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This article studies the problem of modifying the action ordering of a plan in order to optimise the plan according to various criteria. One of these criteria is to make a plan less constrained and the other is to minimize its parallel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 C. Backstrom

Recent advances have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) excel as listwise rerankers, but their high computational demands remain a barrier to widespread adoption. Further, the traditional language modeling (LM) objective is not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zijian Chen , Ronak Pradeep , Jimmy Lin

We study a class of functional problems reducible to computing $f^{(n)}(x)$ for inputs $n$ and $x$, where $f$ is a polynomial-time bijection. As we prove, the definition is robust against variations in the type of reduction used in its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Eppstein

The word problem for categories with free products and coproducts (sums), SP-categories, is directly related to the problem of determining the equivalence of certain processes. Indeed, the maps in these categories may be directly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-10 Luigi Santocanale , Robin Cockett

We focus on ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) based on (frontier-)guarded existential rules and (unions of) conjunctive queries, and we investigate the problem of FO-rewritability, i.e., whether an OMQ can be rewritten as a first-order…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Pablo Barcelo , Gerald Berger , Carsten Lutz , Andreas Pieris

This paper discusses the formalization of proofs "by diagram chasing", a standard technique for proving properties in abelian categories. We discuss how the essence of diagram chases can be captured by a simple many-sorted first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Assia Mahboubi , Matthieu Piquerez

A first-order conditional logic is considered, with semantics given by a variant of epsilon-semantics, where p -> q means that Pr(q | p) approaches 1 super-polynomially --faster than any inverse polynomial. This type of convergence is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Joseph Y. Halpern

We present a unified deductive verification framework for first-order temporal properties based on well-founded rankings, where verification conditions are discharged using SMT solvers. To that end, we introduce a novel reduction from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Raz Lotan , Neta Elad , Oded Padon , Sharon Shoham

First-order logic is a natural way of expressing the properties of computation, traditionally used in various program logics for expressing the correctness properties and certificates. Subsequently, modern methods in the automated inference…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yurii Kostyukov , Dmitry Mordvinov , Grigory Fedyukovich

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of information retrieval, particularly for reranking. Listwise LLM rerankers have showcased superior performance and generalizability compared to existing supervised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Revanth Gangi Reddy , JaeHyeok Doo , Yifei Xu , Md Arafat Sultan , Deevya Swain , Avirup Sil , Heng Ji

We present in this paper a first-order axiomatization of an extended theory $T$ of finite or infinite trees, built on a signature containing an infinite set of function symbols and a relation $\fini(t)$ which enables to distinguish between…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-07-02 Khalil Djelloul , Thi-bich-hanh Dao , Thom Fruehwirth

Recent efforts to accelerate first-order methods have focused on convex optimization problems that satisfy a geometric property known as error-bound condition, which covers a broad class of problems, including piece-wise linear programs and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Qihang Lin , Negar Soheili , Runchao Ma , Selvaprabu Nadarajah

We present a term rewriting system that models the dynamic aspects of the free cornering with protocol choice of a monoidal category, which has been proposed as a categorical model of process interaction. This term rewriting system is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Chad Nester , Niels Voorneveld

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been shown to be identifiable under the separability assumption, under which all the columns(or rows) of the input data matrix belong to the convex cone generated by only a few of these columns(or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Jason Gejie Liu , Shuchin Aeron

To answer database queries over incomplete data the gold standard is finding certain answers: those that are true regardless of how incomplete data is interpreted. Such answers can be found efficiently for conjunctive queries and their…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Amélie Gheerbrant , Leonid Libkin , Alexandra Rogova , Cristina Sirangelo

We present decidability results for termination of classes of term rewriting systems modulo permutative theories. Termination and innermost termination modulo permutative theories are shown to be decidable for term rewrite systems (TRS)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Luis Barguno , Guillem Godoy , Eduard Huntingford , Ashish Tiwari

Reversible Boolean Circuits are an interesting computational model under many aspects and in different fields, ranging from Reversible Computing to Quantum Computing. Our contribution is to describe a specific class of Reversible Boolean…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Adriano Barile , Stefano Berardi , Luca Roversi

Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm in machine learning by leveraging shared structures across multiple related tasks. Despite its empirical success, the development of likelihood-based efficiently solvable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Shihong Ding , Fangyu Du , Cong Fang

We consider the first-order theory of random variables with the probabilistic independence relation, which concerns statements consisting of random variables, the probabilistic independence symbol, logical operators, and existential and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Cheuk Ting Li

A major challenge in applying machine learning to automated theorem proving is the scarcity of training data, which is a key ingredient in training successful deep learning models. To tackle this problem, we propose an approach that relies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Vlad Firoiu , Eser Aygun , Ankit Anand , Zafarali Ahmed , Xavier Glorot , Laurent Orseau , Lei Zhang , Doina Precup , Shibl Mourad