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Inference is a fundamental reasoning technique in probability theory. When applied to a large joint distribution, it involves updating with evidence (conditioning) in one or more components (variables) and computing the outcome in other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Bart Jacobs , Márk Széles , Dario Stein

We present a categorical theory of monads and distributive laws in substructural contexts. In the study of distributive laws, the roles of (the absence of) structural rules for variable contexts have been recognized; our theory formalizes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Soichiro Fujii , Yun Chen Tsai , Yoàv Montacute , Ichiro Hasuo

We develop a method to incrementally construct programming languages. Our approach is categorical: each layer of the language is described as a monad. Our method either (i) concretely builds a distributive law between two monads, i.e.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Fredrik Dahlqvist , Louis Parlant , Alexandra Silva

We consider the problem of searching for proofs in sequential presentations of logics with multiplicative (or intensional) connectives. Specifically, we start with the multiplicative fragment of linear logic and extend, on the one hand, to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 James Harland , David Pym

The familiar adjunction between ordered sets and completely distributive lattices can be extended to generalised metric spaces, that is, categories enriched over a quantale (a lattice of "truth values"), via an appropriate distributive law…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Adriana Balan , Alexander Kurz

Distributive laws of a monad T over a functor F are categorical tools for specifying algebra-coalgebra interaction. They proved to be important for solving systems of corecursive equations, for the specification of well-behaved structural…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Marcello M. Bonsangue , Helle Hvid Hansen , Alexander Kurz , Jurriaan Rot

The delay monad provides a way to introduce general recursion in type theory. To write programs that use a wide range of computational effects directly in type theory, we need to combine the delay monad with the monads of these effects.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg , Maaike Zwart

Compositional generalization, the ability of an agent to generalize to unseen combinations of latent factors, is easy for humans but hard for deep neural networks. A line of research in cognitive science has hypothesized a process,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yi Ren , Samuel Lavoie , Mikhail Galkin , Danica J. Sutherland , Aaron Courville

The set of permutations on a finite set can be given a lattice structure (known as the weak Bruhat order). The lattice structure is generalized to the set of words on a fixed alphabet $\Sigma = \{ x, y, z, ... \}$, where each letter has a…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Maria João Gouveia , Luigi Santocanale

Representing a proof tree by a combinator term that reduces to the tree lets subtle forms of duplication within the tree materialize as duplicated subterms of the combinator term. In a DAG representation of the combinator term these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Christoph Wernhard

The theory of matrix splitting is a useful tool for finding solution of rectangular linear system of equations, iteratively. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, we revisit theory of weak regular splittings for rectangular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Debasisha Mishra

We study the joint distribution of the number of occurrences of members of a collection of nonoverlapping motifs in digital data. We deal with finite and countably infinite collections. For infinite collections, the setting requires that we…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Jeffrey Gaither , Hosam Mahmoud , Mark Daniel Ward

String diagrams are an increasingly popular algebraic language for the analysis of graphical models of computations across different research fields. Whereas string diagrams have been thoroughly studied as semantic structures, much less…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Paul Wilson , Fabio Zanasi

Natural language data follows a power-law distribution, with most knowledge and skills appearing at very low frequency. While a common intuition suggests that reweighting or curating data towards a uniform distribution may help models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zixuan Wang , Xingyu Dang , Jason D. Lee , Kaifeng Lyu

A graph is weakly $2$-colored if the nodes are labeled with colors black and white such that each black node is adjacent to at least one white node and vice versa. In this work we study the distributed computational complexity of weak…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Alkida Balliu , Juho Hirvonen , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

We study the number of random records in an arbitrary split tree (or equivalently, the number of random cuttings required to eliminate the tree). We show that a classical limit theorem for convergence of sums of triangular arrays to…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-05-26 Cecilia Holmgren

In this paper, we give an alternative proof of the fact that, when compounding a nonnegative probability distribution, convex ordering between the distributions of the number of summands implies convex ordering between the resulting…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Jean Bérard , Nicolas Juillet

Our earlier work titled: "Win-move is Coordination-Free (Sometimes)" has shown that the classes of queries that can be distributedly computed in a coordination-free manner form a strict hierarchy depending on the assumptions of the model…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Daniel Zinn

Turi and Plotkin's bialgebraic semantics is an abstract approach to specifying the operational semantics of a system, by means of a distributive law between its syntax (encoded as a monad) and its dynamics (an endofunctor). This setup is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Filippo Bonchi , Robin Piedeleu , Pawel Sobocinski , Fabio Zanasi

We deal with the random combinatorial structures called assemblies. By weakening the logarithmic condition which assures regularity of the number of components of a given order, we extend the notion of logarithmic assemblies. Using the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Eugenijus Manstavičius