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Sampling algorithms play a pivotal role in probabilistic AI. However, verifying if a sampler program indeed samples from the claimed distribution is a notoriously hard problem. Provably correct testers like Barbarik, Teq, Flash, CubeProbe…

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We present a Python package together with a practical guide for the implementation of a lightweight diversity-enhanced genetic algorithm (GA) approach for the exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces. Searching a parameter space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jonas Wessén , Eliel Camargo-Molina

It has long been observed that for practically any computational problem that has been intensely studied, different instances are best solved using different algorithms. This is particularly pronounced for computationally hard problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Pascal Kerschke , Holger H. Hoos , Frank Neumann , Heike Trautmann

A data analysis pipeline is a structured sequence of steps that transforms raw data into meaningful insights by integrating various analysis algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel statistical test to assess the significance of data…

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Software development teams establish elaborate continuous integration pipelines containing automated test cases to accelerate the development process of software. Automated tests help to verify the correctness of code modifications…

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The scheduling problem is a key class of optimization problems and has various kinds of applications both in practical and theoretical scenarios. In the scheduling problem, probabilistic analysis is a basic tool for investigating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Daiki Suruga

Predictive process monitoring is a subfield of process mining that aims to estimate case or event features for running process instances. Such predictions are of significant interest to the process stakeholders. However, most of the…

Experimental evaluation is an integral part in the design process of algorithms. Publicly available benchmark instances are widely used to evaluate methods in SAT solving. For the interpretation of results and the design of algorithm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Markus Iser , Luca Springer , Carsten Sinz

One of the primary goals of the mathematical analysis of algorithms is to provide guidance about which algorithm is the "best" for solving a given computational problem. Worst-case analysis summarizes the performance profile of an algorithm…

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Much algorithmic research in NLP aims to efficiently manipulate rich formal structures. An algorithm designer typically seeks to provide guarantees about their proposed algorithm -- for example, that its running time or space complexity is…

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Computer simulation has become one of the most important tools in scientific research in many disciplines. Benefiting from the dynamical trajectories regulated by versatile interatomic interactions, various material properties can be…

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One key task in environmental science is to map environmental variables continuously in space or even in space and time. Machine learning algorithms are frequently used to learn from local field observations to make spatial predictions by…

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For building successful Machine Learning (ML) systems, it is imperative to have high quality data and well tuned learning models. But how can one assess the quality of a given dataset? And how can the strengths and weaknesses of a model on…

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This paper describes a Python toolbox for active perception and control synthesis of probabilistic signal temporal logic (PrSTL) formulas of switched linear systems with additive Gaussian disturbances and measurement noises. We implement a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Rafael Rodrigues da Silva , Kunal Yadav , Hai Lin

`scores` is a Python package containing mathematical functions for the verification, evaluation and optimisation of forecasts, predictions or models. It supports labelled n-dimensional (multidimensional) data, which is used in many…

The notion of software entropy is often invoked to describe the tendency of software systems to become increasingly disordered as they evolve, yet existing approaches to quantify it are largely heuristic. In this work we introduce a formal…

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Laboratory scientists are well equipped with statistical tools for univariate data, yet many phenomena of scientific interest are time-variant or otherwise multidimensional. Functional data analysis is one way of approaching such data: by…

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We introduce Geomstats, an open-source Python toolbox for computations and statistics on nonlinear manifolds, such as hyperbolic spaces, spaces of symmetric positive definite matrices, Lie groups of transformations, and many more. We…

Robust estimation provides essential tools for analyzing data that contain outliers, ensuring that statistical models remain reliable even in the presence of some anomalous data. While robust methods have long been available in R, users of…

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Evaluating time series attribution methods is difficult because real-world datasets rarely provide ground truth for which time points drive a prediction. A common workaround is to generate synthetic data where class-discriminating features…

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