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Wu's positive $\lambda$-calculus is a recent call-by-value $\lambda$-calculus with sharing coming from Miller and Wu's study of the proof-theoretical concept of focalization. Accattoli and Wu showed that it simplifies a technical aspect of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Beniamino Accattoli , Claudio Sacerdoti Coen , Jui-Hsuan Wu

Calculi with control operators have been studied as extensions of simple type theory. Real programming languages contain datatypes, so to really understand control operators, one should also include these in the calculus. As a first step in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Herman Geuvers , Robbert Krebbers , James McKinna

LLMs are increasingly used as general-purpose reasoners, but long inputs remain bottlenecked by a fixed context window. Recursive Language Models (RLMs) address this by externalising the prompt and recursively solving subproblems. Yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Amartya Roy , Rasul Tutunov , Xiaotong Ji , Matthieu Zimmer , Haitham Bou-Ammar

We consider one of the weakest variants of cost register automata over a tropical semiring, namely copyless cost register automata over $\mathbb{N}$ with updates using $\min$ and increments. We show that this model can simulate, in some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Shaull Almagor , Michaël Cadilhac , Filip Mazowiecki , Guillermo A. Pérez

We present $\cal L$, an extension of Parigot's $\lambda\mu$-calculus by adding negation as a type constructor, together with syntactic constructs that represent negation introduction and elimination. We will define a notion of reduction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Steffen van Bakel

Recently, many techniques have been introduced that allow the (automated) classification of the runtime complexity of term rewrite systems (TRSs for short). In earlier work, the authors have shown that for confluent TRSs, innermost…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-09 Martin Avanzini , Georg Moser

This paper is a contribution to the search for efficient and high-level mathematical tools to specify and reason about (abstract) programming languages or calculi. Generalising the reduction monads of Ahrens et al., we introduce transition…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 André Hirschowitz , Tom Hirschowitz , Ambroise Lafont

We show how polynomial path orders can be employed efficiently in conjunction with weak innermost dependency pairs to automatically certify polynomial runtime complexity of term rewrite systems and the polytime computability of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-09 Martin Avanzini , Georg Moser

A typical way of analyzing the time complexity of functional programs is to extract a recurrence expressing the running time of the program in terms of the size of its input, and then to solve the recurrence to obtain a big-O bound. For…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Joseph W. Cutler , Daniel R. Licata , Norman Danner

With the growth of model and data sizes, a broad effort has been made to design pruning techniques that reduce the resource demand of deep learning pipelines, while retaining model performance. In order to reduce both inference and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Dayana Savostianova , Emanuele Zangrando , Gianluca Ceruti , Francesco Tudisco

Under the extension of Curry-Howard's correspondence to classical logic, Gentzen's NK and LK systems can be seen as syntax-directed systems of simple types respectively for Parigot's Lambda Mu Calculus and Curien-Herbelin's Lambda Bar Mu Mu…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Jérôme Rocheteau

We present a system to translate natural language sentences to formulas in a formal or a knowledge representation language. Our system uses two inverse lambda-calculus operators and using them can take as input the semantic representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-08-22 Chitta Baral , Juraj Dzifcak , Marcos Alvarez Gonzalez , Jiayu Zhou

We sketch a tentative proof of P-completeness for the $\beta$-convertibility problem on untyped planar (a.k.a. ordered or non-commutative) $\lambda$-terms.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anupam Das , Damiano Mazza , Lê Thành Dũng Nguyên , Noam Zeilberger

The purpose of this paper is to identify programs with control operators whose reduction semantics are in exact correspondence. This is achieved by introducing a relation $\simeq$, defined over a revised presentation of Parigot's…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Eduardo Bonelli , Delia Kesner , Andrés Viso

Constructor rewriting systems are said to be cons-free if, roughly, constructor terms in the right-hand sides of rules are subterms of constructor terms in the left-hand side; the computational intuition is that rules cannot build new data…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Cynthia Kop , Jakob Grue Simonsen

The $\lambda$-calculus is a handy formalism to specify the evaluation of higher-order programs. It is not very handy, however, when one interprets the specification as an execution mechanism, because terms can grow exponentially with the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Andrea Condoluci , Beniamino Accattoli , Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

Reversibility is a key issue in the interface between computation and physics, and of growing importance as miniaturization progresses towards its physical limits. Most foundational work on reversible computing to date has focussed on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Samson Abramsky

We present a theoretical analysis and empirical evaluations of a novel set of techniques for computational cost reduction of classifiers that are based on learned transform and soft-threshold. By modifying optimization procedures for…

Despite a growing body of work at the intersection of deep learning and formal languages, there has been relatively little systematic exploration of transformer models for reasoning about typed lambda calculi. This is an interesting area of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Brando Miranda , Avi Shinnar , Vasily Pestun , Barry Trager

We introduce LAM, a subsystem of IMALL2 with restricted additive rules able to manage duplication linearly, called linear additive rules. LAM is presented as the type assignment system for a calculus endowed with copy constructors, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Gianluca Curzi