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Today's conversational agents are restricted to simple standalone commands. In this paper, we present Iris, an agent that draws on human conversational strategies to combine commands, allowing it to perform more complex tasks that it has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Ethan Fast , Binbin Chen , Julia Mendelsohn , Jonathan Bassen , Michael Bernstein

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP) and Statistical Relational Learning (SRL) models that combine logic with probabilities. Structure learning of these systems is an intersection area of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Wang-Zhou Dai , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Creating safe concurrent algorithms is challenging and error-prone. For this reason, a formal verification framework is necessary especially when those concurrent algorithms are used in safety-critical systems. The goal of this guide is to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Elizabeth Dietrich

The handling of probabilities in the form of uncertainty or partial information is an essential task for LLMs in many settings and applications. A common approach to evaluate an LLM's probabilistic reasoning capabilities is to assess its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Manuel Mondal , Ljiljana Dolamic , Gérôme Bovet , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux , Julien Audiffren

Learning-assisted automated reasoning has recently gained popularity among the users of Isabelle/HOL, HOL Light, and Mizar. In this paper, we present an add-on to the HOL4 proof assistant and an adaptation of the HOLyHammer system that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Thibault Gauthier , Cezary Kaliszyk

This paper handles a kind of strategic game called potential games and develops a novel learning algorithm Payoff-based Inhomogeneous Partially Irrational Play (PIPIP). The present algorithm is based on Distributed Inhomogeneous Synchronous…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Tatsuhiko Goto , Takeshi Hatanaka , Masayuki Fujita

Language models (LMs) are trained on billions of tokens in an attempt to recover the true language distribution. Still, vanilla random sampling from LMs yields low quality generations. Decoding algorithms attempt to restrict the LM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kareem Ahmed , Sameer Singh

We study a Bayesian binary sequential hypothesis testing problem with multiple large language models (LLMs). Each LLM $j$ has per-query cost $c_j>0$, random waiting time with mean $\mu_j>0$ and sub-Gaussian tails, and \emph{asymmetric}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Guokai Li , Alys Liang , Mo Liu , Murray Lei , Stefanus Jasin , Fenghua Yang , Preet Baxi

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) combines rule-based and statistical artificial intelligence methods, by learning a hypothesis comprising a set of rules given background knowledge and constraints for the search space. We focus on extending…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Mishal Kazmi , Peter Schüller , Yücel Saygın

Trustworthy artificial intelligence increasingly relies on probabilistic computation to achieve robustness, interpretability, security and privacy. In practical systems, such workloads interleave deterministic data access with repeated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xueji Zhao , Likai Pei , Jianbo Liu , Kai Ni , Ningyuan Cao

Modern large-scale ranking systems operate within a sophisticated landscape of competing objectives, operational constraints, and evolving product requirements. Progress in this domain is increasingly bottlenecked by the engineering context…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Longfei Yun , Yihan Wu , Haoran Liu , Xiaoxuan Liu , Ziyun Xu , Yi Wang , Yang Xia , Pengfei Wang , Mingze Gao , Yunxiang Wang , Changfan Chen , Wenjie Fu , Hong Yan , Junfeng Pan

Process reward models (PRMs) play a central role in guiding inference-time scaling algorithms for large language models (LLMs). However, we observe that even state-of-the-art PRMs can be poorly calibrated. Specifically, they tend to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-10 Young-Jin Park , Kristjan Greenewald , Kaveh Alim , Hao Wang , Navid Azizan

We introduce DeepPSL a variant of probabilistic soft logic (PSL) to produce an end-to-end trainable system that integrates reasoning and perception. PSL represents first-order logic in terms of a convex graphical model -- hinge-loss Markov…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Sridhar Dasaratha , Sai Akhil Puranam , Karmvir Singh Phogat , Sunil Reddy Tiyyagura , Nigel P. Duffy

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) aims to learn interpretable first-order rules from data, but existing symbolic and neuro-symbolic approaches struggle to scale to noisy and probabilistic settings. Classical ILP relies on discrete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Iman Sharifi , Peng Wei , Saber Fallah

Partial-label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning problem, where each training instance is equipped with a set of candidate labels among which only one is the true label. Most existing methods elaborately designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jiaqi Lv , Miao Xu , Lei Feng , Gang Niu , Xin Geng , Masashi Sugiyama

The increasing complexity of neural networks poses significant challenges for democratizing FL on resource?constrained client devices. Parallel split learning (PSL) has emerged as a promising solution by offloading substantial computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zheng Lin , Ons Aouedi , Wei Ni , Symeon Chatzinotas , Xianhao Chen

We propose a probabilistic Hoare logic aHL based on the union bound, a tool from basic probability theory. While the union bound is simple, it is an extremely common tool for analyzing randomized algorithms. In formal verification terms,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Pierre-Yves Strub

Probabilistic inference is fundamentally hard, yet many tasks require optimization on top of inference, which is even harder. We present a new optimization-via-compilation strategy to scalably solve a certain class of such problems. In…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Minsung Cho , John Gouwar , Steven Holtzen

Partial label learning is a type of weakly supervised learning, where each training instance corresponds to a set of candidate labels, among which only one is true. In this paper, we introduce ProPaLL, a novel probabilistic approach to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Łukasz Struski , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

The probabilistic modal {\mu}-calculus is a fixed-point logic designed for expressing properties of probabilistic labeled transition systems (PLTS's). Two equivalent semantics have been studied for this logic, both assigning to each state a…

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