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Taming Discrete Integration via the Boon of Dimensionality.
Jeffrey M. Dudek, Dror Fried and Kuldeep S. Meel.
In Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems(NeurIPS), December 2020.
Discrete integration is a fundamental problem in computer science that concerns the computation of discrete sums over exponentially large sets. Despite intense interest from researchers for over three decades, the design of scalable techniques for computing estimates with rigorous guarantees for discrete integration remains the holy grail. The key contribution of this work addresses this scalability challenge via an efficient reduction of discrete integration to model counting. The proposed reduction is achieved via a significant increase in the dimensionality that, contrary to conventional wisdom, leads to solving an instance of the relatively simpler problem of model counting. Building on the promising approach proposed by Chakraborty et al, our work overcomes the key weakness of their approach: a restriction to dyadic weights. We augment our proposed reduction, called DeWeight, with a state of the art efficient approximate model counter and perform detailed empirical analysis over benchmarks arising from neural network verification domains, an emerging application area of critical importance. DeWeight, to the best of our knowledge, is the first technique to compute estimates with provable guarantees for this class of benchmarks.
@inproceedings{DFM20,
author={
Dudek, Jeffrey M. and
Fried, Dror and
Meel, Kuldeep S.
},
title={Taming Discrete Integration via the Boon of Dimensionality},
booktitle=NIPS,
month=dec,
year={2020},
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bib2html_pubtype={Refereed Conference},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10724},
abstract={
Discrete integration is a fundamental problem in computer science that
concerns the computation of discrete sums over exponentially large sets.
Despite intense interest from researchers for over three decades, the design
of scalable techniques for computing estimates with rigorous guarantees for
discrete integration remains the holy grail. The key contribution of this
work addresses this scalability challenge via an efficient reduction of
discrete integration to model counting. The proposed reduction is achieved
via a significant increase in the dimensionality that, contrary to
conventional wisdom, leads to solving an instance of the relatively simpler
problem of model counting.
Building on the promising approach proposed by Chakraborty et al, our work
overcomes the key weakness of their approach: a restriction to dyadic
weights. We augment our proposed reduction, called DeWeight, with a state of
the art efficient approximate model counter and perform detailed empirical
analysis over benchmarks arising from neural network verification domains,
an emerging application area of critical importance. DeWeight, to the best
of our knowledge, is the first technique to compute estimates with provable
guarantees for this class of benchmarks.
},
}
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