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We introduce the structural resource lambda-calculus, a new formalism in which strongly normalizing terms of the lambda-calculus can naturally be represented, and at the same time any type derivation can be internally rewritten to its…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ugo Dal Lago , Federico Olimpieri

Constructor rewriting systems are said to be cons-free if any constructor term occurring in the rhs of a rule must be a subterm of the lhs of the rule. Roughly, such systems cannot build new data structures during their evaluation. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Cynthia Kop , Jakob Grue Simonsen

A central computational task in database theory, finite model theory, and computer science at large is the evaluation of a first-order sentence on a finite structure. In the context of this task, the \emph{width} of a sentence, defined as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Hubie Chen , Stefan Mengel

Rewriting Induction (RI) is a method to prove inductive theorems, originating from equational reasoning. By using Logically Constrained Simply-typed Term Rewriting Systems (LCSTRSs) as an intermediate language, rewriting induction becomes a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Kasper Hagens , Cynthia Kop

We consider the problem of exact identification for read-once functions over arbitrary Boolean bases. We introduce a new type of queries (subcube identity ones), discuss its connection to previously known ones, and study the complexity of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-07-08 Dmitry V. Chistikov , Andrey A. Voronenko

We develop a rewriting theory suitable for diagrammatic algebras and lay down the foundations of a systematic study of their higher structures. In this paper, we focus on the question of finding bases. As an application, we give the first…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Léo Schelstraete

Bottom-up knowledge compilation is a paradigm for generating representations of functions by iteratively conjoining constraints using a so-called apply function. When the input is not efficiently compilable into a language - generally a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Alexis de Colnet , Stefan Mengel

Logically constrained term rewriting is a relatively new rewriting formalism that naturally supports built-in data structures, such as integers and bit vectors. In the analysis of logically constrained term rewrite systems (LCTRSs),…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanta Takahata , Jonas Schöpf , Naoki Nishida , Takahito Aoto

Higher-dimensional rewriting systems are tools to analyse the structure of formally reducing terms to normal forms, as well as comparing the different reduction paths that lead to those normal forms. This higher structure can be captured by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Nicolai Kraus , Jakob von Raumer

Logically constrained term rewriting is a rewriting framework that supports built-in data structures such as integers and bit vectors. Recently, constrained terms play a key role in various analyses and applications of logically constrained…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanta Takahata , Jonas Schöpf , Naoki Nishida , Takahito Aoto

This paper investigates the problem of testing clause sets for membership in classes known from literature. In particular, we are interested in classes defined via renaming: Is it possible to rename the predicates in a way such that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Albert Brandl , Christian G. Fermüller , Gernot Salzer

Rewriting systems are often defined as binary relations over a given set of objects. This simple definition is used to describe various properties of rewriting such as termination, confluence, normal forms etc. In this paper, we introduce a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-01 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frédéric Prost

Higher-order rewriting is a framework in which one can write higher-order programs and study their properties. One such property is termination: the situation that for all inputs, the program eventually halts its execution and produces an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Niels van der Weide , Deivid Vale , Cynthia Kop

Reversible Boolean Circuits are an interesting computational model under many aspects and in different fields, ranging from Reversible Computing to Quantum Computing. Our contribution is to describe a specific class of Reversible Boolean…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Adriano Barile , Stefano Berardi , Luca Roversi

First-order applicative term rewriting systems provide a natural framework for modeling higher-order aspects. In earlier work we introduced an uncurrying transformation which is termination preserving and reflecting. In this paper we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-02-21 Harald Zankl , Nao Hirokawa , Aart Middeldorp

We revisit parallel-innermost term rewriting as a model of parallel computation on inductive data structures and provide a corresponding notion of runtime complexity parametric in the size of the start term. We propose automatic techniques…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Thaïs Baudon , Carsten Fuhs , Laure Gonnord

Machine unlearning addresses the problem of updating a machine learning model/system trained on a dataset $S$ so that the influence of a set of deletion requests $U \subseteq S$ on the unlearned model is minimized. The gold standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Linda Lu , Ayush Sekhari , Karthik Sridharan

The downward closure of a language $L$ of words is the set of all (not necessarily contiguous) subwords of members of $L$. It is well known that the downward closure of any language is regular. Although the downward closure seems to be a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Georg Zetzsche

Properties of Term Rewriting Systems are called modular iff they are preserved under (and reflected by) disjoint union, i.e. when combining two Term Rewriting Systems with disjoint signatures. Convergence is the property of Infinitary Term…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Stefan Michael Kahrs

Time complexity in rewriting is naturally understood as the number of steps needed to reduce terms to normal forms. Establishing complexity bounds to this measure is a well-known problem in the rewriting community. A vast majority of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Liye Guo , Deivid Vale