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We consider a framework for structured prediction based on search in the space of complete structured outputs. Given a structured input, an output is produced by running a time-bounded search procedure guided by a learned cost function, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Janardhan Rao Doppa , Alan Fern , Prasad Tadepalli

We introduce a new class of first passage time optimization driven by threshold resetting, inspired by many natural processes where crossing a critical limit triggers failure, degradation or transition. In here, search agents are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-22 Arup Biswas , Satya N Majumdar , Arnab Pal

Software model optimization is a process that automatically generates design alternatives aimed at improving quantifiable non-functional properties of software systems, such as performance and reliability. Multi-objective evolutionary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 J. Andres Diaz-Pace , Daniele Di Pompeo , Michele Tucci

When learning to ride a bike, a child falls down a number of times before achieving the first success. As falling down usually has only mild consequences, it can be seen as a tolerable failure in exchange for a faster learning process, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Alonso Marco , Alexander von Rohr , Dominik Baumann , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Sebastian Trimpe

Language Models are extremely susceptible to performance collapse with even small changes to input prompt strings. Libraries such as DSpy (from Stanford NLP) avoid this problem through demonstration-based prompt optimisation. Inspired by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maanas Taneja

This paper investigates the optimal signal detection problem with a particular interest in large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The problem is NP-hard and can be solved optimally by searching the shortest path on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Le He , Ke He , Lisheng Fan , Xianfu Lei , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

Traditional neural architecture search (NAS) has a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing network architectures for various tasks. In this paper, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , Rongrong Ji , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

The minimisation of cost functions is crucial in various optimisation fields. However, identifying their global minimum remains challenging owing to the huge computational cost incurred. This work analytically expresses the computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Takuya Isomura

In many contemporary optimization problems such as those arising in machine learning, it can be computationally challenging or even infeasible to evaluate an entire function or its derivatives. This motivates the use of stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-01 El-houcine Bergou , Youssef Diouane , Vladimir Kunc , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Clément W. Royer

We formulate selecting the best optimizing system (SBOS) problems and provide solutions for those problems. In an SBOS problem, a finite number of systems are contenders. Inside each system, a continuous decision variable affects the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-04 Nian Si , Yifu Tang , Zeyu Zheng

Compiling programs to an instruction set architecture (ISA) requires a set of rewrite rules that map patterns consisting of compiler instructions to patterns consisting of ISA instructions. We synthesize such rules by constructing SMT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ross Daly , Caleb Donovick , Caleb Terrill , Jackson Melchert , Priyanka Raina , Clark Barrett , Pat Hanrahan

In tree search problem the best-first search algorithm needs too much of space . To remove such drawbacks of these algorithms the IDA* was developed which is both space and time cost efficient. But again IDA* can give an optimal solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 S. Mohanty , R. N. Behera

In this paper, we make the first attempt towards defining cost function of steganography with large language models (LLMs), which is totally different from previous works that rely heavily on expert knowledge or require large-scale datasets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Hanzhou Wu , Yige Wang

Standard algorithms for finding the shortest path in a graph require that the cost of a path be additive in edge costs, and typically assume that costs are deterministic. We consider the problem of uncertain edge costs, with potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Michael P. Wellman , Matthew Ford , Kenneth Larson

Ensuring that software performance does not degrade after a code change is paramount. A solution is to regularly execute software microbenchmarks, a performance testing technique similar to (functional) unit tests, which, however, often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Christoph Laaber , Tao Yue , Shaukat Ali

We present a new algorithm A*+BFHS for solving problems with unit-cost operators where A* and IDA* fail due to memory limitations and/or the existence of many distinct paths between the same pair of nodes. A*+BFHS is based on A* and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Zhaoxing Bu , Richard E. Korf

Serverless computing has recently experienced significant adoption by several applications, especially Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In serverless computing, rather than deploying and managing dedicated virtual machines, users are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tarek Elgamal , Atul Sandur , Klara Nahrstedt , Gul Agha

A decentralized search algorithm is a method of routing on a random graph that uses only limited, local, information about the realization of the graph. In some random graph models it is possible to define such algorithms which produce…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-04 Oskar Sandberg

This paper introduces an effective memetic algorithm for the linear ordering problem with cumulative costs. The proposed algorithm combines an order-based recombination operator with an improved forward-backward local search procedure and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Tao Ye , Kan Zhou , Zhipeng Lu , Jin-Kao Hao

The discovery of functional molecules is an expensive and time-consuming process, exemplified by the rising costs of small molecule therapeutic discovery. One class of techniques of growing interest for early-stage drug discovery is de novo…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-18 Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley