime of electronic storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ahmed Hareedy , Beyza Dabak , Robert Calderbank

Optimization in machine learning, both theoretical and applied, is presently dominated by first-order gradient methods such as stochastic gradient descent. Second-order optimization methods, that involve second derivatives and/or second…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Rohan Anil , Vineet Gupta , Tomer Koren , Kevin Regan , Yoram Singer

We propose the Selective Densification method for fast motion planning through configuration space. We create a sequence of roadmaps by iteratively adding configurations. We organize these roadmaps into layers and add edges between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Brad Saund , Dmitry Berenson

Fractal image compression has some desirable properties like high quality at high compression ratio, fast decoding, and resolution independence. Therefore it can be used for many applications such as texture mapping and pattern recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Mehdi. Salarian , Babak. Mohamadinia , Jalil Rasekhi

In this paper we are proposing a new sorting algorithm, List Sort algorithm, is based on the dynamic memory allocation. In this research study we have also shown the comparison of various efficient sorting techniques with List sort. Due the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Adarsh Kumar Verma , Prashant Kumar

Distributed storage systems support failures of individual devices by the use of replication or erasure correcting codes. While erasure correcting codes offer a better storage efficiency than replication for similar fault tolerance, they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Bitmap indexes are commonly used in databases and search engines. By exploiting bit-level parallelism, they can significantly accelerate queries. However, they can use much memory, and thus we might prefer compressed bitmap indexes.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Samy Chambi , Daniel Lemire , Owen Kaser , Robert Godin

In this paper, we propose an efficient reliability based segmentation-discarding decoding (SDD) algorithm for short block-length codes. A novel segmentation-discarding technique is proposed along with the stopping rule to significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Chentao Yue , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

The increasing demand for data storage has prompted the exploration of new techniques, with molecular data storage being a promising alternative. In this work, we develop coding schemes for a new storage paradigm that can be represented as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Boaz Moav , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

We present an optimal method for encoding cluster assignments of arbitrary data sets. Our method, Random Cycle Coding (RCC), encodes data sequentially and sends assignment information as cycles of the permutation defined by the order of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Daniel Severo , Ashish Khisti , Alireza Makhzani

In this paper we presented the algorithm designed to efficient coordinate cross-match of objects in the modern massive astronomical catalogues. Preliminary data sort in the existed catalogues provides the opportunity for coordinate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Volodymyr Akhmetov , Artem Dmytrenko , Sergii Khlamov

Research aimed at scaling up neuroscience inspired learning algorithms for neural networks is accelerating. Recently, a key research area has been the study of energy-based learning algorithms such as predictive coding, due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Luca Pinchetti , Simon Frieder , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Tommaso Salvatori

We present a new fast Chase decoding algorithm for binary BCH codes. The new algorithm reduces the complexity in comparison to a recent fast Chase decoding algorithm for Reed--Solomon (RS) codes by the authors (IEEE Trans. IT, 2022), by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yaron Shany , Amit Berman

In this paper we review existing hard-decision decoding algorithms for product codes along with different post-processing techniques used in conjunction with the iterative decoder for product codes. We improve the decoder by Reddy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ferdinand Blomqvist

Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nathan X. Marshak , Kathlynn Simotas , Zarija Lukić , Hyunbae Park , James Ahrens , Chris R. Johnson

In high performance computing, researchers try to optimize the CPU Scheduling algorithms, for faster and efficient working of computers. But a process needs both CPU bound and I/O bound for completion of its execution. With modernization of…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Amar Ranjan Dash , Sandipta Kumar Sahu , B Kewal

In this paper we propose a high-order accurate scheme for image segmentation based on the level-set method. In this approach, the curve evolution is described as the 0-level set of a representation function but we modify the velocity that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Maurizio Falcone , Giulio Paolucci , Silvia Tozza

Exploration systems are critical for enhancing the autonomy of robots. Due to the unpredictability of the future planning space, existing methods either adopt an inefficient greedy strategy or require a lot of resources to obtain a global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xuyang Zhao , Chengpu Yu , Erpei Xu , Yixuan Liu

Our goal is to revisit rank order coding by proposing an original exact decoding procedure for it. Rank order coding was proposed by Simon Thorpe et al. who stated that the retina represents the visual stimulus by the order in which its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-04 Khaled Masmoudi , Marc Antonini , Pierre Kornprobst

We present an algorithm for creating an n-level ray-space hierarchy (RSH) of coherent rays that runs on the GPU. Our algorithm uses rasterization to process the primary rays, then uses those results as the inputs for a RSH, that processes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Nuno Reis , Vasco Costa , João M. Pereira