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Analysing and Comparing Encodability Criteria
Encodings or the proof of their absence are the main way to compare process
calculi. To analyse the quality of encodings and to rule out trivial or
meaningless encodings, they are augmented with quality criteria. There exists a
bunch of different criteria and different variants of criteria in order to
reason in different settings. This leads to incomparable results. Moreover it
is not always clear whether the criteria used to obtain a result in a
particular setting do indeed fit to this setting. We show how to formally
reason about and compare encodability criteria by mapping them on requirements
on a relation between source and target terms that is induced by the encoding
function. In particular we analyse the common criteria full abstraction,
operational correspondence, divergence reflection, success sensitiveness, and
respect of barbs; e.g. we analyse the exact nature of the simulation relation
(coupled simulation versus bisimulation) that is induced by different variants
of operational correspondence. This way we reduce the problem of analysing or
comparing encodability criteria to the better understood problem of comparing
relations on processes.Comment: In Proceedings EXPRESS/SOS 2015, arXiv:1508.06347. The Isabelle/HOL
source files, and a full proof document, are available in the Archive of
Formal Proofs, at
http://afp.sourceforge.net/entries/Encodability_Process_Calculi.shtm
Learning Generative Models across Incomparable Spaces
Generative Adversarial Networks have shown remarkable success in learning a
distribution that faithfully recovers a reference distribution in its entirety.
However, in some cases, we may want to only learn some aspects (e.g., cluster
or manifold structure), while modifying others (e.g., style, orientation or
dimension). In this work, we propose an approach to learn generative models
across such incomparable spaces, and demonstrate how to steer the learned
distribution towards target properties. A key component of our model is the
Gromov-Wasserstein distance, a notion of discrepancy that compares
distributions relationally rather than absolutely. While this framework
subsumes current generative models in identically reproducing distributions,
its inherent flexibility allows application to tasks in manifold learning,
relational learning and cross-domain learning.Comment: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML
A Comparison of Well-Quasi Orders on Trees
Well-quasi orders such as homeomorphic embedding are commonly used to ensure
termination of program analysis and program transformation, in particular
supercompilation.
We compare eight well-quasi orders on how discriminative they are and their
computational complexity. The studied well-quasi orders comprise two very
simple examples, two examples from literature on supercompilation and four new
proposed by the author.
We also discuss combining several well-quasi orders to get well-quasi orders
of higher discriminative power. This adds 19 more well-quasi orders to the
list.Comment: In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.455
Decoy Bandits Dueling on a Poset
We adress the problem of dueling bandits defined on partially ordered sets,
or posets. In this setting, arms may not be comparable, and there may be
several (incomparable) optimal arms. We propose an algorithm, UnchainedBandits,
that efficiently finds the set of optimal arms of any poset even when pairs of
comparable arms cannot be distinguished from pairs of incomparable arms, with a
set of minimal assumptions. This algorithm relies on the concept of decoys,
which stems from social psychology. For the easier case where the
incomparability information may be accessible, we propose a second algorithm,
SlicingBandits, which takes advantage of this information and achieves a very
significant gain of performance compared to UnchainedBandits. We provide
theoretical guarantees and experimental evaluation for both algorithms
A Structural Equation Approach to Spatial Dependence Models
A strong increase in the availability of space-time data has occurred during the past decades. This has led to the development of a substantial literature dealing with the two particular problems inherent to this kind of data, i.e. serial dependence between the observations on each spatial unit over time, and spatial dependence between the observations on the spatial units at each point in time (e.g. Elhorst, 2001, 2003). Typical for spatial panel data models is that the causal direction cannot be based on instantaneous relationships between simultaneously measured variables. Rather the so-called cross-lagged panel design studies compare the effects of variables on each other across time. Although they circumvent the difficult problem of assessing causal direction in cross-sectional research, the cross-lagged panel design studies are usually performed in discrete time (Oud, 2002). Because of different discrete time observation intervals within and between studies, outcomes are often incomparable or appear to be contradictory (Gollob & Reichardt, 1987). This paper will describe the problems of cross-lagged space-time models in discrete time and propose how these problems can be solved through a continuous time approach. In this regard special attention will be paid to structural equation modelling (SEM). In addition, we shall describe how space-time dependence can he handled in a SEM framework
Accessibility of physical states and non-uniqueness of entanglement measure
Ordering physical states is the key to quantifying some physical property of
the states uniquely. Bipartite pure entangled states are totally ordered under
local operations and classical communication (LOCC) in the asymptotic limit and
uniquely quantified by the well-known entropy of entanglement. However, we show
that mixed entangled states are partially ordered under LOCC even in the
asymptotic limit. Therefore, non-uniqueness of entanglement measure is
understood on the basis of an operational notion of asymptotic convertibility.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure. v2: main result unchanged but presentation
extensively changed. v3: figure added, minor correction
The Spectrum of Strong Behavioral Equivalences for Nondeterministic and Probabilistic Processes
We present a spectrum of trace-based, testing, and bisimulation equivalences
for nondeterministic and probabilistic processes whose activities are all
observable. For every equivalence under study, we examine the discriminating
power of three variants stemming from three approaches that differ for the way
probabilities of events are compared when nondeterministic choices are resolved
via deterministic schedulers. We show that the first approach - which compares
two resolutions relatively to the probability distributions of all considered
events - results in a fragment of the spectrum compatible with the spectrum of
behavioral equivalences for fully probabilistic processes. In contrast, the
second approach - which compares the probabilities of the events of a
resolution with the probabilities of the same events in possibly different
resolutions - gives rise to another fragment composed of coarser equivalences
that exhibits several analogies with the spectrum of behavioral equivalences
for fully nondeterministic processes. Finally, the third approach - which only
compares the extremal probabilities of each event stemming from the different
resolutions - yields even coarser equivalences that, however, give rise to a
hierarchy similar to that stemming from the second approach.Comment: In Proceedings QAPL 2013, arXiv:1306.241
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When we cannot compare. A commentary on Tariq Jazeel\u27s \u27Singularity. A manifesto for incomparable geographies\u27
Tariq Jazeel\u27s remarks at the 2017 RGS/IBG annual conference and the paper in this issue are set against the backdrop of an âAnglophonic and allegoricalâ library (Jazeel, this issue, p. 6). For those of us educated in former British colonies as for Mustafa Sa\u27eedâthe protagonist of Tayeb Salih\u27s novelâthe English study is a familiar space. Though never having seen or been in any such study, in my mind\u27s eye I settle myself comfortably in the armchair in front of the fireplace with a book in hand. Jazeel firmly shakes me awake to notice that the book in my hand like the ones on Sa\u27eed\u27s shelves is in English. Why is this so? To grapple with this question I remove my shoes (to this day I cannot really think with shoes on) and sit up. Of course, bare toes do not belong in a Victorian chair. But surely I may slide down to sit crossâlegged on the rug on the library floor (almost certainly woven in Turkey, North Africa, Central Asia or the Middle East)? Jazeel flags one of the key conundrums of the decolonial imperative: we can neither inhabit a Eurocentric library (comfortably?) nor leave it (uncomfortably?). And by us he means all of usâthose who are considered marginal in some way (gendered female, queer, raced, formerly colonized, and more), but also whose subjectivities are dominant or âmainstreamâ (former colonizers, gendered males, white, ableâbodied, committed to disciplines, etc.)
Partial Preferences for Mediated Bargaining
In this work we generalize standard Decision Theory by assuming that two
outcomes can also be incomparable. Two motivating scenarios show how
incomparability may be helpful to represent those situations where, due to lack
of information, the decision maker would like to maintain different options
alive and defer the final decision. In particular, a new axiomatization is
given which turns out to be a weakening of the classical set of axioms used in
Decision Theory. Preliminary results show how preferences involving complex
distributions are related to judgments on single alternatives.Comment: In Proceedings SR 2014, arXiv:1404.041
Flexibility of Choice Versus Reduction of Ambiguity
This paper explores the problem of a social planner willing to improve the welfare of individuals who are unable to compare all available alternatives. The optimal decision trades off the individuals' desire for flexibility versus their aversion towards ambiguous choice situations. We introduce an axiom system that formalizes this idea. Our main result characterizes the preference maximizing opportunity set. It is a maximal set that consists of mutually comparable alternatives. It also has the property that it maximizes the sum of the distances between its ordered elements for some appropriate metric imposed on the set of possible choices.Incomplete preferences, ambiguity, ?exibility of choice, opportunity sets, uncertainty
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