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Distributed computation is a framework used to break down a complex computational task into smaller tasks and distributing them among computational nodes. Erasure correction codes have recently been introduced and have become a popular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Royee Yosibash , Ram Zamir

While probability theory is normally applied to external environments, there has been some recent interest in probabilistic modeling of the outputs of computations that are too expensive to run. Since mathematical logic is a powerful tool…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Scott Garrabrant , Benya Fallenstein , Abram Demski , Nate Soares

Probabilistic Circuits (PCs) are tractable representations of probability distributions allowing for exact and efficient computation of likelihoods and marginals. Recent advancements have improved the scalability of PCs either by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Honghua Zhang , Meihua Dang , Benjie Wang , Stefano Ermon , Nanyun Peng , Guy Van den Broeck

Probabilistic Programming Languages (PPLs) allow users to encode statistical inference problems and automatically apply an inference algorithm to solve them. Popular inference algorithms for PPLs, such as sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Daniel Lundén , Gizem Çaylak , Fredrik Ronquist , David Broman

We apply a probabilistic approach to study the computational complexity of analog computers which solve linear programming problems. We analyze numerically various ensembles of linear programming problems and obtain, for each of these…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaniv Avizrats , Joshua Feinberg , Shmuel Fishman

The field of probabilistic logic programming (PLP) focuses on integrating probabilistic models into programming languages based on logic. Over the past 30 years, numerous languages and frameworks have been developed for modeling, inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Vincent Derkinderen , Robin Manhaeve , Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires , Luc De Raedt

Probabilistic solvers for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) have emerged as an efficient framework for uncertainty quantification and inference on dynamical systems. In this work, we explain the mathematical assumptions and detailed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-25 Nicholas Krämer , Nathanael Bosch , Jonathan Schmidt , Philipp Hennig

In this paper we develop a statistical theory and an implementation of deep learning models. We show that an elegant variable splitting scheme for the alternating direction method of multipliers optimises a deep learning objective. We allow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-22 Nicholas G. Polson , Brandon T. Willard , Massoud Heidari

We propose a static and a dynamic approach to model biological signaling networks, and show how each can be used to answer relevant biological questions. For this we use the two different mathematical tools of Propositional Logic and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-05-13 Utz-Uwe Haus , Kathrin Niermann , Klaus Truemper , Robert Weismantel

We present a formulation of the problem of probabilistic model checking as one of query evaluation over probabilistic logic programs. To the best of our knowledge, our formulation is the first of its kind, and it covers a rich class of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-24 Andrey Gorlin , C. R. Ramakrishnan , Scott A. Smolka

Polynomial based approaches, such as the Mat-Dot and entangled polynomial codes (EPC) have been used extensively within coded matrix computations to obtain schemes with good recovery thresholds. However, these schemes are well-recognized to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kyungrak Son , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We enable aProbLog---a probabilistic logical programming approach---to reason in presence of uncertain probabilities represented as Beta-distributed random variables. We achieve the same performance of state-of-the-art algorithms for highly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Federico Cerutti , Lance Kaplan , Angelika Kimmig , Murat Sensoy

In this paper we address the complexity of solving linear programming problems with a set of differential equations that converge to a fixed point that represents the optimal solution. Assuming a probabilistic model, where the inputs are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Asa Ben-Hur , Joshua Feinberg , Shmuel Fishman , Hava T. Siegelmann

We discuss the computational complexity of solving linear programming problems by means of an analog computer. The latter is modeled by a dynamical system which converges to the optimal vertex solution. We analyze various probability…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yaniv S. Avizrats , Joshua Feinberg , Shmuel Fishman

Probabilistic programs are typically normal-looking programs describing posterior probability distributions. They intrinsically code up randomized algorithms and have long been at the heart of modern machine learning and approximate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lutz Klinkenberg , Tobias Winkler , Mingshuai Chen , Joost-Pieter Katoen

A systematic study of the probability distribution of superimposed random codes is presented through the use of generating functions. Special attention is paid to the cases of either uniformly distributed but not necessarily independent or…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-06-19 Bernd Günther

The computation of exact barycenters for a set of discrete measures is of interest in applications where sparse solutions are desired, and to assess the quality of solutions returned by approximate algorithms and heuristics. The task is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Steffen Borgwardt , Stephan Patterson

We probabilistically analyze the performance of the arithmetic coding algorithm under a probability model for binary data in which a message is received by a coder from a source emitting independent equally distributed bits, with 1…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hosam M. Mahmoud , Hans J. Rivertz

Linear-scaling electronic-structure techniques, also called O(N) techniques, rely heavily on the multiplication of sparse matrices, where the sparsity arises from spatial cut-offs. In order to treat very large systems, the calculations must…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Bowler , T. Miyazaki , M. J. Gillan

Probabilistic Programming Languages (PPLs) are a powerful tool in machine learning, allowing highly expressive generative models to be expressed succinctly. They couple complex inference algorithms, implemented by the language, with an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Alexander Collins , Vinod Grover