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Conformal prediction is widely used to equip black-box machine learning models with uncertainty quantification, offering formal coverage guarantees under exchangeable data. However, these guarantees fail when faced with subpopulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Nien-Shao Wang , Duygu Nur Yaldiz , Yavuz Faruk Bakman , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

We propose a new language feature for ML-family languages, the ability to selectively unbox certain data constructors, so that their runtime representation gets compiled away to just the identity on their argument. Unboxing must be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Nicolas Chataing , Stephen Dolan , Gabriel Scherer , Jeremy Yallop

Existing language models (LMs) predict tokens with a softmax over a finite vocabulary, which can make it difficult to predict rare tokens or phrases. We introduce NPM, the first nonparametric masked language model that replaces this softmax…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Sewon Min , Weijia Shi , Mike Lewis , Xilun Chen , Wen-tau Yih , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Luke Zettlemoyer

In unsupervised adaptation for vision-language models such as CLIP, pseudo-labels derived from zero-shot predictions often exhibit significant noise, particularly under domain shifts or in visually complex scenarios. Conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Eman Ali , Chetan Arora , Muhammad Haris Khan

Continual Learning (CL) is essential for enabling self-evolving large language models (LLMs) to adapt and remain effective amid rapid knowledge growth. Yet, despite its importance, little attention has been given to establishing statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xiaofan Zhou , Lu Cheng

This paper presents a perfectly secure matrix multiplication (PSMM) protocol for multiparty computation (MPC) of $\mathrm{A}^{\top}\mathrm{B}$ over finite fields. The proposed scheme guarantees correctness and information-theoretic privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zixuan He , Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi , Derya Malak , Photios A. Stavrou

We study the computational complexity of universality and inclusion problems for unambiguous finite automata and context-free grammars. We observe that several such problems can be reduced to the universality problem for unambiguous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Lorenzo Clemente

Formal verification of masking in post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) hardware relies on SMT solvers over finite domains. Our prior work established structural dependency analysis at scale [1] and quantified the security margin of partial NTT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ray Iskander , Khaled Kirah

We construct $3$-query relaxed locally decodable codes (RLDCs) with constant alphabet size and length $\tilde{O}(k^2)$ for $k$-bit messages. Combined with the lower bound of $\tilde{\Omega}(k^3)$ of [Alrabiah, Guruswami, Kothari, Manohar,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tom Gur , Dor Minzer , Guy Weissenberg , Kai Zhe Zheng

We study the computational complexity of universality and inclusion problems for unambiguous finite automata and context-free grammars. We observe that several such problems can be reduced to the universality problem for unambiguous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Lorenzo Clemente

Shape completion, the problem of estimating the complete geometry of objects from partial observations, lies at the core of many vision and robotics applications. In this work, we propose Point Completion Network (PCN), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Wentao Yuan , Tejas Khot , David Held , Christoph Mertz , Martial Hebert

We consider goodness-of-fit tests with i.i.d. samples generated from a categorical distribution $(p_1,...,p_k)$. For a given $(q_1,...,q_k)$, we test the null hypothesis whether $p_j=q_{\pi(j)}$ for some label permutation $\pi$. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Chao Gao

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is an attractive alternative to conventional public key cryptography, such as RSA. ECC is an ideal candidate for implementation on constrained devices where the major computational resources i.e. speed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Paul G. Spirakis , Yannis C. Stamatiou

Pretrained multilingual encoder models can directly perform zero-shot multilingual tasks or linguistic probing by reformulating the input examples into cloze-style prompts. This is accomplished by predicting the probabilities of the label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ercong Nie , Helmut Schmid , Hinrich Schütze

Makaro is a logic puzzle with an objective to fill numbers into a rectangular grid to satisfy certain conditions. In 2018, Bultel et al. developed a physical zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) protocol for Makaro using a deck of cards, which allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Suthee Ruangwises , Toshiya Itoh

A symmetric matrix $A$ is completely positive (CP) if there exists an entrywise nonnegative matrix $V$ such that $A = V V ^T$. In this paper, we study the CP-matrix approximation problem of projecting a matrix onto the intersection of a set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Jinyan Fan , Anwa Zhou

With the advent of quantum cloud computing, the security of delegated quantum computation has become of utmost importance. While multiple statistically secure blind verification schemes in the prepare-and-send model have been proposed, none…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Dominik Leichtle , Luka Music , Harold Ollivier

We consider zero knowledge interactive proofs in a richer, more realistic communication environment. In this setting, one may simultaneously engage in many interactive proofs, and these proofs may take place in an asynchronous fashion. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joe Kilian , Erez Petrank , Charles Rackoff

We consider a minimal extension of the language of arithmetic, such that the bounded formulas provably total in a suitably-defined theory \`a la Buss (expressed in this new language) precisely capture polytime random functions. Then, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Melissa Antonelli , Ugo Dal Lago , Davide Davoli , Isabel Oitavem , Paolo Pistone

We introduce a binary embedding framework, called Proximity Preserving Code (PPC), which learns similarity and dissimilarity between data points to create a compact and affinity-preserving binary code. This code can be used to apply fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Inbal Lav , Shai Avidan , Yoram Singer , Yacov Hel-Or