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We present an elaboration of inductive definitions down to a universe of datatypes. The universe of datatypes is an internal presentation of strictly positive families within type theory. By elaborating an inductive definition -- a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Pierre-Evariste Dagand , Conor McBride

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on text-attributed graphs (TAGs). This work reframes CoT-based graph learning through the principle of clustering as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xuanting Xie , Zhaochen Guo , Bingheng Li , Xingtong Yu , Zhifei Liao , Zhao Kang , Yuan Fang

We propose to study proof search from a coinductive point of view. In this paper, we consider intuitionistic logic and a focused system based on Herbelin's LJT for the implicational fragment. We introduce a variant of lambda calculus with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-05 José Espírito Santo , Ralph Matthes , Luís Pinto

Logical frameworks provide natural and direct ways of specifying and reasoning within deductive systems. The logical framework LF and subsequent developments focus on finitary proof systems, making the formalization of circular proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhibo Chen , Frank Pfenning

Terms are a concise representation of tree structures. Since they can be naturally defined by an inductive type, they offer data structures in functional programming and mechanised reasoning with useful principles such as structural…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Makoto Hamana

The approach to proof search dubbed "coinductive proof search" (CoIPS), and previously developed by the authors for implicational intuitionistic logic, is in this paper extended to LJP, a focused sequent-calculus presentation of polarized…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 José Espírito Santo , Ralph Matthes , Luís Pinto

Theorem provers are tools that help users to write machine readable proofs. Some of this tools are also interactive. The need of such softwares is increasing since they provide proofs that are more certified than the hand written ones. Agda…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Luca Ciccone

The main aim of this paper is to promote a certain style of doing coinductive proofs, similar to inductive proofs as commonly done by mathematicians. For this purpose, we provide a reasonably direct justification for coinductive proofs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Łukasz Czajka

Bove and Capretta's popular method for justifying function definitions by general recursive equations is based on the observation that any structured general recursion equation defines an inductive subset of the intended domain (the "domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Tarmo Uustalu

While long, explicit chains-of-thought (CoT) have proven effective on complex reasoning tasks, they are costly to generate during inference. Non-verbal reasoning methods have emerged with shorter generation lengths by leveraging continuous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Keshav Ramji , Tahira Naseem , Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

Logic Programming is a Turing complete language. As a consequence, designing algorithms that decide termination and non-termination of programs or decide inductive/coinductive soundness of formulae is a challenging task. For example, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Yue Li

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has enabled large language models (LLMs) to utilize additional computation through intermediate tokens to solve complex tasks. However, we posit that typical reasoning traces contain many redundant tokens,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Tergel Munkhbat , Namgyu Ho , Seo Hyun Kim , Yongjin Yang , Yujin Kim , Se-Young Yun

We extend the work of A. Ciaffaglione and P. Di Gianantonio on mechanical verification of algorithms for exact computation on real numbers, using infinite streams of digits implemented as co-inductive types. Four aspects are studied: the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yves Bertot

We propose abstract compilation for precise static type analysis of object-oriented languages based on coinductive logic programming. Source code is translated to a logic program, then type-checking and inference problems amount to queries…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Luca Franceschini , Davide Ancona , Ekaterina Komendantskaya

A detailed exposition of foundations of a logic-algebraic model for reasoning with knowledge bases specified by propositional (Boolean) logic is presented. The model is conceived from the logical translation of usual derivatives on…

We give an explicit coinduction principle for recursively-defined stochastic processes. The principle applies to any closed property, not just equality, and works even when solutions are not unique. The rule encapsulates low-level analytic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Dexter Kozen

We introduce a generic presentation of 'syntactic objects built by mixed induction and coinduction' encompassing all standard kinds of infinitary terms, as well as derivation trees in non-wellfounded proof systems. We then define a notion…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Rémy Cerda , Alexis Saurin

We present an extension of the second-order logic AF2 with iso-style inductive and coinductive definitions specifically designed to extract programs from proofs a la Krivine-Parigot by means of primitive (co)recursion principles. Our logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Favio Ezequiel Miranda-Perea , Lourdes del Carmen González-Huesca

We present the guarded lambda-calculus, an extension of the simply typed lambda-calculus with guarded recursive and coinductive types. The use of guarded recursive types ensures the productivity of well-typed programs. Guarded recursive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Ranald Clouston , Aleš Bizjak , Hans Bugge Grathwohl , Lars Birkedal

Using a call-by-value functional language as an example, this article illustrates the use of coinductive definitions and proofs in big-step operational semantics, enabling it to describe diverging evaluations in addition to terminating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-08-06 Xavier Leroy , Hervé Grall