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This paper presents a plausible reasoning system to illustrate some broad issues in knowledge representation: dualities between different reasoning forms, the difficulty of unifying complementary reasoning styles, and the approximate nature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Wray L. Buntine

The Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful tool in probability theory to show the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of "weakly dependent" criteria. We show that the LLL extends to a much more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Andris Ambainis , Julia Kempe , Or Sattath

This article deals with plausible reasoning from incomplete knowledge about large-scale spatial properties. The availableinformation, consisting of a set of pointwise observations,is extrapolated to neighbour points. We make use of belief…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Jerome Lang , Philippe Muller

Plausibility measures are structures for reasoning in the face of uncertainty that generalize probabilities, unifying them with weaker structures like possibility measures and comparative probability relations. So far, the theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 Tobias Fritz , Matthew Leifer

We consider the recent formulation of the Algorithmic Lov\'asz Local Lemma [10,2,3] for finding objects that avoid `bad features', or `flaws'. It extends the Moser-Tardos resampling algorithm [17] to more general discrete spaces. At each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Vladimir Kolmogorov

We give a sufficient condition for the local limit theorem. To construct it, we employ infinite times of convolutions of probability density functions.

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Kaoru Yoneda , Tsuyoshi Yoneda

We show how to store good approximations of probability distributions in small space.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Travis Gagie

A recent theorem of Bissacot, et al. proved using results about the cluster expansion in statistical mechanics extends the Lov\'asz Local Lemma by weakening the conditions under which its conclusions holds. In this note, we prove an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-15 Wesley Pegden

The Lovasz Local Lemma [EL75] is a powerful tool to prove the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of criteria. The technique can directly be applied to the satisfiability problem, yielding that a k-CNF formula…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-29 Robin A. Moser

This note proposes a probabilistic language-free proof of the famous Croot-Laba-Sisask Lemma. In between, we do the same for the Khintchine and Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities and explicitate the implied constants.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Olivier Ramaré

Modal probabilistic logics provide a framework for reasoning about probability in modal contexts, involving notions such as knowledge, belief, time, and action. In this paper, we study a particular family of these logics, extending the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Daniil Kozhemiachenko , Igor Sedlár

We introduce a new approach to modeling uncertainty based on plausibility measures. This approach is easily seen to generalize other approaches to modeling uncertainty, such as probability measures, belief functions, and possibility…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Nir Friedman , Joseph Y. Halpern

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics which can be used to establish the existence of objects that satisfy certain properties. The breakthrough paper of Moser and Tardos and follow-up works…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 David G. Harris , Fotis Iliopoulos , Vladimir Kolmogorov

Lov\'asz gave a short proof of Brooks' theorem by coloring greedily in a good order. We give a different short proof by reducing to the cubic case. Then we show how to extend the result to (online) list coloring via the Kernel Lemma.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Landon Rabern

Our previous paper applied a lopsided version of the Lov\'asz Local Lemma that allows negative dependency graphs to the space of random injections from an $m$-element set to an $n$-element set. Equivalently, the same story can be told about…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Linyuan Lu , Laszlo A. Szekely

This note generalizes the notion of conditional probability to Riesz spaces using the order-theoretic approach. With the aid of this concept, we establish the law of total probability and Bayes' theorem in Riesz spaces; we also prove an…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Liang Hong

Probabilistic argumentation allows reasoning about argumentation problems in a way that is well-founded by probability theory. However, in practice, this approach can be severely limited by the fact that probabilities are defined by adding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Nico Potyka

In this paper we consider the local and global well-posedness to the density-dependent incompressible viscoelastic fluids. We first study some linear models associated to the incompressible viscoelastic system. Then we approximate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Daoyuan Fang , Bin Han , Ting Zhang

We present and discuss the many results obtained concerning a famous limit theorem, the local limit theorem, which has many interfaces, with Number Theory notably, and for which, in spite of considerable efforts, the question concerning…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Zbigniew Szewczak , Michel Weber

In this paper we investigate the extent to which the Lov\'asz Local Lemma (an important tool in probabilistic combinatorics) can be adapted for the measurable setting. In most applications, the Lov\'asz Local Lemma is used to produce a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Anton Bernshteyn