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The classic Rock-Paper-Scissors game of size 3 and its extension, Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock, are modeled by directed graphs called tournaments. They can be further extended to any odd size. The extended games are regular tournaments…

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We present a general way of defining various reduction games on \omega\ which "represent" corresponding topologically defined classes of functions. In particular, we will show how to construct games for piecewise defined functions, for…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Luca Motto Ros

The number of quantifiers needed to express first-order properties is captured by two-player combinatorial games called multi-structural (MS) games. We play these games on linear orders and strings, and introduce a technique we call…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Marco Carmosino , Ronald Fagin , Neil Immerman , Phokion Kolaitis , Jonathan Lenchner , Rik Sengupta , Ryan Williams

We present a game semantics for Linear Logic, in which formulas denote games and proofs denote winning strategies. We show that our semantics yields a categorical model of Linear Logic and prove full completeness for Multiplicative Linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Samson Abramsky , Radha Jagadeesan

Truth, consistency and elementary equivalence can all be characterised in terms of games, namely the so-called evaluation game, the model-existence game, and the Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse game. We point out the great affinity of these games to…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Jouko Väänänen

We define a game semantics for second order classical arithmetic PA2 (with quantifiers over predicates on integers and full comprehension axiom). Our semantics is effective: moves are described by a finite amount of information and whenever…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Stefano Berardi

Game theoretic equilibria are mathematical expressions of rationality. Rational agents are used to model not only humans and their software representatives, but also organisms, populations, species and genes, interacting with each other and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Dusko Pavlovic

The present paper gives a mathematical, in particular, syntax-independent, formulation of intensionality and dynamics of computation in terms of games and strategies. Specifically, we give a game semantics for a higher-order programming…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Norihiro Yamada , Samson Abramsky

In the context of strategic games, we provide an axiomatic proof of the statement Common knowledge of rationality implies that the players will choose only strategies that survive the iterated elimination of strictly dominated strategies.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Jonathan A. Zvesper , Krzysztof R. Apt

We prove lower bounds on the length of regular expressions for finite languages by methods from arithmetic circuit complexity. First, we show a reduction: the length of a regular expression for a language $L\subseteq \{0,1\}^n$ is bounded…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ehud Cseresnyes , Hannes Seiwert

We introduce linear programs encoding regular expressions of finite languages. We show that, given a language, the optimum value of the associated linear program is a lower bound on the size of any regular expression of the language.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Hamoon Mousavi

When applied to question answering and other text generation tasks, language models (LMs) may be queried generatively (by sampling answers from their output distribution) or discriminatively (by using them to score or rank a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Athul Paul Jacob , Yikang Shen , Gabriele Farina , Jacob Andreas

How does one measure "ability to understand language"? If it is a person's ability that is being measured, this is a question that almost never poses itself in an unqualified manner: Whatever formal test is applied, it takes place on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 David Schlangen

Parity games can be used to represent many different kinds of decision problems. In practice, tools that use parity games often rely on a specification in a higher-order logic from which the actual game can be obtained by means of an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Maurice Laveaux , Wieger Wesselink , Tim A. C. Willemse

We study 4 problems in string matching, namely, regular expression matching, approximate regular expression matching, string edit distance, and subsequence indexing, on a standard word RAM model of computation that allows logarithmic-sized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Philip Bille , Martin Farach-Colton

We show that each of the regularity properties of regular conditional distributions of correspondences (convexity, closedness, compactness, and preservation of closed graphs) is equivalent to the condition of nowhere equivalence. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Motoki Otsuka

This paper deals with different concepts for characterizing the size of mathematical objects. A game theoretic investigation and generalization of two size concepts, which can both be formulated in topological terms, is provided: the so…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Falko Weigt

Game semantics aim at describing the interactive behaviour of proofs by interpreting formulas as games on which proofs induce strategies. In this article, we introduce a game semantics for a fragment of first order propositional logic. One…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Samuel Mimram

This paper establishes the existence of equilibria result of a class of mean field games with singular controls. The interaction takes place through both states and controls. A relaxed solution approach is used. To circumvent the tightness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Guanxing Fu

A regular expression specifies a set of strings formed by single characters combined with concatenation, union, and Kleene star operators. Given a regular expression $R$ and a string $Q$, the regular expression matching problem is to decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz