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To harness the power of large language models in safety-critical domains, we need to ensure the explainability of their predictions. However, despite the significant attention to model interpretability, there remains an unexplored domain in…

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Source code comes in different shapes and forms. Previous research has already shown code to be more predictable than natural language as well as highlighted its statistical predictability at the token level: source code can be natural.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Profir-Petru Pârţachi , Mahito Sugiyama

We develop a classical propositional logic for reasoning about combinatory logic. We define its syntax, axiomatic system and semantics. The syntax and axiomatic system are presented based on classical propositional logic, with typed…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Simona Kašterović , Silvia Ghilezan

We study the notion of extensibility in functional data types, as a new approach to the problem of decorating abstract syntax trees with additional sets of information. We observed the need for such extensibility while redesigning the data…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Shayan Najd , Simon Peyton Jones

The Random Language Model (De Giuli 2019) is an ensemble of stochastic context-free grammars, quantifying the syntax of human and computer languages. The model suggests a simple picture of first language learning as a type of annealing in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-10 Fatemeh Lalegani , Eric De Giuli

Here, by introducing a version of Unexpected hanging paradox first we try to open a new way and a new explanation for paradoxes, similar to liar paradox. Also, we will show that we have a semantic situation which no syntactical logical…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Farzad Didehvar

Term rewriting systems have a simple syntax and semantics and facilitate proofs of correctness. However, they are not as popular in industry or academia as imperative languages. We define a term rewriting based abstract programming language…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-08 David Plaisted , Lee Barnett

Sound deductive reasoning -- the ability to derive new knowledge from existing facts and rules -- is an indisputably desirable aspect of general intelligence. Despite the major advances of AI systems in areas such as math and science,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 András György , Tor Lattimore , Nevena Lazić , Csaba Szepesvári

We focus on the production of efficient descriptions of objects, actions and events. We define a type of efficiency, textual economy, that exploits the hearer's recognition of inferential links to material elsewhere within a sentence.…

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Evolution by natural selection, which is one of the most compelling themes of modern science, brought forth evolutionary algorithms and evolutionary computation, applying mechanisms of evolution in nature to various problems solved by…

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Turing progressions arise by iteratedly adding consistency statements to a base theory. Different notions of consistency give rise to different Turing progressions. In this paper we present a logic that generates exactly all relations that…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Eduardo Hermo Reyes , Joost J. Joosten

Code analysis is fundamental in Software Engineering, supporting debugging, optimization, and security assessment. Human developers approach it through syntax parsing, static semantics inference, and dynamic reasoning. Traditional tools are…

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Color naming in natural languages is not arbitrary: it reflects efficient partitions of perceptual color space modulated by the relative needs to communicate about different colors. These psychophysical and communicative constraints help…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-09 Colin R. Twomey , David H. Brainard , Joshua B. Plotkin

We address the problem of performing semantic transformations on strings, which may represent a variety of data types (or their combination) such as a column in a relational table, time, date, currency, etc. Unlike syntactic…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-04-30 Rishabh Singh , Sumit Gulwani

In program semantics and verification, reasoning about loops is complicated by the need to produce two separate mathematical arguments: an invariant, for functional properties (ignoring termination); and a variant, for termination (ignoring…

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We study the problem of leveraging the syntactic structure of text to enhance pre-trained models such as BERT and RoBERTa. Existing methods utilize syntax of text either in the pre-training stage or in the fine-tuning stage, so that they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zenan Xu , Daya Guo , Duyu Tang , Qinliang Su , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Wanjun Zhong , Xiaojun Quan , Nan Duan , Daxin Jiang

Program correctness (in imperative and functional programming) splits in logic programming into correctness and completeness. Completeness means that a program produces all the answers required by its specification. Little work has been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Wlodzimierz Drabent

A systematic way of defining variants of a modeling language is useful for adopting the language to domain or project specific needs. Variants can be obtained by adopting the syntax or semantics of the language. In this paper, we take a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Hans Grönninger , Bernhard Rumpe

Providing plausible responses to why questions is a challenging but critical goal for language based human-machine interaction. Explanations are challenging in that they require many different forms of abstract knowledge and reasoning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Allen Nie , Erin D. Bennett , Noah D. Goodman

As an approach to a Theory of Everything a framework for developing a coherent theory of mathematics and physics together is described. The main characteristic of such a theory is discussed: the theory must be valid and and sufficiently…

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