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Some aspects of basic category theory are developed in a finitely complete category $\C$, endowed with two factorization systems which determine the same discrete objects and are linked by a simple reciprocal stability law. Resting on this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-06 Claudio Pisani

In the past years, software reverse engineering dealt with source code understanding. Nowadays, it is levered to software requirements abstract level, supported by feature model notations, language independent, and simpler than the source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Anas Alhamwieh , Said Ghoul

The basic method of rewriting for words in a free monoid given a monoid presentation is extended to rewriting for paths in a free category given a `Kan extension presentation'. This is related to work of Carmody-Walters on the Todd-Coxeter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ronald Brown , Anne Heyworth

We give an introduction to constructive category theory by answering two guiding computational questions. The first question is: how do we compute the set of all natural transformations between two finitely presented functors like…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Sebastian Posur

Automated generation of high-quality topical hierarchies for a text collection is a dream problem in knowledge engineering with many valuable applications. In this paper a scalable and robust algorithm is proposed for constructing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Chi Wang , Xueqing Liu , Yanglei Song , Jiawei Han

Many definitions of weak and strict $\infty$-categories have been proposed. In this paper we present a definition for $\infty$-categories with strict associators, but which is otherwise fully weak. Our approach is based on the existing type…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Eric Finster , Alex Rice , Jamie Vicary

This paper presents a batch classifier that has been improved from the earlier version and fixed a mistake in the earlier paper. Two important changes have been made. Each category is represented by a classifier, where each classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Kieran Greer

The use of rewriting-based visual formalisms is on the rise. In the formal methods community, this is due also to the introduction of adhesive categories, where most properties of classical approaches to graph transformation, such as those…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Roberto Biondo , Davide Castelnovo , Fabio Gadducci

In many applications of neural network, it is common to introduce huge amounts of input categorical features, as well as output labels. However, since the required network size should have rapid growth with respect to the dimensions of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Qizhi Zhang , Kuang-chih Lee , Hongying Bao , Yuan You , Dongbai Guo

This paper introduces the Token Space framework, a novel mathematical construct designed to enhance the interpretability and effectiveness of deep learning models through the application of category theory. By establishing a categorical…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Wuming Pan

The importance of category theory in recent developments in both mathematics and in computer science cannot be overstated. However, its abstract nature makes it difficult to understand at first. Graphical languages have been developed to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Luc Chabassier

Copying, or cloning, is a basic operation used in the specification of many applications in computer science. However, when dealing with complex structures, like graphs, cloning is not a straightforward operation since a copy of a single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frederic Prost , Leila Ribeiro

The variety of data is one of the important issues in the era of Big Data. The data are naturally organized in different formats and models, including structured data, semi-structured data, and unstructured data. Prior research has…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Valter Uotila , Jiaheng Lu , Dieter Gawlick , Zhen Hua Liu , Souripriya Das , Gregory Pogossiants

We present a systematic, algebraically based, design methodology for efficient implementation of computer programs optimized over multiple levels of the processor/memory and network hierarchy. Using a common formalism to describe the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2008-03-18 Lenore R. Mullin , James E. Raynolds

Category discovery (CD) is an emerging open-world learning task, which aims at automatically categorizing unlabelled data containing instances from unseen classes, given some labelled data from seen classes. This task has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenqi He , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han

A new categorical setting is defined in order to characterize the subrecursive classes belonging to complexity hierarchies. This is achieved by means of coercion functors over a symmetric monoidal category endowed with certain recursion…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Joaquín Díaz Boils

We develop a representation theory of categories as a means to explore characteristic structures in algebra. Characteristic structures play a critical role in isomorphism testing of groups and algebras, and their construction and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Peter A. Brooksbank , Heiko Dietrich , Joshua Maglione , E. A. O'Brien , James B. Wilson

Compact categories have lately seen renewed interest via applications to quantum physics. Being essentially finite-dimensional, they cannot accomodate (co)limit-based constructions. For example, they cannot capture protocols such as quantum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Chris Heunen

The performance of text classification has improved tremendously using intelligently engineered neural-based models, especially those injecting categorical metadata as additional information, e.g., using user/product information for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Jihyeok Kim , Reinald Kim Amplayo , Kyungjae Lee , Sua Sung , Minji Seo , Seung-won Hwang

Compilers are indispensable for transforming code written in high-level languages into performant machine code, but their general-purpose optimizations sometimes fall short. Domain experts might be aware of certain optimizations that the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jules Merckx , Tim Besard , Bjorn De Sutter