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Length generalization refers to the ability to extrapolate from short training sequences to long test sequences and is a challenge for current large language models. While prior work has proposed some architecture or data format changes to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Kaiying Hou , David Brandfonbrener , Sham Kakade , Samy Jelassi , Eran Malach

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

Term rewriting plays a crucial role in software verification and compiler optimization. With dozens of highly parameterizable techniques developed to prove various system properties, automatic term rewriting tools work in an extensive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Liao Zhang , Fabian Mitterwallner , Jan Jakubuv , Cezary Kaliszyk

Orthogonality is a discipline of programming that in a syntactic manner guarantees determinism of functional specifications. Essentially, orthogonality avoids, on the one side, the inherent ambiguity of non determinism, prohibiting the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-01 Ana Cristina Rocha Oliveira , Mauricio Ayala-Rincón

Termination of programs, i.e., the absence of infinite computations, ensures the existence of normal forms for all initial expressions, thus providing an essential ingredient for the definition of a normalization semantics for functional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Salvador Lucas

There are many evaluation strategies for term rewrite systems, but proving termination automatically is usually easiest for innermost rewriting. Several syntactic criteria exist when innermost termination implies full termination. We adapt…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jan-Christoph Kassing , Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl

In this paper we consider the problem of proving properties of infinite behaviour of formalisms suitable to describe (infinite state) systems with recursion and parallelism. As a formal setting, we consider the framework of Process…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Laura Bozzelli , Massimo Benerecetti , Adriano Peron

Logically constrained term rewrite systems (LCTRSs) are a rewriting formalism that naturally supports built-in data structures, including integers and bit-vectors. The recent framework of existentially constrained terms and most general…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Takahito Aoto , Naoki Nishida , Jonas Schöpf

Multiple extensions of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been proposed recently to address the difficulty of storing information over long time periods. In this paper, we experiment with the capacity of Neural Turing Machines (NTMs) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Tristan Deleu , Joseph Dureau

We propose a notion of complexity for oriented conditional term rewrite systems satisfying certain restrictions. This notion is realistic in the sense that it measures not only successful computations, but also partial computations that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Cynthia Kop , Aart Middeldorp , Thomas Sternagel

This paper develops a Multiset Rewriting language with explicit time for the specification and analysis of Time-Sensitive Distributed Systems (TSDS). Goals are often specified using explicit time constraints. A good trace is an infinite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Max Kanovich , Tajana Ban Kirigin , Vivek Nigam , Andre Scedrov , Carolyn Talcott

We consider the problem of {\em restructuring} compressed texts without explicit decompression. We present algorithms which allow conversions from compressed representations of a string $T$ produced by any grammar-based compression…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-15 Keisuke Goto , Shirou Maruyama , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Hiroshi Sakamoto , Masayuki Takeda

In this paper we present a combination framework for polynomial complexity analysis of term rewrite systems. The framework covers both derivational and runtime complexity analysis. We present generalisations of powerful complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Martin Avanzini , Georg Moser

Algorithms which learn environments represented by automata in the past have had complexity scaling with the number of states in the automaton, which can be exponentially large even for automata recognizing regular expressions with a small…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ali Cataltepe , Vanessa Kosoy

Rewriting is a formalism widely used in computer science and mathematical logic. When using rewriting as a programming or modeling paradigm, the rewrite rules describe the transformations one wants to operate and rewriting strategies are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Horatiu Cirstea , Serguei Lenglet , Pierre-Etienne Moreau

The focus of this paper is the analysis of real-time systems with recursion, through the development of good theoretical techniques which are implementable. Time is modeled using clock variables, and recursion using stacks. Our technique…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 S. Akshay , Paul Gastin , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Ilias Sarkar

Term rewriting has a significant presence in various areas, not least in automated theorem proving where it is used as a proof technique. Many theorem provers employ specialised proof tactics for rewriting. This results in an interleaving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Issam Maamria , Michael Butler

We introduce a parallelizable simplification of Neural Turing Machine (NTM), referred to as P-NTM, which redesigns the core operations of the original architecture to enable efficient scan-based parallel execution. We evaluate the proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Gabriel Faria , Arnaldo Candido Junior

We study the computational model of polygraphs. For that, we consider polygraphic programs, a subclass of these objects, as a formal description of first-order functional programs. We explain their semantics and prove that they form a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Guillaume Bonfante , Yves Guiraud

There exist several approaches to infer runtime or resource bounds for integer programs automatically. In this paper, we study the subclass of periodic rational solvable loops (prs-loops), where questions regarding the runtime and the size…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nils Lommen , Éléanore Meyer , Jürgen Giesl