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The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) with strong reasoning capabilities marks a significant milestone, unlocking new frontiers in complex problem-solving. However, training these reasoning models, typically using Reinforcement…

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The single shortest path algorithm is undefined for weighted finite-state automata over non-idempotent semirings because such semirings do not guarantee the existence of a shortest path. However, in non-idempotent semirings admitting an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Kyle Gorman , Cyril Allauzen

Decision Tree (DT) Learning is a fundamental problem in Interpretable Machine Learning, yet it poses a formidable optimisation challenge. Practical algorithms have recently emerged, primarily leveraging Dynamic Programming and Branch &…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ayman Chaouki , Jesse Read , Albert Bifet

This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs), here represented by GPT 3.5-Turbo to perform coding for a thematic analysis. Coding is highly labor intensive, making it infeasible for most researchers to conduct exhaustive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Samuel Flanders , Melati Nungsari , Mark Cheong Wing Loong

A randomized algorithm for computing a data sparse representation of a given rank structured matrix $A$ (a.k.a. an $H$-matrix) is presented. The algorithm draws on the randomized singular value decomposition (RSVD), and operates under the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 James Levitt , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

In this paper a multi-parameter A*(A- star)-ants based algorithm is proposed in order to find the best optimized multi-parameter path between two desired points in regions. This algorithm recognizes paths, according to user desired…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Hojjat Salehinejad , Hossein Nezamabadi-pour , Saeid Saryazdi , Fereydoun Farrahi-Moghaddam

Working with exhaustive search on large dataset is infeasible for several reasons. Recently, developed techniques that made pattern set mining feasible by a general solver with long execution time that supports heuristic search and are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Shanjida Khatun , Hasib Ul Alam , Swakkhar Shatabda

We describe a computationally-efficient heuristic algorithm based on a renormalization-group procedure which aims at solving the problem of finding minimal surface given its boundary (curve) in any hypercubic lattice of dimension $D>2$. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Kasper Duivenvoorden , Nikolas P. Breuckmann , Barbara M. Terhal

We describe how to convert the heuristic search algorithm A* into an anytime algorithm that finds a sequence of improved solutions and eventually converges to an optimal solution. The approach we adopt uses weighted heuristic search to find…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-13 E. A. Hansen , R. Zhou

This paper studies maximum likelihood(ML) decoding in error-correcting codes as rational maps and proposes an approximate ML decoding rule by using a Taylor expansion. The point for the Taylor expansion, which will be denoted by $p$ in the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-06-30 Kazunori Hayashi , Yasuaki Hiraoka

We study the problem of learning differentiable functions expressed as programs in a domain-specific language. Such programmatic models can offer benefits such as composability and interpretability; however, learning them requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ameesh Shah , Eric Zhan , Jennifer J. Sun , Abhinav Verma , Yisong Yue , Swarat Chaudhuri

This paper addresses the Restricted Longest Common Subsequence (RLCS) problem, an extension of the well-known Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem. This problem has significant applications in bioinformatics, particularly for…

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Path planning in grid maps, arising from various applications, has garnered significant attention. Existing methods, such as A*, Dijkstra, and their variants, work well for small-scale maps but fail to address large-scale ones due to high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Junlin Zeng , Xin Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Yan Pan

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

Given n subspaces of a finite-dimensional vector space over a fixed finite field $\mathbb F$, we wish to find a linear layout $V_1,V_2,\ldots,V_n$ of the subspaces such that $\dim((V_1+V_2+\cdots+V_i) \cap (V_{i+1}+\cdots+V_n))\le k$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Jisu Jeong , Eun Jung Kim , Sang-il Oum

Algorithms for learning decision trees often include heuristic local-search operations such as (1) adjusting the threshold of a cut or (2) also exchanging the feature of that cut. We study minimizing the number of classification errors by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Juha Harviainen , Frank Sommer , Manuel Sorge

Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding for arbitrary block codes remains fundamentally hard, with worst-case time complexity-measured by the total number of multiplications-being no better than straightforward exhaustive search, which requires…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Michael Schleppy

MDS codes play a central role in practice due to their broad applications. To date, most known MDS codes are generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, leaving codes that are not equivalent to GRS codes comparatively less understood. Studying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Runtian Zhu , Lingfei Jin

Sorting operation is one of the main bottlenecks for the successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoding. This paper introduces an improvement to the SCL decoding for polar and pre-transformed polar codes that reduces the number of sorting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Mohsen Moradi , Amir Mozammel

Automata learning has many applications in artificial intelligence and software engineering. Central to these applications is the $L^*$ algorithm, introduced by Angluin. The $L^*$ algorithm learns deterministic finite-state automata (DFAs)…

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