153 Search Results for "R�ttger, Richard"


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Multiobjective Optimization on a Budget (Dagstuhl Seminar 23361)

Authors: Richard Allmendinger, Carlos M. Fonseca, Serpil Sayin, Margaret M. Wiecek, and Michael Stiglmayr

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 9 (2024)


Abstract
The Dagstuhl Seminar 23361 Multiobjective Optimization on a Budget carried on a series of seven previous Dagstuhl Seminars (04461, 06501, 09041, 12041, 15031, 18031, 20031) focused on Multiobjective Optimization. The original goal of this series has been to strengthen the links between the Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO) and the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) communities, two of the largest communities concerned with multiobjective optimization today. This seminar particularly focused on the case where the approaches from both communities may be challenged by limited resources. This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 23361 "Multiobjective Optimization on a Budget". Three major types of resource limitations were highlighted during the seminar: methodological, technical and human related. The effect of these limitations on optimization and decision-making quality, as well as methods to quantify and mitigate this influence, were considered in different working groups.

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Richard Allmendinger, Carlos M. Fonseca, Serpil Sayin, Margaret M. Wiecek, and Michael Stiglmayr. Multiobjective Optimization on a Budget (Dagstuhl Seminar 23361). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 9, pp. 1-68, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@Article{allmendinger_et_al:DagRep.13.9.1,
  author =	{Allmendinger, Richard and Fonseca, Carlos M. and Sayin, Serpil and Wiecek, Margaret M. and Stiglmayr, Michael},
  title =	{{Multiobjective Optimization on a Budget (Dagstuhl Seminar 23361)}},
  pages =	{1--68},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{13},
  number =	{9},
  editor =	{Allmendinger, Richard and Fonseca, Carlos M. and Sayin, Serpil and Wiecek, Margaret M. and Stiglmayr, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.13.9.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-198207},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.13.9.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: evolutionary algorithms, expensive optimization, few-shot learning, machine learning, optimization, simulation}
}
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Depth-3 Circuit Lower Bounds for k-OV

Authors: Tameem Choudhury and Karteek Sreenivasaiah

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 289, 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)


Abstract
The 2-Orthogonal Vectors (2-OV) problem is the following: given two tuples A and B of n Boolean vectors, each of dimension d, decide if there exist vectors u ∈ A, and v ∈ B, such that u and v are orthogonal. This problem, and its generalization k-OV defined analogously for k tuples, are central problems in the area of fine-grained complexity. One of the major conjectures in fine-grained complexity is that k-OV cannot be solved by a randomised algorithm in n^{k-ε}poly(d) time for any constant ε > 0. In this paper, we are interested in unconditional lower bounds against k-OV, but for weaker models of computation than the general Turing Machine. In particular, we are interested in circuit lower bounds to computing k-OV by Boolean circuit families of depth 3 of the form OR-AND-OR, or equivalently, a disjunction of CNFs. We show that for all k ≤ d, any disjunction of t-CNFs computing k-OV requires size Ω((n/t)^k). In particular, when k is a constant, any disjunction of k-CNFs computing k-OV needs to use Ω(n^k) CNFs. This matches the brute-force construction, and for each fixed k > 2, this is the first unconditional Ω(n^k) lower bound against k-OV for a computation model that can compute it in size O(n^k). Our results partially resolve a conjecture by Kane and Williams [Daniel M. Kane and Richard Ryan Williams, 2019] (page 12, conjecture 10) about depth-3 AC⁰ circuits computing 2-OV. As a secondary result, we show an exponential lower bound on the size of AND∘OR∘AND circuits computing 2-OV when d is very large. Since 2-OV reduces to k-OV by projections trivially, this lower bound works against k-OV as well.

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Tameem Choudhury and Karteek Sreenivasaiah. Depth-3 Circuit Lower Bounds for k-OV. In 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 289, pp. 25:1-25:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{choudhury_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.25,
  author =	{Choudhury, Tameem and Sreenivasaiah, Karteek},
  title =	{{Depth-3 Circuit Lower Bounds for k-OV}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-311-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{289},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197359},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: fine grained complexity, k-OV, circuit lower bounds, depth-3 circuits}
}
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Realizability Models for Large Cardinals

Authors: Laura Fontanella, Guillaume Geoffroy, and Richard Matthews

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 288, 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)


Abstract
Realizabilty is a branch of logic that aims at extracting the computational content of mathematical proofs by establishing a correspondence between proofs and programs. Invented by S.C. Kleene in the 1945 to develop a connection between intuitionism and Turing computable functions, realizability has evolved to include not only classical logic but even set theory, thanks to the work of J-L. Krivine. Krivine’s work made possible to build realizability models for Zermelo-Frænkel set theory, ZF, assuming its consistency. Nevertheless, a large part of set theoretic research involves investigating further axioms that are known as large cardinals axioms; in this paper we focus on four large cardinals axioms: the axioms of (strongly) inaccessible cardinal, Mahlo cardinals, measurable cardinals and Reinhardt cardinals. We show how to build realizability models for each of these four axioms assuming their consistency relative to ZFC or ZF.

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Laura Fontanella, Guillaume Geoffroy, and Richard Matthews. Realizability Models for Large Cardinals. In 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 288, pp. 28:1-28:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{fontanella_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2024.28,
  author =	{Fontanella, Laura and Geoffroy, Guillaume and Matthews, Richard},
  title =	{{Realizability Models for Large Cardinals}},
  booktitle =	{32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-310-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{288},
  editor =	{Murano, Aniello and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-196715},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Logic, Classical Realizability, Set Theory, Large Cardinals}
}
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Concurrent Stochastic Lossy Channel Games

Authors: Daniel Stan, Muhammad Najib, Anthony Widjaja Lin, and Parosh Aziz Abdulla

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 288, 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)


Abstract
Concurrent stochastic games are an important formalism for the rational verification of probabilistic multi-agent systems, which involves verifying whether a temporal logic property is satisfied in some or all game-theoretic equilibria of such systems. In this work, we study the rational verification of probabilistic multi-agent systems where agents can cooperate by communicating over unbounded lossy channels. To model such systems, we present concurrent stochastic lossy channel games (CSLCG) and employ an equilibrium concept from cooperative game theory known as the core, which is the most fundamental and widely studied cooperative equilibrium concept. Our main contribution is twofold. First, we show that the rational verification problem is undecidable for systems whose agents have almost-sure LTL objectives. Second, we provide a decidable fragment of such a class of objectives that subsumes almost-sure reachability and safety. Our techniques involve reductions to solving infinite-state zero-sum games with conjunctions of qualitative objectives. To the best of our knowledge, our result represents the first decidability result on the rational verification of stochastic multi-agent systems on infinite arenas.

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Daniel Stan, Muhammad Najib, Anthony Widjaja Lin, and Parosh Aziz Abdulla. Concurrent Stochastic Lossy Channel Games. In 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 288, pp. 46:1-46:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{stan_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2024.46,
  author =	{Stan, Daniel and Najib, Muhammad and Lin, Anthony Widjaja and Abdulla, Parosh Aziz},
  title =	{{Concurrent Stochastic Lossy Channel Games}},
  booktitle =	{32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)},
  pages =	{46:1--46:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-310-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{288},
  editor =	{Murano, Aniello and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.46},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-196894},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.46},
  annote =	{Keywords: concurrent, games, stochastic, lossy channels, wqo, finite attractor property, cooperative, core, Nash equilibrium}
}
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Extended Abstract
Noisy Decoding by Shallow Circuits with Parities: Classical and Quantum (Extended Abstract)

Authors: Jop Briët, Harry Buhrman, Davi Castro-Silva, and Niels M. P. Neumann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 287, 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)


Abstract
We consider the problem of decoding corrupted error correcting codes with NC⁰[⊕] circuits in the classical and quantum settings. We show that any such classical circuit can correctly recover only a vanishingly small fraction of messages, if the codewords are sent over a noisy channel with positive error rate. Previously this was known only for linear codes with large dual distance, whereas our result applies to any code. By contrast, we give a simple quantum circuit that correctly decodes the Hadamard code with probability Ω(ε²) even if a (1/2 - ε)-fraction of a codeword is adversarially corrupted. Our classical hardness result is based on an equidistribution phenomenon for multivariate polynomials over a finite field under biased input-distributions. This is proved using a structure-versus-randomness strategy based on a new notion of rank for high-dimensional polynomial maps that may be of independent interest. Our quantum circuit is inspired by a non-local version of the Bernstein-Vazirani problem, a technique to generate "poor man’s cat states" by Watts et al., and a constant-depth quantum circuit for the OR function by Takahashi and Tani.

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Jop Briët, Harry Buhrman, Davi Castro-Silva, and Niels M. P. Neumann. Noisy Decoding by Shallow Circuits with Parities: Classical and Quantum (Extended Abstract). In 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 287, pp. 21:1-21:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{briet_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.21,
  author =	{Bri\"{e}t, Jop and Buhrman, Harry and Castro-Silva, Davi and Neumann, Niels M. P.},
  title =	{{Noisy Decoding by Shallow Circuits with Parities: Classical and Quantum (Extended Abstract)}},
  booktitle =	{15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-309-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{287},
  editor =	{Guruswami, Venkatesan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-195490},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Coding theory, circuit complexity, quantum complexity theory, higher-order Fourier analysis, non-local games}
}
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Distance Queries over Dynamic Interval Graphs

Authors: Jingbang Chen, Meng He, J. Ian Munro, Richard Peng, Kaiyu Wu, and Daniel J. Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 283, 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023)


Abstract
We design the first dynamic distance oracles for interval graphs, which are intersection graphs of a set of intervals on the real line, and for proper interval graphs, which are intersection graphs of a set of intervals in which no interval is properly contained in another. For proper interval graphs, we design a linear space data structure which supports distance queries (computing the distance between two query vertices) and vertex insertion or deletion in O(lg n) worst-case time, where n is the number of vertices currently in G. Under incremental (insertion only) or decremental (deletion only) settings, we design linear space data structures that support distance queries in O(lg n) worst-case time and vertex insertion or deletion in O(lg n) amortized time, where n is the maximum number of vertices in the graph. Under fully dynamic settings, we design a data structure that represents an interval graph G in O(n) words of space to support distance queries in O(n lg n/S(n)) worst-case time and vertex insertion or deletion in O(S(n)+lg n) worst-case time, where n is the number of vertices currently in G and S(n) is an arbitrary function that satisfies S(n) = Ω(1) and S(n) = O(n). This implies an O(n)-word solution with O(√{nlg n})-time support for both distance queries and updates. All four data structures can answer shortest path queries by reporting the vertices in the shortest path between two query vertices in O(lg n) worst-case time per vertex. We also study the hardness of supporting distance queries under updates over an intersection graph of 3D axis-aligned line segments, which generalizes our problem to 3D. Finally, we solve the problem of computing the diameter of a dynamic connected interval graph.

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Jingbang Chen, Meng He, J. Ian Munro, Richard Peng, Kaiyu Wu, and Daniel J. Zhang. Distance Queries over Dynamic Interval Graphs. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 18:1-18:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.18,
  author =	{Chen, Jingbang and He, Meng and Munro, J. Ian and Peng, Richard and Wu, Kaiyu and Zhang, Daniel J.},
  title =	{{Distance Queries over Dynamic Interval Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-289-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{283},
  editor =	{Iwata, Satoru and Kakimura, Naonori},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-193207},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: interval graph, proper interval graph, intersection graph, geometric intersection graph, distance oracle, distance query, shortest path query, dynamic graph}
}
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Exascale Agent-Based Modelling for Policy Evaluation in Real-Time (ExAMPLER) (Short Paper)

Authors: Alison Heppenstall, J. Gary Polhill, Mike Batty, Matt Hare, Doug Salt, and Richard Milton

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)


Abstract
Exascale computing can potentially revolutionise the way in which we design and build agent-based models (ABM) through, for example, enabling scaling up, as well as robust calibration and validation. At present, there is no exascale computing operating with ABM (that we are aware of), but pockets of work using High Performance Computing (HPC). While exascale computing is expected to become more widely available towards the latter half of this decade, the ABM community is largely unaware of the requirements for exascale computing for agent-based modelling to support policy evaluation. This project will engage with the ABM community to understand what computing resources are currently used, what we need (both in terms of hardware and software) and to set out a roadmap by which to make it happen.

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Alison Heppenstall, J. Gary Polhill, Mike Batty, Matt Hare, Doug Salt, and Richard Milton. Exascale Agent-Based Modelling for Policy Evaluation in Real-Time (ExAMPLER) (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 38:1-38:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{heppenstall_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.38,
  author =	{Heppenstall, Alison and Polhill, J. Gary and Batty, Mike and Hare, Matt and Salt, Doug and Milton, Richard},
  title =	{{Exascale Agent-Based Modelling for Policy Evaluation in Real-Time (ExAMPLER)}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{38:1--38:5},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.38},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189334},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.38},
  annote =	{Keywords: Exascale computing, Agent-Based Modelling, Policy evaluation}
}
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A Hierarchical and Geographically Weighted Regression Model and Its Backfitting Maximum Likelihood Estimator (Short Paper)

Authors: Yigong Hu, Richard Harris, Richard Timmerman, and Binbin Lu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)


Abstract
Spatial heterogeneity is a typical and common form of spatial effect. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) and its extensions are important local modeling techniques for exploring spatial heterogeneity. However, when dealing with spatial data sampled at a micro-level but the geographical locations of them are only known at a higher level, GWR-based models encounter several problems, such as difficulty in establishing the bandwidth. Because data with this characteristic exhibit spatial hierarchical structures, such data can be suitably handled using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). This model calibrates random effects for sample-level variables in each group to address spatial heterogeneity. However, it does not work when exploring spatial heterogeneity in some group-level variables when there is insufficient variance in each group. In this study, we therefore propose a hierarchical and geographically weighted regression (HGWR) model, together with a back-fitting maximum likelihood estimator, that can be applied to examine spatial heterogeneity in the regression relationships of data where observations nest into high-order groupings and share the same or very close coordinates within those groups. The HGWR model divides coefficients into three types: local fixed effects, global fixed effects, and random effects. Results of a simulation experiment show that HGWR distinguishes local fixed effects from others and also global effects from random effects. Spatial heterogeneity is reflected in the estimates of local fixed effects, along with the spatial hierarchical structure. Compared with GWR and HLM, HGWR produces estimates with the lowest deviations of coefficient estimates. Thus, the ability of HGWR to tackle both spatial and group-level heterogeneity simultaneously suggests its potential as a promising data modeling tool for handling the increasingly common occurrence where data, in secure settings for example, remove the specific geographic identifiers of individuals and release their locations only at a group level.

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Yigong Hu, Richard Harris, Richard Timmerman, and Binbin Lu. A Hierarchical and Geographically Weighted Regression Model and Its Backfitting Maximum Likelihood Estimator (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 39:1-39:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{hu_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.39,
  author =	{Hu, Yigong and Harris, Richard and Timmerman, Richard and Lu, Binbin},
  title =	{{A Hierarchical and Geographically Weighted Regression Model and Its Backfitting Maximum Likelihood Estimator}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{39:1--39:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.39},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189342},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: spatial modelling, hierarchical data, spatial heterogeneity, geographically weighted regression}
}
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Introducing a General Framework for Locally Weighted Spatial Modelling Based on Density Regression (Short Paper)

Authors: Yigong Hu, Binbin Lu, Richard Harris, and Richard Timmerman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)


Abstract
Traditional geographically weighted regression and its extensions are important methods in the analysis of spatial heterogeneity. However, they are based on distance metrics and kernel functions compressing differences in multidimensional coordinates into one-dimensional values, which rarely consider anisotropy and employ inconsistent definitions of distance in spatio-temporal data or spatial line data (for example). This article proposes a general framework for locally weighted spatial modelling to overcome the drawbacks of existing models using geographically weighted schemes. Underpinning it is a multi-dimensional weighting scheme based on density regression that can be applied to data in any space and is not limited to geographic distance.

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Yigong Hu, Binbin Lu, Richard Harris, and Richard Timmerman. Introducing a General Framework for Locally Weighted Spatial Modelling Based on Density Regression (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 40:1-40:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{hu_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.40,
  author =	{Hu, Yigong and Lu, Binbin and Harris, Richard and Timmerman, Richard},
  title =	{{Introducing a General Framework for Locally Weighted Spatial Modelling Based on Density Regression}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:7},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189354},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Spatial heterogeneity, Multidimensional space, Density regression, Spatial statistics}
}
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A Category for Unifying Gaussian Probability and Nondeterminism

Authors: Dario Stein and Richard Samuelson

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 270, 10th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2023)


Abstract
We introduce categories of extended Gaussian maps and Gaussian relations which unify Gaussian probability distributions with relational nondeterminism in the form of linear relations. Both have crucial and well-understood applications in statistics, engineering, and control theory, but combining them in a single formalism is challenging. It enables us to rigorously describe a variety of phenomena like noisy physical laws, Willems' theory of open systems and uninformative priors in Bayesian statistics. The core idea is to formally admit vector subspaces D ⊆ X as generalized uniform probability distribution. Our formalism represents a first bridge between the literature on categorical systems theory (signal-flow diagrams, linear relations, hypergraph categories) and notions of probability theory.

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Dario Stein and Richard Samuelson. A Category for Unifying Gaussian Probability and Nondeterminism. In 10th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 270, pp. 13:1-13:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{stein_et_al:LIPIcs.CALCO.2023.13,
  author =	{Stein, Dario and Samuelson, Richard},
  title =	{{A Category for Unifying Gaussian Probability and Nondeterminism}},
  booktitle =	{10th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2023)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-287-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{270},
  editor =	{Baldan, Paolo and de Paiva, Valeria},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2023.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-188107},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2023.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: systems theory, hypergraph categories, Bayesian inference, category theory, Markov categories}
}
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Algorithms for Matrix Multiplication via Sampling and Opportunistic Matrix Multiplication

Authors: David G. Harris

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 274, 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)


Abstract
Karppa & Kaski (2019) proposed a novel type of "broken" or "opportunistic" multiplication algorithm, based on a variant of Strassen’s algorithm, and used this to develop new algorithms for Boolean matrix multiplication, among other tasks. For instance, their algorithm can compute Boolean matrix multiplication in O(n^log₂(6+6/7) log n) = O(n^2.778) time. While faster matrix multiplication algorithms exist asymptotically, in practice most such algorithms are infeasible for practical problems. We describe an alternative way to use the broken matrix multiplication algorithm to approximately compute matrix multiplication, either for real-valued matrices or Boolean matrices. In brief, instead of running multiple iterations of the broken algorithm on the original input matrix, we form a new larger matrix by sampling and run a single iteration of the broken algorithm. Asymptotically, the resulting algorithm has runtime O(n^{(3 log6)/log7} log n) ≤ O(n^2.763), a slight improvement of Karppa-Kaski’s algorithm. Since the goal is to obtain new practical matrix-multiplication algorithms, these asymptotic runtime bounds are not directly useful. We estimate the runtime for our algorithm for some sample problems which are at the upper limits of practical algorithms; it appears that for these parameters, further optimizations are still needed to make our algorithm competitive.

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David G. Harris. Algorithms for Matrix Multiplication via Sampling and Opportunistic Matrix Multiplication. In 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 274, pp. 57:1-57:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{harris:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.57,
  author =	{Harris, David G.},
  title =	{{Algorithms for Matrix Multiplication via Sampling and Opportunistic Matrix Multiplication}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)},
  pages =	{57:1--57:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-295-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{274},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.57},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187104},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.57},
  annote =	{Keywords: Matrix multiplication, Boolean matrix multiplication, Strassen’s algorithmkeyword}
}
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A Simple Boosting Framework for Transshipment

Authors: Goran Zuzic

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 274, 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)


Abstract
Transshipment is an important generalization of both the shortest path problem and the optimal transport problem. The task asks to route a demand using a flow of minimum cost over (uncapacitated) edges. Transshipment has recently received extensive attention in theoretical computer science as it is the centerpiece of all modern theoretical breakthroughs in parallel and distributed (approximate) shortest-path computation, a classic and well-studied problem. The key advantage of transshipment over shortest paths is the so-called boosting property: one can often boost a crude approximate solution to a (near-optimal) (1+ε)-approximate solution. However, our understanding of this phenomenon is limited: it is not clear which approximators can be boosted. Moreover, all current boosting frameworks are built with a specific type of approximator in mind and are relatively complicated. The main takeaway of our paper is conceptual: any black-box oracle that computes an approximate dual solution can be boosted to an (1+ε)-approximator. This decouples and simplifies all known near-optimal (1+ε)-approximate transshipment and shortest paths results: they all (implicitly) construct approximate dual solutions and boost them. We provide a very simple analysis based on the multiplicative weights framework. Furthermore, to keep the paper completely self-contained, we provide a new (and arguably much simpler) analysis of multiplicative weights that leverages well-known optimization tools to bypass the ad-hoc calculations used in the standard analyses.

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Goran Zuzic. A Simple Boosting Framework for Transshipment. In 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 274, pp. 104:1-104:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{zuzic:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.104,
  author =	{Zuzic, Goran},
  title =	{{A Simple Boosting Framework for Transshipment}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)},
  pages =	{104:1--104:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-295-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{274},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.104},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187570},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.104},
  annote =	{Keywords: mixed continuous-discrete optimization, boosting, multiplicative weights, theoretical computer science, shortest path, parallel algorithms}
}
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Approximating the Value of Energy-Parity Objectives in Simple Stochastic Games

Authors: Mohan Dantam and Richard Mayr

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 272, 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)


Abstract
We consider simple stochastic games G with energy-parity objectives, a combination of quantitative rewards with a qualitative parity condition. The Maximizer tries to avoid running out of energy while simultaneously satisfying a parity condition. We present an algorithm to approximate the value of a given configuration in 2-NEXPTIME. Moreover, ε-optimal strategies for either player require at most O(2-EXP(|G|)⋅log(1/ε)) memory modes.

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Mohan Dantam and Richard Mayr. Approximating the Value of Energy-Parity Objectives in Simple Stochastic Games. In 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 272, pp. 38:1-38:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{dantam_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.38,
  author =	{Dantam, Mohan and Mayr, Richard},
  title =	{{Approximating the Value of Energy-Parity Objectives in Simple Stochastic Games}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)},
  pages =	{38:1--38:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-292-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{272},
  editor =	{Leroux, J\'{e}r\^{o}me and Lombardy, Sylvain and Peleg, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.38},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-185724},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.38},
  annote =	{Keywords: Energy-Parity Games, Simple Stochastic Games, Parity, Energy}
}
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Experience Paper
On Using VeriFast, VerCors, Plural, and KeY to Check Object Usage (Experience Paper)

Authors: João Mota, Marco Giunti, and António Ravara

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 263, 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)


Abstract
Typestates are a notion of behavioral types that describe protocols for stateful objects, specifying the available methods for each state. Ensuring methods are called in the correct order (protocol compliance), and that, if and when the program terminates, all objects are in the final state (protocol completion) is crucial to write better and safer programs. Objects of this kind are commonly shared among different clients or stored in collections, which may also be shared. However, statically checking protocol compliance and completion when objects are shared is challenging. To evaluate the support given by state of the art verification tools in checking the correct use of shared objects with protocol, we present a survey on four tools for Java: VeriFast, VerCors, Plural, and KeY. We describe the implementation of a file reader, linked-list, and iterator, check for each tool its ability to statically guarantee protocol compliance and completion, even when objects are shared in collections, and evaluate the programmer’s effort in making the code acceptable to these tools. With this study, we motivate the need for lightweight methods to verify the presented kinds of programs.

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João Mota, Marco Giunti, and António Ravara. On Using VeriFast, VerCors, Plural, and KeY to Check Object Usage (Experience Paper). In 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 263, pp. 40:1-40:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{mota_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.40,
  author =	{Mota, Jo\~{a}o and Giunti, Marco and Ravara, Ant\'{o}nio},
  title =	{{On Using VeriFast, VerCors, Plural, and KeY to Check Object Usage}},
  booktitle =	{37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:29},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-281-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{263},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-182330},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Java, Typestates, VeriFast, VerCors, Plural, KeY}
}
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Invited Talk
An Almost-Linear Time Algorithm for Maximum Flow and More (Invited Talk)

Authors: Rasmus Kyng

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 261, 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)


Abstract
In this talk, I will explain a new algorithm for computing exact maximum and minimum-cost flows in almost-linear time, settling the time complexity of these basic graph problems up to subpolynomial factors. Our algorithm uses a novel interior point method that builds the optimal flow as a sequence of approximate minimum-ratio cycles, each of which is computed and processed very efficiently using a new dynamic data structure. By well-known reductions, our result implies almost-linear time algorithms for several problems including bipartite matching, optimal transport, and undirected vertex connectivity. Our framework also extends to minimizing general edge-separable convex functions to high accuracy, yielding the first almost-linear time algorithms for many other problems including entropy-regularized optimal transport, matrix scaling, p-norm flows, and isotonic regression. This talk is based on joint work with Li Chen, Yang P. Liu, Richard Peng, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, and Sushant Sachdeva [Chen et al., 2022]. Our result appeared in FOCS'22 and won the FOCS best paper award.

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Rasmus Kyng. An Almost-Linear Time Algorithm for Maximum Flow and More (Invited Talk). In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, p. 2:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{kyng:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.2,
  author =	{Kyng, Rasmus},
  title =	{{An Almost-Linear Time Algorithm for Maximum Flow and More}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:1},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-278-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{261},
  editor =	{Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-180543},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Maximum flow, Minimum cost flow, Data structures, Interior point methods, Convex optimization}
}
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