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The design of embedded control systems is mainly done with model-based tools such as Matlab/Simulink. Numerical simulation is the central technique of development and verification of such tools. Floating-point arithmetic, that is well-known…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Alexandre Chapoutot

Floating-point programs form the foundation of modern science and engineering, providing the essential computational framework for a wide range of applications, such as safety-critical systems, aerospace engineering, and financial analysis.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Youshuai Tan , Zhanwei Zhang , Jinfu Chen , Zishuo Ding , Jifeng Xuan , Weiyi Shang

From a theoretical point of view, finding the solution set of a system of inequalities in only two variables is easy. However, if we want to get rigorous bounds on this set with floating point arithmetic, in all possible cases, then things…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Walter F. Mascarenhas

We define the syntax and reduction relation of a recursively typed lambda calculus with a parallel case-function (a parallel conditional). The reduction is shown to be confluent. We interpret the recursive types as information systems in a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Fritz Müller

This paper proposes a model validation method that incorporates error due to numerical procedures. Two identified models for Sine Map and Duffing-Ueda Circuit systems have been investigated. The indexes RMSE and MAPE have been applied. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-22 Igor C. Silva , Gabriel H. A. Silva , Samir A. M. Martins , Erivelton G. Nepomuceno

This paper is motivated by recent research in the $d$-dimensional stochastic linear bandit literature, which has revealed an unsettling discrepancy: algorithms like Thompson sampling and Greedy demonstrate promising empirical performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuwei Luo , Mohsen Bayati

Despite a growing body of work at the intersection of deep learning and formal languages, there has been relatively little systematic exploration of transformer models for reasoning about typed lambda calculi. This is an interesting area of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Brando Miranda , Avi Shinnar , Vasily Pestun , Barry Trager

We present the guarded lambda-calculus, an extension of the simply typed lambda-calculus with guarded recursive and coinductive types. The use of guarded recursive types ensures the productivity of well-typed programs. Guarded recursive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Ranald Clouston , Aleš Bizjak , Hans Bugge Grathwohl , Lars Birkedal

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be computationally demanding, particularly when dealing with large models. Recent work has aimed to mitigate this computational challenge by introducing 8-bit floating-point (FP8) formats for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sami Ben Ali , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Olivier Sentieys

Modern GPU software stacks demand developers who can anticipate performance bottlenecks before ever launching a kernel; misjudging floating-point workloads upstream can derail tuning, scheduling, and even hardware procurement. Yet despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gregory Bolet , Giorgis Georgakoudis , Konstantinos Parasyris , Harshitha Menon , Niranjan Hasabnis , Kirk W. Cameron , Gal Oren

Randomized smoothing is sound when using infinite precision. However, we show that randomized smoothing is no longer sound for limited floating-point precision. We present a simple example where randomized smoothing certifies a radius of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Václav Voráček , Matthias Hein

Data generation and analysis is a fundamental aspect of many industries and disciplines, from strategic decision making in business to research in the physical and social sciences. However, data generated using software and algorithms can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Ernesto Giralt Hernández

With the aggressive scaling of VLSI technology, the explosion of layout patterns creates a critical bottleneck for DFM applications like OPC. Pattern clustering is essential to reduce data complexity, yet existing methods struggle with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuo Liu

Floating-point arithmetic plays a central role in science, engineering, and finance by enabling developers to approximate real arithmetic. To address numerical issues in large floating-point applications, developers must identify root…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Alex Sanchez-Stern , Pavel Panchekha , Sorin Lerner , Zachary Tatlock

Types in logic programming have focused on conservative approximations of program semantics by regular types, on one hand, and on type systems based on a prescriptive semantics defined for typed programs, on the other. In this paper, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-19 João Barbosa , Mário Florido , Vítor Santos Costa

We present the system $\mathtt{d}$, an extended type system with lambda-typed lambda-expressions. It is related to type systems originating from the Automath project. $\mathtt{d}$ extends existing lambda-typed systems by an existential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Matthias Weber

Practical model building processes are often time-consuming because many different models must be trained and validated. In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm that can be used for computing the lower and the upper bounds of model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-11 Yoshiki Suzuki , Kohei Ogawa , Yuki Shinmura , Ichiro Takeuchi

Existing LLM agent frameworks lack formal semantics: there is no principled way to determine whether an agent configuration is well-formed or will terminate. We present $\lambda_A$, a typed lambda calculus for agent composition that extends…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Qin Liu

We introduce the abstract notions of "monadic operational semantics", a small-step semantics where computational effects are modularly modeled by a monad, and "type-and-effect system", including "effect types" whose interpretation lifts…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Francesco Dagnino , Paola Giannini , Elena Zucca

Practical checkers based on refinement types use the combination of implicit semantic sub-typing and parametric polymorphism to simplify the specification and automate the verification of sophisticated properties of programs. However, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Michael Borkowski , Niki Vazou , Ranjit Jhala