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Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a widely used tool for modeling sequential data, yet they are often treated as inscrutable black boxes. Given a trained recurrent network, we would like to reverse engineer it--to obtain a quantitative,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Niru Maheswaranathan , Alex Williams , Matthew D. Golub , Surya Ganguli , David Sussillo

This paper explores the problem of determining which classes of Petri nets can be encoded into behaviourally-equivalent CCS processes. Most of the existing related literature focuses on the inverse problem (i.e., encoding process calculi…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Benjamin Bogø , Andrea Burattin , Alceste Scalas

Reversibility is a key issue in the interface between computation and physics, and of growing importance as miniaturization progresses towards its physical limits. Most foundational work on reversible computing to date has focussed on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Samson Abramsky

Reversible computation is key in developing new, energy-efficient paradigms, but also in providing forward-only concepts with broader definitions and finer frames of study.Among other fields, the algebraic specification and representation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Clément Aubert

A new graphical framework, Abridged Petri Nets (APNs) is introduced for bottom-up modeling of complex stochastic systems. APNs are similar to Stochastic Petri Nets (SPNs) in as much as they both rely on component-based representation of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Vitali Volovoi

In the early two-thousands, Recursive Petri nets have been introduced in order to model distributed planning of multi-agent systems for which counters and recursivity were necessary. Although Recursive Petri nets strictly extend Petri nets…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Alain Finkel , Serge Haddad , Igor Khmelnitsky

In rule-based systems, goal-oriented computations correspond naturally to the possible ways that an observation may be explained. In some applications, we need to compute explanations for a series of observations with the same domain. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fangzhen Lin , Jia-Huai You

Petri nets are an established graphical formalism for modeling and analyzing the behavior of systems. An important consideration of the value of Petri nets is their use in describing both the syntax and semantics of modeling formalisms.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Sabah Al-Fedaghi , Dana Shbeeb

Undoing computations of a concurrent system is beneficial in many situations, e.g., in reversible debugging of multi-threaded programs and in recovery from errors due to optimistic execution in parallel discrete event simulation. A number…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ivan Lanese , Iain Phillips , Irek Ulidowski

Petri Net is a formalism to describe changes between 2 or more states across discrete time and has been used to model many systems. We present PNet - a pure Python library for Petri Net modeling and simulation in Python programming…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Zhu En Chay , Bing Feng Goh , Maurice HT Ling

In the setting of Petri nets, we prove that {\em causal-net bisimilarity} \cite{G15,Gor22,Gor25a}, which is a refinement of history-preserving bisimilarity \cite{RT88,vGG89,DDM89}, and the novel {\em hereditary} causal-net bisimilarity,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Roberto Gorrieri , Ivan Lanese

Reversible computing is a computational paradigm in which computations are deterministic in both the forward and backward direction, so that programs have well-defined forward and backward semantics. We investigate the formal semantics of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Robin Kaarsgaard , Mathys Rennela

Probabilistic circuits (PCs) are a unifying representation for probabilistic models that support tractable inference. Numerous applications of PCs like controllable text generation depend on the ability to efficiently multiply two circuits.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Honghua Zhang , Benjie Wang , Marcelo Arenas , Guy Van den Broeck

We present a concurrent operational Petri net semantics for the join-calculus, a process calculus for specifying concurrent and distributed systems. There often is a gap between system specifications and the actual implementations caused by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Stephan Mennicke

Cycloids are particular Petri nets for modelling processes of actions and events, belonging to the fundaments of Petri's general systems theory. Defined by four parameters they provide an algebraic formalism to describe strongly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Rüdiger Valk , Daniel Moldt

Cycloids are particular Petri nets for modelling processes of actions and events, belonging to the fundaments of Petri's general systems theory. Defined by four parameters they provide an algebraic formalism to describe strongly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Rüdiger Valk , Daniel Moldt

Reversible computing models settings in which all processes can be reversed. Applications include low-power computing, quantum computing, and robotics. It is unclear how to represent side-effects in this setting, because conventional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Chris Heunen , Robin Kaarsgaard , Martti Karvonen

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been used extensively and with increasing success to model various types of sequential data. Much of this progress has been achieved through devising recurrent units and architectures with the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-06 Yacine Jernite , Edouard Grave , Armand Joulin , Tomas Mikolov

In Petri net synthesis we ask whether a given transition system $A$ can be implemented by a Petri net $N$. Depending on the level of accuracy, there are three ways how $N$ can implement $A$: an embedding, the least accurate implementation,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Raymond Devillers , Ronny Tredup

Hierarchical Petri nets allow a more abstract view and reconfigurable Petri nets model dynamic structural adaptation. In this contribution we present the combination of reconfigurable Petri nets and hierarchical Petri nets yielding…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Julia Padberg