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In this tutorial, we will survey known results on the complexity of conjunctive query evaluation in different settings, ranging from Boolean queries over counting to more complex models like enumeration and direct access. A particular focus…

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This note serves three purposes: (i) we provide a self-contained exposition of the fact that conjunctive queries are not efficiently learnable in the Probably-Approximately-Correct (PAC) model, paying clear attention to the complicating…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Balder ten Cate , Maurice Funk , Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz

In this paper, a short survey about the concepts underlying general logics is given. In particular, a novel rigorous definition of a fuzzy negation as an operation acting on a lattice to render it into a fuzzy logic is presented. According…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Andreas de Vries

Formal argumentation is being used increasingly in artificial intelligence as an effective and understandable way to model potentially conflicting pieces of information, called arguments, and identify so-called acceptable arguments…

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Operational consistent query answering (CQA) is a recent framework for CQA based on revised definitions of repairs, which are built by applying a sequence of operations (e.g., fact deletions) starting from an inconsistent database until we…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Marco Calautti , Ester Livshits , Andreas Pieris , Markus Schneider

Assumption-Based Argumentation (ABA) is a powerful structured argumentation formalism, but exact computation of extensions under stable semantics is intractable for large frameworks. We present the first Graph Neural Network (GNN) approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Preesha Gehlot , Anna Rapberger , Fabrizio Russo , Francesca Toni

Question and answer generation (QAG) consists of generating a set of question-answer pairs given a context (e.g. a paragraph). This task has a variety of applications, such as data augmentation for question answering (QA) models,…

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To train a deep neural network to mimic the outcomes of processing sequences, a version of Conditional Generalized Adversarial Network (CGAN) can be used. It has been observed by others that CGAN can help to improve the results even for…

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Many current approaches to machine learning in particle physics use generic architectures that require large numbers of parameters and disregard underlying physics principles, limiting their applicability as scientific modeling tools. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-27 Alexander Bogatskiy , Timothy Hoffman , David W. Miller , Jan T. Offermann

We investigate mathematical structures that provide natural semantics for families of (quantified) non-classical logics featuring special unary connectives, known as recovery operators, that allow us to 'recover' the properties of classical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-25 David Fuenmayor

Join query evaluation with ordering is a fundamental data processing task in relational database management systems. SQL and custom graph query languages such as Cypher offer this functionality by allowing users to specify the order via the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Shaleen Deep , Xiao Hu , Paraschos Koutris

This note analyzes in terms of categorial proof theory some standard assumptions about negation in the absence of any other connective. It is shown that the assumptions for an involutive negation, like classical negation, make a kind of…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Dosen , Z. Petric

A common feature in Answer Set Programming is the use of a second negation, stronger than default negation and sometimes called explicit, strong or classical negation. This explicit negation is normally used in front of atoms, rather than…

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With the development of deep learning techniques and large scale datasets, the question answering (QA) systems have been quickly improved, providing more accurate and satisfying answers. However, current QA systems either focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Bingning Wang , Ting Yao , Weipeng Chen , Jingfang Xu , Xiaochuan Wang

Boolean matching is an important problem in logic synthesis and verification. Despite being well-studied for conventional Boolean circuits, its treatment for reversible logic circuits remains largely, if not completely, missing. This work…

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Estimating causal quantities (CQs) typically requires large datasets, which can be expensive to obtain, especially when measuring individual outcomes is costly. This challenge highlights the importance of sample-efficient active learning…

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To produce a domain-agnostic question answering model for the Machine Reading Question Answering (MRQA) 2019 Shared Task, we investigate the relative benefits of large pre-trained language models, various data sampling strategies, as well…

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This paper proposes a group membership verification protocol preventing the curious but honest server from reconstructing the enrolled signatures and inferring the identity of querying clients. The protocol quantizes the signatures into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Marzieh Gheisari , Teddy Furon , Laurent Amsaleg , Behrooz Razeghi , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Referred to as the third rung of the causal inference ladder, counterfactual queries typically ask the "What if ?" question retrospectively. The standard approach to estimate counterfactuals resides in using a structural equation model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Edward De Brouwer

In general, some of the well known results of measure theory dealing with the convergence of sequences of functions such as the Dominated Convergence Theorem or the Monotone Convergence Theorem are not true when we consider arbitrary nets…

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