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Dynamic race detection is a highly effective runtime verification technique for identifying data races by instrumenting and monitoring concurrent program runs. However, standard dynamic race detection is incompatible with practical weak…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Roy Margalit , Michalis Kokologiannakis , Shachar Itzhaky , Ori Lahav

Happens before-based dynamic analysis is the go-to technique for detecting data races in large scale software projects due to the absence of false positive reports. However, such analyses are expensive since they employ expensive vector…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Mosaad Al Thokair , Minjian Zhang , Umang Mathur , Mahesh Viswanathan

We present an automatic analysis technique for checking data races on OpenCL kernels. Our method defines symbolic execution techniques based on separation logic with suitable abstractions to automatically detect non-benign racy behaviours…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Dino Distefano , Jeremy Dubreil

Correlation filter (CF) based tracking algorithms have demonstrated favorable performance recently. Nevertheless, the top performance trackers always employ complicated optimization methods which constraint their real-time applications. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yipeng Ma , Chun Yuan , Peng Gao , Fei Wang

Sound static analysis can prove the absence of data races by establishing that no two conflicting memory accesses can occur at the same time. We repurpose the concept of digests -- summaries of computational histories originally introduced…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Michael Schwarz , Julian Erhard

We consider the problem of detecting data races in program traces that have been compressed using straight line programs (SLP), which are special context-free grammars that generate exactly one string, namely the trace that they represent.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Dileep Kini , Umang Mathur , Mahesh Viswanathan

Go is a popular concurrent programming language thanks to its ability to efficiently combine concurrency and systems programming. In Go programs, a number of concurrency bugs can be caused by a mixture of data races and communication…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Julia Gabet , Nobuko Yoshida

Discriminative correlation filters (DCFs) have been shown to perform superiorly in visual tracking. They only need a small set of training samples from the initial frame to generate an appearance model. However, existing DCFs learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Yibing Song , Chao Ma , Lijun Gong , Jiawei Zhang , Rynson Lau , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Race conditions are a class of bugs in software where concurrent accesses to shared resources are not protected from each other. Consequences of race conditions include privilege escalation, denial of service, and memory corruption which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Niels Dossche , Bert Abrath , Bart Coppens

This paper presents a practical solution for detecting data races in parallel programs. The solution consists of a combination of execution replay (RecPlay) with automatic on-the-fly data race detection. This combination enables us to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michiel Ronsse , Koen De Bosschere

We introduce and study the problem of detecting short races in an observed trace. Specifically, for a race type $R$, given a trace $\sigma$ and window size $w$, the task is to determine whether there exists an $R$-race $(e_1, e_2)$ in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Minjian Zhang , Mahesh Viswanathan

The high degree of parallelism and relatively complicated synchronization mechanisms in GPUs make writing correct kernels difficult. Data races pose one such concurrency correctness challenge, and therefore, effective methods of detecting…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Sagnik Dey , Mayant Mukul , Parth Sharma , Swarnendu Biswas

Common statistical prediction models often require and assume stationarity in the data. However, in many practical applications, changes in the relationship of the response and predictor variables are regularly observed over time, resulting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-05 Heng Wang , Zubin Abraham

Discriminatively learned correlation filters (DCF) have been widely used in online visual tracking filed due to its simplicity and efficiency. These methods utilize a periodic assumption of the training samples to construct a circulant data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Xiaoxiang Hu , Yujiu Yang

In the era of Exascale computing, writing efficient parallel programs is indispensable and at the same time, writing sound parallel programs is very difficult. Specifying parallelism with frameworks such as OpenMP is relatively easy, but…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Utpal Bora , Santanu Das , Pankaj Kukreja , Saurabh Joshi , Ramakrishna Upadrasta , Sanjay Rajopadhye

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model by aggregating local updates without sharing private data. However, FL often faces the challenge of free-riders, clients who submit fake model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Motoki Nakamura

Redundancy elimination is a key optimization direction, and loop nests are the main optimization target in modern compilers. Previous work on redundancy elimination of array computations in loop nests lacks universality. These approaches…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Zixuan Wang , Liang Yuan , Xianmeng Jiang , Kun Li , Junmin Xiao , Yunquan Zhang

Data races are often discussed in the context of lock acquisition and release, with race-detection algorithms routinely relying on vector clocks as a means of capturing the relative ordering of events from different threads. In this paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Daniel Schnetzer Fava , Martin Steffen

We extend the theory behind the Faial tool-chain, which can soundly prove that CUDA programs (aka, kernels) are data-race free using specialized behavioral types called memory access protocols (MAPs). In this paper we extend the theory of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Dennis Liew , Tiago Cogumbreiro , Julien Lange

This paper addresses the problem of provably efficient and practically good on-the-fly determinacy race detection in task parallel programs that use futures. Prior works determinacy race detection have mostly focused on either task parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Robert Utterback , Kunal Agrawal , Jeremy Fineman , I-Ting Angelina Lee