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Although LLMs have shown great performance on Mathematics and Coding related reasoning tasks, the reasoning capabilities of LLMs regarding other forms of reasoning are still an open problem. Here, we examine the issue of reasoning from the…

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Formal deductive systems are very common in computer science. They are used to represent logics, programming languages, and security systems. Moreover, writing programs that manipulate them and that reason about them is important and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Francisco Ferreira Ruiz

Dependent Object Types (DOT) is intended to be a core calculus for modelling Scala. Its distinguishing feature is abstract type members, fields in objects that hold types rather than values. Proving soundness of DOT has been surprisingly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Marianna Rapoport , Ifaz Kabir , Paul He , Ondřej Lhoták

In this paper, we develop a quantified propositional proof systems that corresponds to logarithmic-space reasoning. We begin by defining a class SigmaCNF(2) of quantified formulas that can be evaluated in log space. Then our new proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-01-29 Steven Perron

The semantic foundations for logic programming are usually separated into two different approaches. The operational semantics, which uses SLD-resolution, the proof method that computes answers in logic programming, and the declarative…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-02 João Barbosa , Mário Florido , Vítor Santos Costa

Many semantical aspects of programming languages, such as their operational semantics and their type assignment calculi, are specified by describing appropriate proof systems. Recent research has identified two proof-theoretic features that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-04-14 Andrew Gacek , Dale Miller , Gopalan Nadathur

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

Logic provides a controlled testbed for evaluating LLM-based reasoners, yet standard SAT-style benchmarks often conflate surface difficulty (length, wording, clause order) with the structural phenomena that actually determine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Naïm Es-sebbani , Esteban Marquer , Yakoub Salhi , Zied Bouraoui

Rule-based reasoning over natural language input arises in domains where decisions must be auditable and justifiable: clinical protocols specify eligibility criteria in prose, evidence rules define admissibility through textual conditions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Albert Sadowski , Jarosław A. Chudziak

The work concerns automatic generation of logical specifications from requirements models. Logical specifications obtained in such a way can be subjected to formal verification using deductive reasoning. Formal verification concerns…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Radoslaw Klimek

The Abella interactive theorem prover has proven to be an effective vehicle for reasoning about relational specifications. However, the system has a limitation that arises from the fact that it is based on a simply typed logic:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Gopalan Nadathur , Yuting Wang

Motivated by applications in modelling quantum systems using coalgebraic techniques, we introduce a fibred coalgebraic logic. Our approach extends the conventional predicate lifting semantics with additional modalities relating conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Daniel Marsden

We present a framework for deriving inference relations between Dutch sentence pairs. The proposed framework relies on logic-based reasoning to produce inspectable proofs leading up to inference labels; its judgements are therefore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Lasha Abzianidze , Konstantinos Kogkalidis

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform reasoning tasks such as deduction has been widely investigated in recent years. Yet, their capacity to generate proofs-faithful, human-readable explanations of why conclusions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hui Yang , Jiaoyan Chen , Uli Sattler

Logical frameworks based on intuitionistic or linear logics with higher-type quantification have been successfully used to give high-level, modular, and formal specifications of many important judgments in the area of programming languages…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Raymond C. McDowell , Dale A. Miller

In the logic programming paradigm, a program is defined by a set of methods, each of which can be executed when specific conditions are met during the current state of an execution. The semantics of these programs can be elegantly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Matteo Acclavio , Roberto Maieli

A propositional logic program $P$ may be identified with a $P_fP_f$-coalgebra on the set of atomic propositions in the program. The corresponding $C(P_fP_f)$-coalgebra, where $C(P_fP_f)$ is the cofree comonad on $P_fP_f$, describes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ekaterina Komendantskaya , John Power

We extend the {\lambda}-calculus with constructs suitable for relational and functional-logic programming: non-deterministic choice, fresh variable introduction, and unification of expressions. In order to be able to unify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Pablo Barenbaum , Federico Lochbaum , Mariana Milicich

We present the guarded lambda-calculus, an extension of the simply typed lambda-calculus with guarded recursive and coinductive types. The use of guarded recursive types ensures the productivity of well-typed programs. Guarded recursive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Ranald Clouston , Aleš Bizjak , Hans Bugge Grathwohl , Lars Birkedal

We study LFD, a base logic of functional dependence introduced by Baltag and van Benthem (2021) and its connections with the guarded fragment GF of first-order logic. Like other logics of dependence, the semantics of LFD uses teams: sets of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Johan van Benthem , Balder ten Cate , Raoul Koudijs