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Climate Change: What is Computing’s Responsibility? (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 25122)

Authors: Bran Knowles, Vicki L. Hanson, Christoph Becker, Mike Berners-Lee, Andrew A. Chien, Benoit Combemale, Vlad Coroamă, Koen De Bosschere, Yi Ding, Adrian Friday, Boris Gamazaychikov, Lynda Hardman, Simon Hinterholzer, Mattias Höjer, Lynn Kaack, Lenneke Kuijer, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Jan Tobias Muehlberg, Yunmook Nah, Thomas Olsson, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Daniel Pargman, Birgit Penzenstadler, Tom Romanoff, Emma Strubell, Colin Venters, and Junhua Zhao

Published in: Dagstuhl Manifestos, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2025)


Abstract
This Manifesto was produced from the Perspectives Workshop 25122 entitled "Climate Change: What is Computing’s Responsibility?" held March 16-19, 2025 at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The Workshop provided a forum for world-leading computer scientists and expert consultants on environmental policy and sustainable transition to engage in a critical and urgent conversation about computing’s responsibilities in addressing climate change - or more aptly, climate crisis. The resulting Manifesto outlines commitments and directions for future action which, if adopted as a basis for more responsible computing practices, will help ensure that these technologies do not threaten the long-term habitability of the planet. We preface our Manifesto with a recognition that humanity is on a path that is not in agreement with international global warming targets and explore how computing technologies are currently hastening the overshoot of these boundaries. We critically assess the vaunted potential for harnessing computing technologies for the mitigation of global warming, agreeing that, under current circumstances, computing is contributing to negative environmental impacts in other sectors. Computing primarily improves efficiency and reduces costs which leads to more consumption and more negative environmental impact. Relying solely on efficiency gains in computing has thus far proven to be insufficient to curb global greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, computing’s purpose within a strategy for tackling climate change must be reimagined. Our recommendations cover changes that need to be urgently made to the design priorities of computing technologies, but also speak to the more systemic shift in mindset, with sustainability and human rights providing a necessary moral foundation for developing the kinds of computing technologies most needed by society. We also stress the importance of digital policy that accounts for both the direct material impacts of computing and the detrimental indirect impacts arising from computing-enabled efficiencies, and the role of computing professionals in informing policy making.

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Bran Knowles, Vicki L. Hanson, Christoph Becker, Mike Berners-Lee, Andrew A. Chien, Benoit Combemale, Vlad Coroamă, Koen De Bosschere, Yi Ding, Adrian Friday, Boris Gamazaychikov, Lynda Hardman, Simon Hinterholzer, Mattias Höjer, Lynn Kaack, Lenneke Kuijer, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Jan Tobias Muehlberg, Yunmook Nah, Thomas Olsson, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Daniel Pargman, Birgit Penzenstadler, Tom Romanoff, Emma Strubell, Colin Venters, and Junhua Zhao. Climate Change: What is Computing’s Responsibility? (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 25122). In Dagstuhl Manifestos, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 1-18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@Article{knowles_et_al:DagMan.11.1.1,
  author =	{Knowles, Bran and Hanson, Vicki L. and Becker, Christoph and Berners-Lee, Mike and Chien, Andrew A. and Combemale, Benoit and Coroam\u{a}, Vlad and De Bosschere, Koen and Ding, Yi and Friday, Adrian and Gamazaychikov, Boris and Hardman, Lynda and Hinterholzer, Simon and H\"{o}jer, Mattias and Kaack, Lynn and Kuijer, Lenneke and Ligozat, Anne-Laure and Muehlberg, Jan Tobias and Nah, Yunmook and Olsson, Thomas and Orgerie, Anne-C\'{e}cile and Pargman, Daniel and Penzenstadler, Birgit and Romanoff, Tom and Strubell, Emma and Venters, Colin and Zhao, Junhua},
  title =	{{Climate Change: What is Computing’s Responsibility? (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 25122)}},
  pages =	{1--18},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Manifestos},
  ISSN =	{2193-2433},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{11},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Knowles, Bran and Hanson, Vicki L. and Becker, Christoph and Berners-Lee, Mike and Chien, Andrew A. and Combemale, Benoit and Coroam\u{a}, Vlad and De Bosschere, Koen and Ding, Yi and Friday, Adrian and Gamazaychikov, Boris and Hardman, Lynda and Hinterholzer, Simon and H\"{o}jer, Mattias and Kaack, Lynn and Kuijer, Lenneke and Ligozat, Anne-Laure and Muehlberg, Jan Tobias and Nah, Yunmook and Olsson, Thomas and Orgerie, Anne-C\'{e}cile and Pargman, Daniel and Penzenstadler, Birgit and Romanoff, Tom and Strubell, Emma and Venters, Colin and Zhao, Junhua},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagMan.11.1.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250724},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagMan.11.1.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: sustainability, climate change, efficiency, supply chain management, climate modelling}
}
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Survey
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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Research
GraphRAG on Technical Documents - Impact of Knowledge Graph Schema

Authors: Henri Scaffidi, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Caitlin Woods, and Nicole Roocke

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


Abstract
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is seeing rapid adoption in industry to enable employees to query information captured in proprietary data for their organisation. In this work, we test the impact of domain-relevant knowledge graph schemas on the results of Microsoft’s GraphRAG pipeline. Our approach aims to address the poor quality of GraphRAG responses on technical reports rich in domain-specific terms. The use case involves technical reports about geology, chemistry and mineral processing published by the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia (MRIWA). Four schemas are considered: a simple five-class minerals domain expert-developed schema, an expanded minerals domain schema, the Microsoft GraphRAG auto-generated schema, and a schema-less GraphRAG. These are compared to a conventional baseline RAG. Performance is evaluated using a scoring approach that accounts for the mix of correct, incorrect, additional, and missing content in RAG responses. The results show that the simple five-class minerals domain schema extracts approximately 10% more entities from the MRIWA reports than the other schema options. Additionally, both the five-class and the expanded eight-class minerals domain schemas produce the most factually correct answers and the fewest hallucinations. We attribute this to the minerals-specific schemas extracting more relevant, domain-specific information during the Indexing stage. As a result, the Query stage’s context window includes more high-value content. This contributes to the observed improvement in answer quality compared to the other pipelines. In contrast, pipelines with fewer domain-related entities in the KG retrieve less valuable information, leaving more room for irrelevant content in the context window. Baseline RAG responses were typically shorter, less complete, and contained more hallucinations compared to our GraphRAG pipelines. We provide a complete set of resources at https://github.com/nlp-tlp/GraphRAG-on-Minerals-Domain/tree/main. These resources include links to the MRIWA reports, a set of questions (from simple to challenging) along with domain-expert curated answers, schemas, and evaluations of the pipelines.

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Henri Scaffidi, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Caitlin Woods, and Nicole Roocke. GraphRAG on Technical Documents - Impact of Knowledge Graph Schema. In Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 3:1-3:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@Article{scaffidi_et_al:TGDK.3.2.3,
  author =	{Scaffidi, Henri and Hodkiewicz, Melinda and Woods, Caitlin and Roocke, Nicole},
  title =	{{GraphRAG on Technical Documents - Impact of Knowledge Graph Schema}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{3:1--3:24},
  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.3.2.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248131},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.3.2.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: RAG, minerals, local search, global search, entity extraction, competency questions}
}
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Invited Talk
Securing Dynamic Data: A Primer on Differentially Private Data Structures (Invited Talk)

Authors: Monika Henzinger and Roodabeh Safavi

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


Abstract
We give an introduction into differential privacy in the dynamic setting, called the continual observation setting.

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Monika Henzinger and Roodabeh Safavi. Securing Dynamic Data: A Primer on Differentially Private Data Structures (Invited Talk). In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 2:1-2:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{henzinger_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.2,
  author =	{Henzinger, Monika and Safavi, Roodabeh},
  title =	{{Securing Dynamic Data: A Primer on Differentially Private Data Structures}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:14},
  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.2025.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244702},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential privacy, continual observation}
}
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Efficiency of Learned Indexes on Genome Spectra

Authors: Md. Hasin Abrar, Paul Medvedev, and Giorgio Vinciguerra

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


Abstract
Data structures on a multiset of genomic k-mers are at the heart of many bioinformatic tools. As genomic datasets grow in scale, the efficiency of these data structures increasingly depends on how well they leverage the inherent patterns in the data. One recent and effective approach is the use of learned indexes that approximate the rank function of a multiset using a piecewise linear function with very few segments. However, theoretical worst-case analysis struggles to predict the practical performance of these indexes. We address this limitation by developing a novel measure of piecewise-linear approximability of the data, called CaPLa (Canonical Piecewise Linear approximability). CaPLa builds on the empirical observation that a power-law model often serves as a reasonable proxy for piecewise linear-approximability, while explicitly accounting for deviations from a true power-law fit. We prove basic properties of CaPLa and present an efficient algorithm to compute it. We then demonstrate that CaPLa can accurately predict space bounds for data structures on real data. Empirically, we analyze over 500 genomes through the lens of CaPLa, revealing that it varies widely across the tree of life and even within individual genomes. Finally, we study the robustness of CaPLa as a measure and the factors that make genomic k-mer multisets different from random ones.

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Md. Hasin Abrar, Paul Medvedev, and Giorgio Vinciguerra. Efficiency of Learned Indexes on Genome Spectra. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 18:1-18:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{abrar_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.18,
  author =	{Abrar, Md. Hasin and Medvedev, Paul and Vinciguerra, Giorgio},
  title =	{{Efficiency of Learned Indexes on Genome Spectra}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:18},
  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.2025.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244865},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Genome spectra, piecewise linear approximation, learned index, k-mers}
}
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A Dynamic Piecewise-Linear Geometric Index with Worst-Case Guarantees

Authors: Emil Toftegaard Gæde, Ivor van der Hoog, Eva Rotenberg, and Tord Stordalen

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


Abstract
Indexing data is a fundamental problem in computer science. The input is a set S of n distinct integers from a universe 𝒰. Indexing queries take a value q ∈ 𝒰 and return the membership, predecessor or rank of q in S. A range query takes two values q, r ∈ 𝒰 and returns the set S ∩ [q,r]. Recently, various papers study a special case where the the input data behaves in an approximately piece-wise linear way. Given the sorted (rank,value) pairs, and given some constant ε, one wants to maintain a small number of axis-disjoint line-segments such that, for each rank, the value is within ± ε of the corresponding line-segment. Ferragina and Vinciguerra (VLDB 2020) observe that this geometric problem is useful for solving indexing problems, particularly when the number of line-segments is small compared to the size of the dataset. We study the dynamic version of this geometric problem. In the dynamic setting, inserting or deleting just one data point may cause up to three line-segments to be merged, or one line-segment to be split at most three-way. To determine and compute this, we use techniques from dynamic maintenance of convex hulls, and provide new algorithms with worst-case guarantees, including an O(log n) algorithm to compute a separating line between two non-intersecting convex hulls - an operation previously missing from the literature. We then use our fully-dynamic geometry-based subroutine in an indexing data structure, combining it with a natural hashing technique. The resulting indexing data structure has theoretically efficient worst-case guarantees in expectation. We compare its practical performance to the solution of Ferragina and Vinciguerra, which was shown to perform better in certain structured settings [Sun, Zhou, Li VLDB 2023]. Our empirical analysis shows that our solution supports more efficient range queries in the special case where the update sequence contains many deletions.

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Emil Toftegaard Gæde, Ivor van der Hoog, Eva Rotenberg, and Tord Stordalen. A Dynamic Piecewise-Linear Geometric Index with Worst-Case Guarantees. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 64:1-64:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{gaede_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.64,
  author =	{G{\ae}de, Emil Toftegaard and van der Hoog, Ivor and Rotenberg, Eva and Stordalen, Tord},
  title =	{{A Dynamic Piecewise-Linear Geometric Index with Worst-Case Guarantees}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{64:1--64:18},
  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.2025.64},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245323},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.64},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithms Engineering, Data Structures, Indexing, Convex Hulls}
}
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Property Testing of Curve Similarity

Authors: Peyman Afshani, Maike Buchin, Anne Driemel, Marena Richter, and Sampson Wong

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


Abstract
We propose sublinear algorithms for probabilistic testing of the discrete and continuous Fréchet distance - a standard similarity measure for curves. We assume the algorithm is given access to the input curves via a query oracle: a query returns the set of vertices of the curve that lie within a radius δ of a specified vertex of the other curve. The goal is to use a small number of queries to determine with constant probability whether the two curves are similar (i.e., their discrete Fréchet distance is at most δ) or they are "ε-far" (for 0 < ε < 2) from being similar, i.e., more than an ε-fraction of the two curves must be ignored for them to become similar. We present two algorithms which are sublinear assuming that the curves are t-approximate shortest paths in the ambient metric space, for some t ≪ n. The first algorithm uses O(t/ε log t/ε) queries and is given the value of t in advance. The second algorithm does not have explicit knowledge of the value of t and therefore needs to gain implicit knowledge of the straightness of the input curves through its queries. We show that the discrete Fréchet distance can still be tested using roughly O({t³+t² log n}/ε) queries ignoring logarithmic factors in t. Our algorithms work in a matrix representation of the input and may be of independent interest to matrix testing. Our algorithms use a mild uniform sampling condition that constrains the edge lengths of the curves, similar to a polynomially bounded aspect ratio. Applied to testing the continuous Fréchet distance of t-straight curves, our algorithms can be used for (1+ε')-approximate testing using essentially the same bounds as stated above with an additional factor of poly(1/(ε')).

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Peyman Afshani, Maike Buchin, Anne Driemel, Marena Richter, and Sampson Wong. Property Testing of Curve Similarity. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 84:1-84:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{afshani_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.84,
  author =	{Afshani, Peyman and Buchin, Maike and Driemel, Anne and Richter, Marena and Wong, Sampson},
  title =	{{Property Testing of Curve Similarity}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{84:1--84:16},
  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.2025.84},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245522},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.84},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fr\'{e}chet distance, Trajectory Analysis, Curve Similarity, Property Testing, Monotonicity Testing}
}
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Advancing Intelligent Personal Assistants for Human Spaceflight

Authors: Leonie Bensch, Oliver Bensch, and Tommy Nilsson

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


Abstract
The Artemis program and upcoming missions to Mars mark a new era of human space exploration that will require new tools to support astronaut autonomy in the absence of real-time communication with Earth. This paper investigates the role of voice-based intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) in future crewed space missions. Through semi-structured interviews with astronauts (n=3) and spaceflight experts (n=12), we identify key user-centered design requirements for IPAs in this uniquely constrained and safety-critical environment. Our thematic analysis reveals core requirements for flexibility, reliability, offline capability, and multimodal interaction. Drawing on these findings, we outline design guidelines for next-generation IPAs and discuss how technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge graphs, and augmented reality should be combined to support flexible, reliable, and multimodal IPAs for future human spaceflight missions.

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Leonie Bensch, Oliver Bensch, and Tommy Nilsson. Advancing Intelligent Personal Assistants for Human Spaceflight. In Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 130, pp. 18:1-18:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{bensch_et_al:OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.18,
  author =	{Bensch, Leonie and Bensch, Oliver and Nilsson, Tommy},
  title =	{{Advancing Intelligent Personal Assistants for Human Spaceflight}},
  booktitle =	{Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:18},
  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.2025.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240082},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Conversational Assistant, Intelligent Personal Assistant, Artificial Intelligence, Astronaut, Human Spaceflight, Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Knowledge Graphs, Augmented Reality, Voice Assistant, Long Duration Spaceflight}
}
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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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Monitoring the Structural Health of Space Habitats Through Immersive Data Art Visualization

Authors: Ze Gao, Yuan Zhuang, Kunqi Wang, and Mengyao Guo

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


Abstract
As humanity advances toward long-term space habitation, traditional SHM systems - reliant on abstract data representations - struggle to support rapid decision-making in extreme environments. This study addresses this critical gap by introducing an engineering-art-human factors framework that transforms SHM through immersive data-art visualization. By integrating sensor networks and machine learning, structural data (stress, vibration, deformation) is converted into intuitive visual languages: dynamic color gradients and biomimetic morphologies leverage perceptual laws (e.g., Weber-Fechner) to amplify critical signals. Multimodal interfaces (AR, haptic feedback) and natural elements mitigate cognitive load and psychological stress in confined habitats. Our contribution lies in redefining SHM as a synergy of precision and intuition, enabling "at-a-glance" assessments while balancing functionality and human-centric design. The urgency of this research stems from the inadequacy of conventional systems in extreme space conditions and the growing demand for astronaut safety and operational efficiency. This framework not only pioneers a sustainable monitoring paradigm for space habitats but also extends to terrestrial high-risk infrastructure, demonstrating the necessity of interdisciplinary innovation in extreme environments.

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Ze Gao, Yuan Zhuang, Kunqi Wang, and Mengyao Guo. Monitoring the Structural Health of Space Habitats Through Immersive Data Art Visualization. In Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 130, pp. 31:1-31:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{gao_et_al:OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.31,
  author =	{Gao, Ze and Zhuang, Yuan and Wang, Kunqi and Guo, Mengyao},
  title =	{{Monitoring the Structural Health of Space Habitats Through Immersive Data Art Visualization}},
  booktitle =	{Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:18},
  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.2025.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240217},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Structural health monitoring, space habitats, immersive visualization, human-centered design, interdisciplinary innovation}
}
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On the Spectral Expansion of Monotone Subsets of the Hypercube

Authors: Yumou Fei and Renato Ferreira Pinto Jr.

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 353, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)


Abstract
We study the spectral gap of subgraphs of the hypercube induced by monotone subsets of vertices. For a monotone subset A ⊆ {0,1}ⁿ of density μ(A), the previous best lower bound on the spectral gap, due to Cohen [Cohen, 2016], was γ ≳ μ(A)/n², improving upon the earlier bound γ ≳ μ(A)²/n² established by Ding and Mossel [Ding and Mossel, 2014]. In this paper, we prove the optimal lower bound γ ≳ μ(A)/n. As a corollary, we improve the mixing time upper bound of the random walk on constant-density monotone sets from O(n³), as shown by Ding and Mossel, to O(n²). Along the way, we develop two new inequalities that may be of independent interest: (1) a directed L²-Poincaré inequality on the hypercube, and (2) an "approximate" FKG inequality for monotone sets.

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Yumou Fei and Renato Ferreira Pinto Jr.. On the Spectral Expansion of Monotone Subsets of the Hypercube. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 42:1-42:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{fei_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.42,
  author =	{Fei, Yumou and Ferreira Pinto Jr., Renato},
  title =	{{On the Spectral Expansion of Monotone Subsets of the Hypercube}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{42:1--42:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-397-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{353},
  editor =	{Ene, Alina and Chattopadhyay, Eshan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.42},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244081},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.42},
  annote =	{Keywords: Random walks, mixing time, FKG inequality, Poincar\'{e} inequality, directed isoperimetry}
}
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Sharp Thresholds for the Overlap Gap Property: Ising p-Spin Glass and Random k-SAT

Authors: Eren C. Kızıldağ

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 353, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)


Abstract
The Ising p-spin glass and random k-SAT are two canonical examples of disordered systems that play a central role in understanding the link between geometric features of optimization landscapes and computational tractability. Both models exhibit hard regimes where all known polynomial-time algorithms fail and possess the multi Overlap Gap Property (m-OGP), an intricate geometrical property that rigorously rules out a broad class of algorithms exhibiting input stability. We establish that, in both models, the symmetric m-OGP undergoes a sharp phase transition, and we pinpoint its exact threshold. For the Ising p-spin glass, our results hold for all sufficiently large p; for the random k-SAT, they apply to all k growing mildly with the number of Boolean variables. Notably, our findings yield qualitative insights into the power of OGP-based arguments. A particular consequence for the Ising p-spin glass is that the strength of the m-OGP in establishing algorithmic hardness grows without bound as m increases. These are the first sharp threshold results for the m-OGP. Our analysis hinges on a judicious application of the second moment method, enhanced by concentration. While a direct second moment calculation fails, we overcome this via a refined approach that leverages an argument of Frieze [Frieze, 1990] and exploiting concentration properties of carefully constructed random variables.

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Eren C. Kızıldağ. Sharp Thresholds for the Overlap Gap Property: Ising p-Spin Glass and Random k-SAT. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 48:1-48:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kizildag:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.48,
  author =	{K{\i}z{\i}lda\u{g}, Eren C.},
  title =	{{Sharp Thresholds for the Overlap Gap Property: Ising p-Spin Glass and Random k-SAT}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{48:1--48:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-397-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{353},
  editor =	{Ene, Alina and Chattopadhyay, Eshan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.48},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244147},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.48},
  annote =	{Keywords: spin glasses, p-spin model, random constraint satisfaction problems, overlap gap property, phase transitions, computational complexity}
}
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APPROX
Relational Approximations for Subspace Primitives

Authors: Xiang Liu and Kasturi Varadarajan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 353, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)


Abstract
We explore fundamental geometric computations on point sets that are given to the algorithm implicitly. In particular, we are given a database which is a collection of tables with numerical values, and the geometric computation is to be performed on the join of the tables. Explicitly computing this join takes time exponential in the size of the tables. We are therefore interested in geometric problems that can be solved by algorithms whose running time is a polynomial in the size of the tables. Such relational algorithms are typically not able to explicitly compute the join. To avoid the NP-completeness bottleneck, researchers assume that the tables have a tractable combinatorial structure, like being acyclic. Even with this assumption, simple geometric computations turn out to be non-trivial and sometimes intractable. In this article, we study the problem of computing the maximum distance of a point in the join to a given subspace, and develop approximation algorithms for this NP-hard problem.

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Xiang Liu and Kasturi Varadarajan. Relational Approximations for Subspace Primitives. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 12:1-12:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{liu_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.12,
  author =	{Liu, Xiang and Varadarajan, Kasturi},
  title =	{{Relational Approximations for Subspace Primitives}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-397-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{353},
  editor =	{Ene, Alina and Chattopadhyay, Eshan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-243781},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: relational algorithm, Euclidean distance, subspace approximation}
}
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Mixing Time of Quantum Gibbs Sampling for Random Sparse Hamiltonians

Authors: Akshar Ramkumar and Mehdi Soleimanifar

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 350, 20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025)


Abstract
Providing evidence that quantum computers can efficiently prepare low-energy or thermal states of physically relevant interacting quantum systems is a major challenge in quantum information science. A newly developed quantum Gibbs sampling algorithm [Chen et al., 2023] provides an efficient simulation of the detailed-balanced dissipative dynamics of non-commutative quantum systems. The running time of this algorithm depends on the mixing time of the corresponding quantum Markov chain, which has not been rigorously bounded except in the high-temperature regime. In this work, we establish a polylog(n) upper bound on its mixing time for various families of random n × n sparse Hamiltonians at any constant temperature. We further analyze how the choice of the jump operators for the algorithm and the spectral properties of these sparse Hamiltonians influence the mixing time. Our result places this method for Gibbs sampling on par with other efficient algorithms for preparing low-energy states of quantumly easy Hamiltonians.

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Akshar Ramkumar and Mehdi Soleimanifar. Mixing Time of Quantum Gibbs Sampling for Random Sparse Hamiltonians. In 20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 350, pp. 3:1-3:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{ramkumar_et_al:LIPIcs.TQC.2025.3,
  author =	{Ramkumar, Akshar and Soleimanifar, Mehdi},
  title =	{{Mixing Time of Quantum Gibbs Sampling for Random Sparse Hamiltonians}},
  booktitle =	{20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-392-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{350},
  editor =	{Fefferman, Bill},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2025.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240520},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2025.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum algorithms, quantum Gibbs sampling, mixing time analysis}
}
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On the I/O Complexity of the Cocke-Younger-Kasami Algorithm and of a Family of Related Dynamic Programming Algorithms

Authors: Lorenzo De Stefani and Vedant Gupta

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 349, 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)


Abstract
Asymptotically tight lower bounds are derived for the Input/Output (I/O) complexity of a class of dynamic programming algorithms, including matrix chain multiplication, optimal polygon triangulation, and the construction of optimal binary search trees. Assuming no recomputation of intermediate values, we establish an Ω(n³/(√M B)) I/O lower bound, where n denotes the size of the input and M denotes the size of the available fast memory (cache). When recomputation is allowed, we show that the same bound holds for M < cn, where c is a positive constant. In the case where M ≥ 2n, we show an Ω(n/B) I/O lower bound. We also discuss algorithms for which the number of executed I/O operations matches asymptotically each of the presented lower bounds, which are thus asymptotically tight. Additionally, we refine our general method to obtain a lower bound for the I/O complexity of the Cocke-Younger-Kasami algorithm, where the size of the grammar impacts the I/O complexity. An upper bound with asymptotically matching performance in many cases is also provided.

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Lorenzo De Stefani and Vedant Gupta. On the I/O Complexity of the Cocke-Younger-Kasami Algorithm and of a Family of Related Dynamic Programming Algorithms. In 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 349, pp. 49:1-49:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{destefani_et_al:LIPIcs.WADS.2025.49,
  author =	{De Stefani, Lorenzo and Gupta, Vedant},
  title =	{{On the I/O Complexity of the Cocke-Younger-Kasami Algorithm and of a Family of Related Dynamic Programming Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)},
  pages =	{49:1--49:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-398-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{349},
  editor =	{Morin, Pat and Oh, Eunjin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.49},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-242800},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.49},
  annote =	{Keywords: I/O complexity, Dynamic Programming Algorithms, Lower Bounds, Recomputation, Cocke-Younger-Kasami}
}
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