Demo Data from SIGIR 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Benedikt Peterseim
dblp:418/0454
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-3510-4325ORCID · verified
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Theory of computation · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Computational complexity · 50% Graph algorithms and graph theory · 50% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Query processing and optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
probabilistic programming |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Fixed-Parameter Tractable Inference for Discrete Probabilistic Programs, via String Diagram Algebraisation · LICS 2026 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
statistical inference |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Fixed-Parameter Tractable Inference for Discrete Probabilistic Programs, via String Diagram Algebraisation · LICS 2026 |
Computational complexity
parameterized complexity |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Fixed-Parameter Tractable Inference for Discrete Probabilistic Programs, via String Diagram Algebraisation · LICS 2026 |
Graph algorithms and graph theory › graph theory › graph parameters › graph width parameters
treewidth |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Fixed-Parameter Tractable Inference for Discrete Probabilistic Programs, via String Diagram Algebraisation · LICS 2026 |
Query processing and optimization
probabilistic query processing |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Fixed-Parameter Tractable Inference for Discrete Probabilistic Programs, via String Diagram Algebraisation · LICS 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
tree decomposition · 3.0string diagram algebraisation · 3.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Fixed-Parameter Tractable Inference for Discrete Probabilistic Programs, via String Diagram AlgebraisationabstractDiscrete probabilistic programs (DPPs) provide a highly expressive formalism for compactly defining arbitrary finite probabilistic models. This expressivity comes at a price: DPP inference is PSPACE-hard. In this work, we show that DPP inference only takes polynomial time for programs that are "structurally simple". More precisely, inference can be performed in polynomial time when the primal graph of each function appearing in the probabilistic program has bounded treewidth, and the inverse acceptance probability is at most exponential in the size of the probabilistic program. Existing algorithms do not achieve this performance guarantee. Our method relies on finding suitable decompositions, algebraisations, of the string diagrams underlying DPPs, employing existing algorithms for tree decompositions. This is independent of the probabilistic setting of DPPs and has direct applications to many problems, such as evaluating queries on relational databases and cybersecurity risk assessment via attack trees. Benedikt Peterseim, Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg |
LICS | 1 |