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Sentence ordering is the task of arranging the sentences of a given text in the correct order. Recent work using deep neural networks for this task has framed it as a sequence prediction problem. In this paper, we propose a new framing of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alan W Black

Predictive models are fundamental to engineering reliable software systems. However, designing conservative, computable approximations for the behavior of programs (static analyses) remains a difficult and error-prone process for modern…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-05-10 David Van Horn , Matthew Might

Sequence alignment is common nowadays as it is used in many fields to determine how closely two sequences are related and at times to see how little they differ. In computational biology / Bioinformatics, there are many algorithms developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Bharath Reddy , Richard Fields

An automaton is synchronizing if there is a word that maps all states onto the same state. \v{C}ern\'{y}'s conjecture on the length of the shortest such word is probably the most famous open problem in automata theory. We consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Natalie C. Behague , J. Robert Johnson

Inferring network topology from smooth signals is a significant problem in data science and engineering. A common challenge in real-world scenarios is the availability of only partially observed nodes. While some studies have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chuansen Peng , Hanning Tang , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaojing Shen

Neural networks mapping sequences to sequences (seq2seq) lead to significant progress in machine translation and speech recognition. Their traditional architecture includes two recurrent networks (RNs) followed by a linear predictor. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Boris Rubinstein

Many problems in quantum information theory can be formulated as optimizations over the sequential outcomes of dynamical systems subject to unpredictable external influences. Such problems include many-body entanglement detection through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Mirjam Weilenmann , Costantino Budroni , Miguel Navascues

We propose a new method for learning word representations using hierarchical regularization in sparse coding inspired by the linguistic study of word meanings. We show an efficient learning algorithm based on stochastic proximal methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Dani Yogatama , Manaal Faruqui , Chris Dyer , Noah A. Smith

A key principle in string processing is local consistency: using short contexts to handle matching fragments of a string consistently. String synchronizing sets [Kempa, Kociumaka; STOC 2019] are an influential instantiation of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jonas Ellert , Tomasz Kociumaka

Monotonicity is a simple yet significant qualitative characteristic. We consider the problem of segmenting a sequence in up to K segments. We want segments to be as monotonic as possible and to alternate signs. We propose a quality metric…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-01 Daniel Lemire , Martin Brooks , Yuhong Yan

We study machine learning of phenomenologically relevant properties of string compactifications, which arise in the context of heterotic line bundle models. Both supervised and unsupervised learning are considered. We find that, for a fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-31 Rehan Deen , Yang-Hui He , Seung-Joo Lee , Andre Lukas

Exact string matching has been a fundamental problem in computer science for decades because of many practical applications. Some are related to common procedures, such as searching in files and text editors, or, more recently, to more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Konstantinos F. Xylogiannopoulos

Uniform sampling of simple graphs having a given degree sequence is a known problem with exponential complexity in the square of the mean degree. For undirected graphs, randomised approximation algorithms have nonetheless been shown to…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Femke van Ieperen , Ivan Kryven

In this paper, we study the problem of determining a minimum state probabilistic finite state machine capable of generating statistically identical symbol sequences to samples provided. This problem is qualitatively similar to the classical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Elisabeth Paulson , Christopher Griffin

The article focuses on word (or string) attractors, which are sets of positions related to the text compression efficiency of the underlying word. The article presents two combinatorial algorithms based on Suffix automata or Directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Marie-Pierre Béal , Maxime Crochemore , Giuseppe Romana

SEQUITUR is an algorithm that infers a hierarchical structure from a sequence of discrete symbols by replacing repeated phrases with a grammatical rule that generates the phrase, and continuing this process recursively. The result is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 C. G. Nevill-Manning , I. H. Witten

Consider the problem on sequential change-point detection on multiple data streams. We provide the asymptotic lower bounds of the detection delays at all levels of change-point sparsity and we derive a smaller asymptotic lower bound of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Jingyan Huang

We present two novel algorithms for learning formulas in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) from examples. The first learning algorithm reduces the learning task to a series of satisfiability problems in propositional Boolean logic and produces a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Daniel Neider , Ivan Gavran

We propose efficient algorithms for enumerating maximal common subsequences (MCSs) of two strings. Efficiency of the algorithms are estimated by the preprocessing-time, space, and delay-time complexities. One algorithm prepares a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Miyuji Hirota , Yoshifumi Sakai

Regularities in strings are often related to periods and covers, which have extensively been studied, and algorithms for their efficient computation have broad application. In this paper we concentrate on computing cyclic regularities of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Oluwole Ajala , Miznah Alshammary , Mai Alzamel , Jia Gao , Costas Iliopoulos , Jakub Radoszewski , Wojciech Rytter , Bruce Watson