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Natural disasters require repairing all damaged components in electricity distribution networks. Optimal scheduling repair crews to minimize the aggregate duration of interruptions reduces the harm. We consider the fact that the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Yushi Tan , Arindam K. Das , Payman Arabshahi , Daniel S. Kirschen

The current article is an interdisciplinary attempt to decipher automatic program repair processes. The review is done by the manner typical to human science known as diffraction. We attempt to spot a gap in the literature of self-healing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-06 S. Amirhossein Mousavi , Donya Azizi Babani , Francesco Flammini

Computing \emph{all best swap edges} (ABSE) of a spanning tree $T$ of a given $n$-vertex and $m$-edge undirected and weighted graph $G$ means to select, for each edge $e$ of $T$, a corresponding non-tree edge $f$, in such a way that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Davide Bilò , Feliciano Colella , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

Decision tree optimization is fundamental to interpretable machine learning. The most popular approach is to greedily search for the best feature at every decision point, which is fast but provably suboptimal. Recent approaches find the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Varun Babbar , Hayden McTavish , Cynthia Rudin , Margo Seltzer

Decision Tree (DT) Learning is a fundamental problem in Interpretable Machine Learning, yet it poses a formidable optimisation challenge. Practical algorithms have recently emerged, primarily leveraging Dynamic Programming and Branch &…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ayman Chaouki , Jesse Read , Albert Bifet

Lack of data and data quality issues are among the main bottlenecks that prevent further artificial intelligence adoption within many organizations, pushing data scientists to spend most of their time cleaning data before being able to…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Paulo H. Oliveira , Daniel S. Kaster , Caetano Traina-Jr. , Ihab F. Ilyas

Data-driven decision making is gaining prominence with the popularity of various machine learning models. Unfortunately, real-life data used in machine learning training may capture human biases, and as a result the learned models may lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jiang Zhang , Ivan Beschastnikh , Sergey Mechtaev , Abhik Roychoudhury

Missing data often exists in real-world datasets, requiring significant time and effort for data repair to learn accurate models. In this paper, we show that imputing all missing values is not always necessary to achieve an accurate ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Cheng Zhen , Prayoga , Nischal Aryal , Arash Termehchy , Garrett Biwer , Lubna Alzamil

The goal of diagnosis is to compute good repair strategies in response to anomalous system behavior. In a decision theoretic framework, a good repair strategy has low expected cost. In a general formulation of the problem, the computation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Sampath Srinivas

The Ripper algorithm is designed to generate rule sets for large datasets with many features. However, it was shown that the algorithm struggles with classification performance in the presence of missing data. The algorithm struggles to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Mlungisi Duma , Bhekisipho Twala , Tshilidzi Marwala

Cluster repair methods aim to determine errors in clusters and modify them so that each cluster consists of records representing the same entity. Current cluster repair methodologies primarily assume duplicate-free data sources, where each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Victor Christen , Daniel Obraczka , Marvin Hofer , Martin Franke , Erhard Rahm

In this work we establish and investigate connections between causality for query answers in databases, database repairs wrt. denial constraints, and consistency-based diagnosis. The first two are relatively new problems in databases, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Babak Salimi , Leopoldo Bertossi

We explore the use of answer set programming (ASP) and its extension with quantifiers, ASP(Q), for inconsistency-tolerant querying of prioritized data, where a priority relation between conflicting facts is exploited to define three notions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Meghyn Bienvenu , Camille Bourgaux , Robin Jean , Giuseppe Mazzotta

We report on work towards flexible algorithms for solving decision problems represented as influence diagrams. An algorithm is given to construct a tree structure for each decision node in an influence diagram. Each tree represents a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Michael C. Horsch , David L. Poole

It is common to encounter situations where one must solve a sequence of similar computational problems. Running a standard algorithm with worst-case runtime guarantees on each instance will fail to take advantage of valuable structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Daniel Alabi , Adam Tauman Kalai , Katrina Ligett , Cameron Musco , Christos Tzamos , Ellen Vitercik

We study the problem of policy repair for learning-based control policies in safety-critical settings. We consider an architecture where a high-performance learning-based control policy (e.g. one trained as a neural network) is paired with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Weichao Zhou , Ruihan Gao , BaekGyu Kim , Eunsuk Kang , Wenchao Li

In performative prediction, the deployment of a predictive model triggers a shift in the data distribution. As these shifts are typically unknown ahead of time, the learner needs to deploy a model to get feedback about the distribution it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Meena Jagadeesan , Tijana Zrnic , Celestine Mendler-Dünner

Previous imitation learning policies predict future actions at every control step, whether in smooth motion phases or precise, contact-rich operation phases. This uniform treatment is wasteful: most steps in a manipulation trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mingtong Dai , Guanqi Peng , Yongjie Bai , Feng Yan , Chunjie Chen , Lingbo Liu , Liang Lin , Xinyu Wu

The amount of information available on the Web grows at an incredible high rate. Systems and procedures devised to extract these data from Web sources already exist, and different approaches and techniques have been investigated during the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Emilio Ferrara , Robert Baumgartner

We define a search problem on trees that closely captures the backtracking behavior of all current practical graph isomorphism algorithms. Given two trees with colored leaves, the goal is to find two leaves of matching color, one in each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Markus Anders , Pascal Schweitzer