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We study lax functors between bicategories as a generalized concept of monads and describe generalized notions and theorems of formal monad theory for lax functors. Our first approach is to use the 2-monad whose lax algebras are lax…

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Recent advances in programming languages study and design have established a standard way of grounding computational systems representation in category theory. These formal results led to a better understanding of issues of control and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jean-Marie Chauvet

Notions of generalized multicategory have been defined in numerous contexts throughout the literature, and include such diverse examples as symmetric multicategories, globular operads, Lawvere theories, and topological spaces. In each case,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-01 G. S. H. Cruttwell , Michael A. Shulman

We establish a duality between monads and monadic morphisms in any $(\infty,2)$-category and characterize monadic morphisms in a wide class of examples. This duality unifies several dualities between algebraic structures and their…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hadrian Heine

Codensity monads provide a universal method to generate complex monads from simple functors. Recently, a wide range of important monads in logic, denotational semantics, and probabilistic computation, such as several incarnations of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fabian Lenke , Nico Wittrock , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat

We recognise Harada's generalized categories of diagrams as a particular case of modules over a monad defined on a finite direct product of additive categories. We work in the dual (albeit formally equivalent) situation, that is, with…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Laiachi El Kaoutit , José Gómez-Torrecillas

Functor coalgebras capture a wide range of transition systems that must however evolve in discrete steps. We introduce graded coalgebras of graded monads and propose them to model continuous-time transition systems. We develop the theory of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Elena Di Lavore , Jonas Forster , Mario Román

We introduce Hopf polyads in order to unify Hopf monads and group actions on monoidal categories. A polyad is a lax functor from a small category (its source) to the bicategory of categories, and a Hopf polyad is a comonoidal polyad whose…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Alain Bruguières

Monads play an important role in both the syntax and semantics of modern functional programming languages. The problem of combining them has been of profound interest at least since the 90s, and different approaches have been employed to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Lorenzo Perticone

Inference algorithms for probabilistic programming are complex imperative programs with many moving parts. Efficient inference often requires customising an algorithm to a particular probabilistic model or problem, sometimes called…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Minh Nguyen , Roly Perera , Meng Wang , Steven Ramsay

Monads are well known to be equivalent to lax functors out of the terminal category. Morita contexts are here shown to be lax functors out of the chaotic category with two objects. This allows various aspects in the theory of Morita…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Stephen Lack

We revisit once again the connection between three notions of computation: monads, arrows and idioms (also called applicative functors). We employ monoidal categories of finitary functors and profunctors on finite sets as models of these…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Exequiel Rivas

Monadic programming presents a significant challenge for many programmers. In light of category theory, we offer a new perspective on the use of monads in functional programming. This perspective is clarified through numerous examples coded…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fethi Kadhi

We establish a correspondence between modules and spans of algebras within a general monoidal 2-category $\mathfrak{C}$. Specifically, for an algebra $A$ in $\mathfrak{C}$, we construct a normalized lax 3-functor from the 2-category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Hao Xu

We study the action of monads on categories equipped with several monoidal structures. We identify the structure and conditions that guarantee that the higher monoidal structure is inherited by the category of algebras over the monad.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Marcelo Aguiar , Mariana Haim , Ignacio Lopez Franco

The recently introduced notions of guarded traced (monoidal) category and guarded (pre-)iterative monad aim at unifying different instances of partial iteration whilst keeping in touch with the established theory of total iteration and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Sergey Goncharov , Julian Jakob , Renato Neves

The category of (colored) props is an enhancement of the category of colored operads, and thus of the category of small categories. The titular category has nice formal properties: it is bicomplete and is a symmetric monoidal category, with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Philip Hackney , Marcy Robertson

In this paper, we revisit Moggi's celebrated calculus of computational effects from the perspective of logic of monoidal action (actegory). Our development takes the following steps. Firstly, we perform proof-theoretic reconstruction of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Yuichi Nishiwaki , Toshiya Asai

The framework of graded semantics uses graded monads to capture behavioural equivalences of varying granularity, for example as found on the linear-time/branching-time spectrum, over general system types. We describe a generic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Chase Ford , Harsh Beohar , Barbara König , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder

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…

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