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Topological data analysis (TDA) is a tool from data science and mathematics that is beginning to make waves in environmental science. In this work, we seek to provide an intuitive and understandable introduction to a tool from TDA that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lander Ver Hoef , Henry Adams , Emily J. King , Imme Ebert-Uphoff

Assessing and improving the quality of data are fundamental challenges for data-intensive systems that have given rise to applications targeting transformation and cleaning of data. However, while schema design, data cleaning, and data…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Rada Chirkova , Jon Doyle , Juan L. Reutter

Machine learned models often must abide by certain requirements (e.g., fairness or legal). This has spurred interested in developing approaches that can provably verify whether a model satisfies certain properties. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Laurens Devos , Wannes Meert , Jesse Davis

Smart contract is one of the core features of Ethereum and has inspired many blockchain descendants. Since its advent, the verification paradigm of smart contract has been improving toward high scalability. It shifts from the expensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zihan Zheng , Peichen Xie , Xian Zhang , Shuo Chen , Yang Chen , Xiaobing Guo , Guangzhong Sun , Guangyu Sun , Lidong Zhou

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in medical image analysis yet remain opaque, limiting adoption in high-stakes clinical settings. Existing approaches face a fundamental trade-off: post-hoc methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kerol Djoumessi , Philipp Berens

We extended our simulation tool Ntccrt for probabilistic ntcc (pntcc) models. In addition, we developed a verification tool for pntcc models. Using this tool we can prove properties such as the system will go to a successful state with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Mauricio Toro

Fuzzing is a promising technique for detecting security vulnerabilities. Newly developed fuzzers are typically evaluated in terms of the number of bugs found on vulnerable programs/binaries. However,existing corpora usually do not capture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xiaogang Zhu , Xiaotao Feng , Tengyun Jiao , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang , Seyit Camtepe , Jingling Xue

We investigate automated model-checking of the Ethereum specification, focusing on the Accountable Safety property of the 3SF consensus protocol. We select 3SF due to its relevance and the unique challenges it poses for formal verification.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Igor Konnov , Jure Kukovec , Thomas Pani , Roberto Saltini , Thanh Hai Tran

A key challenge in formal verification, particularly in Model Checking, is ensuring the correctness of the verification tools. Erroneous results on complex models can be difficult to detect, yet a high level of confidence in the outcome is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Andrea Manini , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

We present for the first time a complete solution to the problem of proving the correctness of a concurrency control algorithm for collaborative text editors against the standard consistency model. The success of our approach stems from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-12 James Smith

This paper presents several efficient decision procedures for trace equivalence of GKAT automata, which make use of on-the-fly symbolic techniques via SAT solvers. To demonstrate applicability of our algorithms, we designed symbolic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Cheng Zhang , Qiancheng Fu , Hang Ji , Ines Santacruz Del Valle , Alexandra Silva , Marco Gaboardi

Recent optical flow methods are almost exclusively judged in terms of accuracy, while their robustness is often neglected. Although adversarial attacks offer a useful tool to perform such an analysis, current attacks on optical flow methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jenny Schmalfuss , Philipp Scholze , Andrés Bruhn

Existing video highlight detection methods, although advanced, struggle to generalize well to all test videos. These methods typically employ a generic highlight detection model for each test video, which is suboptimal as it fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zahidul Islam , Sujoy Paul , Mrigank Rochan

Natural language processing technology has rapidly improved automated grammatical error correction tasks, and the community begins to explore document-level revision as one of the next challenges. To go beyond sentence-level automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Masato Mita , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Masato Hagiwara , Tomoya Mizumoto , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

We consider the problem of verification modulo tested library contracts as a step towards automating the verification of client programs that use complex libraries. We formulate this problem as the synthesis of modular contracts for the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abhishek Uppar , Omar Muhammad , Sumanth Prabhu , Deepak D'Souza , Madhusudan P , Adithya Murali

With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), their application in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) has increased. However, the current focus of these applications is predominantly on ChatGPT. There remains a gap in understanding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ratnadira Widyasari , David Lo , Lizi Liao

We examine the state of publicly available information about known exploitable vulnerabilities applicable to operational technology (OT) environments. Specifically, we analyze the Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities Catalog (KEVC) maintained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Philip Huff , Nishka Gandu , Pavel Novák

Complex-valued Transformers have largely inherited softmax attention from real-valued architectures. However, row-normalised token competition is not necessarily aligned with phase-preserving computation. In this paper, we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Leona Hioki

Binary verification plays a pivotal role in software security, yet building a verification service that is both open and trustworthy poses a formidable challenge. In this paper, we introduce a novel binary verification service, AGORA,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hongbo Chen , Quan Zhou , Sen Yang , Xing Han , Fan Zhang , Danfeng Zhang , Xiaofeng Wang

Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) is an emerging and challenging task where a model trained in a source domain must adapt to continuously changing conditions during testing, without access to the original source data. CTTA is prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ziqi Shi , Fan Lyu , Ye Liu , Fanhua Shang , Fuyuan Hu , Wei Feng , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang