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Despite deep learning models running well-defined mathematical functions, we lack a formal mathematical framework for describing model architectures. Ad-hoc notation, diagrams, and pseudocode poorly handle nonlinear broadcasting and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Vincent Abbott , Gioele Zardini

Naturally occurring diagrams in algebraic topology are commutative up to homotopy, but not on the nose. It was quickly realized that very little can be done with this information. Homotopy coherent category theory arose out of a desire to…

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The technique of \emph{equality saturation}, which equips graphs with an equivalence relation, has proven effective for program optimisation. We give a categorical semantics to these structures, called \emph{e-graphs}, in terms of Cartesian…

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Hypergraphs are structures that can be decomposed or described; in other words they are recursively countable. Here, we get exact and asymptotic enumeration results on hypergraphs by means of exponential generating functions. The number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-06-20 Tsiriniaina Andriamampianina

We consider constrained variants of graph homomorphisms such as embeddings, monomorphisms, full homomorphisms, surjective homomorpshims, and locally constrained homomorphisms. We also introduce a new variation on this theme which derives…

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We introduce the study of parametrized higher category theory and parametrized higher algebra, and we describe the main theorems of the series of Expos\'es that make up the monograph.

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For an integer n>2 we define a polylogarithm, which is a holomorphic function on the universal abelian cover of C-{0,1} defined modulo (2 pi i)^n/(n-1)!. We use the formal properties of its functional relations to define groups lifting…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Christian K. Zickert

Based on a reduction processing, we rewrite a hypergeometric term as the sum of the difference of a hypergeometric term and a reduced hypergeometric term (the reduced part, in short). We show that when the initial hypergeometric term has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Qing-Hu Hou , Yan-Ping Mu , Doron Zeilberger

The degree partition of a simple graph is its degree sequence rearranged in weakly decreasing order. The polytope of degree partitions (respectively, degree sequences) is the convex hull of all degree partitions (respectively, degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Amitava Bhattacharya , S. Sivasubramanian , Murali K. Srinivasan

We introduce higher dimensional hypergraphs, which is a generalization of Baez-Dolans's opetopic sets and Hermida-Makkai-Power's multigraphs. This is based on a simple combinatorial structure called shells and the formal composites of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Akira Higuchi , Hiroyuki Miyoshi , Toru Tsujishita

Hypergraphs, which belong to the family of higher-order networks, are a natural and powerful choice for modeling group interactions in the real world. For example, when modeling collaboration networks, which may involve not just two but…

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Understanding the structure of a graph along with the structure of its subgraphs is important for several problems in graph theory. Two examples are the Reconstruction Conjecture and isomorph-free generation. This paper raises the question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-18 Stephen G. Hartke , Hannah Kolb , Jared Nishikawa , Derrick Stolee

Graph transformation is concerned with the manipulation of graphs by means of rules. Graph grammars have been traditionally studied using techniques from category theory. In previous works, we introduced Matrix Graph Grammars (MGGs) as a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-06 Pedro Pablo Perez Velasco , Juan de Lara

We define a notion of cofibration among n-categories and show that the cofibrant objects are exactly the free ones, that is those generated by polygraphs.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francois Metayer

Symmetric edge polytopes are a recent and well-studied family of centrally symmetric polytopes arising from graphs. In this paper, we introduce a generalization of this family to arbitrary simplicial complexes. We show how topological…

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Symmetric monoidal theories (SMTs) generalise algebraic theories in a way that make them suitable to express resource-sensitive systems, in which variables cannot be copied or discarded at will. In SMTs, traditional tree-like terms are…

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This work is about diagrammatic languages, how they can be represented, and what they in turn can be used to represent. More specifically, it focuses on representations and applications of string diagrams. String diagrams are used to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-23 Aleks Kissinger

We examine a variant of hypergraphs that we call interfaced linear hypergraphs, with the aim of creating a sound and complete graphical language for symmetric traced monoidal categories (STMCs) suitable for graph rewriting. In particular,…

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