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Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance in analyzing and generating text, yet they struggle with explicit, transparent, and verifiable reasoning over complex texts such as those containing debates. In particular, they lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gianvincenzo Alfano , Sergio Greco , Lucio La Cava , Stefano Francesco Monea , Irina Trubitsyna

This paper develops an assume-guarantee (AG) framework for the compositional verification of probabilistic automata (PAs) with uncertain transition probabilities. We study parametric probabilistic automata (pPAs), where probabilities are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hannah Mertens , Tim Quatmann , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Assumption-based Argumentation (ABA) is a well-known structured argumentation formalism, whereby arguments and attacks between them are drawn from rules, defeasible assumptions and their contraries. A common restriction imposed on ABA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Markus Ulbricht , Nico Potyka , Anna Rapberger , Francesca Toni

The notion of stability in a structured argumentation setup characterizes situations where the acceptance status associated with a given literal will not be impacted by any future evolution of this setup. In this paper, we abstract away…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Jean-Guy Mailly , Julien Rossit

Search-optimization problems are plentiful in scientific and engineering domains. Artificial intelligence has long contributed to the development of search algorithms and declarative programming languages geared towards solving and modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yuliya Lierler

Humans currently use arguments for explaining choices which are already made, or for evaluating potential choices. Each potential choice has usually pros and cons of various strengths. In spite of the usefulness of arguments in a decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Leila Amgoud , Henri Prade

Assumption-based Argumentation (ABA) is advocated as a unifying formalism for various forms of non-monotonic reasoning, including logic programming. It allows capturing defeasible knowledge, subject to argumentative debate. While, in much…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Emanuele De Angelis , Maurizio Proietti , Francesca Toni

Evaluation of large language models (LLMs) has raised great concerns in the community due to the issue of data contamination. Existing work designed evaluation protocols using well-defined algorithms for specific tasks, which cannot be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Kaijie Zhu , Jindong Wang , Qinlin Zhao , Ruochen Xu , Xing Xie

Auto-formalization (AF) translates natural-language reasoning problems into solver-executable programs, enabling symbolic solvers to perform sound logical deduction. In practice, however, AF pipelines are currently brittle: programs may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhiyu Ni , Zheng Liang , Liangcheng Song , Chenrui Cao , Xian Zhang , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Pierluigi Nuzzo

The successful analysis of argumentative techniques from user-generated text is central to many downstream tasks such as political and market analysis. Recent argument mining tools use state-of-the-art deep learning methods to extract and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Amirhossein Farzam , Shashank Shekhar , Isaac Mehlhaff , Marco Morucci

Formal logic has often been seen as uniquely placed to analyze mathematical argumentation. While formal logic is certainly necessary for a complete understanding of mathematical practice, it is not sufficient. Important aspects of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Andrew Aberdein , Zoe Ashton

Understanding learning as a dynamic process is challenging due to the interaction of multiple factors, including cognitive load, internal state change, and subjective evaluation. Existing approaches often address these elements in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Miyuki T. Nakata

Recent direct preference alignment algorithms (DPA), such as DPO, have shown great promise in aligning large language models to human preferences. While this has motivated the development of many new variants of the original DPO loss,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Kyle Richardson , Vivek Srikumar , Ashish Sabharwal

The profusion of knowledge encoded in large language models (LLMs) and their ability to apply this knowledge zero-shot in a range of settings makes them promising candidates for use in decision-making. However, they are currently limited by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Gabriel Freedman , Adam Dejl , Deniz Gorur , Xiang Yin , Antonio Rago , Francesca Toni

Common Knowledge Logic is meant to describe situations of the real world where a group of agents is involved. These agents share knowledge and make strong statements on the knowledge of the other agents (the so called \emph{common…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-20 Pierre Lescanne , Jérôme Puisségur

Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) is a family of multimodal logics that has proved to be very successful for epistemic reasoning in planning tasks. In this logic, the agent's knowledge is captured by modal epistemic operators whereas the system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Luis Fariñas del Cerro

This paper presents a novel framework for structured argumentation, named extend argumentative decision graph ($xADG$). It is an extension of argumentative decision graphs built upon Dung's abstract argumentation graphs. The $xADG$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Lucas Rizzo , Luca Longo

Argumentation is an important topic of AI for modelling and reasoning about arguments. In abstract argumentation, we consider directed graphs, so-called argumentation frameworks (AF), that express conflicts between arguments. The semantics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Yasir Mahmood , Zhengjun Wang

Against the backdrop of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, legal argument mining has emerged as an important research area linking legal texts with intelligent analysis, carrying significant theoretical and practical implications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xianglei Liao , Chuanyi Li , Kun Chen

We survey dynamic logics for specifying and verifying properties of dynamical systems, including hybrid systems, distributed hybrid systems, and stochastic hybrid systems. A dynamic logic is a first-order modal logic with a pair of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-07 André Platzer