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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained considerable traction for their capability to effectively process topological data, yet their interpretability remains a critical concern. Current interpretation methods are dominated by post-hoc…

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Recent progress in large language models has renewed interest in how multi-step reasoning is represented internally. While prior work often treats reasoning as a linear chain, many reasoning problems are more naturally modeled as directed…

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We present Generative Logic (GL), a deterministic architecture that starts from user-supplied axiomatic definitions written in a minimalist Mathematical Programming Language (MPL) and systematically explores a configurable region of their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Nikolai Sergeev

Warning: This paper contains a mistake, rendering the proof of the main theorem invalid. The logic of Bunched Implications (BI) combines both additive and multiplicative connectives, which include two primitive intuitionistic implications.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Alexander Gheorghiu , Simon Docherty , David Pym

Recently Graph Neural Network (GNN) has been applied successfully to various NLP tasks that require reasoning, such as multi-hop machine reading comprehension. In this paper, we consider a novel case where reasoning is needed over graphs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Ming Tu , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

In the past decade, many techniques have been developed to prove linearizability, the gold standard of correctness for concurrent data structures. Intuitively, linearizability requires that every operation on a concurrent data structure…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zachary Kent , Ugur Y. Yavuz , Siddhartha Jayanti , Stephanie Balzer , Guy Blelloch

Multi-step theorem prediction is a central challenge in automated reasoning. Existing neural-symbolic approaches rely heavily on supervised parametric models, which exhibit limited generalization to evolving theorem libraries. In this work,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Junbo Zhao , Ting Zhang , Can Li , Wei He , Jingdong Wang , Hua Huang

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) can learn to predict Signal Temporal Logic (STL) verdicts online from partial trajectories, but deploying them as runtime monitors in safety-critical systems demands more than predictive accuracy. Standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sai Sandeep Damera , Ryan Matheu , Aniruddh G. Puranic , John S. Baras , Calin Belta

This work provides proof-search algorithms and automated counter-model extraction for a class of STIT logics. With this, we answer an open problem concerning syntactic decision procedures and cut-free calculi for STIT logics. A new class of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tim Lyon , Kees van Berkel

Despite the Graph Neural Networks' (GNNs) proficiency in analyzing graph data, achieving high-accuracy and interpretable predictions remains challenging. Existing GNN interpreters typically provide post-hoc explanations disjointed from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zhenhua Huang , Kunhao Li , Shaojie Wang , Zhaohong Jia , Wentao Zhu , Sharad Mehrotra

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at generating natural language answers, yet their outputs often remain unverifiable and difficult to trace. Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offer a complementary strength by representing entities and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Alfonso Amayuelas , Joy Sain , Simerjot Kaur , Charese Smiley

Basic proof-search tactics in logic and type theory can be seen as the root-first applications of rules in an appropriate sequent calculus, preferably without the redundancies generated by permutation of rules. This paper addresses the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Stéphane Jean Eric Lengrand , Roy Dyckhoff , James McKinna

We present constructive provability logic, an intuitionstic modal logic that validates the L\"ob rule of G\"odel and L\"ob's provability logic by permitting logical reflection over provability. Two distinct variants of this logic, CPL and…

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A cyclic proof system allows us to perform inductive reasoning without explicit inductions. We propose a cyclic proof system for HFLN, which is a higher-order predicate logic with natural numbers and alternating fixed-points. Ours is the…

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Terms are a concise representation of tree structures. Since they can be naturally defined by an inductive type, they offer data structures in functional programming and mechanised reasoning with useful principles such as structural…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Makoto Hamana

Knowledge graph reasoning, which aims at predicting the missing facts through reasoning with the observed facts, is critical to many applications. Such a problem has been widely explored by traditional logic rule-based approaches and recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Meng Qu , Jian Tang

Recent work has shown that integrating large language models (LLMs) with theorem provers (TPs) in neuro-symbolic pipelines helps with entailment verification and proof-guided refinement of explanations for natural language inference (NLI).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xin Quan , Marco Valentino , Louise A. Dennis , André Freitas

The two major systems of formal verification are model checking and algebraic model-based testing. Model checking is based on some form of temporal logic such as linear temporal logic (LTL) or computation tree logic (CTL). One powerful and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Stefan D. Bruda , Sunita Singh , A. F. M. Nokib Uddin , Zhiyu Zhang , Rui Zuo

Recent research has recognized interpretability and robustness as essential properties of trustworthy classification. Curiously, a connection between robustness and interpretability was empirically observed, but the theoretical reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michal Moshkovitz , Yao-Yuan Yang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We introduce a theorem proving approach to the specification and generation of temporal logical constraints for training neural networks. We formalise a deep embedding of linear temporal logic over finite traces (LTL$_f$) and an associated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Mark Chevallier , Matthew Whyte , Jacques D. Fleuriot