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We consider tensor grammars, which are an example of \commutative" grammars, based on the classical (rather than intuitionistic) linear logic. They can be seen as a surface representation of abstract categorial grammars ACG in the sense…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Sergey Slavnov

We develop a representation theory of categories as a means to explore characteristic structures in algebra. Characteristic structures play a critical role in isomorphism testing of groups and algebras, and their construction and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Peter A. Brooksbank , Heiko Dietrich , Joshua Maglione , E. A. O'Brien , James B. Wilson

We classify the propositional modal validities arising from the category of sets under its natural classes of morphisms. The resulting validities depend on the morphism class, the size of the world, and the permitted substitution instances.…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Wojciech Aleksander Wołoszyn

A structural time series model additively decomposes into generative, semantically-meaningful components, each of which depends on a vector of parameters. We demonstrate that considering each generative component together with its vector of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-16 David Rushing Dewhurst

This paper uses category theory to develop an entirely new approach to approximate game theory. Game theory is the study of how different agents within a multi-agent system take decisions. At its core, game theory asks what an optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Neil Ghani

A longstanding question in cognitive science concerns the learning mechanisms underlying compositionality in human cognition. Humans can infer the structured relationships (e.g., grammatical rules) implicit in their sensory observations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jacob Russin , Roland Fernandez , Hamid Palangi , Eric Rosen , Nebojsa Jojic , Paul Smolensky , Jianfeng Gao

Following our recent development of a compositional model checking algorithm for Markov decision processes, we present a compositional framework for solving mean payoff games (MPGs). The framework is derived from category theory,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kazuki Watanabe , Clovis Eberhart , Kazuyuki Asada , Ichiro Hasuo

Functional Distributional Semantics is a recently proposed framework for learning distributional semantics that provides linguistic interpretability. It models the meaning of a word as a binary classifier rather than a numerical vector. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yinhong Liu , Guy Emerson

For an arbitrary category, we consider the least class of functors con- taining the projections and closed under finite products, finite coproducts, parameterized initial algebras and parameterized final coalgebras, i.e. the class of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Luigi Santocanale

We present a game semantics for intuitionistic type theory. Specifically, we propose categories with families of a new variant of games and strategies for both extensional and intensional variants of the type theory with dependent function,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Norihiro Yamada

With the increased interest in machine learning, and deep learning in particular, the use of automatic differentiation has become more wide-spread in computation. There have been two recent developments to provide the theoretical support…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Geoffrey Cruttwell , Jonathan Gallagher , Dorette Pronk

In this paper, we use a categorical and functorial set up to model the syntax and inference of logics with algebraic signature, extending previous works on algebraisation of logics. The main feature of this work is that structurality, or…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Lingyuan Ye

In the context of the two dimensional sigma model, we show that classical field theory naturally defines a functor from Segal's category of Riemann surfaces to the Guillemin-Sternberg/Weinstein category of canonical relations in symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Patrick Vaclav Nabelek , Douglas Pickrell

Agent-based models and signalling games are useful tools with which to study the emergence of linguistic communication in a tractable setting. These techniques have been used to study the compositional property of natural languages, but…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Graham Todd , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld , Christopher Potts

The interpretation of parasitic gaps is an ostensible case of non-linearity in natural language composition. Existing categorial analyses, both in the typelogical and in the combinatory traditions, rely on explicit forms of syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Michael Moortgat , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Gijs Wijnholds

Proofs, in Ludics, have an interpretation provided by their counter-proofs, that is the objects they interact with. We follow the same idea by proposing that sentence meanings are given by the counter-meanings they are opposed to in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Alain Lecomte , Myriam Quatrini

Two families of denotational models have emerged from the semantic analysis of linear logic: dynamic models, typically presented as game semantics, and static models, typically based on a category of relations. In this paper we introduce a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Pierre Clairambault , Federico Olimpieri , Hugo Paquet

We propose a categorial grammar based on classical multiplicative linear logic. This can be seen as an extension of abstract categorial grammars (ACG) and is at least as expressive. However, constituents of {\it linear logic grammars (LLG)}…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Sergey Slavnov

Game-semantic models usually start from the core model of the prototypical language PCF, which is characterised by a range of combinatorial constraints on the shape of plays. Relaxing each such constraint usually corresponds to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Dan R. Ghica

Combinatorial Game Theory has also been called `additive game theory', whenever the analysis involves sums of independent game components. Such {\em disjunctive sums} invoke comparison between games, which allows abstract values to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Urban Larsson , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos