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Abstract: In this paper, a multi-object recognition scenario is considered to extend the random finite set into random permutation set. Probabilistic information on random permutation set can be ...

Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...

Abstract: Motivated by cryptography, quantum information theory, circuit complexity, and derandomization, there has been significant recent progress in the study of ...