Links' Seminars and Public Events | ![]() ![]() |
Fri, November 23, 2018 11:00 am 12:30 pm | Filip Mazowiecki in Links' seminar Title: Containment for Probabilistic automata. Abstract: This is an ICALP 2018 paper. We analyze when the model of probabilistic automata has decidable properties, when restricting the ambiguity. The notion of ambiguity is usually used in weighted automata or transducers, but we follow a recent paper by Fijalkow, Riveros and Worrell, which introduced this approach. We do not solve everything but our decidability results rely unexpectedly on Schanuel's conjecture and we provide some geometric intuition behind the hardness of the problem. |
Fri, November 16, 2018 11:00 am 12:30 pm | Aurelien Lemay's Habilitation defense IRCICA |
Thu, November 15, 2018 4:30 pm 5:30 pm | Andreas Maletti in Aurélien Lemay's prehabilitation seminar Lille-Salle B21 |
Thu, November 15, 2018 3:30 pm 4:30 pm | Henning Fernau in Aurélien Lemay's prehabilitation seminar: Lille-Salle B21 |
Fri, November 9, 2018 11:00 am 12:30 pm | Talk of Bruno Guillon Abstract: The time complexity of 1-limited automata is investigated from a descriptional complexity view point. Though the model recognizes regular languages only, it may use quadratic time in the input length. We show that, with a polynomial increase in size and preserving determinism, each 1-limited automaton can be transformed into a linear-time equivalent one. We also obtain polynomial transformations into related models, including weight-reducing Hennie machines (i.e., one-tape Turing machines syntactically forced to operate in linear-time), and we show exponential gaps for converse transformations in the deterministic case. |
Fri, October 26, 2018 11:00 am 12:30 pm | Momar Sakho in Links seminar "Lieu : Lille, Salle : A12" |
Thu, October 18, 2018 4:00 pm 5:00 pm | Talk of Mikael Monet Title: Combined Complexity of Probabilistic Query Evaluation Abstract: Query evaluation over probabilistic databases (probabilistic query evaluation, or PQE) is known to be intractable in many cases, even in data complexity, i.e., when the query is fixed. Although some restrictions of the queries and instances have been proposed to lower the complexity, these known tractable cases usually do not apply to combined complexity, i.e., when the query is not fixed. This talk gives an overview of my PhD research, which investigates which queries and instances ensure the tractability of PQE in combined complexity. I will first present our work on PQE of conjunctive queries on binary signatures, which can be rephrased as a probabilistic graph homomorphism problem. We restrict the query and instance graphs to be trees and show the impact on the combined complexity of diverse features such as edge labels, branching, or connectedness. This is joint work with Antoine Amarilli and Pierre Senellart and was presented at PODS'2017. Second, we will explore the combined complexity of evaluating queries on treelike databases, i.e., databases whose treewidth is bounded by a constant. We introduce a class of queries (named 'CFG-Datalog') which generalizes many known query languages that are tractable in this context. Specifically, we show that the (non-probabilistic) evaluation of CFG-Datalog on treelike databases can be solved with complexity linear in the product of the instance size and of the query size. In the process, we introduce a new representation of the provenance of a query on a database, based on cyclic Boolean circuits. This is joint work with Antoine Amarilli, Pierre Bourhis, and Pierre Senellart, and was presented at ICDT'2017. Last, we will move to the field of knowledge compilation and present our work that connects various notions of width for Boolean circuits. We show that circuits of bounded treewidth can be efficiently compiled into structured deterministic decomposable normal forms (d-SDNNFs), which in particular allows efficient probability computation. We show the implications of this result for PQE of CFG-Datalog on treelike databases. We also prove general lower bounds on knowledge compilation formalisms, which imply lower bounds for provenance computation. This is joint work with Antoine Amarilli and Pierre Senellart and was presented at ICDT'2018. "Lieu : Lille, Salle : B21" |
Fri, September 28, 2018 10:15 am 11:45 am | José Lozano Links seminar |
Fri, September 21, 2018 10:30 am 12:00 pm | Fabian Reiter in Links' Seminar: Descriptive distributed complexity This talk connects two classical areas of theoretical computer science: descriptive complexity and distributed computing. The former is a branch of computational complexity theory that characterizes complexity classes in terms of equivalent logical formalisms. The latter studies algorithms that run in networks of interconnected processors. Although an active field of research since the late 1970s, distributed computing is still lacking the analogue of a complexity theory. One reason for this may be the large number of distinct models of distributed computation, which make it rather difficult to develop a unified formal framework. In my talk, I will outline how the descriptive approach, i.e., connections to logic, could be helpful in this regard. Salle B21 |
Fri, September 7, 2018 11:00 am 12:30 pm | Rustam Azimov in Links Seminar: "Context-Free Path Querying by Matrix Multiplication" |
Fri, May 25, 2018 10:00 am 11:30 am | Nicolas Crosetti in Links' Seminar: Dependency weighted aggregation Lille B21 |
Fri, April 27, 2018 10:30 am 12:30 pm | Yann Strozecki in Links' Seminar: Methods in enumeration In enumeration we are interested in generating a set of solutions, while bounding the time needed to generate one solution. We will first present the complexity measures used in this context, simple theoritical results and a few open questions. We then introduce classical problems in this area such as the enumeration of: trees, models of a DNF, model of a FO or MSO formula, the maximal cliques of a graph, circuits of a matroid ... We use them to illustrate the algorithmic toolbox of enumeration (Gray Code, backtrack search, reverse search, saturation...). Lille B21 |
Wed, April 25, 2018 2:15 pm 3:45 pm | Nicolas Stage Jan's office |
Fri, April 20, 2018 2:15 pm 3:45 pm | Nicolas Stage Jan's office |
Fri, April 13, 2018 2:15 pm 3:45 pm | Nicolas Stage Jan's office |
Fri, April 13, 2018 10:00 am 12:00 pm | Iovka Boneva and Jérémie Dusart in Links' Seminar: Shape Expressions Schemas 2.0 : Semantics and Implementation We will present the semantics of the ShEx language, its implementation in java, and future directions of research. Salle B21 |
Fri, April 6, 2018 2:15 pm 3:45 pm | Nicolas Stage Jan's office |
Fri, March 30, 2018 2:15 pm 3:45 pm | Nicolas Stage Jan's office |
Fri, March 23, 2018 10:00 am 11:30 am | Paul Gallot: High-Order Tree Transducers Paul présentera le papier de Sylvain, Aurélien et Paul, soumis à LICS 2018, sur le sujet des transducteurs d'arbres d'ordre supérieur. |
Wed, March 21, 2018 2:00 pm 3:15 pm | répétition Delta |
Fri, March 16, 2018 10:00 am 11:30 am | Luc Dartois in Links' Seminar: A Logic for Word Transductions with Synthesis In this talk I present a logic, called LT, to express properties of transductions, i.e. binary relations from input to output (finite) words. I argue that LT is a suitable candidate as a specification language for verification of non reactive systems, extending the successful approach of verifying synchronous systems via Mealy Machines and MSO. In LT, the input/output dependencies are modelled via an origin function which associates to any position of the output word, the input position from which it originates. LT is well-suited to express relations (which are not necessarily functional), and can express all regular functional transductions, i.e. transductions definable for instance by deterministic two-way transducers. Despite its high expressive power, LT has decidable satisfiability problems. The main contribution is a synthesis result: it is always possible to synthesis a regular function which satisfies the specification. Finally, I explicit a correspondence between transductions and data words. As a side-result, we obtain a new decidable logic for data words. Inria Lille |
Fri, March 9, 2018 10:00 am 11:00 am | Benjamin Bergougnoux : Counting minimal transversals of hypergraphs A transversal of a hypergraph H is a subset of vertices that intersects all the hyper-edges H. The enumeration and the counting of the minimal transversals have a lot of applications in many domains (graph theory, AI, datamining, etc). Counting problems are generally harder than theirs associated decision problems. For example, finding a minimal transversal is doable in polynomial time but counting them is #P-complet (the equivalent of NP-complet for counting problems). We have proved that we can count the minimal transversals of any beta-acyclique hypergraph in polynomial time. Our result is based on a recursive decomposition of the beta-acyclique hypergraph founded by Florent Capelli and by the introduction of a new notion that generalize the minimal transversals. A lot of exciting open questions live in the neighborhood of our result. In particular, our algorithm is able to count the minimum dominating set of a strong-chordal graph. But counting the minimum dominating set is #P-complete on split graphs. Is it the beginning of a complete characterization of the complexity of counting minimal dominating sets in dense graphs ? Salle B21 |