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Module checking of pushdown multi-agent systems

Bozzelli, Laura, Murano, Aniello, Peron, Adriano

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this paper, we investigate the module-checking problem of pushdown multi-agent systems (PMS) against ATL and ATL* specifications. We establish that for ATL, module checking of PMS is 2EXPTIME-complete, which is the same complexity as pushdown module-checking for CTL. On the other hand, we show that ATL* module-checking of PMS turns out to be 4EXPTIME-complete, hence exponentially harder than both CTL* pushdown module-checking and ATL* model-checking of PMS. Our result for ATL* provides a rare example of a natural decision problem that is elementary yet but with a complexity that is higher than triply exponential-time.


Scalable Semi-Supervised SVM via Triply Stochastic Gradients

Geng, Xiang, Gu, Bin, Li, Xiang, Shi, Wanli, Zheng, Guansheng, Huang, Heng

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) plays an increasingly important role in the big data era because a large number of unlabeled samples can be used effectively to improve the performance of the classifier. Semi-supervised support vector machine (S$^3$VM) is one of the most appealing methods for SSL, but scaling up S$^3$VM for kernel learning is still an open problem. Recently, a doubly stochastic gradient (DSG) algorithm has been proposed to achieve efficient and scalable training for kernel methods. However, the algorithm and theoretical analysis of DSG are developed based on the convexity assumption which makes them incompetent for non-convex problems such as S$^3$VM. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a triply stochastic gradient algorithm for S$^3$VM, called TSGS$^3$VM. Specifically, to handle two types of data instances involved in S$^3$VM, TSGS$^3$VM samples a labeled instance and an unlabeled instance as well with the random features in each iteration to compute a triply stochastic gradient. We use the approximated gradient to update the solution. More importantly, we establish new theoretic analysis for TSGS$^3$VM which guarantees that TSGS$^3$VM can converge to a stationary point. Extensive experimental results on a variety of datasets demonstrate that TSGS$^3$VM is much more efficient and scalable than existing S$^3$VM algorithms.