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Order-invariant formulas access an ordering on a structure's universe, but the model relation is independent of the used ordering. Order invariance is frequently used for logic-based approaches in computer science. Order-invariant formulas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Michael Elberfeld , Marlin Frickenschmidt , Martin Grohe

The promise of lifted probabilistic inference is to carry out probabilistic inference in a relational probabilistic model without needing to reason about each individual separately (grounding out the representation) by treating the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-22 David Poole , Fahiem Bacchus , Jacek Kisynski

Many representation schemes combining first-order logic and probability have been proposed in recent years. Progress in unifying logical and probabilistic inference has been slower. Existing methods are mainly variants of lifted variable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Vibhav Gogate , Pedro Domingos

Landmarks have long played a pivotal role in automated planning, serving as crucial elements for improving the planning algorithms. The main limitation of classical landmark extraction methods is their sensitivity to specific planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cristian Pérez-Corral , Antonio Garrido , Laura Sebastia

Lifted inference has been proposed for various probabilistic logical frameworks in order to compute the probability of queries in a time that depends on the size of the domains of the random variables rather than the number of instances.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elena Bellodi , Evelina Lamma , Fabrizio Riguzzi , Vitor Santos Costa , Riccardo Zese

A key goal in the design of probabilistic inference algorithms is identifying and exploiting properties of the distribution that make inference tractable. Lifted inference algorithms identify symmetry as a property that enables efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Steven Holtzen , Todd Millstein , Guy Van den Broeck

Lifted (family-based) static analysis by abstract interpretation is capable of analyzing all variants of a program family simultaneously, in a single run without generating any of the variants explicitly. The elements of the underlying…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Aleksandar S. Dimovski , Sven Apel , Axel Legay

We show that if we enrich first order logic by allowing quantification over isomorphisms between definable ordered fields the resulting logic, L(Q_{Of}), is fully compact. In this logic, we can give standard compactness proofs of various…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Alan H. Mekler , Saharon Shelah

In recent work, we proved that the domain recursion inference rule makes domain-lifted inference possible on several relational probability models (RPMs) for which the best known time complexity used to be exponential. We also identified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Seyed Mehran Kazemi , Angelika Kimmig , Guy Van den Broeck , David Poole

This paper studies algorithmic meta theorems for property testing with \emph{constant running time} in the bounded degree model. In (Adler, Harwath 2018) it was shown that on graph classes $\mathcal C^{w}_d$ consisting of all graphs with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Isolde Adler , Jenny Stimpson

Query evaluation on probabilistic databases is generally intractable (#P-hard). Existing dichotomy results have identified which queries are tractable (or safe), and connected them to tractable lineages. In our previous work, using…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Antoine Amarilli , Pierre Bourhis , Pierre Senellart

Lifted probabilistic inference exploits symmetries in a probabilistic model to allow for tractable probabilistic inference with respect to domain sizes. To apply lifted inference, a lifted representation has to be obtained, and to do so,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Malte Luttermann , Tanya Braun , Ralf Möller , Marcel Gehrke

Query evaluation in monadic second-order logic (MSO) is tractable on trees and treelike instances, even though it is hard for arbitrary instances. This tractability result has been extended to several tasks related to query evaluation, such…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Antoine Amarilli , Pierre Bourhis , Pierre Senellart

We consider a specific class of tree structures that can represent basic structures in linguistics and computer science such as XML documents, parse trees, and treebanks, namely, finite node-labeled sibling-ordered trees. We present…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Amélie Gheerbrant , Balder ten Cate

Lifted probabilistic inference algorithms exploit regularities in the structure of graphical models to perform inference more efficiently. More specifically, they identify groups of interchangeable variables and perform inference once per…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Nima Taghipour , Daan Fierens , Jesse Davis , Hendrik Blockeel

Recently, symbolic structures were proposed as finite representations of potentially infinite first-order structures, where Linear Integer Arithmetic terms and formulas define the domain and interpretations of a structure. We generalize…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Neta Elad , Sharon Shoham

While modal extensions of decidable fragments of first-order logic are usually undecidable, their monodic counterparts, in which formulas in the scope of modal operators have at most one free variable, are typically decidable. This only…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Alessandro Artale , Christopher Hampson , Roman Kontchakov , Andrea Mazzullo , Frank Wolter

Quantified modal logic provides a natural logical language for reasoning about modal attitudes even while retaining the richness of quantification for referring to predicates over domains. But then most fragments of the logic are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Anantha Padmanabha , R. Ramanujam , Yanjing Wang

It is well-known that extending the Hilbert axiomatic system for first-order intuitionistic logic with an exclusion operator, that is dual to implication, collapses the domains of models into a constant domain. This makes it an interesting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Tim S. Lyon , Ian Shillito , Alwen Tiu

Algorithmic meta-theorems explain the tractability of large classes of computational problems by linking logical expressibility with structural graph properties. While extensions of first-order logic such as FO+dp admit efficient model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ignasi Sau , Nicole Schirrmacher , Sebastian Siebertz , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Alexandre Vigny