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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 the nature of applicative bisimilarity in $\lambda$-calculi endowed with operators for sampling from continuous distributions. On the one hand, we show that bisimilarity, logical equivalence, and testing equivalence all coincide…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Gilles Barthe , Raphaëlle Crubillé , Ugo Dal Lago , Francesco Gavazzo

Behavioural distances generally offer more fine-grained means of comparing quantitative systems than two-valued behavioural equivalences. They often relate to quantitative modalities, which generate quantitative modal logics that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jonas Forster , Lutz Schröder , Paul Wild , Barbara König , Pedro Nora

We present a generalisation of the theory of quantitative algebras of Mardare, Panangaden and Plotkin where (i) the carriers of quantitative algebras are not restricted to be metric spaces and can be arbitrary fuzzy relations or generalised…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Matteo Mio , Ralph Sarkis , Valeria Vignudelli

We formulate and prove a very general relative version of the Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle theorem which gives conditions on constraints of configuration spaces over a finite alphabet such that for every absolutely summable relative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Sebastián Barbieri , Ricardo Gómez , Brian Marcus , Siamak Taati

In this paper, a new approximate syllogistic reasoning schema is described that expands some of the approaches expounded in the literature into two ways: (i) a number of different types of quantifiers (logical, absolute, proportional,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-27 M. Pereira-Fariña , Juan C. Vidal , F. Díaz-Hermida , A. Bugarín

Past years have seen the development of a few proposals for quantum extensions of process calculi. The rationale is clear: with the development of quantum communication protocols, there is a need to abstract and focus on the basic features…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Lorenzo Ceragioli , Fabio Gadducci , Giuseppe Lomurno , Gabriele Tedeschi

Behavioural distances of transition systems modelled via coalgebras for endofunctors generalize traditional notions of behavioural equivalence to a quantitative setting, in which states are equipped with a measure of how (dis)similar they…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Keri D'Angelo , Sebastian Gurke , Johanna Maria Kirss , Barbara König , Matina Najafi , Wojciech Różowski , Paul Wild

We propose a process calculus, named AbC, to study the behavioural theory of interactions in collective-adaptive systems by relying on attribute-based communication. An AbC system consists of a set of parallel components each of which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Rocco De Nicola , Michele Loreti

Applicative bisimilarity is a coinductive characterisation of observational equivalence in call-by-name lambda-calculus, introduced by Abramsky (1990). Howe (1996) gave a direct proof that it is a congruence, and generalised the result to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Tom Hirschowitz , Ambroise Lafont

In this paper we are concerned with understanding the nature of program metrics for calculi with higher-order types, seen as natural generalizations of program equivalences. Some of the metrics we are interested in are well-known, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Ugo Dal Lago , Naohiko Hoshino , Paolo Pistone

We present a simple scheme to evaluate linear response functions including quantum fluctuation corrections on top of the Gutzwiller approximation. The method is derived for a generic multi-band lattice Hamiltonian without any assumption…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Michele Fabrizio

Qualitative relationships illustrate how changing one property (e.g., moving velocity) affects another (e.g., kinetic energy) and constitutes a considerable portion of textual knowledge. Current approaches use either semantic parsers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Mucheng Ren , Heyan Huang , Yang Gao

Recent work on compositional distributional models shows that bialgebras over finite dimensional vector spaces can be applied to treat generalised quantifiers for natural language. That technique requires one to construct the vector space…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Matej Dostal , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Gijs Wijnholds

This paper shows equivalence of several versions of applicative similarity and contextual approximation, and hence also of applicative bisimilarity and contextual equivalence, in LR, the deterministic call-by-need lambda calculus with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Manfred Schmidt-Schauß , David Sabel , Elena Machkasova

Lawvere showed that generalised metric spaces are categories enriched over $[0, \infty]$, the quantale of the positive extended reals. The statement of enrichment is a quantitative analogue of being a preorder. Towards seeking a logic for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Giorgio Bacci , Radu Mardare , Prakash Panangaden , Gordon Plotkin

Linear representations for a subclass of boolean symmetric functions selected by a parity condition are shown to constitute a generalization of the linear constraints on probabilities introduced by Boole. These linear constraints are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Silvio Ursic

A modal logic that is strong enough to fully characterize the behavior of a system is called expressive. Recently, with the growing diversity of systems to be reasoned about (probabilistic, cyber-physical, etc.), the focus shifted to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Yuichi Komorida , Shin-ya Katsumata , Clemens Kupke , Jurriaan Rot , Ichiro Hasuo

We introduce a modular prompting framework that supports safer and more adaptive use of large language models (LLMs) across dynamic, user-centered tasks. Grounded in human learning theory, particularly the Zone of Proximal Development…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Vanessa Figueiredo

We study bisimulation and context equivalence in a probabilistic $\lambda$-calculus. The contributions of this paper are threefold. Firstly we show a technique for proving congruence of probabilistic applicative bisimilarity. While the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Ugo Dal Lago , Davide Sangiorgi , Michele Alberti