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A Complete Diagrammatic Calculus for Conditional Gaussian Mixtures

Logic in Computer Science 2025-10-07 v1

Abstract

We extend the synthetic theories of discrete and Gaussian categorical probability by introducing a diagrammatic calculus for reasoning about hybrid probabilistic models in which continuous random variables, conditioned on discrete ones, follow a multivariate Gaussian distribution. This setting includes important classes of models such as Gaussian mixture models, where each Gaussian component is selected according to a discrete variable. We develop a string diagrammatic syntax for expressing and combining these models, give it a compositional semantics, and equip it with a sound and complete equational theory that characterises when two models represent the same distribution.

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@article{arxiv.2510.04649,
  title  = {A Complete Diagrammatic Calculus for Conditional Gaussian Mixtures},
  author = {Mateo Torres-Ruiz and Robin Piedeleu and Alexandra Silva and Fabio Zanasi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04649},
  year   = {2025}
}
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