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This paper proposes a type-and-effect system called Teqt, which distinguishes terminating terms and total functions from possibly diverging terms and partial functions, for a lambda calculus with general recursion and equality types. The…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Aaron Stump , Vilhelm Sjöberg , Stephanie Weirich

The problem of determining whether a probabilistic program terminates almost surely (i.e.~with probability one) is undecidable, and actually $\Pi^0_2$-complete. For this reason, a growing literature has explored classes of programs for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ugo Dal Lago , Guido Fiorillo , Paolo Pistone

We present an empirical study on methods for span finding, the selection of consecutive tokens in text for some downstream tasks. We focus on approaches that can be employed in training end-to-end information extraction systems, and find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Weiwei Gu , Boyuan Zheng , Yunmo Chen , Tongfei Chen , Benjamin Van Durme

An important question for a probabilistic program is whether the probability mass of all its diverging runs is zero, that is that it terminates "almost surely". Proving that can be hard, and this paper presents a new method for doing so; it…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Annabelle McIver , Carroll Morgan , Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen

This paper introduces a class of objects called decision rules that map infinite sequences of alternatives to a decision space. These objects can be used to model situations where a decision maker encounters alternatives in a sequence such…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-09-12 Bhavook Bhardwaj , Siddharth Chatterjee

We focus on the task of reasoning over paragraph effects in situation, which requires a model to understand the cause and effect described in a background paragraph, and apply the knowledge to a novel situation. Existing works ignore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Mucheng Ren , Xiubo Geng , Tao Qin , Heyan Huang , Daxin Jiang

This paper specifies an observational semantics and gives an original presentation of the Byrd box model. The approach accounts for the semantics of Prolog tracers independently of a particular Prolog implementation. Prolog traces are, in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-11-27 Pierre Deransart , Mireille Ducassé , Gérard Ferrand

This paper expands upon the finite state machine approach for the formal analysis of digital evidence. The proposed method may be used to support the feasibility of a given statement by testing it against a relevant system model. To achieve…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Joshua I. James , Pavel Gladyshev , Mohd Taufik Abdullah , Yuandong Zhu

A randomized algorithm for computing a compressed representation of a given rank-structured matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times N}$ is presented. The algorithm interacts with $A$ only through its action on vectors. Specifically, it draws two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 James Levitt , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Explicit reasoning models are trained to produce intermediate reasoning traces before final answers, but downstream fine-tuning is often performed on ordinary instruction-response data that contains no such traces. We show that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Lukas Twist , Helen Yannakoudakis , Jie M. Zhang

A novel approach to malware classification is introduced based on analysis of instruction traces that are collected dynamically from the program in question. The method has been implemented online in a sandbox environment (i.e., a security…

Applications · Statistics 2014-04-10 Curtis Storlie , Blake Anderson , Scott Vander Wiel , Daniel Quist , Curtis Hash , Nathan Brown

Being able to provide counterfactual interventions - sequences of actions we would have had to take for a desirable outcome to happen - is essential to explain how to change an unfavourable decision by a black-box machine learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Giovanni De Toni , Bruno Lepri , Andrea Passerini

Hyperbox-based classification has been seen as a promising technique in which decisions on the data are represented as a series of orthogonal, multidimensional boxes (i.e., hyperboxes) that are often interpretable and human-readable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Denis Mayr Lima Martins , Christian Lülf , Fabian Gieseke

In this paper, we investigate finite representations of DatalogMTL models. First, we discuss sufficient conditions for detecting programs that have finite models. Then, we study infinite models that eventually become constant and introduce…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Luigi Bellomarini , Markus Nissl , Emanuel Sallinger

Temporal logic specifications play an important role in a wide range of software analysis tasks, such as model checking, automated synthesis, program comprehension, and runtime monitoring. Given a set of positive and negative examples,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Changjian Zhang , Parv Kapoor , Ian Dardik , Leyi Cui , Romulo Meira-Goes , David Garlan , Eunsuk Kang

Latent reasoning represents a new development in Transformer language models that has shown potential in compressing reasoning lengths compared to chain-of-thought reasoning. By directly passing the information-rich previous final latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Alex Ning , Yen-Ling Kuo , Gabe Gomes

We introduce a simple functional language foetus (lambda calculus with tuples, constructors and pattern matching) supplied with a termination checker. This checker tries to find a well-founded structural order on the parameters on the given…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Andreas Abel

We propose a sample-based, sequential method to abstract a (potentially black-box) dynamical system with a sequence of memory-dependent Markov chains of increasing size. We show that this approximation allows to alleviating a correlation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Adrien Banse , Licio Romao , Alessandro Abate , Raphaël M. Jungers

Automated analysis of recursive derivations in logic programming is known to be a hard problem. Both termination and non-termination are undecidable problems in Turing-complete languages. However, some declarative languages offer a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-22 E. Komendantskaya , P. Johann , M. Schmidt

A new statistical technique for constructing linear latent structure (LLS) models from available data, supported by well established theoretical results and an efficient algorithm, is presented. The method reduces the problem of estimating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 I. Akushevich , M. Kovtun , A. I. Yashin , K. G. Manton