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Reliable verification of proofs remains a bottleneck for training and evaluating AI systems on hard mathematical reasoning. Fully formal proofs, in languages like Lean, are easy to verify because they are unambiguous and modular. Most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Slim Barkallah , Luke Bailey , Kaiyue Wen , Mohammed Abouzaid , Tengyu Ma

We present a complete theoretical characterization of Latent Posterior Factors (LPF), a principled framework for aggregating multiple heterogeneous evidence items in probabilistic prediction tasks. Multi-evidence reasoning arises…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Aliyu Agboola Alege

We introduce the Delta-framework, LF-Delta, a dependent type theory based on the Edinburgh Logical Framework LF, extended with the strong proof-functional connectives, i.e. strong intersection, minimal relevant implication and strong union.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Furio Honsell , Luigi Liquori , Claude Stolze , Ivan Scagnetto

We present a system called Adelfa that provides mechanized support for reasoning about specifications developed in the Edinburgh Logical Framework or LF. Underlying Adelfa is a new logic named L_LF. Typing judgements in LF are represented…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Mary Southern , Gopalan Nadathur

Logical frameworks are meta-formalisms in which the syntax and semantics of object logics and related formal systems can be defined. This allows object logics to inherit implementations from the framework including, e.g., parser, type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Dennis Müller , Florian Rabe

This paper presents preliminary work on a general system for integrating dependent types into substructural type systems such as linear logic and linear type theory. Prior work on this front has generally managed to deliver type systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-30 C. B. Aberlé

Interactive theorem provers based on dependent type theory have the flexibility to support both constructive and classical reasoning. Constructive reasoning is supported natively by dependent type theory and classical reasoning is typically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Russell O'Connor

Logical frameworks provide natural and direct ways of specifying and reasoning within deductive systems. The logical framework LF and subsequent developments focus on finitary proof systems, making the formalization of circular proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhibo Chen , Frank Pfenning

We describe the development of a logic for reasoning about specifications in the Edinburgh Logical Framework (LF). In this logic, typing judgments in LF serve as atomic formulas, and quantification is permitted over contexts and terms that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Mary Southern , Gopalan Nadathur

Conditionals are useful for modelling, but are not always sufficiently expressive for capturing information accurately. In this paper we make the case for a form of conditional that is situation-based. These conditionals are more expressive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Giovanni Casini , Thomas Meyer , Ivan Varzinczak

In the last years, there has been an increasing demand of a variety of logical systems, prompted mostly by applications of logic in AI and other related areas. Labeled Deductive Systems (LDS) were developed as a flexible methodology to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Carlos Iván Chesñevar , Guillermo Ricardo Simari

Modal types -- types that are derived from proof systems of modal logic -- have been studied as theoretical foundations of metaprogramming, where program code is manipulated as first-class values. In modal type systems, modality corresponds…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Yuito Murase , Yuichi Nishiwaki , Atsushi Igarashi

We present a comprehensive programme analysing the decomposition of proof systems for non-classical logics into proof systems for other logics, especially classical logic, using an algebra of constraints. That is, one recovers a proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , David J. Pym

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automatic judges for summarization and dialogue evaluation. Prior work has documented biases such as position, verbosity, and style preferences, but largely focuses on outcomes, leaving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Riya Tapwal , Abhishek Kumar , Carsten Maple

The Edinburgh Logical Framework (LF) is a dependently type lambda calculus that can be used to encode formal systems. The versatility of LF allows specifications to be constructed also about the encoded systems. The Twelf system exploits…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Yuting Wang , Gopalan Nadathur

Logical relations and their generalizations are a fundamental tool in proving properties of lambda-calculi, e.g., yielding sound principles for observational equivalence. We propose a natural notion of logical relations able to deal with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Jean Goubault-Larrecq , Slawomir Lasota , David Nowak

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language processing but still struggle to perform well on knowledge-intensive tasks that require deep reasoning and the integration of external knowledge. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Bo Zhao , Yinghao Zhang , Ziqi Xu , Yongli Ren , Xiuzhen Zhang , Renqiang Luo , Zaiwen Feng , Feng Xia

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

Differentiable logics are a family of quantitative logics originated in the machine learning literature. Because of their origin, differentiable logics often come equipped with analytic properties that guarantee that they are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Reynald Affeldt , Alessandro Bruni , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Natalia Ślusarz , Kathrin Stark

We present a theory of parameterized dynamic logic, namely DLp, for specifying and reasoning about a rich set of program models based on their transitional behaviours. Different from most dynamic logics that deal with regular expressions or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Yuanrui Zhang