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Information extraction (IE) is fundamental to numerous NLP applications, yet existing solutions often require specialized models for different tasks or rely on computationally expensive large language models. We present GLiNER2, a unified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Urchade Zaratiana , Gil Pasternak , Oliver Boyd , George Hurn-Maloney , Ash Lewis

Medical image processing is often limited by the computational cost of the involved algorithms. Whereas dedicated computing devices (GPUs in particular) exist and do provide significant efficiency boosts, they have an extra cost of use in…

Remote sensing (RS) images are usually stored in compressed format to reduce the storage size of the archives. Thus, existing content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems in RS require decoding images before applying CBIR (which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Gencer Sumbul , Jun Xiang , Nimisha Thekke Madam , Begüm Demir

Image restoration is a long-standing low-level vision problem that aims to restore high-quality images from low-quality images (e.g., downscaled, noisy and compressed images). While state-of-the-art image restoration methods are based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Jingyun Liang , Jiezhang Cao , Guolei Sun , Kai Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

In this paper, we present an algorithm for real-world license plate recognition (LPR) from a low-quality image. Our method is built upon a framework that includes denoising and rectification, and each task is conducted by Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Younkwan Lee , Juhyun Lee , Hoyeon Ahn , Moongu Jeon

Machine Learning (ML) models execute several parallel computations including Generalized Matrix Multiplication, Convolution, Dropout, etc. These computations are commonly executed on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), by dividing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Abhinav Jangda , Saeed Maleki , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi , Madan Musuvathi , Olli Saarikivi

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows private database queries; however, it is hindered by intense server-side computation and memory traffic. Numerous modern lattice-based PIR protocols consist of three phases: ExpandQuery (expanding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hyesung Ji , Hyunah Yu , Jongmin Kim , Wonseok Choi , G. Edward Suh , Jung Ho Ahn

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a process that automatically translates a software program in a high-level language into a low-level hardware description. However, the hardware designs produced by HLS tools still suffer from a significant…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jianyi Cheng , Samuel Coward , Lorenzo Chelini , Rafael Barbalho , Theo Drane

GPUs rely on large register files to unlock thread-level parallelism for high throughput. Unfortunately, large register files are power hungry, making it important to seek for new approaches to improve their utilization. This paper…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Alexandra Angerd , Erik Sintorn , Per Stenström

Fourier domain structured low-rank matrix priors are emerging as powerful alternatives to traditional image recovery methods such as total variation and wavelet regularization. These priors specify that a convolutional structured matrix,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Greg Ongie , Mathews Jacob

Binary decompilation aims to recover binaries into high-level source code, but existing evaluations mainly rely on syntactic similarity or single-axis readability metrics, which fail to capture practical reusability. We propose a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Puzhuo Liu , Yuhan Huang , Jianlei Chi , Peng Di , Yu Jiang

Bilinear inverse problems (BIPs), the resolution of two vectors given their image under a bilinear mapping, arise in many applications. Without further constraints, BIPs are usually ill-posed. In practice, properties of natural signals are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Yanjun Li , Kiryung Lee , Yoram Bresler

With the rapidly increasing rate of microlensing planet detections, microlensing modeling software faces significant challenges in computation efficiency. Here, we develop the Twinkle code, an efficient and robust binary-lens modeling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Suwei Wang , Lile Wang , Subo Dong

GCC and LLVM underpin much of modern software infrastructure, relying on distinct Intermediate Representations (IRs) to drive optimizations and code generation. However, the semantic and structural differences between these IRs create…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Andrea Valenzuela Ramirez , Cristian Gutierrez-Gomez , Marta Barroso , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Sara Royuela

Binary analysis is a core component of many critical security tasks, including reverse engineering, malware analysis, and vulnerability detection. Manual analysis is often time-consuming, but identifying commonly-used or previously-seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Rebecca Saul , Chang Liu , Noah Fleischmann , Richard Zak , Kristopher Micinski , Edward Raff , James Holt

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in computer vision and computational imaging. INRs represent images as continuous domain functions realized by a neural network taking…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Mahrokh Najaf , Gregory Ongie

Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for AI-powered applications, yet it demands substantial computational resources, particularly in memory bandwidth and computational throughput. Low-precision computation has emerged as a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yaoyao Ding , Bohan Hou , Xiao Zhang , Allan Lin , Tianqi Chen , Cody Yu Hao , Yida Wang , Gennady Pekhimenko

RAR uses classic symmetric encryption algorithm SHA-1 hashing and AES algorithm for encryption, and the only method of password recovery is brute force, which is very time-consuming. In this paper, we present an approach using GPUs to speed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Xiaojing An , Haojun Zhao , Lulu Ding , Zhongrui Fan , Hanyue Wang

The inversion of structured sparse matrices is a key but computationally and memory-intensive operation in many scientific applications. There are cases, however, where only particular entries of the full inverse are required. This has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Vincent Maillou , Lisa Gaedke-Merzhaeuser , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Olaf Schenk , Mathieu Luisier

Inferring the types of API elements in incomplete code snippets (e.g., those on Q&A forums) is a prepositive step required to work with the code snippets. Existing type inference methods can be mainly categorized as constraint-based or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zhixiang Chen , Anji Li , Neng Zhang , Jianguo Chen , Yuan Huang , Zibin Zheng