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Category theory has been successfully applied in various domains of science, shedding light on universal principles unifying diverse phenomena and thereby enabling knowledge transfer between them. Applications to machine learning have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Eli Sennesh , Tom Xu , Yoshihiro Maruyama

A categorial grammar assigns one of several syntactic categories to each symbol of the alphabet, and the category of a string is then deduced from the categories assigned to its symbols using two simple reduction rules. This paper…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Maxim Vishnikin , Alexander Okhotin

To provide a categorical semantics for co-intuitionistic logic one has to face the fact, noted by Tristan Crolard, that the definition of co-exponents as adjuncts of coproducts does not work in the category Set, where coproducts are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Gianluigi Bellin

Differential categories were introduced to provide a minimal categorical doctrine for differential linear logic. Here we revisit the formalism and, in particular, examine the two different approaches to defining differentiation which were…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-08 R. F. Blute , J. R. B. Cockett , J-S. Pacaud Lemay , R. A. G. Seely

We provide a categorical framework for mathematical objects for which there is both a sort of "independent" and "dependent" composition. Namely we model them as duoidal categories in which both monoidal structures share a unit and the first…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Brandon T. Shapiro , David I. Spivak

We introduce context-free languages of morphisms in monoidal categories, extending recent work on the categorification of context-free languages, and regular languages of string diagrams. Context-free languages of string diagrams include…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Matt Earnshaw , Mario Román

Categorical compositional distributional semantics is a model of natural language; it combines the statistical vector space models of words with the compositional models of grammar. We formalise in this model the generalised quantifier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jules Hedges , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

In this paper we develope a categorical theory of relations and use this formulation to define the notion of quantization for relations. Categories of relations are defined in the context of symmetric monoidal categories. They are shown to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Per K. Jakobsen , Valentin Lychagin

This thesis develops the translation between category theory and computational linguistics as a foundation for natural language processing. The three chapters deal with syntax, semantics and pragmatics. First, string diagrams provide a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Giovanni de Felice

Many monoidal-type objects are known to be classified by maps from the Catalan simplicial set $\mathbb{C}$ to various nerves of categories and higher categories. There are, for example, three different nerves of the 2-category of categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Aaron Greenspan

The correspondence between monoidal categories and graphical languages of diagrams has been studied extensively, leading to applications in quantum computing and communication, systems theory, circuit design and more. From the categorical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dan R Ghica , Aliaume Lopez

The framework of causal models provides a principled approach to causal reasoning, applied today across many scientific domains. Here we present this framework in the language of string diagrams, interpreted formally using category theory.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Robin Lorenz , Sean Tull

The concept of process is ubiquitous in science, engineering and everyday life. Category theory, and monoidal categories in particular, provide an abstract framework for modelling processes of many kinds. In this paper, we concentrate on…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Valtteri Lahtinen , Antti Stenvall

We construct a strict pivotal monoidal category $\mathcal{D}_{\mathrm{DNA}}$ whose objects are DNA sequences (words over $\{A,C,G,T\}$) and whose morphisms are isotopy classes of typed noncrossing planar matchings, composed of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Andrés Ortiz-Muñoz

Eight categorical soundness and completeness theorems are established within the framework of algebraic theories. Exactly six of the eight deduction systems exhibit complete semantics within the cartesian monoidal category of sets. The…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-25 David Forsman

We discuss what it means for a symmetric monoidal category to be a module over a commutative semiring category. Each of the categories of (1) cartesian monoidal categories, (2) semiadditive categories, and (3) connective spectra can be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-29 John D. Berman

We develop further the theory of monoidal bicategories by introducing and studying bicategorical counterparts of the notions of a linear exponential comonad, as considered in the study of linear logic, and of a codereliction transformation,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 M. Fiore , N. Gambino , M. Hyland

We give a conceptual treatment of the notion of joints, marginals, and independence in the setting of categorical probability. This is achieved by endowing the usual probability monads (like the Giry monad) with a monoidal and an opmonoidal…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Tobias Fritz , Paolo Perrone

We develop a general theory of (extended) inner autoequivalences of objects of any 2-category, generalizing the theory of isotropy groups to the 2-categorical setting. We show how dense subcategories let one compute isotropy in the presence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Pieter Hofstra , Martti Karvonen

It is well-known that combinatorial circuits are modeled mathematically by string diagrams in a monoidal category. Given a gate set $\Sigma$, the circuits over $\Sigma$ can be thought of as string diagrams in the free monoidal category…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Scott Wesley