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Separation Logic (SL) with inductive definitions is a natural formalism for specifying complex recursive data structures, used in compositional verification of programs manipulating such structures. The key ingredient of any automated…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Radu Iosif , Adam Rogalewicz , Tomas Vojnar

We study expression learning problems with syntactic restrictions and introduce the class of finite-aspect checkable languages to characterize symbolic languages that admit decidable learning. The semantics of such languages can be defined…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Paul Krogmeier , P. Madhusudan

We investigate quantifier alternation hierarchies in first-order logic on finite words. Levels in these hierarchies are defined by counting the number of quantifier alternations in formulas. We prove that one can decide membership of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Thomas Place , Marc Zeitoun

We contribute to the refined understanding of the language-logic-algebra interplay in the context of first-order properties of countable words. We establish decidable algebraic characterizations of one variable fragment of FO as well as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Bharat Adsul , Saptarshi Sarkar , A. V. Sreejith

We present an axiomatic framework for analyzing the algorithmic properties of decision trees. This framework supports the classification of decision tree problems through structural and ancestral constraints within a rigorous mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xi He , Max A. Little

Model interpretability has become an important problem in machine learning (ML) due to the increased effect that algorithmic decisions have on humans. Counterfactual explanations can help users understand not only why ML models make certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Ana Lucic , Harrie Oosterhuis , Hinda Haned , Maarten de Rijke

This paper is about an extension of monadic second-order logic over the full binary tree, which has a quantifier saying ``almost surely a branch {\pi} \in {0, 1}^w satisfies a formula {\phi}({\pi})''. This logic was introduced by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Edon Kelmendi , Michał Skrzypczak

We show that Morley's theorem on the number of countable models of a countable first-order theory becomes an undecidable statement when extended to second-order logic. More generally, we calculate the number of equivalence classes of…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Christopher J. Eagle , Clovis Hamel , Sandra Müller , Franklin D. Tall

Regular tree grammars and regular path expressions constitute core constructs widely used in programming languages and type systems. Nevertheless, there has been little research so far on reasoning frameworks for path expressions where node…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-02 Everardo Barcenas , Pierre Geneves , Nabil Layaida , Alan Schmitt

Modern language models reason within bounded context, an inherent constraint that poses a fundamental barrier to long-horizon reasoning. We identify recursion as a core principle for overcoming this barrier, and propose recursive models as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chenxiao Yang , Nathan Srebro , Zhiyuan Li

We argue that Godel's completeness theorem is equivalent to completability of consistent theories, and Godel's incompleteness theorem is equivalent to the fact that this completion is not constructive, in the sense that there are some…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Saeed Salehi

We study the problem of enumerating the satisfying assignments for circuit classes from knowledge compilation, where assignments are ranked in a specific order. In particular, we show how this problem can be used to efficiently perform…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Antoine Amarilli , Pierre Bourhis , Florent Capelli , Mikaël Monet

Ordinals can help prove termination for dependently typed programs. Brouwer trees are a particular ordinal notation that make it very easy to assign sizes to higher order data structures. They extend natural numbers with a limit…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Joseph Eremondi

This work addresses the problem of computing measures of recognisable sets of infinite trees. An algorithm is provided to compute the probability measure of a tree language recognisable by a weak alternating automaton, or equivalently…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Damian Niwiński , Marcin Przybyłko , Michał Skrzypczak

We extend decision tree and random forest algorithms to product space manifolds: Cartesian products of Euclidean, hyperspherical, and hyperbolic manifolds. Such spaces have extremely expressive geometries capable of representing many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Philippe Chlenski , Quentin Chu , Itsik Pe'er

Model-checking resource logics with production and consumption of resources is a computationally hard and often undecidable problem. We introduce a simple and realistic assumption that there is at least one diminishing resource, that is, a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Natasha Alechina , Brian Logan

Decision trees and systems of decision rules are widely used as classifiers, as a means for knowledge representation, and as algorithms. They are among the most interpretable models for data analysis. The study of the relationships between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Kerven Durdymyradov , Mikhail Moshkov

We investigate the properties of formal languages expressible in terms of formulas over quantifier-free theories of word equations, arithmetic over length constraints, and language membership predicates for the classes of regular, visibly…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Joel D. Day , Vijay Ganesh , Nathan Grewal , Florin Manea

Using a novel rewriting problem, we show that several natural decision problems about finite automata are undecidable (i.e., recursively unsolvable). In contrast, we also prove three related problems are decidable. We apply one result to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Jörg Endrullis , Jeffrey Shallit , Tim Smith

We consider the language of $\Delta_0$-formulas with list terms interpreted over hereditarily finite list superstructures. We study the complexity of reasoning in extensions of the language of $\Delta_0$-formulas with non-standard list…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Sergey Goncharov , Sergey Ospichev , Denis Ponomaryov , Dmitri Sviridenko