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Using the theory of coalgebra, we introduce a uniform framework for adding modalities to the language of propositional geometric logic. Models for this logic are based on coalgebras for an endofunctor on some full subcategory of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Nick Bezhanishvili , Jim de Groot , Yde Venema

Behavioural distances generally offer more fine-grained means of comparing quantitative systems than two-valued behavioural equivalences. They often relate to quantitative modalities, which generate quantitative modal logics that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jonas Forster , Lutz Schröder , Paul Wild , Barbara König , Pedro Nora

We provide a generic algorithm for constructing formulae that distinguish behaviourally inequivalent states in systems of various transition types such as nondeterministic, probabilistic or weighted; genericity over the transition type is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Thorsten Wißmann , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder

In contrast to the existing approaches to bisimulation for fuzzy systems, we introduce a behavioral distance to measure the behavioral similarity of states in a nondeterministic fuzzy-transition system. This behavioral distance is defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Yongzhi Cao , Huaiqing Wang , Sherry X. Sun , Guoqing Chen

Behavioural distances provide a quantitative approach to comparing the states of transition systems, moving beyond traditional Boolean notions of equivalence. In this paper, we develop a sound and complete axiomatisation of behavioural…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Wojciech Różowski , Robin Piedeleu , Alexandra Silva , Fabio Zanasi

A popular approach to solving large probabilistic systems relies on aggregating states based on a measure of similarity. Many approaches in the literature are heuristic. A number of recent methods rely instead on metrics based on the notion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Norman Ferns , Pablo Samuel Castro , Doina Precup , Prakash Panangaden

The goal of this thesis is to study the use of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance as to build a descriptor of sample complexity in classification problems. The idea is to use the fact that the Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance is a metric in…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Gaël Giordano

Liftings of endofunctors on sets to endofunctors on relations are commonly used to capture bisimulation of coalgebras. Lax versions have been used in those cases where strict lifting fails to capture bisimilarity, as well as in modeling…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Ezra Schoen

We propose a new framework for integrating quantifiers with other logical connectives in a higher-categorical setting. Our method systematically incorporates key coherence conditions-including those akin to the Beck-Chevalley property-and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Barreto Joaquim Reizi

This survey is focused on the results related to topologies on the groups of transformations in ergodic theory, Borel, and Cantor dynamics. Various topological properties (density, connectedness, genericity) of these groups and their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-11-10 S. Bezuglyi , J. Kwiatkowski , K. Medynets

Behavioural metrics provide a quantitative refinement of classical two-valued behavioural equivalences on systems with quantitative data, such as metric or probabilistic transition systems. In analogy to the linear-time/branching-time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jonas Forster , Lutz Schröder , Paul Wild , Harsh Beohar , Sebastian Gurke , Barbara König , Karla Messing

This paper studies the quantitative refinements of Abramsky's applicative similarity and bisimilarity in the context of a generalisation of Fuzz, a call-by-value $\lambda$-calculus with a linear type system that can express programs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Francesco Gavazzo

We study optimal transport between probability measures supported on the same finite metric space, where the ground cost is a distance induced by a weighted connected graph. Building on recent work showing that the resulting Kantorovich…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Jérémie Bigot , Luis Fredes

For any small quantaloid $\Q$, there is a new quantaloid $\D(\Q)$ of diagonals in $\Q$. If $\Q$ is divisible then so is $\D(\Q)$ (and vice versa), and then it is particularly interesting to compare categories enriched in $\Q$ with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Dirk Hofmann , Isar Stubbe

This article presents a new class of distances between arbitrary nonnegative Radon measures inspired by optimal transport. These distances are defined by two equivalent alternative formulations: (i) a dynamic formulation defining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard

Behavioural distances provide a robust alternative to notions of equivalence such as bisimilarity in the context of probabilistic transition systems. They can be defined as least fixed points, whose universal property allows us to exhibit…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ruben Turkenburg , Harsh Beohar , Franck van Breugel , Clemens Kupke , Jurriaan Rot

We extend the notion of Cantor-Kantorovich distance between Markov chains introduced by (Banse et al., 2023) in the context of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). The proposed metric is well-defined and can be efficiently approximated given a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Adrien Banse , Venkatraman Renganathan , Raphaël M. Jungers

We propose a compositional approach for constructing abstractions of general Markov decision processes using approximate probabilistic relations. The abstraction framework is based on the notion of $\delta$-lifted relations, using which one…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

The main purpose of this article is to provide a common generalization of the notions of a topological and Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy for arbitrary representations of discrete amenable groups on objects of (abstract) categories. This is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Nikita Moriakov

We provide a generic algorithm for constructing formulae that distinguish behaviourally inequivalent states in systems of various transition types such as nondeterministic, probabilistic or weighted; genericity over the transition type is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Thorsten Wißmann , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder