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Floating-point accuracy is an important concern when developing numerical simulations or other compute-intensive codes. Tracking the introduction of numerical regression is often delayed until it provokes unexpected bug for the end-user. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Aurélien Delval , François Coppens , Eric Petit , Roman Iakymchuk , Pablo de Oliveira Castro

Floating point division, even though being an infrequent operation in the traditional sense, is indis- pensable when it comes to a range of non-traditional applications such as K-Means Clustering and QR Decomposition just to name a few. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Riyansh K. Karani , Akash K. Rana , Dhruv H. Reshamwala , Kishore Saldanha

This paper presents a new exact method to calculate worst-case parameter realizations in two-stage robust optimization problems with categorical or binary-valued uncertain data. Traditional exact algorithms for these problems, notably…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Anirudh Subramanyam

Selective classifiers improve model reliability by abstaining on inputs the model deems uncertain. However, few practical approaches achieve the gold-standard performance of a perfect-ordering oracle that accepts examples exactly in order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stephan Rabanser , Nicolas Papernot

Floating point arithmetic is costly on FPGA platforms due to wide datapaths, normalization, and carry propagation, motivating alternative numerical representations that improve throughput and efficiency. This paper presents the Hybrid…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mostafa Darvishi

We introduce a novel enhanced sampling approach named OPES flooding for calculating the kinetics of rare events from atomistic molecular dynamics simulation. This method is derived from the On-the-fly-Probability-Enhanced-Sampling (OPES)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Dhiman Ray , Narjes Ansari , Valerio Rizzi , Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

Generating 2-by-2 unitary matrices in floating-precision arithmetic is a delicate task. One way to reduce the accumulation error is to use less floating-point operations to compute each of the entries in the 2-by-2 unitary matrix. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Weslley da Silva Pereira , Ali Lotfi , Julien Langou

We introduce two algorithms for accurately evaluating powers to a positive integer in floating-point arithmetic, assuming a fused multiply-add (fma) instruction is available. We show that our log-time algorithm always produce…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Peter Kornerup , Vincent Lefèvre , Jean-Michel Muller

We introduce novel dynamic oracles for training two of the most accurate known shift-reduce algorithms for constituent parsing: the top-down and in-order transition-based parsers. In both cases, the dynamic oracles manage to notably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Daniel Fernández-González , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Weighted model counting computes the sum of the rational-valued weights associated with the satisfying assignments for a Boolean formula, where the weight of an assignment is given by the product of the weights assigned to the positive and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Randal E. Bryant

Parallel Speculative Decoding (PSD) accelerates traditional Speculative Decoding (SD) by overlapping draft generation with verification. However, it remains hampered by two fundamental challenges: (1) a theoretical speedup ceiling dictated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuhao Shen , Tianyu Liu , Junyi Shen , Jinyang Wu , Quan Kong , Li Huan , Cong Wang

Tasks such as solving arithmetic equations, evaluating truth tables, and completing syllogisms are handled well by large language models (LLMs) in their standard form, but they often fail when the same problems are posed in logically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Abhilekh Borah , Shubhra Ghosh , Kedar Joshi , Aditya Kumar Guru , Kripabandhu Ghosh

The term GreenAI refers to a novel approach to Deep Learning, that is more aware of the ecological impact and the computational efficiency of its methods. The promoters of GreenAI suggested the use of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Andrea Asperti , Davide Evangelista , Moreno Marzolla

In the paper we consider one point and two point multiarmed bamdit problems. In other words we consider the online stochastic convex optimization problems with oracle that return the value (realization) of the function at one point or at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Alexander Gasnikov , Ekaterina Krymova , Anastasia Lagunovskaya , Ilnura Usmanova , Fedor Fedorenko

We study the performance of simple error correcting and error avoiding quantum codes together with their concatenation for correlated noise models. Specifically, we consider two error models: i) a bit-flip (phase-flip) noisy Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-05 Carlo Cafaro , Stefano Mancini

In this paper, we propose a mixed-precision convolution unit architecture which supports different integer and floating point (FP) precisions. The proposed architecture is based on low-bit inner product units and realizes higher precision…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hamzah Abdel-Aziz , Ali Shafiee , Jong Hoon Shin , Ardavan Pedram , Joseph H. Hassoun

We optimize the running time of the primal-dual algorithms by optimizing their stopping criteria for solving convex optimization problems under affine equality constraints, which means terminating the algorithm earlier with fewer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Iyad Walwil , Olivier Fercoq

Deflation techniques for Krylov subspace methods have seen a lot of attention in recent years. They provide means to improve the convergence speed of these methods by enriching the Krylov subspace with a deflation subspace. The most common…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 K. Kahl , H. Rittich

Error correcting codes protect quantum information and form the basis of fault tolerant quantum computing. Leading proposals for fault-tolerant quantum computation require codes with an exceedingly rare property, a transverse non-Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Earl T. Campbell

We present BLOBCAT, new source extraction software that utilises the flood fill algorithm to detect and catalogue blobs, or islands of pixels representing sources, in two-dimensional astronomical images. The software is designed to process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Christopher A. Hales , Tara Murphy , James R. Curran , Enno Middelberg , Bryan M. Gaensler , Ray P. Norris