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Traditional retrieval methods rely on transforming user queries into vector representations and retrieving documents based on cosine similarity within an embedding space. While efficient and scalable, this approach often fails to handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Felix Faltings , Wei Wei , Yujia Bao

In this paper we investigate the complexity of abduction, a fundamental and important form of non-monotonic reasoning. Given a knowledge base explaining the world's behavior it aims at finding an explanation for some observed manifestation.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Nadia Creignou , Johannes Schmidt , Michael Thomas

While reasoning in a logic extending a complete Boolean basis is coNP-hard, restricting to conjunctive fragments of modal languages sometimes allows for tractable reasoning even in the presence of greatest fixpoints. One such example is the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Daniel Gorín , Lutz Schröder

Abduction is a fundamental and important form of non-monotonic reasoning. Given a knowledge base explaining how the world behaves it aims at finding an explanation for some observed manifestation. In this paper we focus on propositional…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Nadia Creignou , Johannes Schmidt , Michael Thomas

We develop a fixed-point extension of quantitative equational logic and give semantics in one-bounded complete quantitative algebras. Unlike previous related work about fixed-points in metric spaces, we are working with the notion of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Radu Mardare , Prakash Panangaden , Gordon Plotkin

We introduce a generalized logic programming paradigm where programs, consisting of facts and rules with the usual syntax, can be enriched by co-facts, which syntactically resemble facts but have a special meaning. As in coinductive logic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Davide Ancona , Francesco Dagnino , Elena Zucca

Bove and Capretta's popular method for justifying function definitions by general recursive equations is based on the observation that any structured general recursion equation defines an inductive subset of the intended domain (the "domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Tarmo Uustalu

The logic of Bunched Implications (BI) freely combines additive and multiplicative connectives, including implications; however, despite its well-studied proof theory, proof-search in BI has always been a difficult problem. The focusing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Alexander Gheorghiu , Sonia Marin

We propose a new type-theoretic approach to SLD-resolution and Horn-clause logic programming. It views Horn formulas as types, and derivations for a given query as a construction of the inhabitant (a proof-term) for the type given by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Peng Fu , Ekaterina Komendantskaya

The main observation of this paper is that some sequential weak compactness arguments in Hilbert space theory can be replaced by Heine/Borel compactness arguments (for the strong topology). Even though the latter form of compactness fails…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Fernando Ferreira , Laurentiu Leustean , Pedro Pinto

After surveying classical results, we introduce a generalized notion of inference system to support structural recursion on non-well-founded data types. Besides axioms and inference rules with the usual meaning, a generalized inference…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Francesco Dagnino

This paper lays a practical foundation for using abstract interpretation with an abstract domain that consists of sets of quantified first-order logic formulas. This abstract domain seems infeasible at first sight due to the complexity of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Eden Frenkel , Tej Chajed , Oded Padon , Sharon Shoham

Containers capture the concept of strictly positive data types in programming. The original development of containers is done in the internal language of locally cartesian closed categories (LCCCs) with disjoint coproducts and W-types, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Stefania Damato , Thorsten Altenkirch , Axel Ljungström

Horn clauses and first-order resolution are commonly used to implement type classes in Haskell. Several corecursive extensions to type class resolution have recently been proposed, with the goal of allowing (co)recursive dictionary…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-12-09 František Farka , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Kevin Hammond

We study the system IFP of intuitionistic fixed point logic, an extension of intuitionistic first-order logic by strictly positive inductive and coinductive definitions. We define a realizability interpretation of IFP and use it to extract…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ulrich Berger , Hideki Tsuiki

We review the close relationship between abstract machines for (call-by-name or call-by-value) lambda-calculi (extended with Felleisen's C) and sequent calculus, reintroducing on the way Curien-Herbelin's syntactic kit expressing the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-07-28 Pierre-Louis Curien , Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni

Up-to techniques' represent enhancements of the coinduction proof method and are widely used on coinductive behavioural relations such as bisimilarity. Abstract formulations of these coinductive techniques exist, using fixed-points or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Davide Sangiorgi

In recent work, comonads and associated structures have been used to analyse a range of important notions in finite model theory, descriptive complexity and combinatorics. We extend this analysis to Hybrid logic, a widely-studied extension…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Samson Abramsky , Dan Marsden

We present a comprehensive programme analysing the decomposition of proof systems for non-classical logics into proof systems for other logics, especially classical logic, using an algebra of constraints. That is, one recovers a proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , David J. Pym

Neural document retrieval often treats a corpus as a flat cloud of vectors scored at a single granularity, leaving corpus structure underused and explanations opaque. We use Cobweb--a hierarchy-aware framework--to organize sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Anant Gupta , Karthik Singaravadivelan , Zekun Wang