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Interpretable classification models are built with the purpose of providing a comprehensible description of the decision logic to an external oversight agent. When considered in isolation, a decision tree, a set of classification rules, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Riccardo Guidotti , Salvatore Ruggieri

To tackle interpretability in deep learning, we present a novel framework to jointly learn a predictive model and its associated interpretation model. The interpreter provides both local and global interpretability about the predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jayneel Parekh , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Florence d'Alché-Buc

This paper is concerned with the shape invariants satisfied by the communication topology of {\pi}-terms, and the automatic inference of these invariants. A {\pi}-term P is hierarchical if there is a finite forest T such that the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Emanuele D'Osualdo , C. -H. Luke Ong

The task of translating between programming languages differs from the challenge of translating natural languages in that programming languages are designed with a far more rigid set of structural and grammatical rules. Previous work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Mehdi Drissi , Olivia Watkins , Aditya Khant , Vivaswat Ojha , Pedro Sandoval , Rakia Segev , Eric Weiner , Robert Keller

Separation Logic is a widely used formalism for describing dynamically allocated linked data structures, such as lists, trees, etc. The decidability status of various fragments of the logic constitutes a long standing open problem. Current…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Radu Iosif , Adam Rogalewicz , Jiri Simacek

We are interested in the problem of translating between two representations of closure systems, namely implicational bases and meet-irreducible elements. Albeit its importance, the problem is open. Motivated by this problem, we introduce…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Lhouari Nourine , Simon Vilmin

In various models of one-way pushdown automata, the explicit use of two designated endmarkers on a read-once input tape has proven to be extremely useful for making a conscious, final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each input word…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Tomoyuki Yamakami

We investigate the tree-to-tree functions computed by "affine $\lambda$-transducers": tree automata whose memory consists of an affine $\lambda$-term instead of a finite state. They can be seen as variations on Gallot, Lemay and Salvati's…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Lê Thành Dũng Nguyên , Gabriele Vanoni

In this work, we develop a pipeline that associates Persistence Diagrams to digital data via the most appropriate filtration for the type of data considered. Using a grid search approach, this pipeline determines optimal representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Francesco Conti , Davide Moroni , Maria Antonietta Pascali

Many metainterpreters found in the logic programming literature are nondeterministic in the sense that the selection of program clauses is not determined. Examples are the familiar "demo" and "vanilla" metainterpreters. For some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David A. Rosenblueth

In this manuscript, we show that any neural network with any activation function can be represented as a decision tree. The representation is equivalence and not an approximation, thus keeping the accuracy of the neural network exactly as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Caglar Aytekin

String transductions that are definable in monadic second-order (mso) logic (without the use of parameters) are exactly those realized by deterministic two-way finite state transducers. Nondeterministic mso definable string transductions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-11-24 Joost Engelfriet , Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom

The decidability of determining equivalence of deterministic multitape automata (or transducers) was a longstanding open problem until it was resolved by Harju and Karhum\"{a}ki in the early 1990s. Their proof of decidability yields a co_NP…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-06 James Worrell

Decision trees are widely used for interpretable machine learning due to their clearly structured reasoning process. However, this structure belies a challenge we refer to as predictive equivalence: a given tree's decision boundary can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hayden McTavish , Zachery Boner , Jon Donnelly , Margo Seltzer , Cynthia Rudin

The first-order theory of a string automatic structure is known to be decidable, but there are examples of string automatic structures with nonelementary first-order theories. We prove that the first-order theory of a string automatic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-10-29 Dietrich Kuske , Markus Lohrey

Transformers have had a significant impact on natural language processing and have recently demonstrated their potential in computer vision. They have shown promising results over convolution neural networks in fundamental computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Rojina Kashefi , Leili Barekatain , Mohammad Sabokrou , Fatemeh Aghaeipoor

Ensembles of decision trees perform well on many problems, but are not interpretable. In contrast to existing approaches in interpretability that focus on explaining relationships between features and predictions, we propose an alternative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-26 Sarah Tan , Matvey Soloviev , Giles Hooker , Martin T. Wells

We model collapsible and ordered pushdown systems with term rewriting, by encoding higher-order stacks and multiple stacks into trees. We show a uniform inverse preservation of recognizability result for the resulting class of term…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Lorenzo Clemente

We give an expression for the determinant of the twisted Laplacian associated with any linear representation of a finite quiver in terms of traces of the holonomy of its cycles. To establish this expression, we prove a general identity for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Adrien Kassel , Thierry Lévy

We give an example of a dense o-minimal structure in which there is a definable quotient that cannot be eliminated, even after naming parameters. Equivalently, there is an interpretable set which cannot be put in parametrically definable…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-11-25 Will Johnson