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Recent work has exposed the vulnerability of computer vision models to vector field attacks. Due to the widespread usage of such models in safety-critical applications, it is crucial to quantify their robustness against such spatial…

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Vector search plays a crucial role in many real-world applications. In addition to single-vector search, multi-vector search becomes important for multi-modal and multi-feature scenarios today. In a multi-vector database, each row is an…

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We investigate the problem of verifying different properties of discrete time dynamical systems, namely, reachability, safety and reach-while-avoid. To achieve this, we adopt a data driven perspective and, using past system trajectories as…

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We build a class of polynomial problems with not polynomial certificates. The parameter concerning which are defined efficiency of corresponding algorithms is the number $n$ of elements of the set has used at construction of combinatory…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-02-22 B. S. Kochkarev

Software bugs have caused enormous economic and human loss in recent years. Certified programming seeks to solve this problem by developing languages where we can make demonstrations that guarantee that our programs work properly. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Gustavo Arengas

Sensitivity, block sensitivity and certificate complexity are basic complexity measures of Boolean functions. The famous sensitivity conjecture claims that sensitivity is polynomially related to block sensitivity. However, it has been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Andris Ambainis , Krišjānis Prūsis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

Software verification competitions, such as the annual SV-COMP, evaluate software verification tools with respect to their effectivity and efficiency. Typically, the outcome of a competition is a (possibly category-specific) ranking of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Mike Czech , Eyke Hüllermeier , Marie-Christine Jakobs , Heike Wehrheim

Functions with uniform level sets can represent orders, preference relations or other binary relations and thus turn out to be a tool for scalarization that can be used, e.g., in multicriteria optimization, decision theory, mathematical…

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The relative performance of competing point forecasts is usually measured in terms of loss or scoring functions. It is widely accepted that these scoring function should be strictly consistent in the sense that the expected score is…

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This paper presents a novel framework for analyzing Incremental-Input-to-State Stability ($\delta$ISS) based on the idea of using rewards as "test functions." Whereas control theory traditionally deals with Lyapunov functions that satisfy a…

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The concept of signature is a useful tool in the analysis of semicoherent systems with continuous and i.i.d. component lifetimes, especially for the comparison of different system designs and the computation of the system reliability. For…

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This paper presents a method for the simultaneous synthesis of a barrier certificate and a safe controller for discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems. Our approach, based on piecewise stochastic control barrier functions, reduces the…

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For a company looking to provide delightful user experiences, it is of paramount importance to take care of any customer issues. This paper proposes COTA, a system to improve speed and reliability of customer support for end users through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Piero Molino , Huaixiu Zheng , Yi-Chia Wang

\emph{Semi-Automated Text Classification} (SATC) may be defined as the task of ranking a set $\mathcal{D}$ of automatically labelled textual documents in such a way that, if a human annotator validates (i.e., inspects and corrects where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Giacomo Berardi , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani

A fundamental goal of search engines is to identify, given a query, documents that have relevant text. This is intrinsically difficult because the query and the document may use different vocabulary, or the document may contain query words…

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Modular deductive verification is a powerful technique capable to show that each function in a program satisfies its contract. However, function contracts do not provide a global view of which high-level (e.g. security-related properties of…

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Recent advances in Deep Machine Learning have shown promise in solving complex perception and control loops via methods such as reinforcement and imitation learning. However, guaranteeing safety for such learned deep policies has been a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Tom Hirshberg , Sai Vemprala , Ashish Kapoor

Machine teaching can be viewed as optimal control for learning. Given a learner's model, machine teaching aims to determine the optimal training data to steer the learner towards a target hypothesis. In this paper, we are interested in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Bo Wu , Yuxin Chen , Yisong Yue , Ufuk Topcu

Runtime Verification (RV) is a lightweight formal technique in which program or system execution is monitored and analyzed, to check whether certain properties are satisfied or violated after a finite number of steps. The use of RV has led…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Zhe Chen , Yunyun Chen , Robert M. Hierons , Yifan Wu

Certifying the Region of Attraction (ROA) for high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems remains a severe computational bottleneck. Traditional deterministic verification methods, such as Sum-of-Squares (SOS) programming and…

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