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We introduce the coordination principle, which states that perfect coordination, in the form of agreement on a uniformly random output, among N parties is possible only if they share a common cause. This principle is purely causal and can…

Knaster-Tarski's theorem, characterising the greatest fixpoint of a monotone function over a complete lattice as the largest post-fixpoint, naturally leads to the so-called coinduction proof principle for showing that some element is below…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Paolo Baldan , Richard Eggert , Barbara König , Tommaso Padoan

When given a class of functions and a finite collection of sets, one might be interested whether the class in question contains any function whose domain is a subset of the union of the sets of the given collection and whose restrictions to…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Dimiter Skordev

We introduce a generalized logic programming paradigm where programs, consisting of facts and rules with the usual syntax, can be enriched by co-facts, which syntactically resemble facts but have a special meaning. As in coinductive logic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Davide Ancona , Francesco Dagnino , Elena Zucca

Conceiving of premises as collected into sets or multisets, instead of sequences, may lead to triviality for classical and intuitionistic logic in general proof theory, where we investigate identity of deductions. Any two deductions with…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Kosta Dosen

Distributive laws of a monad T over a functor F are categorical tools for specifying algebra-coalgebra interaction. They proved to be important for solving systems of corecursive equations, for the specification of well-behaved structural…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Marcello M. Bonsangue , Helle Hvid Hansen , Alexander Kurz , Jurriaan Rot

Graded modal types systems and coeffects are becoming a standard formalism to deal with context-dependent computations where code usage plays a central role. The theory of program equivalence for modal and coeffectful languages, however, is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ugo Dal Lago , Francesco Gavazzo

The familiar adjunction between ordered sets and completely distributive lattices can be extended to generalised metric spaces, that is, categories enriched over a quantale (a lattice of "truth values"), via an appropriate distributive law…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Adriana Balan , Alexander Kurz

Modeling causal relationships in graph representation learning remains a fundamental challenge. Existing approaches often draw on theories and methods from causal inference to identify causal subgraphs or mitigate confounders. However, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hang Gao , Kunyu Li , Huang Hong , Baoquan Cui , Fengge Wu

In recent years, algebraic studies of the differential calculus and integral calculus in the forms of differential algebra and Rota-Baxter algebra have been merged together to reflect the close relationship between the two calculi through…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Li Guo , William Keigher , Shilong Zhang

While probability theory is normally applied to external environments, there has been some recent interest in probabilistic modeling of the outputs of computations that are too expensive to run. Since mathematical logic is a powerful tool…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Scott Garrabrant , Benya Fallenstein , Abram Demski , Nate Soares

We present a finitary version of Moss' coalgebraic logic for $T$-coalgebras, where $T$ is a locally monotone endofunctor of the category of posets and monotone maps. The logic uses a single cover modality whose arity is given by the least…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Marta Bílková , Matěj Dostál

This paper provides a full characterization for when the expansion of a complete o-minimal theory by a unary predicate that picks out a divisible dense and codense subgroup has a model companion. This result is motivated by criteria and…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Alexi Block Gorman

Inference is a fundamental reasoning technique in probability theory. When applied to a large joint distribution, it involves updating with evidence (conditioning) in one or more components (variables) and computing the outcome in other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Bart Jacobs , Márk Széles , Dario Stein

We demonstrate when and how an entire left-infinite orbit of an underlying dynamical system or observations from such left-infinite orbits can be uniquely represented by a pair of elements in a different space, a phenomenon which we call…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-05 G Manjunath , A de Clercq , MJ Steynberg

We present a systematic approach to logical predicates based on universal coalgebra and higher-order abstract GSOS, thus making a first step towards a unifying theory of logical relations. We first observe that logical predicates are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Sergey Goncharov , Alessio Santamaria , Lutz Schröder , Stelios Tsampas , Henning Urbat

We introduce dicodensity monads: a generalisation of pointwise codensity monads generated by functors to monads generated by mixed-variant bifunctors. Our construction is based on the notion of strong dinaturality (also known as Barr…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Maciej Piróg , Filip Sieczkowski

We propose to study proof search from a coinductive point of view. In this paper, we consider intuitionistic logic and a focused system based on Herbelin's LJT for the implicational fragment. We introduce a variant of lambda calculus with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-05 José Espírito Santo , Ralph Matthes , Luís Pinto

We extend the recently introduced setting of coherent differentiation for taking into account not only differentiation, but also Taylor expansion in categories which are not necessarily (left)additive. The main idea consists in extending…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Thomas Ehrhard , Aymeric Walch

A well-known challenge in the semantics of programming languages is how to combine non-determinism and probability. At a technical level, the problem arises from the fact that there is a no distributive law between the powerset monad and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Bart Jacobs