63 Search Results for "Durand, Arnaud"


Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 16

Computer Science Logic (CSL'12) - 26th International Workshop/21st Annual Conference of the EACSL

CSL 2012, September 3-6, 2012, Fontainebleau, France

Editors: Patrick Cégielski and Arnaud Durand

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Characterizing Small Circuit Classes from FAC⁰ to FAC¹ via Discrete Ordinary Differential Equations

Authors: Melissa Antonelli, Arnaud Durand, and Juha Kontinen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)


Abstract
In this paper, we provide a uniform framework for investigating small circuit classes and bounds through the lens of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Following an approach recently introduced to capture the class of polynomial-time computable functions via ODE-based recursion schemas and later applied to the context of functions computed by unbounded fan-in circuits of constant depth (FAC⁰), we study multiple relevant small circuit classes. In particular, we show that natural restrictions on linearity and derivation along functions with specific growth rate correspond to kinds of functions that can be proved to be in various classes, ranging from FAC⁰ to FAC¹. This reveals an intriguing link between constraints over linear-length ODEs and circuit computation, providing new tools to tackle the complex challenge of establishing bounds for classes in the circuit hierarchies and possibly enhancing our understanding of the role of counters in this setting. Additionally, we establish several completeness results, in particular obtaining the first ODE-based characterizations for the classes of functions computable in constant depth with unbounded fan-in and Mod 2 gates (FACC[2]) and in logarithmic depth with bounded fan-in Boolean gates (FNC¹).

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Melissa Antonelli, Arnaud Durand, and Juha Kontinen. Characterizing Small Circuit Classes from FAC⁰ to FAC¹ via Discrete Ordinary Differential Equations. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 10:1-10:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{antonelli_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.10,
  author =	{Antonelli, Melissa and Durand, Arnaud and Kontinen, Juha},
  title =	{{Characterizing Small Circuit Classes from FAC⁰ to FAC¹ via Discrete Ordinary Differential Equations}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241170},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Implicit computational complexity, parallel computation, function algebras, ordinary differential equations, circuit complexity}
}
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Monotone Bounded-Depth Complexity of Homomorphism Polynomials

Authors: C.S. Bhargav, Shiteng Chen, Radu Curticapean, and Prateek Dwivedi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)


Abstract
For every fixed graph H, it is known that homomorphism counts from H and colorful H-subgraph counts can be determined in O(n^{t+1}) time on n-vertex input graphs G, where t is the treewidth of H. On the other hand, a running time of n^{o(t / log t)} would refute the exponential-time hypothesis. Komarath, Pandey, and Rahul (Algorithmica, 2023) studied algebraic variants of these counting problems, i.e., homomorphism and subgraph polynomials for fixed graphs H. These polynomials are weighted sums over the objects counted above, where each object is weighted by the product of variables corresponding to edges contained in the object. As shown by Komarath et al., the monotone circuit complexity of the homomorphism polynomial for H is Θ(n^{tw(H)+1}). In this paper, we characterize the power of monotone bounded-depth circuits for homomorphism and colorful subgraph polynomials. This leads us to discover a natural hierarchy of graph parameters tw_Δ(H), for fixed Δ ∈ ℕ, which capture the width of tree-decompositions for H when the underlying tree is required to have depth at most Δ. We prove that monotone circuits of product-depth Δ computing the homomorphism polynomial for H require size Θ(n^{tw_Δ(H^{†})+1}), where H^{†} is the graph obtained from H by removing all degree-1 vertices. This allows us to derive an optimal depth hierarchy theorem for monotone bounded-depth circuits through graph-theoretic arguments.

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C.S. Bhargav, Shiteng Chen, Radu Curticapean, and Prateek Dwivedi. Monotone Bounded-Depth Complexity of Homomorphism Polynomials. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 19:1-19:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{bhargav_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.19,
  author =	{Bhargav, C.S. and Chen, Shiteng and Curticapean, Radu and Dwivedi, Prateek},
  title =	{{Monotone Bounded-Depth Complexity of Homomorphism Polynomials}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241269},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: algebraic complexity, homomorphisms, monotone circuit complexity, bounded-depth circuits, treewidth, pathwidth}
}
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FO-Query Enumeration over SLP-Compressed Structures of Bounded Degree

Authors: Markus Lohrey, Sebastian Maneth, and Markus L. Schmid

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)


Abstract
Enumerating the result set of a first-order query over a relational structure of bounded degree can be done with linear preprocessing and constant delay. In this work, we extend this result towards the compressed perspective where the structure is given in a potentially highly compressed form by a straight-line program (SLP). Our main result is an algorithm that enumerates the result set of a first-order query over a structure of bounded degree that is represented by an SLP satisfying the so-called apex condition. For a fixed formula, the enumeration algorithm has constant delay and needs a preprocessing time that is linear in the size of the SLP.

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Markus Lohrey, Sebastian Maneth, and Markus L. Schmid. FO-Query Enumeration over SLP-Compressed Structures of Bounded Degree. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 69:1-69:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{lohrey_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.69,
  author =	{Lohrey, Markus and Maneth, Sebastian and Schmid, Markus L.},
  title =	{{FO-Query Enumeration over SLP-Compressed Structures of Bounded Degree}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{69:1--69:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.69},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241760},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.69},
  annote =	{Keywords: Enumeration algorithms, FO-logic, query evaluation over compressed data}
}
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Separating Terms by Means of Multi Types, Coinductively

Authors: Adrienne Lancelot

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 336, 30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024)


Abstract
Intersection type systems, as adequate models of the λ-calculus, induce an equational theory on terms, that we refer to as type equivalence. We give a new proof technique to coinductively characterize type equivalence. To do so, we explore a simple setting, namely weak head type equivalence, which is the equational theory induced by a weak head non-idempotent intersection type system. We prove a folklore result: weak head type equivalence coincides with Sangiorgi’s normal form bisimilarity. What is new in our development is that we only rely on coinductive program equivalences, bypassing the need to introduce term approximants, which were used in previous works characterizing type equivalence. The crucial part of this characterization is to show that type equivalent terms are normal form bisimilar: we do so by constructing shape typings that can only type terms of a specific normal form structure. Shape typings are a light form of principal types, a technique often used in intersection types to generate from one or few principal typing all possible typings of a term.

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Adrienne Lancelot. Separating Terms by Means of Multi Types, Coinductively. In 30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 336, pp. 4:1-4:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{lancelot:LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.4,
  author =	{Lancelot, Adrienne},
  title =	{{Separating Terms by Means of Multi Types, Coinductively}},
  booktitle =	{30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-376-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{336},
  editor =	{M{\o}gelberg, Rasmus Ejlers and van den Berg, Benno},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233660},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: lambda calculus, intersection types, program equivalence}
}
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Fair Termination of Asynchronous Binary Sessions

Authors: Luca Padovani and Gianluigi Zavattaro

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


Abstract
We study a theory of asynchronous session types ensuring that well-typed processes terminate under a suitable fairness assumption. Fair termination entails starvation freedom and orphan message freedom namely that all messages, including those that are produced early taking advantage of asynchrony, are eventually consumed. The theory is based on a novel fair asynchronous subtyping relation for session types that is coarser than the existing ones. The type system is also the first of its kind that is firmly rooted in linear logic: fair asynchronous subtyping is incorporated as a natural generalization of the cut and axiom rules of linear logic and asynchronous communication is modeled through a suitable set of commuting conversions and of deep cut reductions in linear logic proofs.

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Luca Padovani and Gianluigi Zavattaro. Fair Termination of Asynchronous Binary Sessions. In 39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 333, pp. 24:1-24:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{padovani_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.24,
  author =	{Padovani, Luca and Zavattaro, Gianluigi},
  title =	{{Fair Termination of Asynchronous Binary Sessions}},
  booktitle =	{39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:29},
  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.2025.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233169},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Binary sessions, fair asynchronous subtyping, fair termination, linear logic}
}
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Contrasting Deadlock-Free Session Processes

Authors: Juan C. Jaramillo and Jorge A. Pérez

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


Abstract
Deadlock freedom is a crucial property for message-passing programs. Over the years, several different type systems for concurrent processes that ensure deadlock freedom have been proposed; this diversity raises the question of how they compare. We address this question, considering two type systems not covered in prior work: Kokke et al.’s HCP, a type system based on a linear logic with hypersequents, and Padovani’s priority-based type system for asynchronous processes, dubbed 𝖯. Their distinctive features make formal comparisons relevant and challenging. Our findings are two-fold: (1) the hypersequent setting does not drastically change the class of deadlock-free processes induced by linear logic, and (2) we relate the classes of deadlock-free processes induced by HCP and 𝖯. We prove that our results hold under both synchronous and asynchronous communication. Our results provide new insights into the essential mechanisms involved in statically avoiding deadlocks in concurrency.

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Juan C. Jaramillo and Jorge A. Pérez. Contrasting Deadlock-Free Session Processes. In 39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 333, pp. 17:1-17:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{jaramillo_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.17,
  author =	{Jaramillo, Juan C. and P\'{e}rez, Jorge A.},
  title =	{{Contrasting Deadlock-Free Session Processes}},
  booktitle =	{39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:29},
  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.2025.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233103},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: session types, process calculi, deadlock freedom}
}
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Generalized Covers for Conjunctive Queries

Authors: Paraschos Koutris

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 328, 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)


Abstract
Covers of query results were introduced as succinct lossless representations of join query outputs. A cover is a subset of the query result from which we can efficiently enumerate the output with constant delay and linear preprocessing time. However, covers are dependent on a single tree decomposition of the query. In this work, we generalize the notion of a cover to a set of multiple tree decompositions. We show that this generalization can potentially produce asymptotically smaller covers while maintaining the properties of constant-delay enumeration and linear preprocessing time. In particular, given a set of tree decompositions, we can determine exactly the asymptotic size of a minimum cover, which is tied to the notion of entropic width of the query. We also provide a simple greedy algorithm that computes this cover efficiently. Finally, we relate covers to semiring circuits when the semiring is idempotent.

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Paraschos Koutris. Generalized Covers for Conjunctive Queries. In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 28:1-28:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{koutris:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.28,
  author =	{Koutris, Paraschos},
  title =	{{Generalized Covers for Conjunctive Queries}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-364-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{328},
  editor =	{Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229698},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Conjunctive Query, tree decomposition, cover}
}
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Tractable Conjunctive Queries over Static and Dynamic Relations

Authors: Ahmet Kara, Zheng Luo, Milos Nikolic, Dan Olteanu, and Haozhe Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 328, 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)


Abstract
We investigate the evaluation of conjunctive queries over static and dynamic relations. While static relations are given as input and do not change, dynamic relations are subject to inserts and deletes. We characterise syntactically three classes of queries that admit constant update time and constant enumeration delay. We call such queries tractable. Depending on the class, the preprocessing time is linear, polynomial, or exponential (under data complexity, so the query size is constant). To decide whether a query is tractable, it does not suffice to analyse separately the sub-queries over the static relations and over the dynamic relations, respectively. Instead, we need to take the interaction between the static and the dynamic relations into account. Even when the sub-query over the dynamic relations is not tractable, the overall query can become tractable if the dynamic relations are sufficiently constrained by the static ones.

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Ahmet Kara, Zheng Luo, Milos Nikolic, Dan Olteanu, and Haozhe Zhang. Tractable Conjunctive Queries over Static and Dynamic Relations. In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 12:1-12:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kara_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.12,
  author =	{Kara, Ahmet and Luo, Zheng and Nikolic, Milos and Olteanu, Dan and Zhang, Haozhe},
  title =	{{Tractable Conjunctive Queries over Static and Dynamic Relations}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-364-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{328},
  editor =	{Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229534},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: fully dynamic algorithm, constant enumeration delay, constant update time}
}
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Dynamic Direct Access of MSO Query Evaluation over Strings

Authors: Pierre Bourhis, Florent Capelli, Stefan Mengel, and Cristian Riveros

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 328, 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)


Abstract
We study the problem of evaluating a Monadic Second Order (MSO) query over strings under updates in the setting of direct access. We present an algorithm that, given an MSO query with first-order free variables represented by an unambiguous variable-set automaton 𝒜 with state set Q and variables X and a string s, computes a data structure in time 𝒪(|Q|^ω⋅ |X|² ⋅ |s|) and, then, given an index i retrieves, using the data structure, the i-th output of the evaluation of 𝒜 over s in time 𝒪(|Q|^ω ⋅ |X|³ ⋅ log(|s|)²) where ω is the exponent for matrix multiplication. Ours is the first efficient direct access algorithm for MSO query evaluation over strings; such algorithms so far had only been studied for first-order queries and conjunctive queries over relational data. Our algorithm gives the answers in lexicographic order where, in contrast to the setting of conjunctive queries, the order between variables can be freely chosen by the user without degrading the runtime. Moreover, our data structure can be updated efficiently after changes to the input string, allowing more powerful updates than in the enumeration literature, e.g. efficient deletion of substrings, concatenation and splitting of strings, and cut-and-paste operations. Our approach combines a matrix representation of MSO queries and a novel data structure for dynamic word problems over semi-groups which yields an overall algorithm that is elegant and easy to formulate.

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Pierre Bourhis, Florent Capelli, Stefan Mengel, and Cristian Riveros. Dynamic Direct Access of MSO Query Evaluation over Strings. In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 26:1-26:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{bourhis_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.26,
  author =	{Bourhis, Pierre and Capelli, Florent and Mengel, Stefan and Riveros, Cristian},
  title =	{{Dynamic Direct Access of MSO Query Evaluation over Strings}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-364-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{328},
  editor =	{Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229675},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Query evaluation, direct access, MSO queries}
}
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Invited Talk
The Quest for Faster Join Algorithms (Invited Talk)

Authors: Paraschos Koutris, Shaleen Deep, Austen Fan, and Hangdong Zhao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 328, 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)


Abstract
Joins are the cornerstone of relational databases. Surprisingly, even after several decades of research in the systems and theory database community, we still lack an understanding of how to design the fastest possible join algorithm. In this talk, we will present the exciting progress the database theory community has achieved in join algorithms over the last two decades. The talk will revolve around five key ideas fundamentally shaping this research area: tree decompositions, data partitioning, leveraging statistical information, enumeration, and algebraic techniques.

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Paraschos Koutris, Shaleen Deep, Austen Fan, and Hangdong Zhao. The Quest for Faster Join Algorithms (Invited Talk). In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 1:1-1:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{koutris_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.1,
  author =	{Koutris, Paraschos and Deep, Shaleen and Fan, Austen and Zhao, Hangdong},
  title =	{{The Quest for Faster Join Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-364-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{328},
  editor =	{Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229428},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Conjunctive Queries, Joins, Tree Decompositions, Enumeration, Semirings}
}
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A New Characterization of FAC⁰ via Discrete Ordinary Differential Equations

Authors: Melissa Antonelli, Arnaud Durand, and Juha Kontinen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 306, 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024)


Abstract
Implicit computational complexity is an active area of theoretical computer science, which aims at providing machine-independent characterizations of relevant complexity classes. One of the seminal works in this field appeared in 1965, when Cobham introduced a function algebra closed under bounded recursion on notation to capture FP. Later on, several complexity classes have been characterized using limited recursion schemas. In this context, a new approach was recently introduced, showing that ordinary differential equations (ODEs) offer a natural tool for algorithmic design and providing a characterization of FP by an ODE-schema. The overall goal of the present work is precisely that of generalizing this approach to parallel computation, obtaining an original ODE-characterization for the small circuit classes FAC⁰ and FTC⁰.

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Melissa Antonelli, Arnaud Durand, and Juha Kontinen. A New Characterization of FAC⁰ via Discrete Ordinary Differential Equations. In 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 306, pp. 10:1-10:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{antonelli_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.10,
  author =	{Antonelli, Melissa and Durand, Arnaud and Kontinen, Juha},
  title =	{{A New Characterization of FAC⁰ via Discrete Ordinary Differential Equations}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-335-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{306},
  editor =	{Kr\'{a}lovi\v{c}, Rastislav and Ku\v{c}era, Anton{\'\i}n},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-205664},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Implicit computational complexity, parallel computation, ordinary differential equations, circuit complexity}
}
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Enumeration Classes Defined by Circuits

Authors: Nadia Creignou, Arnaud Durand, and Heribert Vollmer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 241, 47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2022)


Abstract
We refine the complexity landscape for enumeration problems by introducing very low classes defined by using Boolean circuits as enumerators. We locate well-known enumeration problems, e.g., from graph theory, Gray code enumeration, and propositional satisfiability in our classes. In this way we obtain a framework to distinguish between the complexity of different problems known to be in DelayP, for which a formal way of comparison was not possible to this day.

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Nadia Creignou, Arnaud Durand, and Heribert Vollmer. Enumeration Classes Defined by Circuits. In 47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 241, pp. 38:1-38:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{creignou_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2022.38,
  author =	{Creignou, Nadia and Durand, Arnaud and Vollmer, Heribert},
  title =	{{Enumeration Classes Defined by Circuits}},
  booktitle =	{47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2022)},
  pages =	{38:1--38:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-256-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{241},
  editor =	{Szeider, Stefan and Ganian, Robert 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.MFCS.2022.38},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-168364},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2022.38},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational complexity, enumeration problem, Boolean circuit}
}
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Grammars for Document Spanners

Authors: Liat Peterfreund

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 186, 24th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2021)


Abstract
We propose a new grammar-based language for defining information-extractors from documents (text) that is built upon the well-studied framework of document spanners for extracting structured data from text. While previously studied formalisms for document spanners are mainly based on regular expressions, we use an extension of context-free grammars, called {extraction grammars}, to define the new class of context-free spanners. Extraction grammars are simply context-free grammars extended with variables that capture interval positions of the document, namely spans. While regular expressions are efficient for tokenizing and tagging, context-free grammars are also efficient for capturing structural properties. Indeed, we show that context-free spanners are strictly more expressive than their regular counterparts. We reason about the expressive power of our new class and present a pushdown-automata model that captures it. We show that extraction grammars can be evaluated with polynomial data complexity. Nevertheless, as the degree of the polynomial depends on the query, we present an enumeration algorithm for unambiguous extraction grammars that, after quintic preprocessing, outputs the results sequentially, without repetitions, with a constant delay between every two consecutive ones.

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Liat Peterfreund. Grammars for Document Spanners. In 24th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 186, pp. 7:1-7:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{peterfreund:LIPIcs.ICDT.2021.7,
  author =	{Peterfreund, Liat},
  title =	{{Grammars for Document Spanners}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2021)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-179-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{186},
  editor =	{Yi, Ke and Wei, Zhewei},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2021.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-137154},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2021.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Information Extraction, Document Spanners, Context-Free Grammars, Constant-Delay Enumeration, Regular Expressions, Pushdown Automata}
}
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Recursion Schemes, Discrete Differential Equations and Characterization of Polynomial Time Computations

Authors: Olivier Bournez and Arnaud Durand

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 138, 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)


Abstract
This paper studies the expressive and computational power of discrete Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). It presents a new framework using discrete ODEs as a central tool for computation and algorithm design. We present the general theory of discrete ODEs for computation theory, we illustrate this with various examples of algorithms, and we provide several implicit characterizations of complexity and computability classes. The proposed framework presents an original point of view on complexity and computation classes. It unifies several constructions that have been proposed for characterizing these classes including classical approaches in implicit complexity using restricted recursion schemes, as well as recent characterizations of computability and complexity by classes of continuous ordinary differential equations. It also helps understanding the relationships between analog computations and classical discrete models of computation theory. At a more technical point of view, this paper points out the fundamental role of linear (discrete) ordinary differential equations and classical ODE tools such as changes of variables to capture computability and complexity measures, or as a tool for programming many algorithms.

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Olivier Bournez and Arnaud Durand. Recursion Schemes, Discrete Differential Equations and Characterization of Polynomial Time Computations. In 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 138, pp. 23:1-23:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{bournez_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.23,
  author =	{Bournez, Olivier and Durand, Arnaud},
  title =	{{Recursion Schemes, Discrete Differential Equations and Characterization of Polynomial Time Computations}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-117-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen, Joost-Pieter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109670},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Implicit complexity, discrete ordinary differential equations, recursion scheme}
}
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