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Capitalizing on previous encodings and formal developments about nominal calculi and type systems, we propose a weak Higher-Order Abstract Syntax formalization of the type language of pure System F<: within Coq, a proof assistant based on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-01 Alberto Ciaffaglione , Ivan Scagnetto

Proof assistants are getting more widespread use in research and industry to provide certified and independently checkable guarantees about theories, designs, systems and implementations. However, proof assistant implementations themselves…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Matthieu Sozeau

We present a framework for the formal meta-theory of lambda calculi in first-order syntax, with two sorts of names, one to represent both free and bound variables, and the other for constants, and by using Stoughton's multiple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Sebastián Urciuoli

We explore the application of transformer-based language models to automated theorem proving. This work is motivated by the possibility that a major limitation of automated theorem provers compared to humans -- the generation of original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Stanislas Polu , Ilya Sutskever

Sharing of notations and theories across an inheritance hierarchy of mathematical structures, e.g., groups and rings, is important for productivity when formalizing mathematics in proof assistants. The packed classes methodology is a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Kazuhiko Sakaguchi

We develop a toolbox for exact analysis of iterative algorithms on a class of high-dimensional nonconvex optimization problems with random data. While prior work has shown that low-dimensional statistics of (generalized) first-order methods…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Michael Celentano , Chen Cheng , Ashwin Pananjady , Kabir Aladin Verchand

Dependently typed lambda calculi such as the Logical Framework (LF) can encode relationships between terms in types and can naturally capture correspondences between formulas and their proofs. Such calculi can also be given a logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-25 Zachary Snow , David Baelde , Gopalan Nadathur

Postulating an impredicative universe in dependent type theory allows System F style encodings of finitary inductive types, but these fail to satisfy the relevant {\eta}-equalities and consequently do not admit dependent eliminators. To…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Steve Awodey , Jonas Frey , Sam Speight

Proofs in proof assistants like Rocq can be brittle, breaking easily in response to changes. To address this, recent work introduced an algorithm and tool in Rocq to automatically repair broken proofs in response to changes that correspond…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Cosmo Viola , Max Fan , Talia Ringer

The substitution lemma is a renowned theorem within the realm of lambda-calculus theory and concerns the interactional behaviour of the metasubstitution operation. In this work, we augment the lambda-calculus's grammar with an uninterpreted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Maria J. D. Lima , Flávio L. C. de Moura

This paper studies coefficient-level, structure-preserving output-feedback stabilization of linear port-Hamiltonian (pH) descriptor systems. Existing stabilization conditions generally require explicit pH representations, which may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Shuo Shi , Juan Zhang

We propose and analyze a regularization approach for structured prediction problems. We characterize a large class of loss functions that allows to naturally embed structured outputs in a linear space. We exploit this fact to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Carlo Ciliberto , Alessandro Rudi , Lorenzo Rosasco

Formal mathematics is the discipline of translating mathematics into a programming language in which any statement can be unequivocally checked by a computer. Mathematicians and computer scientists have spent decades of painstaking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Johnathan Mercer

The paper focuses on the automatic generating of the witnesses for the word equation satisfiability problem by means of specializing an interpreter which tests whether a composition of variable substitutions of a given word equation system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Antonina Nepeivoda

Dependent type theory gives an expressive type system facilitating succinct formalizations of mathematical concepts. In practice, it is mainly used for interactive theorem proving with intensional type theories, with PVS being a notable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Johannes Niederhauser , Chad E. Brown , Cezary Kaliszyk

Type and effect systems are a tool to analyse statically the behaviour of programs with effects. We present a proof based on the so called reducibility candidates that a suitable stratification of the type and effect system entails the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Roberto Amadio

Gradual dependent types can help with the incremental adoption of dependently typed code by providing a principled semantics for imprecise types and proofs, where some parts have been omitted. Current theories of gradual dependent types,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Joseph Eremondi , Ronald Garcia , Éric Tanter

We present a system that utilizes machine learning for tactic proof search in the Coq Proof Assistant. In a similar vein as the TacticToe project for HOL4, our system predicts appropriate tactics and finds proofs in the form of tactic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Lasse Blaauwbroek , Josef Urban , Herman Geuvers

Solving symbolic reasoning problems that require compositionality and systematicity is considered one of the key ingredients of human intelligence. However, symbolic reasoning is still a great challenge for deep learning models, which often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Flavio Petruzzellis , Alberto Testolin , Alessandro Sperduti

Harnessing the power of dependently typed languages can be difficult. Programmers must manually construct proofs to produce well-typed programs, which is not an easy task. In particular, migrating code to these languages is challenging.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Joseph Eremondi , Ronald Garcia , Éric Tanter