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We give recurrences, generating functions and explicit exact expressions for the enumeration of fundamental quantities involving runs in binary strings. We first focus on enumerations concerning runs of ones, and we then analyse the same…

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Search engine has become a fundamental component in various web and mobile applications. Retrieving relevant documents from the massive datasets is challenging for a search engine system, especially when faced with verbose or tail queries.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Kuan Fang , Long Zhao , Zhan Shen , RuiXing Wang , RiKang Zhour , LiWen Fan

This paper introduces a novel anti-unification algorithm for the generalization of variadic structures with binders, designed as a flexible tool for structural code comparison. By combining nominal techniques for handling variable binding…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alexander Baumgartner , Temur Kutsia

Synthesizing programs from examples requires searching over a vast, combinatorial space of possible programs. In this search process, a key challenge is representing the behavior of a partially written program before it can be executed, to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Maxwell Nye , Yewen Pu , Matthew Bowers , Jacob Andreas , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) process input text sequentially and model the conditional transition between word tokens. In contrast, the advantages of recursive networks include that they explicitly model the compositionality and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Binary-level pointer analysis can be of use in symbolic execution, testing, verification, and decompilation of software binaries. In various such contexts, it is crucial that the result is trustworthy, i.e., it can be formally established…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Freek Verbeek , Ali Shokri , Daniel Engel , Binoy Ravindran

This paper introduces RETSim (Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity), a lightweight, multilingual deep learning model trained to produce robust metric embeddings for near-duplicate text retrieval, clustering, and dataset deduplication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Marina Zhang , Owen Vallis , Aysegul Bumin , Tanay Vakharia , Elie Bursztein

Rapid advances in GPU hardware and multiple areas of Deep Learning open up a new opportunity for billion-scale information retrieval with exhaustive search. Building on top of the powerful concept of semantic learning, this paper proposes a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Ying Shan , Jian Jiao , Jie Zhu , JC Mao

Independently developed codebases typically contain many segments of code that perform same or closely related operations (semantic clones). Finding functionally equivalent segments enables applications like replacing a segment by a more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Vaibhav Sharma , Kesha Hietala , Stephen McCamant

Program verification and synthesis frameworks that allow one to customize the language in which one is interested typically require the user to provide a formally defined semantics for the language. Because writing a formal semantics can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiangyi Liu , Charlie Murphy , Anvay Grover , Keith J. C. Johnson , Thomas Reps , Loris D'Antoni

Binary similarity detection is a critical technique that has been applied in many real-world scenarios where source code is not available, e.g., bug search, malware analysis, and code plagiarism detection. Existing works are ineffective in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zian Liu , Zhi Zhang , Siqi Ma , Dongxi Liu , Jun Zhang , Chao Chen , Shigang Liu , Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed , Yang Xiang

We present the architecture and the evaluation of a new system for recognizing textual entailment (RTE). In RTE we want to identify automatically the type of a logical relation between two input texts. In particular, we are interested in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Andreas Wotzlaw , Ravi Coote

An increasingly wide range of artificial intelligence applications rely on syntactic information to process and extract meaning from natural language text or speech, with constituent trees being one of the most widely used syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Daniel Fernández-González , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

The constant-time programming discipline (CT) is an efficient countermeasure against timing side-channel attacks, requiring the control flow and the memory accesses to be independent from the secrets. Yet, writing CT code is challenging as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Lesly-Ann Daniel , Sébastien Bardin , Tamara Rezk

Enzyme-reaction retrieval is a fundamental problem in computational biology, underpinning enzyme characterization, reaction mechanism elucidation, and the rational design of metabolic pathways and biocatalysts. As a bidirectional task, it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuhang Zhang , Keyan Ding , Peilin Chen , Han Liu , Can Lin , Ruixi Chen , Shiqi Wang , Qi Song

Symbolic execution is a program analysis technique executing programs with symbolic instead of concrete inputs. This principle allows for exploring many program paths at once. Despite its wide adoption -- in particular for program testing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Arthur Correnson , Dominic Steinhoefel

Recent research (arXiv:2310.11453, arXiv:2402.17764) has proposed binary and ternary transformer networks as a way to significantly reduce memory and improve inference speed in Large Language Models (LLMs) while maintaining accuracy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jason Li

Many autonomous robotic applications require object-level understanding when deployed. Actively reconstructing objects of interest, i.e. objects with specific semantic meanings, is therefore relevant for a robot to perform downstream tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liren Jin , Haofei Kuang , Yue Pan , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

The determination of block-entropies is a well established method for the investigation of discrete data, also called symbols (7). There is a large variety of such symbolic sequences, ranging from texts written in natural languages,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel Angel Jimenez-Montano , Werner Ebeling , Thorsten Poeschel

The binary executable format is the standard method for distributing and executing software. Yet, it is also as opaque a representation of software as can be. If the binary format were augmented with metadata that provides security-relevant…

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