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Category theory has foundational importance because it provides conceptual lenses to characterize what is important in mathematics. Originally the main lenses were universal mapping properties and natural transformations. In recent decades,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Ellerman

We present a system for the investigation of computational properties of categorial grammar parsing based on a labelled analytic tableaux theorem prover. This proof method allows us to take a modular approach, in which the basic grammar can…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Saturnino F. Luz-Filho , Patrick Sturt

We propose Universal Causality, an overarching framework based on category theory that defines the universal property that underlies causal inference independent of the underlying representational formalism used. More formally, universal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Sridhar Mahadevan

Connectionist approaches to machine learning, \emph{i.e.} neural networks, are enjoying a considerable vogue right now. However, these methods require large volumes of data and produce models that are uninterpretable to humans. An…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Nolan P Shaw , P Michael Furlong , Britt Anderson , Jeff Orchard

The study of complex systems through the lens of category theory consistently proves to be a powerful approach. We propose that cognition deserves the same category-theoretic treatment. We show that by considering a highly-compact cognitive…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-04 Sophie Alyx Taylor , Son Cao Tran , Dan V. Nicolau

Graph theory provides fundamental concepts for many fields of science like statistical physics, network analysis and theoretical computer science. Here we give a pedagogical introduction to graph theory, divided into three sections. In the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander K. Hartmann , Martin Weigt

In document classification, graph-based models effectively capture document structure, overcoming sequence length limitations and enhancing contextual understanding. However, most existing graph document representations rely on heuristics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Margarita Bugueño , Gerard de Melo

We examine various categorical structures that can and cannot be constructed. We show that total computable functions can be mimicked by constructible functors. More generally, whatever can be done by a Turing machine can be constructed by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Noson S. Yanofsky

The attempt is to give a formal concpet of system, and with this provide a definition of category, that will also satisfy the definition of a system. An axiomatic base is given, for constructing the group of integers. In the process, we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Juan Pablo Ramirez

Category theory provides a powerful tool to organize mathematics. A sample of this descriptive power is given by the categorical analysis of the practice of "classes as shorthands" in ZF set theory. In this case category theory provides a…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-12-14 Samuele Maschio

A new approach to the construction of general persistent polyhierarchical classifications is proposed. It is based on implicit description of category polyhierarchy by a generating polyhierarchy of classification criteria. Similarly to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pavel Babikov , Oleg Gontcharov , Maria Babikova

We provide an overview of the hybrid compositional distributional model of meaning, developed in Coecke et al. (arXiv:1003.4394v1 [cs.CL]), which is based on the categorical methods also applied to the analysis of information flow in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Edward Grefenstette

Metatheorems about type theories are often proven by interpreting the syntax into models constructed using categorical gluing. We propose to use only sconing (gluing along a global section functor) instead of general gluing. The sconing is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Rafaël Bocquet , Ambrus Kaposi , Christian Sattler

We explore how computational ontologies can be impactful vis-a-vis the developing discipline of "data science." We posit an approach wherein management theories are represented as formal axioms, and then applied to draw inferences about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Henry M. Kim , Jackie Ho Nam Cheung , Marek Laskowski , Iryna Gel

The integration of knowledge extracted from different models described by domain experts or from models generated by machine learning algorithms is strongly conditioned by the lack of an appropriated framework to specify and integrate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Carlos Leandro

We develop a graphical calculus of manifold diagrams which generalises string and surface diagrams to arbitrary dimensions. Manifold diagrams are pasting diagrams for $(\infty, n)$-categories that admit a semi-strict composition operation…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Lukas Heidemann

Classical AI planners provide solutions to planning problems in the form of long and opaque text outputs. To aid in the understanding transferability of planning solutions, it is necessary to have a rich and comprehensible representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Angeline Aguinaldo , William Regli

Building on Power's notion of a pasting diagram, we prove a pasting theorem for categories enriched in quasi-categories.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Tobias Columbus

We develop layered monoidal theories -- a generalisation of monoidal theories combining formal descriptions of a system at different levels of abstraction. Via their representation as string diagrams, monoidal theories provide a graphical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Leo Lobski , Fabio Zanasi

We consider (finitary, propositional) logics through the original use of Category Theory: the study of the "sociology of mathematical objects", aligning us with a recent, and growing, trend of study logics through its relations with other…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Caio de Andrade Mendes , Hugo Luiz Mariano