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We give a new randomized LP-rounding 1.725-approximation algorithm for the metric Fault-Tolerant Uncapacitated Facility Location problem. This improves on the previously best known 2.076-approximation algorithm of Swamy & Shmoys. To the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Jaroslaw Byrka , Aravind Srinivasan , Chaitanya Swamy

Software bugs are prevalent in modern software systems and notoriously hard to debug manually. Therefore, a large body of research efforts have been dedicated to automated software debugging, including both automated fault localization and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Yiling Lou , Ali Ghanbari , Xia Li , Lingming Zhang , Dan Hao , Lu Zhang

Testing-based fault localization has been a research focus in software engineering in the past decades. It localizes faulty program elements based on a set of passing and failing test executions. Since whether a fault could be triggered and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yiqian Wu , Yujie Liu , Yi Yin , Muhan Zeng , Zhentao Ye , Xin Zhang , Yingfei Xiong , Lu Zhang

Causal abstraction offers a principled framework for mechanistic interpretability, aligning a high-level causal model with the low-level computation realized by a neural network through counterfactual intervention analysis. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jonathn Chang , Arya Datla , Ziv Goldfeld

The high tracking overhead, the amount of up-front effort required to selecting the trace points, and the lack of effective data analysis model are the significant barriers to the adoption of intra-component tracking for fault diagnosis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wei Zhang , Yuxi Hu , Bolong Tan , Xiaohai Shi , Jianhui Jiang

Infinite-state systems such as distributed protocols are challenging to verify using interactive theorem provers or automatic verification tools. Of these techniques, deductive verification is highly expressive but requires the user to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , James R. Wilcox , Sharon Shoham , Mooly Sagiv

This paper studies the generalization error of invariant classifiers. In particular, we consider the common scenario where the classification task is invariant to certain transformations of the input, and that the classifier is constructed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-04 Jure Sokolic , Raja Giryes , Guillermo Sapiro , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Fault localization is one of the most time-consuming and error-prone parts of software debugging. There are several tools for helping developers in the fault localization process, however, they mostly target programs written in Java and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Qusay Idrees Sarhan , Attila Szatmari , Rajmond Toth , Arpad Beszedes

A significant portion of the literature on fault localization assumes (more or less explicitly) that there are sufficient reliable measurements to guarantee that the system is observable. While several heuristics exist to break the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Mahdi Jamei , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert

The implementation of strategies for fault detection and diagnosis on rotating electrical machines is crucial for the reliability and safety of modern industrial systems. The contribution of this work is a methodology that combines…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 María Barroso , José M. Bossio , Carlos M. Alaíz , Ángela Fernández

This paper investigates the algorithmic safety verification problem of infinite-state parameterized concurrent programs over a rich set of communication topologies. The goal is to automatically produce a proof of correctness in the form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ruotong Cheng , Azadeh Farzan

Due to the vast number of students enrolled in programming courses, there has been an increasing number of automated program repair techniques focused on introductory programming assignments (IPAs). Typically, such techniques use program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Pedro Orvalho , Mikoláš Janota , Vasco Manquinho

This work proposes an approach to locate leaks by identifying the parameters of finite models associated with these fault events. The identification problem is attacked by using well-known identification methods such as the Prediction Error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-21 L. Torres

Fault localization is a practical research topic that helps developers identify code locations that might cause bugs in a program. Most existing fault localization techniques are designed for imperative programs (e.g., C and Java) and rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Guolong Zheng , ThanhVu Nguyen , Simón Gutiérrez Brida , Germán Regis , Marcelo F. Frias , Nazareno Aguirre , Hamid Bagheri

A model checker can produce a trace of counterexample, for an erroneous program, which is often long and difficult to understand. In general, the part about the loops is the largest among the instructions in this trace. This makes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Mohammed Bekkouche

This issue discusses the fault-trajectory approach suitability for fault diagnosis on analog networks. Recent works have shown promising results concerning a method based on this concept for ATPG for diagnosing faults on analog networks.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Carlos Eduardo Savioli , Claudio C. Czendrodi , Jose Vicente Calvano , Antonio Carneiro De Mesquita Filho

We propose a path-based approach to program repair for imperative programs. Our repair framework takes as input a faulty program, a logic specification that is refuted, and a hint where the fault may be located. An iterative abstraction…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Heinz Riener , Rüdiger Ehlers , Görschwin Fey

Abrupt and unexpected terminations of software are termed as software crashes. They can be challenging to analyze. Finding the root cause requires extensive manual effort and expertise to connect information sources like stack traces,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Neetha Jambigi , Bartosz Bogacz , Moritz Mueller , Thomas Bach , Michael Felderer

Localizing behaviors of neural networks to a subset of the network's components or a subset of interactions between components is a natural first step towards analyzing network mechanisms and possible failure modes. Existing work is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill , Chris MacLeod , Lucas Sato , Aryaman Arora

The primary objective of accelerator tuning is to correct its linear optics. This involves adjusting a large set of parameters, such as quadrupole lens gradients and alignment errors, as well as addressing various calibration errors in beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 I. Morozov , Yu. Maltseva