Lifting aims at improving the efficiency of probabilistic inference by exploiting symmetries in the model. Various methods for lifted probabilistic inference have been proposed, but our understanding of these methods and the relationships between them is still limited, compared to their propositional counterparts. The only existing theoretical characterization of lifting is a completeness resul...

3 Production of lemmas in first order logic 10 The method "Model Elimination is a proof method very easy to implement and it is the reason of his success. To present it, we use the following references [OD97], [Don78] et [Sut12]. The last document presents clearly and concisely the production of the lemma. Without this help, it would have been impossible to write this explanation of the method ...

T HE CARDIOVASCULAR effects of hypothermia in animals have been studied extensively. However, little information is available concerning the effects of hypothermia on renal function The present report is concerned with changes in filtration rate, renal blood flow and TrnPAH in the hypothermic dog. The effects of hypothermia on the renal excretion of water and electrolytes will be the subject of...

Neville elimination is an elimination procedure alternative to Gaussian elimination. It is very useful when dealing with totally positive matrices, for which nice stability results are known. Here we include examples, most of them test matrices used in MATLAB which are not totally positive matrices, where Neville elimination outperforms Gaussian elimination. 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

We present a formalism that models the computation of clause sharing portfolio solvers with inprocessing. The soundness of these solvers is not a straightforward property since shared clauses can make a formula unsatisfiable. Therefore, we develop characterizations of simplification techniques and suggest various settings how clause sharing and inprocessing can be combined. Our formalization mo...

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The deformation of applicable surfaces such as sheets of paper satisfies the differential geometric constraints of isometry (lengths and areas are conserved) and vanishing Gaussian curvature. We show that these constraints lead to a closed set of equations that allow recovery of the full geometric structure from a single image of the surface and knowledge of its undeformed shape. We show that t...

When solving systems of equations by using matrices, many teachers present a Gauss-Jordan elimination approach to row reducing matrices that can involve painfully tedious operations with fractions (which I will call the traditional method). In this essay, I present an alternative method to row reduce matrices that does not introduce additional fractions until the very last steps. The students i...