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Relational descriptions have been used in formalizing diverse computational notions, including, for example, operational semantics, typing, and acceptance by non-deterministic machines. We therefore propose a (restricted) logical theory…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-09-02 Andrew Gacek , Dale Miller , Gopalan Nadathur

A common technique to verify complex logic specifications for dynamical systems is the construction of symbolic abstractions: simpler, finite-state models whose behaviour mimics the one of the systems of interest. Typically, abstractions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Rudi Coppola , Andrea Peruffo , Manuel Mazo

We address the relative expressiveness of defeasible logics in the framework DL. Relative expressiveness is formulated as the ability to simulate the reasoning of one logic within another logic. We show that such simulations must be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michael Maher

Ontologies formalise how the concepts from a given domain are interrelated. Despite their clear potential as a backbone for explainable AI, existing ontologies tend to be highly incomplete, which acts as a significant barrier to their more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Steven Schockaert , Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto

The demand for open and trustworthy AI models points towards widespread publishing of model weights. Consumers of these model weights must be able to act accordingly with the information provided. That said, one of the simplest AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Danial Dervovic , Freddy Lécué , Nicolás Marchesotti , Daniele Magazzeni

We study coupled logical bisimulation (CLB) to reason about contextual equivalence in the lambda-calculus. CLB originates in a work by Dal Lago, Sangiorgi and Alberti, as a tool to reason about a lambda-calculus with probabilistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Ryan Kavanagh , Jean-Marie Madiot

Abductive reasoning generates explanatory hypotheses for new observations using prior knowledge. This paper investigates the use of forgetting, also known as uniform interpolation, to perform ABox abduction in description logic (ALC)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Warren Del-Pinto , Renate A. Schmidt

We design temporal description logics suitable for reasoning about temporal conceptual data models and investigate their computational complexity. Our formalisms are based on DL-Lite logics with three types of concept inclusions (ranging…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Alessandro Artale , Roman Kontchakov , Vladislav Ryzhikov , Michael Zakharyaschev

This paper presents complexity analysis and variational methods for inference in probabilistic description logics featuring Boolean operators, quantification, qualified number restrictions, nominals, inverse roles and role hierarchies.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Fabio Gagliardi Cozman , Rodrigo Bellizia Polastro

Analogical reasoning relies on conceptual abstractions, but it is unclear whether Large Language Models (LLMs) harbor such internal representations. We explore distilled representations from LLM activations and find that function vectors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Gustaw Opiełka , Hannes Rosenbusch , Claire E. Stevenson

We propose a modal study of the notion of bisimulation. Our contribution is threefold. First, we extend the basic modal language with a new modality $\nbi$, whose intended meaning is universal quantification over all states that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Alfredo Burrieza , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Antonio Yuste-Ginel

We present a probabilistic extension of the description logic $\mathcal{ALC}$ for reasoning about statistical knowledge. We consider conditional statements over proportions of the domain and are interested in the probabilistic-logical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Rafael Peñaloza , Nico Potyka

Two desiderata of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are the ability to learn from relatively little experience and the ability to learn policies that generalize to a range of problem specifications. In factored state spaces, one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zizhao Wang , Caroline Wang , Xuesu Xiao , Yuke Zhu , Peter Stone

The Kripke semantics of various logics arises via categorical dualities between a category of relational frames and their maps, and a category of algebras and logical homomorphisms. When the relational frames are considered as computational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Piotr Kozicki , Alex Kavvos

Inquisitive modal logic InqML is a generalisation of standard Kripke-style modal logic. In its epistemic incarnation, it extends standard epistemic logic to capture not just the information that agents have, but also the questions that they…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ivano Ciardelli , Martin Otto

Functional relationships between objects, called `attributes', are of considerable importance in knowledge representation languages, including Description Logics (DLs). A study of the literature indicates that papers have made, often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 A. Borgida , R. Kusters

Designing models that are both expressive and preserve known invariances of tasks is an increasingly hard problem. Existing solutions tradeoff invariance for computational or memory resources. In this work, we show how to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Leonardo Cotta , Gal Yehuda , Assaf Schuster , Chris J. Maddison

Regression and Bayesian accounts of in-context learning (ICL) explain how demonstrations can induce predictors, while mechanistic analyses often identify compact activation directions that steer prompted behavior. However, it remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Wei Tang , Xinyan Jiang , Fakhri Karray , Lijie Hu

Recently, description logic LE-ALC was introduced for reasoning in the semantic environment of enriched formal contexts, and a polynomial-time tableaux algorithm was developed to check the consistency of knowledge bases with acyclic TBoxes.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yiwen Ding , Krishna Manoorkar

Recently, a new paradigm was introduced in automata theory. The main idea is to classify regular languages according to their propensity to be sorted, establishing a deep connection between automata theory and data compression [J. ACM…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Nicola Cotumaccio