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Several studies have reported the inability of Transformer models to generalize compositionally, a key type of generalization in many NLP tasks such as semantic parsing. In this paper we explore the design space of Transformer models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Santiago Ontañón , Joshua Ainslie , Vaclav Cvicek , Zachary Fisher

Fuzzy automata have long been accepted as a generalization of nondeterministic finite automata. A closer examination, however, shows that the fundamental property---nondeterminism---in nondeterministic finite automata has not been well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Yongzhi Cao , Yoshinori Ezawa

We propose a generic categorical framework for learning unknown formal languages of various types (e.g. finite or infinite words, weighted and nominal languages). Our approach is parametric in a monad T that represents the given type of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Henning Urbat , Lutz Schröder

Our concrete objective is to present both ordinary bisimulations and probabilistic bisimulations in a common coalgebraic framework based on multiset bisimulations. For that we show how to relate the underlying powerset and probabilistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-05 David de Frutos-Escrig , Miguel Palomino , Ignacio Fábregas

Many tasks in control, robotics, and planning can be specified using desired goal configurations for various entities in the environment. Learning goal-conditioned policies is a natural paradigm to solve such tasks. However, current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Allan Zhou , Vikash Kumar , Chelsea Finn , Aravind Rajeswaran

This paper studies trace-based equivalences for systems combining nondeterministic and probabilistic choices. We show how trace semantics for such processes can be recovered by instantiating a coalgebraic construction known as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Filippo Bonchi , Ana Sokolova , Valeria Vignudelli

This paper contributes to a theory of the behaviour of "finite-state" systems that is generic in the system type. We propose that such systems are modeled as coalgebras with a finitely generated carrier for an endofunctor on a locally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Stefan Milius , Dirk Pattinson , Thorsten Wißmann

We provide a generic algorithm for constructing formulae that distinguish behaviourally inequivalent states in systems of various transition types such as nondeterministic, probabilistic or weighted; genericity over the transition type is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Thorsten Wißmann , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder

Nominal sets provide a framework to study key notions of syntax and semantics such as fresh names, variable binding and $\alpha$-equivalence on a conveniently abstract categorical level. Coalgebras for endofunctors on nominal sets model,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder , Thorsten Wißmann

Predictive processing and active inference posit that the brain is a system performing Bayesian inference on the environment. By virtue of this, a prominent interpretation of predictive processing states that the generative model (a POMDP)…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-26 Manuel Baltieri , Filippo Torresan , Tomoya Nakai

Complementation of finite automata is a basic operation used in numerous applications. The standard way to complement a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) is to transform it into an equivalent deterministic finite automaton (DFA) and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lukáš Holík , Ondřej Lengál , Juraj Major , Adéla Štěpková , Jan Strejček

This paper provides a coalgebraic approach to the language semantics of two types of non-deterministic automata over nominal sets: non-deterministic orbit-finite automata (NOFAs) and regular nominal non-deterministic automata (RNNAs), which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Florian Frank , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat

An automaton is called reachable if every state is reachable from the initial state. This notion has been generalized coalgebraically in two ways: first, via a universal property on pointed coalgebras, namely, that a reachable coalgebra has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Thorsten Wißmann , Bálint Kocsis , Jurriaan Rot , Ruben Turkenburg

Using recent developments in coalgebraic and monad-based semantics, we present a uniform study of various notions of machines, e.g. finite state machines, multi-stack machines, Turing machines, valence automata, and weighted automata. They…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Sergey Goncharov , Stefan Milius , Alexandra Silva

In this article, we provide three coalgebraic characterizations of the class of context-free languages, each based on the idea of adding coalgebraic structure to an existing algebraic structure by specifying output-derivative pairs. Final…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Joost Winter , Jan J. M. Rutten , Marcello M. Bonsangue

We provide a construction of the fixed points of functors which may not be inital algebras or final coalgebras. For an endofunctor F, this fixed point construction may be expressed as a pair of adjoint functors between F-coalgebras and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Ezra Schoen , Jade Master , Clemens Kupke

Categorical deep learning (CDL) has recently emerged as a framework that leverages category theory to unify diverse neural architectures. While geometric deep learning (GDL) is grounded in the specific context of invariants of group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Dragan Mašulović

A generally intelligent learner should generalize to more complex tasks than it has previously encountered, but the two common paradigms in machine learning -- either training a separate learner per task or training a single learner for all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Michael B. Chang , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Thomas L. Griffiths

Neural networks have revolutionized language modeling and excelled in various downstream tasks. However, the extent to which these models achieve compositional generalization comparable to human cognitive abilities remains a topic of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Osman Batur İnce , Tanin Zeraati , Semih Yagcioglu , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

A process algebra is proposed, whose semantics maps a term to a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA, for short). We prove a representability theorem: for each NFA $N$, there exists a process algebraic term $p$ such that its semantics is…

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