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Formally verifying the properties of formal systems using a proof assistant requires justifying numerous minor lemmas about capture-avoiding substitution. Despite work on category-theoretic accounts of syntax and variable binding, raw,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Lawrence Dunn , Val Tannen , Steve Zdancewic

A key requirement on any well-behaved process language is its compositionality: behavioural equivalence of processes should be respected by the constructors of the language. Turi and Plotkin's abstract GSOS provides an elegant bialgebraic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Robin Jourde , Henning Urbat , Sergey Goncharov , Stelios Tsampas , Jonas Forster

This article proposes a category-theoretic formalization of Greimasian narrative programs (NPs) that makes their compositional structure mathematically precise. Building on a reconstruction of the actantial model as a categorical schema, we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Michael Fowler

Coalgebras for an endofunctor provide a category-theoretic framework for modeling a wide range of state-based systems of various types. We provide an iterative construction of the reachable part of a given pointed coalgebra that is inspired…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Thorsten Wißmann , Stefan Milius , Shin-ya Katsumata , Jérémy Dubut

It is well-known that the category of Kleisli algebras for a monoidal monad carries a canonical monoidal structure. We define the notion of a commutative graded monad and present a strictly two-categorical proof that Kleisli algebras for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Rowan Poklewski-Koziell

We introduce a generic expression language describing behaviours of finite coalgebras over sets; besides relational systems, this covers, e.g., weighted, probabilistic, and neighbourhood-based system types. We prove a generic Kleene-type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Ulrich Dorsch , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder , Thorsten Wißmann

The analysis of concurrent and reactive systems is based to a large degree on various notions of process equivalence, ranging, on the so-called linear-time/branching-time spectrum, from fine-grained equivalences such as strong bisimilarity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Alexander Kurz , Stefan Milius , Dirk Pattinson , Lutz Schröder

Computational effects may often be interpreted in the Kleisli category of a monad or in the coKleisli category of a comonad. The duality between monads and comonads corresponds, in general, to a symmetry between construction and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Dominique Duval , Jean-Claude Reynaud

Cartesian differential categories come equipped with a differential combinator which axiomatizes the fundamental properties of the total derivative from differential calculus. The objective of this paper is to understand when the Kleisli…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

We study a family of distributors-induced bicategorical models of lambda-calculus, proving that they can be syntactically presented via intersection type systems. We first introduce a class of 2-monads whose algebras are monoidal categories…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Federico Olimpieri

This paper presents equational-based logics for proving first order properties of programming languages involving effects. We propose two dual inference system patterns that can be instanciated with monads or comonads in order to be used…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Dominique Duval , Jean-Claude Reynaud

We present a survey of the two-dimensional and tensorial structure of the lifting doctrine in constructive domain theory, i.e. in the theory of directed-complete partial orders (dcpos) over an arbitrary elementary topos. We establish the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Jonathan Sterling

This paper studies trace-based equivalences for systems combining nondeterministic and probabilistic choices. We show how trace semantics for such processes can be recovered by instantiating a coalgebraic construction known as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Filippo Bonchi , Ana Sokolova , Valeria Vignudelli

We develop the theory of tricategorical limits and colimits, and show that they can be modelled up to biequivalence via certain homotopically well-behaved limits and colimits enriched over the monoidal model category $\mathbf{Gray}$ of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Adrian Miranda

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

Functor coalgebras capture a wide range of transition systems that must however evolve in discrete steps. We introduce graded coalgebras of graded monads and propose them to model continuous-time transition systems. We develop the theory of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Elena Di Lavore , Jonas Forster , Mario Román

The neural architectures of language models are becoming increasingly complex, especially that of Transformers, based on the attention mechanism. Although their application to numerous natural language processing tasks has proven to be very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Pablo Gamallo

The study of categories that abstract the structural properties of relations has been extensively developed over the years, resulting in a rich and diverse body of work. This paper strives to provide a modern presentation of these…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Cipriano Junior Cioffo , Fabio Gadducci , Davide Trotta

Pebble games are a powerful tool in the study of finite model theory, constraint satisfaction and database theory. Monads and comonads are basic notions of category theory which are widely used in semantics of computation and in modern…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Samson Abramsky , Anuj Dawar , Pengming Wang

This paper provides a coalgebraic approach to the language semantics of two types of non-deterministic automata over nominal sets: non-deterministic orbit-finite automata (NOFAs) and regular nominal non-deterministic automata (RNNAs), which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Florian Frank , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat