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Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an alternative to the dark matter hypothesis that attempts to explain the "missing gravity" problem in astrophysics and cosmology through a modification to objects' dynamics. Since its conception in…

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We study a question posed by Stephen Simons in his 2008 monograph involving "bigger conjugate" (BC) functions and the partial infimal convolution. As Simons demonstrated in his monograph, these function have been crucial to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Heinz H. Bauschke , Jonathan M. Borwein , Xianfu Wang , Liangjin Yao

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide a basis for semantic abstractions within a neural network architecture. Such models have primarily been seen through the lens of interpretability so far, wherein they offer transparency by inferring…

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While widespread, Transformers lack inductive biases for geometric symmetries common in science and computer vision. Existing equivariant methods often sacrifice the efficiency and flexibility that make Transformers so effective through…

We reflect on programming with complicated effects, recalling an undeservingly forgotten alternative to monadic programming and checking to see how well it can actually work in modern functional languages. We adopt and argue the position of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Oleg Kiselyov

In the semantics of programming languages one can view programs as state transformers, or as predicate transformers. Recently the author has introduced state-and-effect triangles which capture this situation categorically, involving an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bart Jacobs

The aim of this paper is to present a survey of some recent results obtained in the study of spaces with asymmetric norm. The presentation follows the ideas from the theory of normed spaces (topology, continuous linear operators, continuous…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-14 S. Cobzaş

Smooth parametrization consists in a subdivision of the mathematical objects under consideration into simple pieces, and then parametric representation of each piece, while keeping control of high order derivatives. The main goal of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Y. Yomdin

Weighted monadic second-order logic is a weighted extension of monadic second-order logic that captures exactly the behaviour of weighted automata. Its semantics is parameterized with respect to a semiring on which the values that weighted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Antonis Achilleos , Mathias Ruggaard Pedersen

Probabilistic programming languages, which exist in abundance, are languages that allow users to calculate probability distributions defined by probabilistic programs, by using inference algorithms. However, the underlying inference…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Oliver Goldstein , Ohad Kammar

We consider composite loss functions for multiclass prediction comprising a proper (i.e., Fisher-consistent) loss over probability distributions and an inverse link function. We establish conditions for their (strong) convexity and explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Mark Reid , Robert Williamson , Peng Sun

The theory of regular cost functions is a quantitative extension to the classical notion of regularity. A cost function associates to each input a non-negative integer value (or infinity), as opposed to languages which only associate to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Colcombet

In this paper we establish the existence of monads on Cartesian products of projective spaces. We construct vector bundles associated to monads on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Damian Maingi

We study Abramsky's applicative bisimilarity abstractly, in the context of call-by-value $\lambda$-calculi with algebraic effects. We first of all endow a computational $\lambda$-calculus with a monadic operational semantics. We then show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Ugo Dal Lago , Francesco Gavazzo , Paul Blain Levy

Conformal transformations of a Euclidean (complex) plane have some kind of completeness (sufficiency) for the solution of many mathematical and physical-mathematical problems formulated on this plane. There is no such completeness in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. I. Garas'ko

Abstract convexity generalises classical convexity by considering the suprema of functions taken from an arbitrarily defined set of functions. These are called the abstract linear (abstract affine) functions. The purpose of this paper is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Reinier Diàz Millàn , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

Permutations can be viewed as pairs of linear orders, or more formally as models over a signature consisting of two binary relation symbols. This approach was adopted by Albert, Bouvel and F\'eray, who studied the expressibility of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Vít Jelínek , Michal Opler

In this work, we study 'reduction monads', which are essentially the same as monads relative to the free functor from sets into multigraphs. Reduction monads account for two aspects of the lambda calculus: on the one hand, in the monadic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Benedikt Ahrens , André Hirschowitz , Ambroise Lafont , Marco Maggesi

The possibility of translating logic programs into functional ones has long been a subject of investigation. Common to the many approaches is that the original logic program, in order to be translated, needs to be well-moded and this has…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 S. Etalle , J. Mountjoy

We consider minimization problems with bisubmodular objective functions. We propose valid inequalities, namely the poly-bimatroid inequalities, and provide a complete linear description of the convex hull of the epigraph of a bisubmodular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Qimeng Yu , Simge Kucukyavuz