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Recent advances in Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis have seen the popularity of multi-stage approaches that first predict semantic tokens and then generate acoustic tokens. In this paper, we extend the coarse-to-fine generation paradigm to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Jianbo Ma , Richard Cartwright

Humans can reason compositionally when presented with new tasks. Previous research shows that appropriate prompting techniques enable large language models (LLMs) to solve artificial compositional generalization tasks such as SCAN. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Andrew Drozdov , Nathanael Schärli , Ekin Akyürek , Nathan Scales , Xinying Song , Xinyun Chen , Olivier Bousquet , Denny Zhou

We introduce CPDL+, a family of expressive logics rooted in Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL). In terms of expressive power, CPDL+ strictly contains PDL extended with intersection and converse (a.k.a. ICPDL) as well as Conjunctive Queries…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Diego Figueira , Santiago Figueira , Edwin Pin

Discrete mathematics is the foundation of computer science. It focuses on concepts and reasoning methods that are studied using math notations. It has long been argued that discrete math is better taught with programming, which takes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yanhong A. Liu , Matthew Castelllana

Decision making in real-life scenarios may often be modeled as an optimization problem. It requires the consideration of various attributes like human preferences and thinking, which constrain achieving the optimal value of the problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Prashant K Gupta , Pranab K. Muhuri

We study induction on the program structure as a proof method for bisimulation-based compiler correctness. We consider a first-order language with mutually recursive function definitions, system calls, and an environment semantics. The…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Sigurd Schneider , Gert Smolka , Sebastian Hack

Data-Oriented Parsing (dop) ranks among the best parsing schemes, pairing state-of-the art parsing accuracy to the psycholinguistic insight that larger chunks of syntactic structures are relevant grammatical and probabilistic units. Parsing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Guy De Pauw

Recently, there has been a growing interest in text-to-speech (TTS) methods that can be trained with minimal supervision by combining two types of discrete speech representations and using two sequence-to-sequence tasks to decouple TTS.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Hao Ni , He Qu , Ruibo Fu , Tao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

We examine a bidirectional propositional dynamic logic (PDL) for finite and infinite message sequence charts (MSCs) extending LTL and TLC-. By this kind of multi-modal logic we can express properties both in the entire future and in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Benedikt Bollig , Dietrich Kuske , Ingmar Meinecke

Incremental computation has recently been studied using the concepts of change structures and derivatives of programs, where the derivative of a function allows updating the output of the function based on a change to its input. We…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Mario Alvarez-Picallo , Alex Eyers-Taylor , Michael Peyton Jones , C. -H. Luke Ong

DHOL is an extensional, classical logic that equips the well-known higher-order logic (HOL) with dependent types. This allows for concise encodings of important domains like size-bounded data structures, category theory, or proof theory.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Rhea Ranalter , Florian Rabe , Cezary Kaliszyk

Generating formal-language programs represented by relational tuples, such as Lisp programs or mathematical operations, to solve problems stated in natural language is a challenging task because it requires explicitly capturing discrete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Kezhen Chen , Qiuyuan Huang , Hamid Palangi , Paul Smolensky , Kenneth D. Forbus , Jianfeng Gao

The problem of explaining inconsistency-tolerant reasoning in knowledge bases (KBs) is a prominent topic in Artificial Intelligence (AI). While there is some work on this problem, the explanations provided by existing approaches often lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Loan Ho , Stefan Schlobach

This work introduces TTS-Transducer - a novel architecture for text-to-speech, leveraging the strengths of audio codec models and neural transducers. Transducers, renowned for their superior quality and robustness in speech recognition, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Vladimir Bataev , Subhankar Ghosh , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jason Li

With the technology of the time, Kowalski's seminal 1974 paper {\em Predicate Logic as a Programming Language} was a breakthrough for the use of logic in computer science. It introduced two fundamental ideas: on the declarative side, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Broes De Cat , Bart Bogaerts , Maurice Bruynooghe , Gerda Janssens , Marc Denecker

Combinatorial evolution - the creation of new things through the combination of existing things - can be a powerful way to evolve rather than design technical objects such as electronic circuits. Intriguingly, this seems to be an ongoing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Sebastian Fix , Thomas Probst , Oliver Ruggli , Thomas Hanne , Patrik Christen

System development is not a linear, one-shot process. It proceeds through refinements and revisions. To support assurance that the system satisfies its requirements, it is desirable that continuous verification can be performed after each…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Claudio Menghi , Alessandro Maria Rizzi , Anna Bernasconi

We introduce CODS (Computational Optimization in Design Space), a theoretical model that frames computational design as a constrained optimization problem over a structured, multi-dimensional design space. Unlike existing methods that rely…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nan Cao , Xiaoyu Qi , Chuer Chen , Xiaoke Yan

Though many safety-critical software systems use floating point to represent real-world input and output, programmers usually have idealized versions in mind that compute with real numbers. Significant deviations from the ideal can cause…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Benjamin Sherman , Luke Sciarappa , Adam Chlipala , Michael Carbin

To comprehensively evaluate the mathematical reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), researchers have introduced abundant mathematical reasoning datasets. However, most existing datasets primarily focus on linear reasoning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yuliang Ji , Fuchen Shen , Jian Wu , Qiujie Xie , Yue Zhang