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Control-flow graphs (CFGs) of structured programs are well known to exhibit strong sparsity properties. Traditionally, this sparsity has been modeled using graph parameters such as treewidth and pathwidth, enabling the development of faster…

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Despite the promise of autonomous agentic reasoning, existing workflow generation methods frequently produce fragile, unexecutable plans due to unconstrained LLM-driven construction. We introduce MermaidFlow, a framework that redefines the…

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In this work we target the problem of provably computing the equivalence between two programs represented as dataflow graphs. To this end, we formalize the problem of equivalence between two programs as finding a set of semantics-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Steve Kommrusch , Théo Barollet , Louis-Noël Pouchet

Static filtering is a data-independent optimisation method for Datalog, which generalises algebraic query rewriting techniques from relational databases. In spite of its early discovery by Kifer and Lozinskii in 1986, the method has been…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Philipp Hanisch , Markus Krötzsch

This article describes a very high-level language for clear description of distributed algorithms and optimizations necessary for generating efficient implementations. The language supports high-level control flows where complex…

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Orchestrating centralised service-oriented workflows presents significant scalability challenges that include: the consumption of network bandwidth, degradation of performance, and single points of failure. This paper presents a high-level…

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This thesis proposes an advanced, generic and high-level code rewriting and analysis system in the Julia programming language, providing applied equality saturation in the presence of multiple dispatch and metaprogramming. We show how our…

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Synthetic datasets play a critical role in pre-training CNN models for optical flow, but they are painstaking to generate and hard to adapt to new applications. To automate the process, we present AutoFlow, a simple and effective method to…

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Term rewriting plays a crucial role in software verification and compiler optimization. With dozens of highly parameterizable techniques developed to prove various system properties, automatic term rewriting tools work in an extensive…

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Analyzing big data in a highly dynamic environment becomes more and more critical because of the increasingly need for end-to-end processing of this data. Modern data flows are quite complex and there are not efficient, cost-based,…

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Predicting future states or actions of a given system remains a fundamental, yet unsolved challenge of intelligence, especially in the scope of complex and non-deterministic scenarios, such as modeling behavior of humans. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Maciej Zięba , Marcin Przewięźlikowski , Marek Śmieja , Jacek Tabor , Tomasz Trzcinski , Przemysław Spurek

We consider two classes of stream-based computations which admit taking linear combinations of execution runs: probabilistic sampling and generalized animation. The dataflow architecture is a natural platform for programming with streams.…

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Workflow technology is rapidly evolving and, rather than being limited to modeling the control flow in business processes, is becoming a key mechanism to perform advanced data management, such as big data analytics. This survey focuses on…

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It is a notable trend to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle complex tasks, e.g., tasks that require a sequence of actions and dynamic interaction with tools and external environments. In this paper, we propose StateFlow, a novel…

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Tensor graph superoptimisation systems perform a sequence of subgraph substitution to neural networks, to find the optimal computation graph structure. Such a graph transformation process naturally falls into the framework of sequential…

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Compiler architects increasingly look to machine learning when building heuristics for compiler optimization. The promise of automatic heuristic design, freeing the compiler engineer from the complex interactions of program, architecture,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Chris Cummins , Hugh Leather , Zacharias Fisches , Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler , Michael O'Boyle

Parallel dataflow systems have become a standard technology for large-scale data analytics. Complex data analysis programs in areas such as machine learning and graph analytics often involve control flow, i.e., iterations and branching.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Gábor E. Gévay , Tilmann Rabl , Sebastian Breß , Loránd Madai-Tahy , Volker Markl

Structured LLM workflows, where specialized LLM sub-agents execute according to a predefined graph, have become a powerful abstraction for solving complex tasks. Optimizing such workflows, i.e., selecting configurations for each sub-agent…

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Large language model (LLM)-based systems are becoming increasingly popular for solving tasks by constructing executable workflows that interleave LLM calls, information retrieval, tool use, code execution, memory updates, and verification.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ling Yue , Kushal Raj Bhandari , Ching-Yun Ko , Dhaval Patel , Shuxin Lin , Nianjun Zhou , Jianxi Gao , Pin-Yu Chen , Shaowu Pan

Dataflow programming is a popular and convenient programming paradigm in systems modelling, optimisation, and machine learning. It has a number of advantages, for instance the lacks of control flow allows computation to be carried out in…

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