Publications related to Halting problem

The Two Times Problem: Where Is the Problem?

Gruber et al. (2022) offered a framework how to explain "Physical time within human time", solving the 'two times problem: Here, I am asking whether such a problem exists at all. To question the question, I will appeal to neurobiological, evolutionary, and ...

Brill2024

Complex Representation Learning with Graph Convolutional Networks for Knowledge Graph Alignment

Thanh Trung Huynh, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

The task of discovering equivalent entities in knowledge graphs (KGs), so-called KG entity alignment, has drawn much attention to overcome the incompleteness problem of KGs. The majority of existing techniques learns the pointwise representations of entiti ...

Wiley-Hindawi2023

QFT without infinities and hierarchy problem

Sander Johannes Nicolaas Mooij, Mikhail Chapochnikov

The standard way to do computations in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) often results in the requirement of dramatic cancellations between contributions induced by a "heavy" sector into the physical observables of the "light" (or low energy) sector - the phenome ...

ELSEVIER2023

Discrete Optimal Transport with Independent Marginals is #P-Hard

Daniel Kuhn, Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Bahar Taskesen

We study the computational complexity of the optimal transport problem that evaluates the Wasser- stein distance between the distributions of two K-dimensional discrete random vectors. The best known algorithms for this problem run in polynomial time in th ...

2023

On Succinct Non-interactive Arguments in Relativized Worlds

Alessandro Chiesa

Succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (SNARKs) are cryptographic proofs with strong efficiency properties. Applications of SNARKs often involve proving computations that include the SNARK verifier, a technique called recursive composition. Unfort ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Sheng Wang, Jian Wu

Distributed optical fibre sensors deliver a map of a physical quantity along an optical fibre, providing a unique solution for health monitoring of targeted structures. Considerable developments over recent years have pushed conventional distributed sensor ...

Nature Research2020

Efficient Allocations in Constant Time: Towards Scalable Solutions in the Era of Large Scale Intelligent Systems

Boi Faltings, Panayiotis Danassis

The next technological revolution will be interwoven to the proliferation of intelligent systems. As we bridge the gap between physical and cyber worlds, we will give rise to large-scale, multi-agent based technologies. A key challenge that cities of the f ...

IOS PRESS2020

Anytime Heuristic for Weighted Matching Through Altruism-Inspired Behavior

Boi Faltings, Aris Filos Ratsikas, Panayiotis Danassis

We present a novel anytime heuristic (ALMA), inspired by the human principle of altruism, for solving the assignment problem. ALMA is decentralized, completely uncoupled, and requires no communication between the participants. We prove an upper bound on th ...

2019

From research to sustainability transitions - Identifying pathways to societal effects

Thorsten Schilling

Problem statement. The rise of sustainability as a guiding norm for societal development also affects knowledge production in science. Particularly in the context of sustainability science, researchers are increasingly confronted with claims for creating s ...

EPFL2019

Algorithms For Clustering Problems : Theoretical Guarantees and Empirical Evaluations

Ashkan Norouzi Fard

Clustering is a classic topic in combinatorial optimization and plays a central role in many areas, including data science and machine learning. In this thesis, we first focus on the dynamic facility location problem (i.e., the facility location problem in ...

EPFL2018

Undecidability through Fourier series

In computability theory a variety of combinatorial systems are encountered (word problems, production systems) that exhibit undecidability properties. Here we seek such structures in the realm of Analysis, more specifically in the area of Fourier Analysis. ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Tensor train approximation of moment equations for elliptic equations with lognormal coefficient

Fabio Nobile, Daniel Kressner, Francesca Bonizzoni

We study an elliptic equation with stochastic coefficient modeled as a lognormal random field. A perturbation approach is adopted, expanding the solution in Taylor series around the nominal value of the coefficient. The resulting recursive deterministic pr ...

Elsevier2016

A Decision Procedure for (Co)datatypes in SMT Solvers

Andrew Joseph Reynolds

We present a decision procedure that combines reasoning about datatypes and codatatypes. The dual of the acyclicity rule for datatypes is a uniqueness rule that identifies observationally equal codatatype values, including cyclic values. The procedure deci ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Exploiting Circuit Duality to Speed Up SAT

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Maciej Jerzy Ciesielski

In this paper, we establish a non-trivial duality between tautology and contradiction check to speed up circuit SAT. Tautology check determines if a logic circuit is true in every possible interpretation. Analogously, contradiction check dete ...

IEEE2015

Generalized Decision Rule Approximations for Stochastic Programming via Liftings

Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

Stochastic programming provides a versatile framework for decision-making under uncertainty, but the resulting optimization problems can be computationally demanding. It has recently been shown that, primal and dual linear decision rule approximations can ...

Springer Verlag2015

Deciding Conditional Termination

We address the problem of conditional termination, which is that of defining the set of initial configurations from which a given program always terminates. First we define the dual set, of initial configurations from which a non-terminating execution exis ...

Tech Univ Braunschweig2014

Outsourced Pattern Matching

Sebastian Faust

In secure delegatable computation, computationally weak devices (or clients) wish to outsource their computation and data to an untrusted server in the cloud. While most earlier work considers the general question of how to securely outsource any computati ...

2013

Querypoint : Moving Backwards on Wrong Values in the Buggy Execution

Claude Petitpierre, Salman Mirghasemi

As developers debug, they often have to seek the origins of wrong values they see in their debugger. This search must be performed backwards in time since the code causing the wrong value is executed before the wrong value appears. Therefore, locating the ...

2011

Adaptive Oscillators with Human-in-the-Loop: Proof of Concept for Assistance and Rehabilitation

Auke Ijspeert, Jesse van den Kieboom, Renaud Ronsse

Most recent findings in robot-assisted therapy suggest that the therapy is more successful if the patient actively participates to the movement (“assistance-as-needed”). In the present contribution, we propose a novel approach for designing highly flexible ...

IEEE2010

Slicing Distributed Systems

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Gramoli

Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures are popular for tasks such as collaborative download, VoIP telephony, and backup. To maximize performance in the face of widely variable storage capacities and bandwidths, such systems typically need to shift work from poor ...

2009