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There are many books designed to introduce category theory to either a mathematical audience or a computer science audience. In this book, our audience is the broader scientific community. We attempt to show that category theory can be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-19 David I. Spivak

A type theory is presented that combines (intuitionistic) linear types with type dependency, thus properly generalising both intuitionistic dependent type theory and full linear logic. A syntax and complete categorical semantics are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Matthijs Vákár

The aim of these notes is to provide a succinct, accessible introduction to some of the basic ideas of category theory and categorical logic. The notes are based on a lecture course given at Oxford over the past few years. They contain…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Samson Abramsky , Nikos Tzevelekos

Despite ample evidence that our concepts, our cognitive architecture, and mathematics itself are all deeply compositional, few models take advantage of this structure. We therefore propose a radically compositional approach to computational…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-18 Toby B. St Clere Smithe

We introduce DisCoPy, an open source toolbox for computing with monoidal categories. The library provides an intuitive syntax for defining string diagrams and monoidal functors. Its modularity allows the efficient implementation of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Giovanni de Felice , Alexis Toumi , Bob Coecke

These notes are meant to provide a rapid introduction to triangulated categories. We start with the definition of an additive category and end with a glimps of tilting theory. Some exercises are included.

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Behrang Noohi

Category theory is a branch of mathematics that provides a formal framework for understanding the relationship between mathematical structures. To this end, a category not only incorporates the data of the desired objects, but also…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Niels van der Weide , Nima Rasekh , Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North

This paper summarises the current state-of-the art in the study of compositionality in distributional semantics, and major challenges for this area. We single out generalised quantifiers and intensional semantics as areas on which to focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Daoud Clarke

Structured and decorated cospans are broadly applicable frameworks for building bicategories or double categories of open systems. We streamline and generalize these frameworks using central concepts of double category theory. We show that,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Evan Patterson

These expanded lecture notes are based on a tutorial on categorical proof theory presented at the summer school associated with the conference "Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic 2021-2022." The chapter delves into various…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai

We provide an overview of the hybrid compositional distributional model of meaning, developed in Coecke et al. (arXiv:1003.4394v1 [cs.CL]), which is based on the categorical methods also applied to the analysis of information flow in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Edward Grefenstette

Layered monoidal theories provide a categorical framework for studying scientific theories at different levels of abstraction, via string diagrammatic algebra. We introduce models for three closely related classes of layered monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Leo Lobski , Fabio Zanasi

Fong developed `decorated cospans' to model various kinds of open systems: that is, systems with inputs and outputs. In this framework, open systems are seen as the morphisms of a category and can be composed as such, allowing larger open…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Kenny Courser

A symmetric monoidal category naturally arises as the mathematical structure that organizes physical systems, processes, and composition thereof, both sequentially and in parallel. This structure admits a purely graphical calculus. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Bob Coecke , Raymond Lal

Modelling concept representation is a foundational problem in the study of cognition and linguistics. This work builds on the confluence of conceptual tools from G\"ardenfors semantic spaces, categorical compositional linguistics, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-07 James Hefford , Vincent Wang , Matthew Wilson

We introduce functorial language models: a principled way to compute probability distributions over word sequences given a monoidal functor from grammar to meaning. This yields a method for training categorical compositional distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Alexis Toumi , Alex Koziell-Pipe

We argue that category theory should become a part of the daily practice of the physicist, and more specific, the quantum physicist and/or informatician. The reason for this is not that category theory is a better way of doing mathematics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Bob Coecke

The Fourth International Conference on Applied Category Theory took place at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge on 12--16 July 2021. It was a hybrid event, with physical attendees present in Cambridge and other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kohei Kishida

This article serves as a preliminary introduction to the design of a new, open-source applied and computational category theory framework, named Categorica, built on top of the Wolfram Language. Categorica allows one to configure and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Jonathan Gorard

Interventional causal models describe several joint distributions over some variables used to describe a system, one for each intervention setting. They provide a formal recipe for how to move between the different joint distributions and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-06 Eigil F. Rischel , Sebastian Weichwald