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Deep reinforcement learning enables algorithms to learn complex behavior, deal with continuous action spaces and find good strategies in environments with high dimensional state spaces. With deep reinforcement learning being an active area…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Winfried Lötzsch

We develop goodness-of-fit tests for max-stable random fields, which are used to model heavy-tailed spatial data. The test statistics are constructed based on the Fourier transforms of the indicators of extreme values in the heavy-tailed…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-09 Ying Niu , Zhao Chen , Christina Dan Wang , Yuwei Zhao

Muzzle patterns are among the most effective biometric traits for cattle identification. Fast and accurate detection of the muzzle region as the region of interest is critical to automatic visual cattle identification.. Earlier approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rabin Dulal , Lihong Zheng , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

Boolean expressions are major focus of specifications and they are very much prone to introduction of faults, this survey presents various fault based testing techniques. It identifies that the techniques differ in their fault detection…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-23 Usha Badhera , G. N. Purohit , S. Taruna

The French-German Research Institute (ISL) has several railguns installed, the largest of these is the PEGASUS accelerator. It is a 6m long, 4x4 cm2 caliber distributed energy supply (DES) railgun. It has a 10 MJ capacitor bank as energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Stephan Hundertmark , Markus Schneider , Dejian Simicic , Gregory Vincent

The extreme bandwidth demands of AI training has made load-balancing a critical component in AI fabrics, and a variety of load-balancing designs have emerged in recent work from both industry and research. However, there is currently little…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Sarah McClure , Evyatar Cohen , Alex Shpiner , Mark Silberstein , Sylvia Ratnasamy , Scott Shenker , Isaac Keslassy

Machine Learning approaches are good in solving problems that have less information. In most cases, the software domain problems characterize as a process of learning that depend on the various circumstances and changes accordingly. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

This paper develops automated testing and debugging techniques for answer set solver development. We describe a flexible grammar-based black-box ASP fuzz testing tool which is able to reveal various defects such as unsound and incomplete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-20 Robert Brummayer , Matti Järvisalo

In this paper, we present a control design methodology, stability criteria, and performance bounds for autonomous helicopter aerial refueling. Autonomous aerial refueling is particularly difficult due to the aerodynamic interaction between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Damsara Jayarathne , Santiago Paternain , Sandipan Mishra

We propose a novel modification of the standard upper confidence bound (UCB) method for the stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem which tunes the confidence bound of a given bandit based on its distance to others. Our UCB distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-07 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

A fundamental challenge of software testing is the statistically well-grounded extrapolation from program behaviors observed during testing. For instance, a security researcher who has run the fuzzer for a week has currently no means (i) to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Marcel Böhme

Traditional multi-armed bandit (MAB) formulations usually make certain assumptions about the underlying arms' distributions, such as bounds on the support or their tail behaviour. Moreover, such parametric information is usually 'baked'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Anmol Kagrecha , Jayakrishnan Nair , Krishna Jagannathan

Fatigue strength estimation is a costly manual material characterization process in which state-of-the-art approaches follow a standardized experiment and analysis procedure. In this paper, we examine a modular, Machine Learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Dorina Weichert , Alexander Kister , Sebastian Houben , Gunar Ernis , Stefan Wrobel

This work is a systematical analysis on the so-called hard class problem in zero-shot learning (ZSL), that is, some unseen classes disproportionally affect the ZSL performances than others, as well as how to remedy the problem by detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Bo Liu , Lihua Hu , Zhanyi Hu , Qiulei Dong

Geodesic shooting has been successfully applied to diffeo-morphic registration of point sets. Exact computation of the geodesicshooting between point sets, however, requiresO(N2) calculations each time step on the number of points in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Jiancong Wang , Long Xie , Paul Yushkevich , James Gee

A test of the null hypothesis that a hazard rate is monotone nondecreasing, versus the alternative that it is not, is proposed. Both the test statistic and the means of calibrating it are new. Unlike previous approaches, neither is based on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Peter Hall , Ingrid Van Keilegom

Mutation testing is the state-of-the-art technique for assessing the fault-detection capacity of a test suite. Unfortunately, mutation testing consumes enormous computing resources because it runs the whole test suite for each and every…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Sten Vercammen , Mohammad Ghafari , Serge Demeyer , Markus Borg

Contextual dueling bandit is used to model the bandit problems, where a learner's goal is to find the best arm for a given context using observed noisy human preference feedback over the selected arms for the past contexts. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Arun Verma , Zhongxiang Dai , Xiaoqiang Lin , Patrick Jaillet , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Search and rescue (SAR) missions require reliable search methods to locate survivors, especially in challenging or inaccessible environments. This is why introducing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be of great help to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Stella Dumenčić , Luka Lanča , Karlo Jakac , Stefan Ivić

This article is concerned with decentralized sequential testing of multiple hypotheses. In a sensor network system with limited local memory, raw observations are observed at the local sensors, and quantized into binary sensor messages that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-12 Yan Wang , Yajun Mei