27 Search Results for "Brown, Kevin J."


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Decentralized Data Archival: New Definitions and Constructions

Authors: Elaine Shi, Rose Silver, and Changrui Mu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
We initiate the study of a new abstraction called incremental decentralized data archival (iDDA). Specifically, imagine that there is an ever-growing, massive database such as a blockchain, a comprehensive human knowledge base like Wikipedia, or the Internet archive. We want to build a decentralized archival system for such datasets to ensure long-term robustness and sustainability. We identify several important properties that an iDDA scheme should satisfy. First, to promote heterogeneity and decentralization, we want to encourage even weak nodes with limited space (e.g., users' home computers) to contribute. The minimum space requirement to contribute should be approximately independent of the data size. Second, if a collection of nodes together receive rewards commensurate with contributing a total of m blocks of space, then we want the following reassurances: 1) if m is at least the database size, we should be able to reconstruct the entire dataset; and 2) these nodes should actually be committing roughly m space in aggregate - specifically, when m is much larger than the data size, these nodes cannot store only one copy of the database, and be able to impersonate arbitrarily many pseudonyms and get unbounded rewards. We propose new definitions that mathematically formalize the aforementioned requirements of an iDDA scheme. We also devise an efficient construction in the random oracle model which satisfies the desired security requirements. Our scheme incurs only Õ(1) audit cost, as well as Õ(1) update cost for both the publisher and each node, where Õ(⋅) hides polylogarithmic factors. Further, the minimum space provisioning required to contribute is as small as polylogarithmic. Our construction exposes several interesting technical challenges. Specifically, we show that a straightforward application of the standard hierarchical data structure fails, since both our security definition and the underlying cryptographic primitives we employ lack the desired compositional guarantees. We devise novel techniques to overcome these compositional issues, resulting in a construction with provable security while still retaining efficiency. Finally, our new definitions also make a conceptual contribution, and lay the theoretical groundwork for the study of iDDA. We raise several interesting open problems along this direction.

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Elaine Shi, Rose Silver, and Changrui Mu. Decentralized Data Archival: New Definitions and Constructions. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 116:1-116:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{shi_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.116,
  author =	{Shi, Elaine and Silver, Rose and Mu, Changrui},
  title =	{{Decentralized Data Archival: New Definitions and Constructions}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{116:1--116:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.116},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-254037},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.116},
  annote =	{Keywords: Decentralized Data Archival}
}
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Extending EFX Allocations to Further Multi-Graph Classes

Authors: Umang Bhaskar and Yeshwant Pandit

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 360, 45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025)


Abstract
The existence of EFX allocations is one of the most significant open questions in fair division. Recent work by Christodoulou, Fiat, Koutsoupias, and Sgouritsa ("Fair allocation in graphs," EC 2023) establishes the existence of EFX allocations for graphical valuations, when agents are vertices in a graph, items are edges, and each item has zero value for all agents other than those at its endpoints. Thus, in this setting, each good has non-zero value for at most two agents, and there is at most one good valued by any pair of agents. This marks one of the few cases when an exact and complete EFX allocation is known to exist for more than three agents. In this work, we partially extend these results to multi-graphs, when each pair of vertices can have more than one edge between them. The existence of EFX allocations in multi-graphs is a natural open question given their existence in simple graphs. We show that EFX allocations exist, and can be computed in polynomial time, for agents with cancelable valuations in the following cases: (i) bipartite multi-graphs, (ii) multi-trees with monotone valuations, and (iii) multi-graphs with girth (2t-1), where t is the chromatic number of the multi-graph. The existence of EFX in cycle multi-graphs follows from (i), (iii), and the known existence of EFX for three agents.

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Umang Bhaskar and Yeshwant Pandit. Extending EFX Allocations to Further Multi-Graph Classes. In 45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 360, pp. 15:1-15:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{bhaskar_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.15,
  author =	{Bhaskar, Umang and Pandit, Yeshwant},
  title =	{{Extending EFX Allocations to Further Multi-Graph Classes}},
  booktitle =	{45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-406-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{360},
  editor =	{Aiswarya, C. and Mehta, Ruta and Roy, Subhajit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250958},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fair Division, EFX, Multi-graphs}
}
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Resilience in Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Authors: Arnab Sharma, N'Dah Jean Kouagou, and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Published in: TGDK, Volume 3, Issue 2 (2025). Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, Volume 3, Issue 2


Abstract
In recent years, knowledge graphs have gained interest and witnessed widespread applications in various domains, such as information retrieval, question-answering, recommendation systems, amongst others. Large-scale knowledge graphs to this end have demonstrated their utility in effectively representing structured knowledge. To further facilitate the application of machine learning techniques, knowledge graph embedding models have been developed. Such models can transform entities and relationships within knowledge graphs into vectors. However, these embedding models often face challenges related to noise, missing information, distribution shift, adversarial attacks, etc. This can lead to sub-optimal embeddings and incorrect inferences, thereby negatively impacting downstream applications. While the existing literature has focused so far on adversarial attacks on KGE models, the challenges related to the other critical aspects remain unexplored. In this paper, we, first of all, give a unified definition of resilience, encompassing several factors such as generalisation, in-distribution generalization, distribution adaption, and robustness. After formalizing these concepts for machine learning in general, we define them in the context of knowledge graphs. To find the gap in the existing works on resilience in the context of knowledge graphs, we perform a systematic survey, taking into account all these aspects mentioned previously. Our survey results show that most of the existing works focus on a specific aspect of resilience, namely robustness. After categorizing such works based on their respective aspects of resilience, we discuss the challenges and future research directions.

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Arnab Sharma, N'Dah Jean Kouagou, and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo. Resilience in Knowledge Graph Embeddings. In Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 1:1-1:38, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@Article{sharma_et_al:TGDK.3.2.1,
  author =	{Sharma, Arnab and Kouagou, N'Dah Jean and Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga},
  title =	{{Resilience in Knowledge Graph Embeddings}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{1:1--1:38},
  ISSN =	{2942-7517},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{3},
  number =	{2},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/TGDK.3.2.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248117},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.3.2.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Knowledge graphs, Resilience, Robustness}
}
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External-Memory Priority Queues with Optimal Insertions

Authors: Gerth Stølting Brodal, Michael T. Goodrich, John Iacono, Jared Lo, Ulrich Meyer, Victor Pagan, Nodari Sitchinava, and Rolf Svenning

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


Abstract
We present an external-memory priority queue structure supporting Insert and DeleteMin with amortized 𝒪(1) and 𝒪(lg N) comparisons, respectively, and amortized 𝒪(1/B) and 𝒪(1/B log_{M/B} N/B) I/Os, respectively. Here, M is the size of the internal memory, B is the block size of I/Os between internal and external memory, and N is the number of elements in the priority queue just before an operation is performed. Previous external-memory priority queues required amortized 𝒪(lg N) comparisons and 𝒪(1/B log_{M/B} N/B) I/Os for both Insert and DeleteMin. The construction requires the minimal assumption M ≥ 2B.

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Gerth Stølting Brodal, Michael T. Goodrich, John Iacono, Jared Lo, Ulrich Meyer, Victor Pagan, Nodari Sitchinava, and Rolf Svenning. External-Memory Priority Queues with Optimal Insertions. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 5:1-5:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{brodal_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.5,
  author =	{Brodal, Gerth St{\o}lting and Goodrich, Michael T. and Iacono, John and Lo, Jared and Meyer, Ulrich and Pagan, Victor and Sitchinava, Nodari and Svenning, Rolf},
  title =	{{External-Memory Priority Queues with Optimal Insertions}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244734},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: priority queues, external memory, cache aware, amortized complexity}
}
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Canonical for Automated Theorem Proving in Lean

Authors: Chase Norman and Jeremy Avigad

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 352, 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)


Abstract
Canonical is a solver for type inhabitation in dependent type theory, that is, the problem of producing a term of a given type. We present a Lean tactic which invokes Canonical to generate proof terms and synthesize programs. The tactic supports higher-order and dependently-typed goals, structural recursion over indexed inductive types, and definitional equality. Canonical finds proofs for 84% of Natural Number Game problems in 51 seconds total.

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Chase Norman and Jeremy Avigad. Canonical for Automated Theorem Proving in Lean. In 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 352, pp. 14:1-14:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{norman_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2025.14,
  author =	{Norman, Chase and Avigad, Jeremy},
  title =	{{Canonical for Automated Theorem Proving in Lean}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-396-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{352},
  editor =	{Forster, Yannick and Keller, Chantal},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-246128},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Automated Reasoning, Interactive Theorem Proving, Dependent Type Theory, Inhabitation, Unification, Program Synthesis, Formal Methods}
}
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Toward an Earth-Independent System for EVA Mission Planning: Integrating Physical Models, Domain Knowledge, and Agentic RAG to Provide Explainable LLM-Based Decision Support

Authors: Kaisheng Li and Richard S. Whittle

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 130, Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)


Abstract
We propose a unified framework for an Earth‑independent AI system that provides explainable, context‑aware decision support for EVA mission planning by integrating six core components: a fine‑tuned EVA domain LLM, a retrieval‑augmented knowledge base, a short-term memory store, physical simulation models, an agentic orchestration layer, and a multimodal user interface. To ground our design, we analyze the current roles and substitution potential of the Mission Control Center - identifying which procedural and analytical functions can be automated onboard while preserving human oversight for experiential and strategic tasks. Building on this framework, we introduce RASAGE (Retrieval & Simulation Augmented Guidance Agent for Exploration), a proof‑of‑concept toolset that combines Microsoft Phi‑4‑mini‑instruct with a FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search)‑powered EVA knowledge base and custom A* path planning and hypogravity metabolic models to generate grounded, traceable EVA plans. We outline a staged validation strategy to evaluate improvements in route efficiency, metabolic prediction accuracy, anomaly response effectiveness, and crew trust under realistic communication delays. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of replicating key Mission Control functions onboard, enhancing crew autonomy, reducing cognitive load, and improving safety for deep‑space exploration missions.

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Kaisheng Li and Richard S. Whittle. Toward an Earth-Independent System for EVA Mission Planning: Integrating Physical Models, Domain Knowledge, and Agentic RAG to Provide Explainable LLM-Based Decision Support. In Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 130, pp. 6:1-6:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{li_et_al:OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.6,
  author =	{Li, Kaisheng and Whittle, Richard S.},
  title =	{{Toward an Earth-Independent System for EVA Mission Planning: Integrating Physical Models, Domain Knowledge, and Agentic RAG to Provide Explainable LLM-Based Decision Support}},
  booktitle =	{Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:17},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-384-3},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{130},
  editor =	{Bensch, Leonie and Nilsson, Tommy and Nisser, Martin and Pataranutaporn, Pat and Schmidt, Albrecht and Sumini, Valentina},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239967},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: Human-AI Interaction for Space Exploration, Extravehicular Activities, Cognitive load and Human Performance Issues, Human Systems Exploration, Lunar Exploration, LLM}
}
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Mutational Signature Refitting on Sparse Pan-Cancer Data

Authors: Gal Gilad, Teresa M. Przytycka, and Roded Sharan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 344, 25th International Conference on Algorithms for Bioinformatics (WABI 2025)


Abstract
Mutational processes shape cancer genomes, leaving characteristic marks that are termed signatures. The level of activity of each such process, or its signature exposure, provides important information on the disease, improving patient stratification and the prediction of drug response. Thus, there is growing interest in developing refitting methods that decipher those exposures. Previous work in this domain was unsupervised in nature, employing algebraic decomposition and probabilistic inference methods. Here we provide a supervised approach to the problem of signature refitting and show its superiority over current methods. Our method, SuRe, leverages a neural network model to capture correlations between signature exposures in real data. We show that SuRe outperforms previous methods on sparse mutation data from tumor type specific data sets, as well as pan-cancer data sets, with an increasing advantage as the data become sparser. We further demonstrate its utility in clinical settings.

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Gal Gilad, Teresa M. Przytycka, and Roded Sharan. Mutational Signature Refitting on Sparse Pan-Cancer Data. In 25th International Conference on Algorithms for Bioinformatics (WABI 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 344, pp. 11:1-11:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{gilad_et_al:LIPIcs.WABI.2025.11,
  author =	{Gilad, Gal and Przytycka, Teresa M. and Sharan, Roded},
  title =	{{Mutational Signature Refitting on Sparse Pan-Cancer Data}},
  booktitle =	{25th International Conference on Algorithms for Bioinformatics (WABI 2025)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-386-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{344},
  editor =	{Brejov\'{a}, Bro\v{n}a and Patro, Rob},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2025.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239374},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2025.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: mutational signatures, signature refitting, cancer genomics, genomic data analysis, somatic mutations}
}
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Combining Generalization Algorithms in Regular Collapse-Free Theories

Authors: Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, David M. Cerna, Temur Kutsia, and Christophe Ringeissen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 337, 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)


Abstract
We look at the generalization problem modulo some equational theories. This problem is dual to the unification problem: given two input terms, we want to find a common term whose respective two instances are equivalent to the original terms modulo the theory. There exist algorithms for finding generalizations over various equational theories. We focus on modular construction of equational generalization algorithms for the union of signature-disjoint theories. Specifically, we consider the class of regular and collapse-free theories, showing how to combine existing generalization algorithms to produce specific solutions in these cases. Additionally, we identify a class of theories that admit a generalization algorithm based on the application of axioms to resolve the problem. To define this class, we rely on the notion of syntactic theories, a concept originally introduced to develop unification procedures similar to the one known for syntactic unification. We demonstrate that syntactic theories are also helpful in developing generalization procedures similar to those used for syntactic generalization.

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Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, David M. Cerna, Temur Kutsia, and Christophe Ringeissen. Combining Generalization Algorithms in Regular Collapse-Free Theories. In 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 337, pp. 7:1-7:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{ayalarincon_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.7,
  author =	{Ayala-Rinc\'{o}n, Mauricio and Cerna, David M. and Kutsia, Temur and Ringeissen, Christophe},
  title =	{{Combining Generalization Algorithms in Regular Collapse-Free Theories}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-374-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{337},
  editor =	{Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236228},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Generalization, Anti-unification, Equational theories, Combination}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
q-Partitioning Valuations: Exploring the Space Between Subadditive and Fractionally Subadditive Valuations

Authors: Kiril Bangachev and S. Matthew Weinberg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)


Abstract
For a set M of m elements, we define a decreasing chain of classes of normalized monotone-increasing valuation functions from 2^M to ℝ_{≥ 0}, parameterized by an integer q ∈ [2,m]. For a given q, we refer to the class as q-partitioning. A valuation function is subadditive if and only if it is 2-partitioning, and fractionally subadditive if and only if it is m-partitioning. Thus, our chain establishes an interpolation between subadditive and fractionally subadditive valuations. We show that this interpolation is smooth (q-partitioning valuations are "nearly" (q-1)-partitioning in a precise sense, Theorem 6), interpretable (the definition arises by analyzing the core of a cost-sharing game, à la the Bondareva-Shapley Theorem for fractionally subadditive valuations, Section 3.1), and non-trivial (the class of q-partitioning valuations is distinct for all q, Proposition 3). For domains where provable separations exist between subadditive and fractionally subadditive, we interpolate the stronger guarantees achievable for fractionally subadditive valuations to all q ∈ {2,…, m}. Two highlights are the following: 1) An Ω ((log log q)/(log log m))-competitive posted price mechanism for q-partitioning valuations. Note that this matches asymptotically the state-of-the-art for both subadditive (q = 2) [Paul Dütting et al., 2020], and fractionally subadditive (q = m) [Feldman et al., 2015]. 2) Two upper-tail concentration inequalities on 1-Lipschitz, q-partitioning valuations over independent items. One extends the state-of-the-art for q = m to q < m, the other improves the state-of-the-art for q = 2 for q > 2. Our concentration inequalities imply several corollaries that interpolate between subadditive and fractionally subadditive, for example: 𝔼[v(S)] ≤ (1 + 1/log q)Median[v(S)] + O(log q). To prove this, we develop a new isoperimetric inequality using Talagrand’s method of control by q points, which may be of independent interest. We also discuss other probabilistic inequalities and game-theoretic applications of q-partitioning valuations, and connections to subadditive MPH-k valuations [Tomer Ezra et al., 2019].

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Kiril Bangachev and S. Matthew Weinberg. q-Partitioning Valuations: Exploring the Space Between Subadditive and Fractionally Subadditive Valuations. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 18:1-18:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{bangachev_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.18,
  author =	{Bangachev, Kiril and Weinberg, S. Matthew},
  title =	{{q-Partitioning Valuations: Exploring the Space Between Subadditive and Fractionally Subadditive Valuations}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233956},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Subadditive Functions, Fractionally Subadditive Functions, Posted Price Mechanisms, Concentration Inequalities}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Minimizing Recourse in an Adaptive Balls and Bins Game

Authors: Adi Fine, Haim Kaplan, and Uri Stemmer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)


Abstract
We consider a simple load-balancing game between an algorithm and an adaptive adversary. In a simplified version of this game, the adversary observes the assignment of jobs to machines and selects a machine to kill. The algorithm must then restart the jobs from the failed machine on other machines. The adversary repeats this process, observing the new assignment and eliminating another machine, and so on. The adversary aims to force the algorithm to perform many restarts, while we seek a robust algorithm that minimizes restarts regardless of the adversary’s strategy. This game was recently introduced by Bhattacharya et al. for designing a 3-spanner with low recourse against an adaptive adversary. We prove that a simple algorithm, which assigns each job to a randomly chosen live bin, incurs O(n log n) recourse against an adaptive adversary. This enables us to construct a much simpler 3-spanner with a recourse that is smaller by a factor of O(log² n) compared to the previous construction, without increasing the update time or the size of the spanner. This motivates a careful examination of the range of attacks an adaptive adversary can deploy against simple algorithms before resorting to more complex ones. As our case study demonstrates, this attack space may not be as large as it initially appears, enabling the development of robust algorithms that are both simpler and easier to analyze.

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Adi Fine, Haim Kaplan, and Uri Stemmer. Minimizing Recourse in an Adaptive Balls and Bins Game. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 77:1-77:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{fine_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.77,
  author =	{Fine, Adi and Kaplan, Haim and Stemmer, Uri},
  title =	{{Minimizing Recourse in an Adaptive Balls and Bins Game}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{77:1--77:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.77},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234544},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.77},
  annote =	{Keywords: Adaptive adversary, load-balancing game, balls-and-bins, randomized algorithms, dynamic 3-spanner, dynamic graph algorithms, adversarial robustness}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Acceleration Meets Inverse Maintenance: Faster 𝓁_∞-Regression

Authors: Deeksha Adil, Shunhua Jiang, and Rasmus Kyng

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)


Abstract
We propose a randomized multiplicative weight update (MWU) algorithm for 𝓁_{∞} regression that runs in Õ(n^{2+1/22.5} poly(1/ε)) time when ω = 2+o(1), improving upon the previous best Õ(n^{2+1/18} polylog(1/ε)) runtime in the low-accuracy regime. Our algorithm combines state-of-the-art inverse maintenance data structures with acceleration. In order to do so, we propose a novel acceleration scheme for MWU that exhibits stability and robustness, which are required for the efficient implementations of the inverse maintenance data structures. We also design a faster deterministic MWU algorithm that runs in Õ(n^{2+1/12}poly(1/ε)) time when ω = 2+o(1), improving upon the previous best Õ(n^{2+1/6} poly log(1/ε)) runtime in the low-accuracy regime. We achieve this by showing a novel stability result that goes beyond previously known works based on interior point methods (IPMs). Our work is the first to use acceleration and inverse maintenance together efficiently, finally making the two most important building blocks of modern structured convex optimization compatible.

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Deeksha Adil, Shunhua Jiang, and Rasmus Kyng. Acceleration Meets Inverse Maintenance: Faster 𝓁_∞-Regression. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 5:1-5:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{adil_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.5,
  author =	{Adil, Deeksha and Jiang, Shunhua and Kyng, Rasmus},
  title =	{{Acceleration Meets Inverse Maintenance: Faster 𝓁\underline∞-Regression}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233823},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Regression, Inverse Maintenance, Multiplicative Weights Update}
}
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Chain of Grounded Objectives: Concise Goal-Oriented Prompting for Code Generation

Authors: Sangyeop Yeo, Seung-Won Hwang, and Yu-Seung Ma

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 333, 39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025)


Abstract
The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation has gained significant attention in recent years. Existing methods often aim to improve the quality of generated code by incorporating additional contextual information or guidance into input prompts. Many of these approaches adopt process-oriented reasoning strategies, mimicking human-like step-by-step thinking; however, they may not always align with the structured nature of programming languages. This paper introduces Chain of Grounded Objectives (CGO), a concise goal-oriented prompting approach that embeds functional objectives into prompts to enhance code generation. By focusing on precisely defined objectives rather than explicit procedural steps, CGO aligns more naturally with programming tasks while retaining flexibility. Empirical evaluations on HumanEval, MBPP, their extended versions, and LiveCodeBench show that CGO achieves accuracy comparable to or better than existing methods while using fewer tokens, making it a more efficient approach to LLM-based code generation.

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Sangyeop Yeo, Seung-Won Hwang, and Yu-Seung Ma. Chain of Grounded Objectives: Concise Goal-Oriented Prompting for Code Generation. In 39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 333, pp. 35:1-35:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{yeo_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.35,
  author =	{Yeo, Sangyeop and Hwang, Seung-Won and Ma, Yu-Seung},
  title =	{{Chain of Grounded Objectives: Concise Goal-Oriented Prompting for Code Generation}},
  booktitle =	{39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025)},
  pages =	{35:1--35:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-373-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{333},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.35},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233271},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.35},
  annote =	{Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Prompt Design, Large Language Models, Code Generation}
}
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SP-IMPact: A Framework for Static Partitioning Interference Mitigation and Performance Analysis

Authors: Diogo Costa, Gonçalo Moreira, Afonso Oliveira, José Martins, and Sandro Pinto

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 128, Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025)


Abstract
Modern embedded systems are evolving toward complex, heterogeneous architectures to accommodate increasingly demanding applications. Driven by industry SWAP-C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) constraints, this shift has led to the consolidation of multiple systems onto single hardware platforms. Static Partitioning Hypervisors (SPHs) offer a promising solution to partition hardware resources and provide spatial isolation between critical workloads. However, shared hardware resources like the Last-Level Cache (LLC) and system bus can introduce significant temporal interference between virtual machines (VMs), negatively impacting performance and predictability. Over the past decade, academia and industry have focused on developing interference mitigation techniques, such as cache partitioning and memory bandwidth reservation. Configuring these techniques, however, is complex and time-consuming. Cache partitioning requires careful balancing of cache sections across VMs, while memory bandwidth reservation requires tuning bandwidth budgets and periods. With numerous possible configurations, testing all combinations is impractical and often leads to suboptimal configurations. Moreover, there is a gap in understanding how these techniques interact, as their combined use can result in compounded or conflicting effects on system performance. Static analysis solutions that estimate worst-case execution times (WCET) and upper bounds on execution times provide some guidance for configuring interference mitigation techniques. While useful in identifying potential interference effects, these tools often fail to capture the full complexity of modern multi-core systems, as they typically focus on a limited set of shared resources and neglect other sources of contention, such as IOMMUs and interrupt controllers. To address these challenges, we introduce SP-IMPact, an open-source framework designed to analyze and guide the configuration of interference mitigation techniques, through the deployment of diverse VM configurations and setups, and assessment of hardware-level contention (leveraging SPHs). It supports two mitigation techniques: (i) cache coloring and (ii) memory bandwidth reservation, while also evaluating the interactions between these techniques and their cumulative impact on system performance. By providing insights on real hardware platforms, SP-IMPact helps to optimize the configuration of these techniques in mixed-criticality systems, ensuring both performance and predictability.

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Diogo Costa, Gonçalo Moreira, Afonso Oliveira, José Martins, and Sandro Pinto. SP-IMPact: A Framework for Static Partitioning Interference Mitigation and Performance Analysis. In Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 128, pp. 5:1-5:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{costa_et_al:OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.5,
  author =	{Costa, Diogo and Moreira, Gon\c{c}alo and Oliveira, Afonso and Martins, Jos\'{e} and Pinto, Sandro},
  title =	{{SP-IMPact: A Framework for Static Partitioning Interference Mitigation and Performance Analysis}},
  booktitle =	{Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:15},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-366-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{128},
  editor =	{Yomsi, Patrick Meumeu and Wildermann, Stefan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229911},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Virtualization, Contention, Multi-core Interference, Mixed-Criticality Systems, Arm}
}
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Low-Latency Real-Time Applications on Heterogeneous MPSoCs

Authors: Nicolas Coppik, Pascal Becker, and Marcus Ritter

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 128, Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025)


Abstract
Heterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) that combine multiple, heterogeneous processing units are becoming increasingly popular for a wide range of applications, including industrial applications, where complex real-time applications can benefit from the performance and flexibility they offer. However, deploying real-time applications with low latency requirements across multiple processing units on such MPSoCs remains a challenging problem, particularly when communication between processors is required on a time-critical path. Existing solutions generally rely on the presence of at least one full-featured, general-purpose operating system on the device, and do not cater to the requirements of distributed, low-latency real-time applications. In this paper, we investigate the performance, with a focus on latency, of different options for communication between CPUs, including inter-processor interrupts and shared memory communication via different memories, on the popular Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ platform and propose a novel solution for communication between heterogeneous processing units that relies only on the availability of shared memory. Our solution is capable of achieving sub-microsecond latencies for signaling and the transfer of small amounts of data between processing units, making it suitable for deploying distributed, low-latency real-time applications.

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Nicolas Coppik, Pascal Becker, and Marcus Ritter. Low-Latency Real-Time Applications on Heterogeneous MPSoCs. In Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 128, pp. 2:1-2:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{coppik_et_al:OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.2,
  author =	{Coppik, Nicolas and Becker, Pascal and Ritter, Marcus},
  title =	{{Low-Latency Real-Time Applications on Heterogeneous MPSoCs}},
  booktitle =	{Sixth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2025)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:14},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-366-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{128},
  editor =	{Yomsi, Patrick Meumeu and Wildermann, Stefan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229883},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NG-RES.2025.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: real-time systems, heterogeneous systems, latency, inter-core communication}
}
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Stable Matching with Interviews

Authors: Itai Ashlagi, Jiale Chen, Mohammad Roghani, and Amin Saberi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 325, 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)


Abstract
In several two-sided markets, including labor and dating, agents typically have limited information about their preferences prior to mutual interactions. This issue can result in matching frictions, as arising in the labor market for medical residencies, where high application rates are followed by a large number of interviews. Yet, the extensive literature on two-sided matching primarily focuses on models where agents know their preferences, leaving the interactions necessary for preference discovery largely overlooked. This paper studies this problem using an algorithmic approach, extending Gale-Shapley’s deferred acceptance to this context. Two algorithms are proposed. The first is an adaptive algorithm that expands upon Gale-Shapley’s deferred acceptance by incorporating interviews between applicants and positions. Similar to deferred acceptance, one side sequentially proposes to the other. However, the order of proposals is carefully chosen to ensure an interim stable matching is found. Furthermore, with high probability, the number of interviews conducted by each applicant or position is limited to O(log² n). In many seasonal markets, interactions occur more simultaneously, consisting of an initial interview phase followed by a clearing stage. We present a non-adaptive algorithm for generating a single stage set of in tiered random markets. The algorithm finds an interim stable matching in such markets while assigning no more than O(log³ n) interviews to each applicant or position.

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Itai Ashlagi, Jiale Chen, Mohammad Roghani, and Amin Saberi. Stable Matching with Interviews. In 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 325, pp. 12:1-12:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{ashlagi_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.12,
  author =	{Ashlagi, Itai and Chen, Jiale and Roghani, Mohammad and Saberi, Amin},
  title =	{{Stable Matching with Interviews}},
  booktitle =	{16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-361-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{325},
  editor =	{Meka, Raghu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-226402},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Stable Matching, Gale–Shapley Algorithm, Algorithmic Game Theory}
}
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