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Compositionality is one of the fundamental abilities of the human reasoning process, that allows to decompose a complex problem into simpler elements. Such property is crucial also for neural networks, especially when aiming for a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Luigi Quarantiello , Andrea Cossu , Vincenzo Lomonaco

Most semantic parsers that map sentences to graph-based meaning representations are hand-designed for specific graphbanks. We present a compositional neural semantic parser which achieves, for the first time, competitive accuracies across a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Matthias Lindemann , Jonas Groschwitz , Alexander Koller

Categorical compositional distributional semantics is an approach to modelling language that combines the success of vector-based models of meaning with the compositional power of formal semantics. However, this approach was developed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Martha Lewis

We propose a new graph convolutional block, called MusGConv, specifically designed for the efficient processing of musical score data and motivated by general perceptual principles. It focuses on two fundamental dimensions of music, pitch…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Emmanouil Karystinaios , Francesco Foscarin , Gerhard Widmer

A concept of "evolving categories" is suggested to build a simple, scalable, mathematically consistent framework for representing in uniform way both data and algorithms. A state machine for executing algorithms becomes clear, rich and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Evgeny Yanenko

The window mean-payoff objective strengthens the classical mean-payoff objective by computing the mean-payoff over a finite window that slides along an infinite path. Two variants have been considered: in one variant, the maximum window…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Pranshu Gaba , Shibashis Guha

We consider the mean-field game price formation model introduced by Gomes and Sa\'ude. In this MFG model, agents trade a commodity whose supply can be deterministic or stochastic. Agents maximize profit, taking into account current and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Yuri Ashrafyan , Tigran Bakaryan , Diogo Gomes , Julian Gutierrez

We propose a mathematical framework for a unification of the distributional theory of meaning in terms of vector space models, and a compositional theory for grammatical types, for which we rely on the algebra of Pregroups, introduced by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-03-24 Bob Coecke , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Stephen Clark

Markov games (MGs) provide a mathematical foundation for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), enabling self-interested agents to learn their optimal policies while interacting with others in a shared environment. However, due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Huiwen Yan , Mushuang Liu

We accommodate the Integrated Connectionist/Symbolic Architecture (ICS) of [32] within the categorical compositional semantics (CatCo) of [13], forming a model of categorical compositional cognition (CatCog). This resolves intrinsic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yaared Al-Mehairi , Bob Coecke , Martha Lewis

Process theories provide a powerful framework for describing compositional structures across diverse fields, from quantum mechanics to computational linguistics. Traditionally, they have been formalized using symmetric monoidal categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-12 John H. Selby , Maria E. Stasinou , Matt Wilson , Bob Coecke

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Most specification languages express only qualitative constraints. However, among two implementations that satisfy a given specification, one may be preferred to another. For example, if a specification asks that every request is followed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-29 Roderick Bloem , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Barbara Jobstmann

Answering compositional questions requiring multi-step reasoning is challenging. We introduce an end-to-end differentiable model for interpreting questions about a knowledge graph (KG), which is inspired by formal approaches to semantics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Nitish Gupta , Mike Lewis

Compositional generalization is a key facet of human cognition, but lacking in current AI tools such as vision-language models. Previous work examined whether a compositional tensor-based sentence semantics can overcome the challenge, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Hala Hawashin , Mina Abbaszadeh , Nicholas Joseph , Beth Pearson , Martha Lewis , Mehrnoosh sadrzadeh

We provide an overview of the hybrid compositional distributional model of meaning, developed in Coecke et al. (arXiv:1003.4394v1 [cs.CL]), which is based on the categorical methods also applied to the analysis of information flow in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Edward Grefenstette

Mean-payoff games on timed automata are played on the infinite weighted graph of configurations of priced timed automata between two players, Player Min and Player Max, by moving a token along the states of the graph to form an infinite…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Shibashis Guha , Marcin Jurdzinski , Krishna S. , Ashutosh Trivedi

Metropolis-Hastings (MH) is a foundational Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. In this paper, we ask whether it is possible to formulate and analyse MH in terms of categorical probability, using a recent involutive framework for…

Computation · Statistics 2026-02-02 Rob Cornish , Andi Q. Wang

In this paper we examine fully nonlinear mean-field games associated with a minimization problem. The variational setting is driven by a functional depending on its argument through its Hessian matrix. We work under fairly natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Pêdra D. S. Andrade , Edgard A. Pimentel

As autonomy becomes prevalent in many applications, ranging from recommendation systems to fully autonomous vehicles, there is an increased need to provide safety guarantees for such systems. The problem is difficult, as these are large,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Corina S. Pasareanu , Divya Gopinath , Huafeng Yu