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Recent research has recognized interpretability and robustness as essential properties of trustworthy classification. Curiously, a connection between robustness and interpretability was empirically observed, but the theoretical reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michal Moshkovitz , Yao-Yuan Yang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We study the satisfiability problem for the fluted fragment extended with transitive relations. We show that the logic enjoys the finite model property when only one transitive relation is available. On the other hand we show that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Ian Pratt-Hartmann , Lidia Tendera

We continue developing the theory around the twin-width of totally ordered binary structures, initiated in the previous paper of the series. We first introduce the notion of parity and linear minors of a matrix, which consists of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Édouard Bonnet , Ugo Giocanti , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Stéphan Thomassé

The paper considers algorithmic properties of classical and non-classical first-order logics and theories in bounded languages. The main idea is to prove the undecidability of various fragments of classical and non-classical first-order…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Mikhail Rybakov

We consider the problem of computing the measure of a regular language of infinite binary trees. While the general case remains unsolved, we show that the measure of a language defined by a first-order formula with no descendant relation or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Marcin Przybyłko

The celebrated Trakhtenbrot's theorem states that the set of finitely valid sentences of first-order logic is not computably enumerable. In this note we will extend this theorem by proving that the finite satisfiability problem of any…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Reijo Jaakkola

We show that the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic with counting quantifiers are both in NEXPTIME, even when counting quantifiers are coded succinctly.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Ian Pratt-Hartmann

The first-order theory of finite and infinite trees has been studied since the eighties, especially by the logic programming community. Following Djelloul, Dao and Fr\"uhwirth, we consider an extension of this theory with an additional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Fabian Zaiser , C. -H. Luke Ong

We investigate the extension of Monadic Second Order logic, interpreted over infinite words and trees, with generalized "for almost all" quantifiers interpreted using the notions of Baire category and Lebesgue measure.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Matteo Mio , Michał Skrzypczak , Henryk Michalewski

The Weighted First-Order Model Counting Problem (WFOMC) asks to compute the weighted sum of models of a given first-order logic sentence over a given domain. Conditioning WFOMC on evidence -- fixing the truth values of a set of ground…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Václav Kůla , Qipeng Kuang , Yuyi Wang , Yuanhong Wang , Ondřej Kuželka

In this paper we consider a fragment of the first-order theory of the real numbers that includes systems of equations of continuous functions in bounded domains, and for which all functions are computable in the sense that it is possible to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Peter Franek , Stefan Ratschan , Piotr Zgliczynski

In many instances in first order logic or computable algebra, classical theorems show that many problems are undecidable for general structures, but become decidable if some rigidity is imposed on the structure. For example, the set of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Emmanuel Jeandel

By algorithmic metatheorems for a model checking problem P over infinite-state systems we mean generic results that can be used to infer decidability (possibly complexity) of P not only over a specific class of infinite systems, but over a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-10-28 Anthony Widjaja To , Leonid Libkin

Bojanczyk and Pilipczuk showed in their celebrated article "Definability equals recognizability for graphs of bounded treewidth" (LICS 2016) that monadic second-order logic can define tree-decompositions in graphs of bounded treewidth. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Julien Grange

Recently, symbolic structures were proposed as finite representations of potentially infinite first-order structures, where Linear Integer Arithmetic terms and formulas define the domain and interpretations of a structure. We generalize…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Neta Elad , Sharon Shoham

We show that the existence of a first-order formula separating two monadic second order formulas over countable ordinal words is decidable. This extends the work of Henckell and Almeida on finite words, and of Place and Zeitoun on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Thomas Colcombet , Sam van Gool , Rémi Morvan

Monadic Second-Order Logic (MSO) extends First-Order Logic (FO) with variables ranging over sets and quantifications over those variables. We introduce and study Monadic Tree Logic (MTL), a fragment of MSO interpreted on infinite-tree…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Massimo Benerecetti , Laura Bozzelli , Fabio Mogavero , Adriano Peron

We present a streamlined and (hopefully) accessible proof of the model-completeness of the weak monadic second order version of a dense linear order with left-endpoint but no right-endpoint in a particular finite signature. We also show how…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Deacon Linkhorn

We establish decidability for the infinitely many axiomatic extensions of the commutative Full Lambek logic with weakening FLew (i.e. IMALLW) that have a cut-free hypersequent proof calculus (specifically: every analytic structural rule…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-21 A. R. Balasubramanian , Timo Lang , Revantha Ramanayake

The Guarded Fragment (GF) is a well-established decidable fragment of first-order logic. We study an extension of GF with nested equivalence relations, namely a family of distinguished binary predicates $E_1, E_2, \dots$ interpreted as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Oskar Fiuk