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We present a complete reasoning principle for contextual equivalence in an untyped probabilistic language. The language includes continuous (real-valued) random variables, conditionals, and scoring. It also includes recursion, since the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mitchell Wand , Ryan Culpepper , Theophilos Giannakopoulos , Andrew Cobb

A type theory is presented that combines (intuitionistic) linear types with type dependency, thus properly generalising both intuitionistic dependent type theory and full linear logic. A syntax and complete categorical semantics are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Matthijs Vákár

We present a simple functional programming language, called Dual PCF, that implements forward mode automatic differentiation using dual numbers in the framework of exact real number computation. The main new feature of this language is the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Pietro Di Gianantonio , Abbas Edalat , Ran Gutin

Constructive type theory combines logic and programming in one language. This is useful both for reasoning about programs written in type theory, as well as for reasoning about other programming languages inside type theory. It is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Philipp Jan Andries Stassen , Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg , Maaike Zwart , Alejandro Aguirre , Lars Birkedal

With one exception, our previous work on recurrence extraction and denotational semantics has focused on a source language that supports inductive types and structural recursion. The exception handles general recursion via an initial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Norman Danner

We develop a theory of probabilistic coherence spaces equipped with an additional extensional structure and apply it to approximating probability of convergence of ground type programs of probabilistic PCF whose free variables are of ground…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Thomas Ehrhard

This paper proposes an alternative to standard first-order logic that seeks greater naturalness, generality, and semantic self-containment. The system removes the first-order restriction, avoids type hierarchies, and dispenses with external…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Mauro Avon

A propositional logic program $P$ may be identified with a $P_fP_f$-coalgebra on the set of atomic propositions in the program. The corresponding $C(P_fP_f)$-coalgebra, where $C(P_fP_f)$ is the cofree comonad on $P_fP_f$, describes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Ekaterina Komendantskaya , John Power

A common technique to verify complex logic specifications for dynamical systems is the construction of symbolic abstractions: simpler, finite-state models whose behaviour mimics the one of the systems of interest. Typically, abstractions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Rudi Coppola , Andrea Peruffo , Manuel Mazo

A type theory is presented that combines (intuitionistic) linear types with type dependency, thus properly generalising both intuitionistic dependent type theory and full linear logic. A syntax and complete categorical semantics are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Matthijs Vákár

We prove a general congruence result for bisimilarity in higher-order languages, which generalises previous work to languages specified by a labelled transition system in which programs may occur as labels, and which may rely on operations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Tom Hirschowitz , Ambroise Lafont

In previous work with Pous, we defined a semantics for CCS which may both be viewed as an innocent form of presheaf semantics and as a concurrent form of game semantics. We define in this setting an analogue of fair testing equivalence,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Tom Hirschowitz

We present a type theory combining both linearity and dependency by stratifying typing rules into a level for logics and a level for programs. The distinction between logics and programs decouples their semantics, allowing the type system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Qiancheng Fu , Hongwei Xi

In this paper, we propose a globally normalized model for context-free grammar (CFG)-based semantic parsing. Instead of predicting a probability, our model predicts a real-valued score at each step and does not suffer from the label bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chenyang Huang , Wei Yang , Yanshuai Cao , Osmar Zaïane , Lili Mou

Abstraction is essential for reducing the complexity of systems across diverse fields, yet designing effective abstraction methodology for probabilistic models is inherently challenging due to stochastic behaviors and uncertainties. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

Conditional random fields (CRFs) are usually specified by graphical models but in this paper we propose to use probabilistic logic programs and specify them generatively. Our intension is first to provide a unified approach to CRFs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Taisuke Sato , Keiichi Kubota , Yoshitaka Kameya

System F, the polymorphic lambda calculus, features the principle of impredicativity: polymorphic types may be (explicitly) instantiated at other types, enabling many powerful idioms such as Church encoding and data abstraction.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Henry Mercer , Cameron Ramsay , Neel Krishnaswami

We present a new approach to the global fairness verification of tree-based classifiers. Given a tree-based classifier and a set of sensitive features potentially leading to discrimination, our analysis synthesizes sufficient conditions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Stefano Calzavara , Lorenzo Cazzaro , Claudio Lucchese , Federico Marcuzzi

Probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFGs) with neural parameterization have been shown to be effective in unsupervised phrase-structure grammar induction. However, due to the cubic computational complexity of PCFG representation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Songlin Yang , Yanpeng Zhao , Kewei Tu

Existing probabilistic scanners and parsers impose hard constraints on the way lexical and syntactic ambiguities can be resolved. Furthermore, traditional grammar-based parsing tools are limited in the mechanisms they allow for taking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Luis Quesada , Fernando Berzal , Francisco J. Cortijo