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This paper presents a philosophical and experimental study of fairness interventions in AI classification, centered on the explainability of corrective methods. We argue that ensuring fairness requires not only satisfying a target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Souverain , Johnathan Nguyen , Nicolas Meric , Paul Égré

Factor Analysis (FA) is a technique of fundamental importance that is widely used in classical and modern multivariate statistics, psychometrics and econometrics. In this paper, we revisit the classical rank-constrained FA problem, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-25 Dimitris Bertsimas , Martin S. Copenhaver , Rahul Mazumder

Information about action costs is critical for real-world AI planning applications. Rather than rely solely on declarative action models, recent approaches also use black-box external action cost estimators, often learned from data, that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Eyal Weiss , Gal A. Kaminka

This work develops novel strategies for optimal planning with semantic observations using continuous state partially observable markov decision processes (CPOMDPs). Two major innovations are presented in relation to Gaussian mixture (GM)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Luke Burks , Ian Loefgren , Nisar Ahmed

Combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with heuristic search algorithms like A* holds the promise of enhanced LLM reasoning and scalable inference. To accelerate training and reduce computational demands, we investigate the coreset…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Devaansh Gupta , Boyang Li

We study the problem of identifying the policy space of a learning agent, having access to a set of demonstrations generated by its optimal policy. We introduce an approach based on statistical testing to identify the set of policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Alberto Maria Metelli , Guglielmo Manneschi , Marcello Restelli

Structured pruning is a standard tool for compressing deep neural networks, but its practical performance depends on how sparsity is allocated across layers. We propose FAIR-Pruner, a search-free framework for adaptive layer-wise structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chenqing Lin , Mostafa Hussien , Chengyao Yu , Bingyi Jing , Ruixing Ming , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

Equivalence checking is used to verify whether two programs produce equivalent outputs when given equivalent inputs. Research in this field mainly focused on improving equivalence checking accuracy and runtime performance. However, for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Johann Glock , Josef Pichler , Martin Pinzger

Parallel search algorithms have been shown to improve planning speed by harnessing the multithreading capability of modern processors. One such algorithm PA*SE achieves this by parallelizing state expansions, whereas another algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Shohin Mukherjee , Maxim Likhachev

Finite-horizon lookahead policies are abundantly used in Reinforcement Learning and demonstrate impressive empirical success. Usually, the lookahead policies are implemented with specific planning methods such as Monte Carlo Tree Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Yonathan Efroni , Gal Dalal , Bruno Scherrer , Shie Mannor

Parallel search algorithms harness the multithreading capability of modern processors to achieve faster planning. One such algorithm is PA*SE (Parallel A* for Slow Expansions), which parallelizes state expansions to achieve faster planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Shohin Mukherjee , Sandip Aine , Maxim Likhachev

Aligning large language models with human feedback at inference time has received increasing attention due to its flexibility. Existing methods rely on generating multiple responses from the base policy for search using a reward model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yige Yuan , Teng Xiao , Li Yunfan , Bingbing Xu , Shuchang Tao , Yunqi Qiu , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

A number of extensions exist for Alternating-time Temporal Logic; some of these mix strategies and partial observability but, to the best of our knowledge, no work provides a unified framework for strategies, partial observability and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Simon Busard , Charles Pecheur , Hongyang Qu , Franco Raimondi

Policy search reinforcement learning has been drawing much attention as a method of learning a robot control policy. In particular, policy search using such non-parametric policies as Gaussian process regression can learn optimal actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Hikaru Sasaki , Takamitsu Matsubara

The difficulty of deterministic planning increases exponentially with search-tree depth. Black-box planning presents an even greater challenge, since planners must operate without an explicit model of the domain. Heuristics can make search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Cameron Allen , Michael Katz , Tim Klinger , George Konidaris , Matthew Riemer , Gerald Tesauro

Retrosynthetic planning is a critical task in organic chemistry which identifies a series of reactions that can lead to the synthesis of a target product. The vast number of possible chemical transformations makes the size of the search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Binghong Chen , Chengtao Li , Hanjun Dai , Le Song

Current Information Seeking (InfoSeeking) agents struggle to maintain focus and coherence during long-horizon exploration, as tracking search states, including planning procedure and massive search results, within one plain-text context is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tian Lan , Felix Henry , Bin Zhu , Qianghuai Jia , Junyang Ren , Qihang Pu , Haijun Li , Longyue Wang , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo

The paper evaluates the power of best-first search over AND/OR search spaces for solving the Most Probable Explanation (MPE) task in Bayesian networks. The main virtue of the AND/OR representation of the search space is its sensitivity to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Radu Marinescu , Rina Dechter

Our goal is to compute a policy that guarantees improved return over a baseline policy even when the available MDP model is inaccurate. The inaccurate model may be constructed, for example, by system identification techniques when the true…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Yinlam Chow , Marek Petrik , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh

Feature subset selection, as a special case of the general subset selection problem, has been the topic of a considerable number of studies due to the growing importance of data-mining applications. In the feature subset selection problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Tofigh Naghibi , Sarah Hoffmann , Beat Pfister