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The principle behind algebraic language theory for various kinds of structures, such as words or trees, is to use a compositional function from the structures into a finite set. To talk about compositionality, one needs some way of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Mikołaj Bojańczyk

Modern large language models (LLMs) employ diverse logical inference mechanisms for reasoning, making the strategic optimization of these approaches critical for advancing their capabilities. This paper systematically investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tianshi Zheng , Jiayang Cheng , Chunyang Li , Haochen Shi , Zihao Wang , Jiaxin Bai , Yangqiu Song , Ginny Y. Wong , Simon See

Inference systems are a widespread framework used to define possibly recursive predicates by means of inference rules. They allow both inductive and coinductive interpretations that are fairly well-studied. In this paper, we consider a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Francesco Dagnino

In many expert and everyday reasoning contexts it is very useful to reason on the basis of defeasible assumptions. For instance, if the information at hand is incomplete we often use plausible assumptions, or if the information is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-25 AnneMarie Borg

This paper aims at providing a comprehensive solution to the archaic open problem: how to define semantics of three-valued modal logic with vivid intuitive picture, convincing philosophical justification as well as versatile practical…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Xinyu Wang , Yang Song , Satoshi Tojo

Embedding spaces contain interpretable dimensions indicating gender, formality in style, or even object properties. This has been observed multiple times. Such interpretable dimensions are becoming valuable tools in different areas of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Katrin Erk , Marianna Apidianaki

In this paper we study the logical foundations of automated inductive theorem proving. To that aim we first develop a theoretical model that is centered around the difficulty of finding induction axioms which are sufficient for proving a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Stefan Hetzl , Tin Lok Wong

Embedders play a central role in machine learning, projecting any object into numerical representations that can, in turn, be leveraged to perform various downstream tasks. The evaluation of embedding models typically depends on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Maxime Darrin , Philippe Formont , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jackie CK Cheung , Pablo Piantanida

Inductive reasoning is an essential capability for large language models (LLMs) to achieve higher intelligence, which requires the model to generalize rules from observed facts and then apply them to unseen examples. We present MIRAGE, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiachun Li , Pengfei Cao , Zhuoran Jin , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Probability theory, epistemically interpreted, provides an excellent, if not the best available account of inductive reasoning. This is so because there are general and definite rules for the change of subjective probabilities through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Wolfgang Spohn

Inductive biases are what allow learners to make guesses in the absence of conclusive evidence. These biases have often been studied in cognitive science using concepts or categories -- e.g. by testing how humans generalize a new category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kelsey Allen , Ishita Dasgupta , Eliza Kosoy , Andrew K. Lampinen

We study elementary modal logics, i.e. modal logic considered over first-order definable classes of frames. The classical semantics of modal logic allows infinite structures, but often practical applications require to restrict our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop , Piotr Witkowski

Referring is one of the most basic and prevalent uses of language. How do speakers choose from the wealth of referring expressions at their disposal? Rational theories of language use have come under attack for decades for not being able to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Judith Degen , Robert D. Hawkins , Caroline Graf , Elisa Kreiss , Noah D. Goodman

A review of Word Embedding Models through a deconstructive approach reveals their several shortcomings and inconsistencies. These include instability of the vector representations, a distorted analogical reasoning, geometric incompatibility…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Koushik Varma Kalidindi

We examine how well the state-of-the-art (SOTA) models used in legal reasoning support abductive reasoning tasks. Abductive reasoning is a form of logical inference in which a hypothesis is formulated from a set of observations, and that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Randy Goebel , Francesca Toni , Kostas Stathis , Ken Satoh

An abstract framework of canonical inference is used to explore how different proof orderings induce different variants of saturation and completeness. Notions like completion, paramodulation, saturation, redundancy elimination, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Maria Paola Bonacina , Nachum Dershowitz

Human beings possess the most sophisticated computational machinery in the known universe. We can understand language of rich descriptive power, and communicate in the same environment with astonishing clarity. Two of the many contributors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Karthikeya Ramesh Kaushik , Andrea E. Martin

Graded modal types systems and coeffects are becoming a standard formalism to deal with context-dependent computations where code usage plays a central role. The theory of program equivalence for modal and coeffectful languages, however, is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ugo Dal Lago , Francesco Gavazzo

There are many kinds of exogeneity assumptions. How should researchers choose among them? When exogeneity is imposed on an unobservable like a potential outcome, we argue that the form of exogeneity should be chosen based on the kind of…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-05-06 Matthew A. Masten , Alexandre Poirier

People often ask questions with false assumptions, a type of question that does not have regular answers. Answering such questions requires first identifying the false assumptions. Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate misleading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zijie Wang , Eduardo Blanco