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Generalized linear and additive models are very efficient regression tools but the selection of relevant terms becomes difficult if higher order interactions are needed. In contrast, tree-based methods also known as recursive partitioning…

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The purpose of this paper is to show that the dual notions of elements & distinctions are the basic analytical concepts needed to unpack and analyze morphisms, duality, and universal constructions in the Sets, the category of sets and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-07 David Ellerman

We demonstrate how category theory provides specifications that can efficiently be implemented via imperative algorithms and apply this to the field of graph rewriting. By examples, we show how this paradigm of software development makes it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Kristopher Brown , Evan Patterson , Tyler Hanks , James Fairbanks

We introduce functorial language models: a principled way to compute probability distributions over word sequences given a monoidal functor from grammar to meaning. This yields a method for training categorical compositional distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Alexis Toumi , Alex Koziell-Pipe

Categorical predictors are omnipresent in everyday regression practice: in fact, most regression data involve some categorical predictors, and this tendency is increasing in modern applications with more complex structures and larger data…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-11 Chaegeun Song , Zhong Zheng , Bing Li , Lingzhou Xue

With infinitely many high-quality data points, infinite computational power, an infinitely large foundation model with a perfect training algorithm and guaranteed zero generalization error on the pretext task, can the model be used for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yang Yuan

Classification is an important goal in many branches of mathematics. The idea is to describe the members of some class of mathematical objects, up to isomorphism or other important equivalence in terms of relatively simple invariants. Where…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-03-25 Wesley Calvert , Julia F. Knight

Machine Learning has become very famous currently which assist in identifying the patterns from the raw data. Technological advancement has led to substantial improvement in Machine Learning which, thus helping to improve prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Prayag Tiwari , Massimo Melucci

Applied category theory provides powerful mathematical tools for modelling processes and their composition. Symmetric monoidal categories, which involve series and parallel composition, are particularly well-suited for describing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Muhammad Hamza Waseem

In this paper, we consider ensemble classifiers, that is, machine learning based classifiers that utilize a combination of scoring functions. We provide a framework for categorizing such classifiers, and we outline several ensemble…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Mark Stamp , Aniket Chandak , Gavin Wong , Allen Ye

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

In this paper, we hypothesize that the effects of the degree of typicality in natural semantic categories can be generated based on the structure of artificial categories learned with deep learning models. Motivated by the human approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Omar Vidal Pino , Erickson Rangel Nascimento , Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos

Actions of monoidal categories on categories, also known as actegories, have been familiar to category theorists for a long time, and yet a comprehensive overview of this topic seems to be missing from the literature. Recently, actegories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Matteo Capucci , Bruno Gavranović

Cryptography is a theory of secret functions. Category theory is a general theory of functions. Cryptography has reached a stage where its structures often take several pages to define, and its formulas sometimes run from page to page.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Dusko Pavlovic

DisCoPy (Distributional Compositional Python) is an open source toolbox for computing with string diagrams and functors. In particular, the diagram data structure allows to encode various kinds of quantum processes, with functors for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Alexis Toumi , Giovanni de Felice , Richie Yeung

The integration of knowledge extracted from different models described by domain experts or from models generated by machine learning algorithms is strongly conditioned by the lack of an appropriated framework to specify and integrate…

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This is a draft of the textbook/monograph that presents computability theory using string diagrams. The introductory chapters have been taught as graduate and undergraduate courses and evolved through 8 years of lecture notes. The later…

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Both conceptual modeling and machine learning have long been recognized as important areas of research. With the increasing emphasis on digitizing and processing large amounts of data for business and other applications, it would be helpful…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Wolfgang Maass , Veda C. Storey

A certain amount of category theory is developed in an arbitrary finitely complete category with a factorization system on it, playing the role of the comprehensive factorization system on Cat. Those aspects related to the concepts of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-07 Claudio Pisani

Data of general object images have two most common structures: (1) each object of a given shape can be rendered in multiple different views, and (2) shapes of objects can be categorized in such a way that the diversity of shapes is much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Haruo Hosoya