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Randomized higher-order computation can be seen as being captured by a lambda calculus endowed with a single algebraic operation, namely a construct for binary probabilistic choice. What matters about such computations is the probability of…

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This paper introduces a space of variable lotteries and proves a constructive version of the expected utility theorem. The word ``constructive'' is used here in two senses. First, as in constructive mathematics, the logic underlying proofs…

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Higher inductive types are a class of type-forming rules, introduced to provide basic (and not-so-basic) homotopy-theoretic constructions in a type-theoretic style. They have proven very fruitful for the "synthetic" development of homotopy…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine , Mike Shulman

To date, most probabilistic reasoning systems have relied on a fixed belief network constructed at design time. The network is used by an application program as a representation of (in)dependencies in the domain. Probabilistic inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Robert P. Goldman , John S. Breese

We show that Morley's theorem on the number of countable models of a countable first-order theory becomes an undecidable statement when extended to second-order logic. More generally, we calculate the number of equivalence classes of…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Christopher J. Eagle , Clovis Hamel , Sandra Müller , Franklin D. Tall

We study two generalizations of fractional variational problems by considering higher-order derivatives and a state time delay. We prove a higher-order integration by parts formula involving a Caputo fractional derivative of variable order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Dina Tavares , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We initiate the study of the relationship between two complexity classes, BQP (Bounded-Error Quantum Polynomial-Time) and PPAD (Polynomial Parity Argument, Directed). We first give a conjecture that PPAD is contained in BQP, and show a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Yang D. Li

This paper presents a type theory with a form of equality reflection: provable equalities can be used to coerce the type of a term. Coercions and other annotations, including implicit arguments, are dropped during reduction of terms. We…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-01-25 Vilhelm Sjöberg , Aaron Stump

Recent works have shown that defining a behavioural equivalence that matches the observational properties of a quantum-capable, concurrent, non-deterministic system is a surprisingly difficult task. We explore coalgebras over distributions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Lorenzo Ceragioli , Elena Di Lavore , Giuseppe Lomurno , Gabriele Tedeschi

We study codensity monads $T$ induced by (mostly small, mostly dense) full subcategories $A \subset K$. These monads behave quite similarly, we show some connections with the Isbell duality, pro-finite objects and compact spaces. We prove…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Ivan Di Liberti

Many causal estimands are only partially identifiable since they depend on the unobservable joint distribution between potential outcomes. Stratification on pretreatment covariates can yield sharper bounds; however, unless the covariates…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-11-19 Wenlong Ji , Lihua Lei , Asher Spector

The Giry monad on the category of measurable spaces sends a space to a space of all probability measures on it. There is also a finitely additive Giry monad in which probability measures are replaced by finitely additive probability…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Tom Avery

The univalence axiom expresses the principle of extensionality for dependent type theory. However, if we simply add the univalence axiom to type theory, then we lose the property of canonicity - that every closed term computes to a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Robin Adams , Marc Bezem , Thierry Coquand

The filter quotient construction is a particular instance of a filtered colimit of categories. It has primarily been considered in the context of categorical logic, where it has been used effectively to construct non-trivial models, for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Nima Rasekh

Nonmonotonic logics are usually characterized by the presence of some notion of 'conditional' that fails monotonicity. Research on nonmonotonic logics is therefore largely concerned with the defeasibility of argument forms and the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Katarina Britz , Ivan Varzinczak

In monadic programming, datatypes are presented as free algebras, generated by data values, and by the algebraic operations and equations capturing some computational effects. These algebras are free in the sense that they satisfy just the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Dusko Pavlovic , Peter-Michael Seidel

Strong functors and monads are ubiquitous in Computer Science. More recently, comonads have demonstrated their use in structuring context-dependent notions of computation. However, the dualisation of ``being strong'' property passed somehow…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Adriana Balan , Silviu-George Pantelimon

We present the guarded lambda-calculus, an extension of the simply typed lambda-calculus with guarded recursive and coinductive types. The use of guarded recursive types ensures the productivity of well-typed programs. Guarded recursive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Ranald Clouston , Aleš Bizjak , Hans Bugge Grathwohl , Lars Birkedal

Quantified propositional intuitionistic logic is obtained from propositional intuitionistic logic by adding quantifiers \forall p, \exists p over propositions. In the context of Kripke semantics, a proposition is a subset of the worlds in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Richard Zach

We study the existence and left properness of transferred model structures for "monoid-like" objects in monoidal model categories. These include genuine monoids, but also all kinds of operads as for instance symmetric, cyclic, modular,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Michael Batanin , Clemens Berger