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Nearly all existing counting methods are designed for a specific object class. Our work, however, aims to create a counting model able to count any class of object. To achieve this goal, we formulate counting as a matching problem, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Erika Lu , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

We consider the problem of counting the copies of a length-$k$ pattern $\sigma$ in a sequence $f \colon [n] \to \mathbb{R}$, where a copy is a subset of indices $i_1 < \ldots < i_k \in [n]$ such that $f(i_j) < f(i_\ell)$ if and only if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Slobodan Mitrović , Pranjal Srivastava

Approximate proof labeling schemes were introduced by \\Censor-Hillel, Paz and Perry \cite{CPP}. Roughly speaking, a graph property~$\cP$ can be verified by an approximate proof labeling scheme in constant-time if the vertices of a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Gábor Elek

We introduce a technique to compute probably approximately correct (PAC) bounds on precision and recall for matching algorithms. The bounds require some verified matches, but those matches may be used to develop the algorithms. The bounds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Ya Le , Eric Bax , Nicola Barbieri , David Garcia Soriano , Jitesh Mehta , James Li

Conformal Prediction (CP) is a widely used technique for quantifying uncertainty in machine learning models. In its standard form, CP offers probabilistic guarantees on the coverage of the true label, but it is agnostic to sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Anutam Srinivasan , Aditya T. Vadlamani , Amin Meghrazi , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Many optimization problems of interest are known to be intractable, and while there are often heuristics that are known to work on typical instances, it is usually not easy to determine a posteriori whether the optimal solution was found.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Afonso S. Bandeira

Answer set programming (ASP) is a popular declarative programming paradigm with various applications. Programs can easily have many answer sets that cannot be enumerated in practice, but counting still allows quantifying solution spaces. If…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Johannes K. Fichte , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Markus Hecher , Dominik Rusovac

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an optimal control algorithm with strong stability and robustness guarantees. Despite its popularity in robotics and industrial applications, the main challenge in deploying MPC is its high computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Camilo Gonzalez , Houshyar Asadi , Lars Kooijman , Chee Peng Lim

We introduce a numerical framework to verify the finite step convergence of first-order methods for parametric convex quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mathematical optimization problem where we maximize a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Vinit Ranjan , Bartolomeo Stellato

Approximate Counting refers to the problem where we are given query access to a function $f : [N] \to \{0,1\}$, and we wish to estimate $K = #\{x : f(x) = 1\}$ to within a factor of $1+\epsilon$ (with high probability), while minimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-12 Ramgopal Venkateswaran , Ryan O'Donnell

Neural network based approximate computing is a universal architecture promising to gain tremendous energy-efficiency for many error resilient applications. To guarantee the approximation quality, existing works deploy two neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Zhenghao Peng , Xuyang Chen , Chengwen Xu , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Cewu Lu , Li Jiang

Robotics and Autonomous Systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, so that demonstrating their safety is essential. Assurance Cases (ACs) provide structured arguments supported by evidence, but generating and maintaining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Fang Yan , Simon Foster , Ana Cavalcanti , Ibrahim Habli , James Baxter

On the one hand, ordered completion is a fundamental technique in equational theorem proving that is employed by automated tools. On the other hand, their complexity makes such tools inherently error prone. As a remedy to this situation we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Christian Sternagel , Sarah Winkler

We propose a novel approximate inference algorithm that approximates a target distribution by amortising the dynamics of a user-selected MCMC sampler. The idea is to initialise MCMC using samples from an approximation network, apply the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Yingzhen Li , Richard E. Turner , Qiang Liu

We introduce ${\rm C{\small LEVER}}$, a high-quality, curated benchmark of 161 problems for end-to-end verified code generation in Lean. Each problem consists of (1) the task of generating a specification that matches a held-out…

With deep neural networks providing state-of-the-art machine learning models for numerous machine learning tasks, quantifying the robustness of these models has become an important area of research. However, most of the research literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Lam M. Nguyen , Mark S. Squillante , Ivan Oseledets , Luca Daniel

Answer Set Programming (ASP) has emerged as a promising paradigm in knowledge representation and automated reasoning owing to its ability to model hard combinatorial problems from diverse domains in a natural way. Building on advances in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mohimenul Kabir , Supratik Chakraborty , Kuldeep S Meel

Conformance checking techniques allow us to quantify the correspondence of a process's execution, captured in event data, w.r.t., a reference process model. In this context, alignments have proven to be useful for calculating conformance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Martin Kabierski , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Constraint satisfaction problems (or CSPs) have been extensively studied in, for instance, artificial intelligence, database theory, graph theory, and statistical physics. From a practical viewpoint, it is beneficial to approximately solve…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Tomoyuki Yamakami

ML models are typically trained using large datasets of high quality. However, training datasets often contain inconsistent or incomplete data. To tackle this issue, one solution is to develop algorithms that can check whether a prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Austen Z. Fan , Paraschos Koutris