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PPOPP
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Hybrid dynamic data race detection
We present a new method for dynamically detecting potential data races in multithreaded programs. Our method improves on the state of the art in accuracy, in usability, and in ove...
Robert O'Callahan, Jong-Deok Choi
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ESOP
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
A Tail-Recursive Semantics for Stack Inspections
Security folklore holds that a security mechanism based on stack inspection is incompatible with a global tail call optimization policy. An implementation of such a language may ha...
John Clements, Matthias Felleisen
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which use dynamic programming and statistical sampling to estimate the long-term value of ta...
Shimon Whiteson
ECCC
2011
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14 years 3 months ago
Almost k-wise vs. k-wise independent permutations, and uniformity for general group actions
A family of permutations in Sn is k-wise independent if a uniform permutation chosen from the family maps any distinct k elements to any distinct k elements equally likely. Effici...
Noga Alon, Shachar Lovett
76
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GECCO
2008
Springer
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14 years 10 months ago
Evolving machine microprograms
The realization of a control unit can be done using a complex circuitry or microprogramming. The latter may be considered as an alternative method of implementation of machine ins...
Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, G. Fernández,...