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There has been a growing interest in causal learning in recent years. Commonly used representations of causal structures, including Bayesian networks and structural equation models (SEM), take the form of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pavel Rytir , Ales Wodecki , Jakub Marecek

Argument mining involves multiple sub-tasks that automatically identify argumentative elements, such as claim detection, evidence extraction, stance classification, etc. However, each subtask alone is insufficient for a thorough…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Jia Guo , Liying Cheng , Wenxuan Zhang , Stanley Kok , Xin Li , Lidong Bing

Automatic question generation (AQG) has broad applicability in domains such as tutoring systems, conversational agents, healthcare literacy, and information retrieval. Existing efforts at AQG have been limited to short answer lengths of up…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Shlok Kumar Mishra , Pranav Goel , Abhishek Sharma , Abhyuday Jagannatha , David Jacobs , Hal Daumé

Complex Query Answering (CQA) is an important and fundamental task for knowledge graph (KG) reasoning. Query encoding (QE) is proposed as a fast and robust solution to CQA. In the encoding process, most existing QE methods first parse the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jiaxin Bai , Tianshi Zheng , Yangqiu Song

Question Generation (QG) is an essential component of the automatic intelligent tutoring systems, which aims to generate high-quality questions for facilitating the reading practice and assessments. However, existing QG technologies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Xin Jia , Wenjie Zhou , Xu Sun , Yunfang Wu

Complex logical query answering (CLQA) is a challenging task that involves finding answer entities for complex logical queries over incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs). Previous research has explored the use of pre-trained knowledge graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Changyi Xiao , Yixin Cao

This paper introduces a generic framework that provides sufficient conditions for guaranteeing polynomial-time decidability of fixed-negation fragments of first-order theories that adhere to certain fixed-parameter tractability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Christoph Haase , Alessio Mansutti , Amaury Pouly

Like [1], we present an algorithm to compute the simulation of a query pattern in a graph of labeled nodes and unlabeled edges. However, our algorithm works on a compressed graph grammar, instead of on the original graph. The speed-up of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Stefan Böttcher , Rita Hartel , Sven Peeters

DatalogMTL with negation is an extension of Datalog with metric temporal operators enriched with unstratifiable negation. In this paper, we define the stable, well-founded, Kripke-Kleene, and supported model semantics for DatalogMTL with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Samuele Pollaci

Quantitative Relative Judgment Aggregation (QRJA) is a new research topic in (computational) social choice. In the QRJA model, agents provide judgments on the relative quality of different candidates, and the goal is to aggregate these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yixuan Even Xu , Hanrui Zhang , Yu Cheng , Vincent Conitzer

We introduce a fractional generalization of the Erlang Queues $M/E_k/1$. Such process is obtained through a time-change via inverse stable subordinator of the classical queue process. We first exploit the (fractional) Kolmogorov forward…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Giacomo Ascione , Nikolai Leonenko , Enrica Pirozzi

Counterfactual learning has become promising for understanding and modeling causality in complex and dynamic systems. This paper presents a novel method for counterfactual learning in the context of multivariate time series analysis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Gianlucca Zuin , Adriano Veloso

This paper presents a thorough study of negation in SPARQL. The types of negation supported in SPARQL are identified and their main features discussed. Then, we study the expressive power of the corresponding negation operators. At this…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Renzo Angles , Claudio Gutierrez

For every couple (p;q) of strictly positive integers, the `` alternate congruo-harmonic '' series parametrized by (p;q), whose general term is (-1)^k/(pk+q), converges infra-linearly and very slowly. On the basis of a generalized continued…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-07-06 David Pouvreau

We study the fine-grained complexity of evaluating Boolean Conjunctive Queries and their generalization to sum-of-product problems over an arbitrary semiring. For these problems, we present a general semiring-oblivious reduction from the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Austen Z. Fan , Paraschos Koutris , Hangdong Zhao

We consider the problem of directly optimizing a non-linear function of an outcome, where this outcome itself is the sum of many small contributions. The non-linearity of the function means that the problem is not equivalent to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-04 Benjamin Heymann , Otmane Sakhi

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) involves retrieving facts from a Knowledge Graph (KG) using natural language queries. A KG is a curated set of facts consisting of entities linked by relations. Certain facts include also temporal…

This paper treats logic programming with three kinds of negation: default, weak and strict negations. A 3-valued logic model theory is discussed for logic programs with three kinds of negation. The procedure is constructed for negations so…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Susumu Yamasaki

We study asynchronous federated learning mechanisms with nodes having potentially different computational speeds. In such an environment, each node is allowed to work on models with potential delays and contribute to updates to the central…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Louis Leconte , Matthieu Jonckheere , Sergey Samsonov , Eric Moulines

Negation is an important characteristic of language, and a major component of information extraction from text. This subtask is of considerable importance to the biomedical domain. Over the years, multiple approaches have been explored to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Aditya Khandelwal , Suraj Sawant