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Zero knowledge plays a central role in cryptography and complexity. The seminal work of Ben-Or et al. (STOC 1988) shows that zero knowledge can be achieved unconditionally for any language in NEXP, as long as one is willing to make a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 Alessandro Chiesa , Michael A. Forbes , Tom Gur , Nicholas Spooner

In this work we consider the following problem: in a Multi-Prover environment, how close can we get to prove the validity of an NP statement in Zero-Knowledge ? We exhibit a set of two novel Zero-Knowledge protocols for the 3-COLorability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Claude Crépeau , Arnaud Massenet , Louis Salvail , Lucas Stinchcombe , Nan Yang

Zero-shot learning relies on semantic class representations such as hand-engineered attributes or learned embeddings to predict classes without any labeled examples. We propose to learn class representations by embedding nodes from common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Nihal V. Nayak , Stephen H. Bach

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel state-object compositions by leveraging the shared knowledge of their primitive components. Despite considerable progress, effectively calibrating the bias between semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Miaoge Li , Jingcai Guo , Richard Yi Da Xu , Dongsheng Wang , Xiaofeng Cao , Zhijie Rao , Song Guo

Underlying computational model has an important role in any computation. The state and transition (such as in automata) and rule and value (such as in Lisp and logic programming) are two comparable and counterpart computational models. Both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Mohammad Reza Besharati , Mohammad Izadi , Ehsaneddin Asgari

MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) is a well-known non-iterative location detection algorithm for small, perfectly conducting cracks in inverse scattering problems. However, when the applied wavenumbers are unknown, inaccurate locations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Won-Kwang Park

We propose three constructions of classically verifiable non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs and arguments (CV-NIZK) for QMA in various preprocessing models. - We construct a CV-NIZK for QMA in the quantum secret parameter model where a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Tomoyuki Morimae , Takashi Yamakawa

In recent years, great progress has been made to incorporate unlabeled data to overcome the inefficiently supervised problem via semi-supervised learning (SSL). Most state-of-the-art models are based on the idea of pursuing consistent model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yangbangyan Jiang , Xiaodan Li , Yuefeng Chen , Yuan He , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

The way for performing multiple sequence alignment is based on the criterion of the maximum scored information content computed from a weight matrix, but it is possible to have two or more alignments to have the same highest score leading…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-03 Jian-Jun Shu , Kian Yan Yong , Weng Kong Chan

Embedding inversion, i.e., reconstructing text given its embedding and black-box access to the embedding encoder, is a fundamental problem in both NLP and security. From the NLP perspective, it helps determine how much semantic information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Collin Zhang , John X. Morris , Vitaly Shmatikov

Multiple sequence alignment is a basic procedure in molecular biology, and it is often treated as being essentially a solved computational problem. However, this is not so, and here I review the evidence for this claim, and outline the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-24 David A. Morrison

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

Semi-supervised learning methods have been explored in medical image segmentation tasks due to the scarcity of pixel-level annotation in the real scenario. Proto-type alignment based consistency constraint is an intuitional and plausible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Zhenxi Zhang , Chunna Tian , Zhicheng Jiao

In this paper, we study the prediction of a circularly symmetric zero-mean stationary Gaussian process from a window of observations consisting of finitely many samples. This is a prevalent problem in a wide range of applications in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire , Gerhard Wunder

Constraint Programming (CP) is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial problems, yet translating natural language problem descriptions into executable models remains a significant bottleneck. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuliang Song , Eldan Cohen

We present a protocol for verification of ``no such entry'' replies from databases. We introduce a new cryptographic primitive as the underlying structure, the keyed hash tree, which is an extension of Merkle's hash tree. We compare our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Matthias Bauer

Sequence comparison is a prerequisite to virtually all comparative genomic analyses. It is often realized by sequence alignment techniques, which are computationally expensive. This has led to increased research into alignment-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Maxime Crochemore , Gabriele Fici , Robert Mercaş , Solon P. Pissis

Conformance testing of automata is about checking the equivalence of a known specification and a black-box implementation. An important notion in conformance testing is that of a complete test suite, which guarantees that if an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bálint Kocsis , Jurriaan Rot

Commonsense reasoning systems should be able to generalize to diverse reasoning cases. However, most state-of-the-art approaches depend on expensive data annotations and overfit to a specific benchmark without learning how to perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yu Jin Kim , Beong-woo Kwak , Youngwook Kim , Reinald Kim Amplayo , Seung-won Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge (NIZK) proofs, such as zkSNARKS, let one prove knowledge of private data without revealing it or interacting with a verifier. While existing tooling focuses on specifying the predicate to be proven, real-world…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Rahul Krishnan , Ashley Samuelson , Emily Yao , Ethan Cecchetti