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48 results for Turing completeness

Researchers prove Transformers are Turing-complete and analyze their components.

problem Understanding the computational power and limitations of Transformers.
method Analyzed Turing-completeness of vanilla and modified Transformers, and necessity of components.
result Transformers with positional masking and positional encodings are Turing-complete.

Alternatives to recurrent neural networks, in particular, architectures based on attention or convolutions, have been gaining momentum for processing input sequences. In spite of their relevance, the computational properties of these alternatives have not yet been fully explored. We study the computational power of two…

2019-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Reservoir Memory Machines solve benchmark tasks faster than Neural Turing Machines.

problem Training Neural Turing Machines is hard and limits their applicability.
method Proposes Reservoir Memory Machines, combining neural network flexibility with Turing machine capabilities, but with faster training via alignment and linear regression.
result Reservoir Memory Machines solve benchmark tasks as well as Neural Turing Machines but are much faster to train.

New neural stack and Turing Machine architectures prove stability and computational power.

problem Designing stable neural network architectures for Turing Machine simulation.
method Introducing neural stack and Turing Machine architectures, proving stability and computational equivalence.
result Differentiable nnTM with bounded neurons can simulate Turing Machine in real-time and is equivalent to UTM.

This study explains how adversarial interaction creates non-homogeneous patterns using a pseudo-Reaction-Diffusion model.

problem Understanding how adversarial interaction leads to non-homogeneous patterns in systems.
method Developed a pseudo-Reaction-Diffusion model to explain the mechanism.
result Turing instability is involved in creating non-homogeneous patterns.

This study shows neural nets can approximate Turing machines with meaningful statistical properties.

problem Theoretical limitations in approximating Turing machines with neural networks.
method Formal definition of statistically meaningful approximation, analysis of boolean circuits and Turing machines using neural nets.
result Transformers can statistically meaningfully approximate Turing machines with polynomial sample complexity.

We introduce and demonstrate a new approach to inference in expressive probabilistic programming languages based on particle Markov chain Monte Carlo. Our approach is simple to implement and easy to parallelize. It applies to Turing-complete probabilistic programming languages and supports accurate inference in models …

2015-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

A new restart criterion for k-means++ improves clustering quality and adapts to data difficulty.

problem Arbitrary restart counts in k-means++ lead to inconsistent results and wasted computation.
method GTRC combines Good-Turing estimates, bounds, and user-specified tolerance to dynamically decide restarts.
result GTRC achieves clustering quality comparable to fixed restart counts, varying restarts based on data difficulty.

This paper considers the computational power of constant size, dynamic Bayesian networks. Although discrete dynamic Bayesian networks are no more powerful than hidden Markov models, dynamic Bayesian networks with continuous random variables and discrete children of continuous parents are capable of performing Turing-co…

2016-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores the limits of Transformers in learning new patterns from scratch.

problem Understanding when Transformers can learn new patterns from scratch.
method Introducing the 'globality degree' to measure learnability and developing scratchpad techniques.
result Distributions with high globality cannot be learned efficiently by Transformers.

We present chemlambda (or the chemical concrete machine), an artificial chemistry with the following properties: (a) is Turing complete, (b) has a model of decentralized, distributed computing associated to it, (c) works at the level of individual (artificial) molecules, subject of reversible, but otherwise determinist…

2014-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Abstract sketches historical development of Lie brackets, crossed modules, and Lie-Rinehart algebras.

problem Characterizing and understanding the relationships between Lie brackets, crossed modules, and Lie-Rinehart algebras.
method Historical review and combinatorial group theory considerations.
result The mutual relationship between Lie-Rinehart algebras and Lie brackets, and the historical development of these concepts.

In this article, we introduce a new mode for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Rather than minimizing the distance of evidence distribution p~(x)\tilde{p}(x) and the generative distribution q(x)q(x), we minimize the distance of p~(xr)q(xf)\tilde{p}(x_r)q(x_f) and p~(xf)q(xr)\tilde{p}(x_f)q(x_r). This adversarial pattern can be…

2018-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A framework to quantify deployment risk in ML systems, especially for rare states.

problem Under-supported rare states in ML models lead to unreliable performance in unseen data.
method Blind-Spot Mass (B_n(tau)) using Good-Turing unseen-species estimation.
result Identifies and quantifies the risk of under-supported states in ML models.

New tools quantify deep generative models' performance.

problem Measuring the quality-diversity trade-off in deep generative models.
method Established non-asymptotic bounds on sample complexity and introduced frontier integrals.
result Smoothed estimators improve convergence rates of divergence frontiers.

Neural Turing Machines (NTMs) are an instance of Memory Augmented Neural Networks, a new class of recurrent neural networks which decouple computation from memory by introducing an external memory unit. NTMs have demonstrated superior performance over Long Short-Term Memory Cells in several sequence learning tasks. A n…

2018-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct a financial "Turing test" to determine whether human subjects can differentiate between actual vs. randomized financial returns. The experiment consists of an online video-game (http://arora.ccs.neu.edu) where players are challenged to distinguish actual financial market returns from random temporal permut…

2010-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey on computational models in dynamical systems, including new universality concepts.

problem Understanding the relationship between computational models and dynamical systems.
method Review of recent works on Turing universality, Topological Kleene Field Theories, and dynamical bordisms.
result Introduction of new perspectives on computability through dynamical systems.

Given nn samples from a population of individuals belonging to different types with unknown proportions, how do we estimate the probability of discovering a new type at the (n+1)(n+1)-th draw? This is a classical problem in statistics, commonly referred to as the missing mass estimation problem. Recent results by Ohannes…

2018-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose Edward, a Turing-complete probabilistic programming language. Edward defines two compositional representations---random variables and inference. By treating inference as a first class citizen, on a par with modeling, we show that probabilistic programming can be as flexible and computationally efficient as t…

2017-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimating a large alphabet probability distribution from a limited number of samples is a fundamental problem in machine learning and statistics. A variety of estimation schemes have been proposed over the years, mostly inspired by the early work of Laplace and the seminal contribution of Good and Turing. One of the b…

2018-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Two impossibility theorems show formal alignment certification is impossible for AI systems.

problem Formal certification of AI alignment over open-ended domains is impossible.
method Two independent impossibility theorems: Semantic and Statistical barriers.
result No procedure can simultaneously satisfy soundness, completeness, and tractability.

Popular culture has contemplated societies of thinking machines for generations, envisioning futures from utopian to dystopian. These futures are, arguably, here now-we find ourselves at the doorstep of technology that can at least simulate the appearance of thinking, acting, and feeling. The real question is: now what…

2019-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Under appropriate assumptions, we generalize the concept of linear almost Poisson struc- tures, almost Lie algebroids, almost differentials in the framework of Banach anchored bundles and the relation between these objects. We then obtain an adapted formalism for mechanical systems which is illustrated by the evolution…

2011-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We present the preliminary high-level design and features of DynamicPPL.jl, a modular library providing a lightning-fast infrastructure for probabilistic programming. Besides a computational performance that is often close to or better than Stan, DynamicPPL provides an intuitive DSL that allows the rapid development of…

2020-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We begin with a review of the notion of a braid group. We then discuss some known solutions to decision problems in braid groups. We then move on to proving new results in braid group algorithmics. We offer a quick solution to the generalized word problem in braid groups, in the special case of cyclic subgroups. We ill…

2003-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This work offers a broad perspective on probabilistic modeling and inference in light of recent advances in probabilistic programming, in which models are formally expressed in Turing-complete programming languages. We consider a typical workflow and how probabilistic programming languages can help to automate this wor…

2018-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

What is the longest rope on the unit sphere? Intuition tells us that the answer to this packing problem depends on the rope's thickness. For a countably infinite number of prescribed thickness values we construct and classify all solution curves. The simplest ones are similar to the seamlines of a tennis ball, others e…

2010-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

GT estimator shows convergence for Markov samples, improving i.i.d. results.

problem Estimating missing mass in Markov samples.
method Analyzed convergence of Good-Turing estimator for Markov samples, considering spectral properties of transition matrices.
result The convergence of the GT estimator for Markov samples depends on the spectral properties of the transition matrices, leading to a new minimax rate of 1/(nβ5)1/(nβ^5) for rank-2 Markov chains.

Language grounded image understanding tasks have often been proposed as a method for evaluating progress in artificial intelligence. Ideally, these tasks should test a plethora of capabilities that integrate computer vision, reasoning, and natural language understanding. However, rather than behaving as visual Turing t…

2019-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent advances in machine learning for medical imaging have led to impressive increases in model complexity and overall capabilities. However, the ability to discern the precise information a machine learning method is using to make decisions has lagged behind and it is often unclear how these performances are in fact…

2019-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗