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String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about composite structures in symmetric monoidal categories. By representing string diagrams as graphs, equational reasoning can be done automatically by double-pushout rewriting. !-graphs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Aleks Kissinger , Vladimir Zamdzhiev

We develop a theory of rewriting for structured cospans in order to extend compositional methods for modeling open networks. First, we introduce a category whose objects are structured cospans, and establish conditions under which it is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Daniel Cicala

We provide a tutorial introduction to the algebraic graph rewriting formalism PBPO+. We show how PBPO+ can be obtained by composing a few simple building blocks, and model the reduction rules for binary decision diagrams as an example.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Roy Overbeek , Jörg Endrullis

This paper develops an algorithmic-based approach for proving inductive properties of propositional sequent systems such as admissibility, invertibility, cut-elimination, and identity expansion. Although undecidable in general, these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Carlos Olarte , Elaine Pimentel , Camilo Rocha

String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about physical processes, logic circuits, tensor networks, and many other compositional structures. The distinguishing feature of these diagrams is that edges need not be connected to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-19 Lucas Dixon , Aleks Kissinger

Equality saturation, a technique for program optimisation and reasoning, has gained attention due to the resurgence of equality graphs (e-graphs). E-graphs represent equivalence classes of terms under rewrite rules, enabling simultaneous…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Aleksei Tiurin , Dan R. Ghica , Nick Hu

We extend the notion of compositional associative rewriting as recently studied in the rule algebra framework literature to the setting of rewriting rules with conditions. Our methodology is category-theoretical in nature, where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Nicolas Behr , Jean Krivine

The formal relationship between two differing approaches to the description of spacetime as an intrinsically discrete mathematical structure, namely causal set theory and the Wolfram model, is studied, and it is demonstrated that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Jonathan Gorard

The technique of \emph{equality saturation}, which equips graphs with an equivalence relation, has proven effective for program optimisation. We give a categorical semantics to these structures, called \emph{e-graphs}, in terms of Cartesian…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Aleksei Tiurin , Chris Barrett , Dan R. Ghica , Nick Hu

We introduce a general diagrammatic theory of digital circuits, based on connections between monoidal categories and graph rewriting. The main achievement of the paper is conceptual, filling a foundational gap in reasoning syntactically and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Dan R. Ghica , Achim Jung , Aliaume Lopez

We demonstrate how category theory provides specifications that can efficiently be implemented via imperative algorithms and apply this to the field of graph rewriting. By examples, we show how this paradigm of software development makes it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Kristopher Brown , Evan Patterson , Tyler Hanks , James Fairbanks

We introduce a class of rooted graphs which allows one to encode various kinds of classical or quantum circuits. We then follow a set-theoretic approach to define rewrite systems over the considered graphs and propose a new complete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Rachid Echahed , Mnacho Echenim , Mehdi Mhalla , Nicolas Peltier

The aim of this thesis is to present an extension to the string graphs of Dixon, Duncan and Kissinger that allows the finite representation of certain infinite families of graphs and graph rewrite rules, and to demonstrate that a logic can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Alexander Merry

Formulating an effective constraint model of a parameterised problem class is crucial to the efficiency with which instances of the class can subsequently be solved. It is difficult to know beforehand which of a set of candidate models will…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ian Miguel , András Z. Salamon , Christopher Stone

We show how representations of finite-dimensional quantum operators can be constructed using nondeterministic rewriting systems. In particular, we investigate Wolfram model multiway rewriting systems based on string substitutions. Multiway…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Furkan Semih Dündar , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla , Hatem Elshatlawy

The framework of causal models provides a principled approach to causal reasoning, applied today across many scientific domains. Here we present this framework in the language of string diagrams, interpreted formally using category theory.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Robin Lorenz , Sean Tull

Diagram chasing is not an easy task. The coherence holds in a generalized sense if we have a mechanical method to judge whether given two morphisms are equal to each other. A simple way to this end is to reform a concerned category into a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Ryu Hasegawa

String rewriting systems have proved very useful to study monoids. In good cases, they give finite presentations of monoids, allowing computations on those and their manipulation by a computer. Even better, when the presentation is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Samuel Mimram

Causal discovery is essential for understanding relationships among variables of interest in many scientific domains. In this paper, we focus on permutation-based methods for learning causal graphs in Linear Gaussian Acyclic Models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mohammad Shahverdikondori , Ehsan Mokhtarian , Negar Kiyavash

The "Sum-Over-Paths" formalism is a way to symbolically manipulate linear maps that describe quantum systems, and is a tool that is used in formal verification of such systems. We give here a new set of rewrite rules for the formalism, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Renaud Vilmart