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48 results for Boolean disjunctions

New algorithm learns disjunctions faster than previous methods.

problem Learning Boolean disjunctions in the agnostic PAC model.
method Developed an agnostic learner with complexity 2ildeO(n1/3)2^{ ilde{O}(n^{1/3})}.
result First separation between SQ and CSQ models in distribution-free agnostic learning.

Study links neural network inductive bias, feature learning, and generalization on Boolean functions.

problem Understanding how neural networks learn and generalize on Boolean data.
method End-to-end analysis of depth-2 discrete fully connected networks and DNF formulas, using Monte Carlo learning.
result Predictable training dynamics and interpretable features emerge, linking inductive bias and generalization.

DNF-Net tackles tabular data challenges with neural architecture.

problem Handling tabular data efficiently using neural networks.
method DNF-Net uses a neural architecture with inductive bias corresponding to logical Boolean formulas in disjunctive normal form over affine soft-threshold decision terms.
result DNF-Net significantly outperforms fully connected networks on tabular data.

As a contribution to interpretable machine learning research, we develop a novel optimization framework for learning accurate and sparse two-level Boolean rules. We consider rules in both conjunctive normal form (AND-of-ORs) and disjunctive normal form (OR-of-ANDs). A principled objective function is proposed to trade …

2016-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The ability to compose learned skills to solve new tasks is an important property of lifelong-learning agents. In this work, we formalise the logical composition of tasks as a Boolean algebra. This allows us to formulate new tasks in terms of the negation, disjunction and conjunction of a set of base tasks. We then sho…

2020-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on functions computed by deep-layered machines finds same distribution in neural networks and Boolean circuits.

problem Understanding the space of functions computed by deep-layered machines.
method Investigation of Boolean functions on random-layered machines, including neural networks and Boolean circuits.
result The space of functions computed at large depth limit is characterized and the macroscopic entropy of Boolean functions is either monotonically increasing or decreasing with depth.

A new deep learning method using Boolean logic reduces training and inference energy.

problem High computational and energy costs in deep learning training and inference.
method Introduces Boolean weights and inputs for efficient training using Boolean logic.
result Achieves full-precision accuracy in ImageNet classification and surpasses state-of-the-art results in semantic segmentation.

Boolean matrix factorization and Boolean matrix completion from noisy observations are desirable unsupervised data-analysis methods due to their interpretability, but hard to perform due to their NP-hardness. We treat these problems as maximum a posteriori inference problems in a graphical model and present a message p…

2015-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method relaxes Boolean Matrix Factorization to make it more efficient.

problem High computational cost of solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems in Boolean Matrix Factorization.
method Proposes a proximal gradient algorithm using an elastic-binary regularizer to relax BMF.
result Demonstrates improved runtime and better recall, loss, and interpretability on real-world data.

Probabilistic learning for binary classification with categorical variables.

problem Binary classification with categorical covariates.
method Probabilistic analysis and two algorithms for learning boolean functions.
result Effective learning of boolean functions from binary data.

Boolean matrix factorisation aims to decompose a binary data matrix into an approximate Boolean product of two low rank, binary matrices: one containing meaningful patterns, the other quantifying how the observations can be expressed as a combination of these patterns. We introduce the OrMachine, a probabilistic genera…

2017-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Study symplectic forms on manifolds to find Lagrangian pinwheels that can be separated.

problem Determine conditions for symplectic forms to carry disjoint Lagrangian pinwheels.
method Use rational blow-up to analyze Lagrangian pinwheels in symplectic manifolds.
result Conditions for disjunction of Lagrangian pinwheels in specific manifolds.

New framework reduces LLM complexity by directly finetuning in Boolean domain.

problem Reducing the complexity of large language models (LLMs) while maintaining performance.
method Proposes a novel framework using multi-kernel Boolean parameters for direct finetuning in the Boolean domain.
result Significantly reduces complexity during both finetuning and inference, outperforming recent techniques.

We obtain multirelative connectivity statements about spaces of Poincare embeddings, as precursors to analogous statements about spaces of smooth embeddings. The latter are the key to convergence results in the functor calculus approach to spaces of embeddings.

2008-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformers learn sparse Boolean functions through RL and SFT, revealing distinct learning behaviors.

problem Learning sparse Boolean functions with Transformers.
method Reinforcement Learning (RL) with process rewards and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT).
result RL learns the whole CoT chain simultaneously, while SFT learns step by step.

Paper improves variational inference on Boolean hypercube using quantum methods.

problem Improving variational inference for pairwise Markov random fields on the Boolean hypercube.
method Quantum relaxations of the Kullback-Leibler divergence for upper-bounds, primal-dual optimization, and greedy selection of hierarchies.
result Efficient algorithm and improved bounds for variational inference.

Paper proposes algorithms for BMF using integer programming.

problem Approximating binary input matrix as product of two smaller binary factors.
method Alternating optimization strategy using integer programming to solve subproblems and combine solutions.
result Proposed algorithms outperform state of the art on medium-scale problems.

The paper develops algorithms for Boolean matrix factorization using IP and heuristics.

problem Approximating binary input matrices as products of smaller binary factors.
method Alternating optimization with integer programming and greedy/local-search heuristics.
result Proposed methods improve scalability and performance compared to existing techniques.

Study examines noise sensitivity of DNNs for binary classification.

problem Understanding non-robustness of DNN classifiers under noise.
method Defined and extended noise sensitivity and stability concepts for Boolean functions, applied to DNN models.
result Sorted out the relation between definitions and properties of DNN architectures under noise.

This paper explores how boolean formulas can be learned by deep neural networks.

problem Understanding the learnability of boolean formulas by deep neural networks.
method Analysis of boolean formulas associated with model-sampling benchmarks, combinatorial optimization problems, and random 3-CNFs.
result Neural networks outperform rule-based systems and pure symbolic approaches in learning boolean formulas.

This paper introduces the combinatorial Boolean model (CBM), which is defined as the class of linear combinations of conjunctions of Boolean attributes. This paper addresses the issue of learning CBM from labeled data. CBM is of high knowledge interpretability but naïve learning of it requires exponentially large compu…

2017-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper develops mixed-integer formulations for neural networks using partitioning.

problem Optimizing trained ReLU neural networks with balanced model size and tightness.
method Partitioning node inputs into groups, forming the convex hull via disjunctive programming.
result The proposed formulations outperform existing ones, especially with fewer partitions.

We develop theory for using heuristics to solve computationally hard problems in differential privacy. Heuristic approaches have enjoyed tremendous success in machine learning, for which performance can be empirically evaluated. However, privacy guarantees cannot be evaluated empirically, and must be proven --- without…

2018-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

It is feasible and practically-valuable to bridge the characteristics between graph neural networks (GNNs) and logical reasoning. Despite considerable efforts and successes witnessed to solve Boolean satisfiability (SAT), it remains a mystery of GNN-based solvers for more complex predicate logic formulae. In this work,…

2019-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings show that common optimization algorithms struggle with random problems.

problem Finding near-optimal solutions to random optimization problems.
method Low-degree polynomials, Boolean circuits, and Langevin dynamics.
result These algorithms fail to produce nearly optimal solutions with high probability.

The study explores how Matrix Product States can represent boolean and continuous functions.

problem Representing arbitrary boolean and continuous functions using Matrix Product States.
method Developed a construction method for MPS to represent boolean gates and proved density in continuous function space.
result MPS can accurately represent arbitrary boolean functions and continuous functions densely.

During the past few years Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) has become an important direction in data analysis. The minimum description length principle (MDL) was successfully adapted in BMF for the model order selection. Nevertheless, a BMF algorithm performing good results from the standpoint of standard measures in…

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently estimate Boolean product distribution parameters from truncated samples.

problem Estimating parameters of Boolean product distributions from truncated samples.
method Introducing fatness of truncation set, using membership queries, and adapting Stochastic Gradient Descent.
result Efficiently learn Boolean product distributions from truncated samples with small sample complexity.

Understanding properties of deep neural networks is an important challenge in deep learning. In this paper, we take a step in this direction by proposing a rigorous way of verifying properties of a popular class of neural networks, Binarized Neural Networks, using the well-developed means of Boolean satisfiability. Our…

2017-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a new approach to intersection theory. Our "cycles" are closed manifolds mapping into compact manifolds and our "intersections" are elements of a homotopy group of a certain Thom space. The results are then applied in various contexts, including fixed point, linking and disjunction problems. Our main theorems r…

2005-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we prove a stability theorem for block diffeomorphisms of 2d-dimensional manifolds that are connected sums of S^d x S^d. Combining this with a recent theorem of S. Galatius and O. Randal-Williams and Morlet's lemma of disjunction, we determine the homology of the classifying space of their diffeomorphism …

2012-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗