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Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Mingsheng Ying , Zhicheng Zhang

While transformers have proven enormously successful in a range of tasks, their fundamental properties as models of computation are not well understood. This paper contributes to the study of the expressive capacity of transformers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Lena Strobl , Dana Angluin , Robert Frank

We propose Partially Interpretable Estimators (PIE) which attribute a prediction to individual features via an interpretable model, while a (possibly) small part of the PIE prediction is attributed to the interaction of features via a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Tong Wang , Jingyi Yang , Yunyi Li , Boxiang Wang

The field of machine translation has progressed tremendously in recent years. Even though the translation quality has improved significantly, current systems are still unable to produce uniformly acceptable machine translations for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Meng Zhang , Xin Jiang , Yang Liu , Qun Liu

We introduce a method of reversing the execution of imperative concurrent programs. Given an irreversible program, we describe the process of producing two versions. The first performs forward execution and saves information necessary for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-04 James Hoey , Irek Ulidowski

We outline the construction of a molecular system that could, in principle, implement a thermodynamically reversible Universal Turing Machine (UTM). By proposing a concrete-albeit idealised-design and operational protocol, we reveal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-09 Rory A. Brittain , Nick S. Jones , Thomas E. Ouldridge

We study transformational program logics for correctness and incorrectness that we extend to explicitly handle both termination and nontermination. We show that the logics are abstract interpretations of the right image transformer for a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Patrick Cousot

In this paper we would like to present a very short (possibly the shortest) self-interpreter, based on a simplistic Turing-complete imperative language. This interpreter explicitly processes the statements of the language, which means the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Oleg Mazonka , Daniel B. Cristofani

Transformer architectures have brought about fundamental changes to computational linguistic field, which had been dominated by recurrent neural networks for many years. Its success also implies drastic changes in cross-modal tasks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Andrew Shin , Masato Ishii , Takuya Narihira

When trained on language data, do transformers learn some arbitrary computation that utilizes the full capacity of the architecture or do they learn a simpler, tree-like computation, hypothesized to underlie compositional meaning systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Shikhar Murty , Pratyusha Sharma , Jacob Andreas , Christopher D. Manning

Current machine learning models are evaluated through behavioral snapshots, with benchmark accuracies, win rates and outcome-based metrics. Model explanations and evaluations, however, are fundamentally intertwined: understanding why a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Isabelle Lee , Emmy Liu , Cathy Jiao , Brihi Joshi , Dani Yogatama , Fazl Barez , Michael Saxon

Quantum computers require quantum processors. An important part of the processor of any computer is the arithmetic unit, which performs binary addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, however multiplication can be performed using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Rasha Montaser , Ahmed Younes , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty

We present a new approach to proving non-termination of non-deterministic integer programs. Our technique is rather simple but efficient. It relies on a purely syntactic reversal of the program's transition system followed by a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Petr Novotný , Đorđe Žikelić

Reverse mathematics studies which subsystems of second order arithmetic are equivalent to key theorems of ordinary, non-set-theoretic mathematics. The main philosophical application of reverse mathematics proposed thus far is foundational…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Benedict Eastaugh

We study a new notion of reduction between structures called enumerable functors related to the recently investigated notion of computable functors. Our main result shows that enumerable functors and effective interpretability with the…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Dino Rossegger

Language models now provide an interface to express and often solve general problems in natural language, yet their ultimate computational capabilities remain a major topic of scientific debate. Unlike a formal computer, a language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Alex Lewandowski , Marlos C. Machado , Dale Schuurmans

Mixture models arise in many regression problems, but most methods have seen limited adoption partly due to these algorithms' highly-tailored and model-specific nature. On the other hand, transformers are flexible, neural sequence models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Reese Pathak , Rajat Sen , Weihao Kong , Abhimanyu Das

InterpretML is an open-source Python package which exposes machine learning interpretability algorithms to practitioners and researchers. InterpretML exposes two types of interpretability - glassbox models, which are machine learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Harsha Nori , Samuel Jenkins , Paul Koch , Rich Caruana

An optimizing compiler consists of a front end parsing a textual programming language into an intermediate representation (IR), a middle end performing optimizations on the IR, and a back end lowering the IR to a target representation (TR)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Sebastian Buchwald , Edgar Jakumeit

This paper is concerned with the expressivity and denotational semantics of a functional higher-order reversible programming language based on Theseus. In this language, pattern-matching is used to ensure the reversibility of functions. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kostia Chardonnet , Louis Lemonnier , Benoît Valiron