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First-order model counting (FOMC) is a computational problem that asks to count the models of a sentence in finite-domain first-order logic. In this paper, we argue that the capabilities of FOMC algorithms to date are limited by their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Paulius Dilkas , Vaishak Belle

Weighted First-Order Model Counting (WFOMC) computes the weighted sum of the models of a first-order theory on a given finite domain. WFOMC has emerged as a fundamental tool for probabilistic inference. Algorithms for WFOMC that run in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Sagar Malhotra , Luciano Serafini

Weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) is a central task in lifted probabilistic inference: It asks for the weighted sum of all models of a first-order sentence over a finite domain. A long line of work has identified domain-liftable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shixin Sun , Astrid Klipfel , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yi Chang

Weighted First-Order Model Counting (WFOMC) computes the weighted sum of the models of a first-order logic theory on a given finite domain. First-Order Logic theories that admit polynomial-time WFOMC w.r.t domain cardinality are called…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sagar Malhotra , Luciano Serafini

We study the symmetric weighted first-order model counting task and present ApproxWFOMC, a novel anytime method for efficiently bounding the weighted first-order model count in the presence of an unweighted first-order model counting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Timothy van Bremen , Ondrej Kuzelka

Model counting is the problem of computing the number of satisfying assignments of a given propositional formula. Although exact model counters can be naturally furnished by most of the knowledge compilation (KC) methods, in practice, they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Yong Lai

The FO Model Counting problem (FOMC) is the following: given a sentence $\Phi$ in FO and a number $n$, compute the number of models of $\Phi$ over a domain of size $n$; the Weighted variant (WFOMC) generalizes the problem by associating a…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Paul Beame , Guy Van den Broeck , Eric Gribkoff , Dan Suciu

Weighted model counting (WMC) is the task of computing the weighted sum of all satisfying assignments (i.e., models) of a propositional formula. Similarly, weighted model sampling (WMS) aims to randomly generate models with probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yuanhong Wang , Juhua Pu , Yuyi Wang , Ondřej Kuželka

This paper presents the Functional Machine Calculus (FMC) as a simple model of higher-order computation with "reader/writer" effects: higher-order mutable store, input/output, and probabilistic and non-deterministic computation. The FMC…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Willem Heijltjes

Semantic parsing is the task of obtaining machine-interpretable representations from natural language text. We consider one such formal representation - First-Order Logic (FOL) and explore the capability of neural models in parsing English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Hrituraj Singh , Milan Aggrawal , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) is a powerful representation often used to formulate decision-making problems under uncertainty. However, it lacks a natural mechanism to reason about objects, classes of objects, and relations.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Geoffrey Gordon , Sue Ann Hong , Miroslav Dudik

In this paper we study lifted inference for the Weighted First-Order Model Counting problem (WFOMC), which counts the assignments that satisfy a given sentence in first-order logic (FOL); it has applications in Statistical Relational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Eric Gribkoff , Guy Van den Broeck , Dan Suciu

We present a framework for synthesising formulas in first-order logic (FOL) from examples, which unifies and advances state-of-the-art approaches for inference of transition system invariants. To do so, we study and categorise the existing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ziyi Yang , George Pîrlea , Ilya Sergey

Pseudo-Boolean model counting involves computing the number of satisfying assignments of a given pseudo-Boolean (PB) formula. In recent years, PB model counting has seen increased interest partly owing to the succinctness of PB formulas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Suwei Yang , Yong Lai , Kuldeep S. Meel

We introduce the logic FOCN(P) which extends first-order logic by counting and by numerical predicates from a set P, and which can be viewed as a natural generalisation of various counting logics that have been studied in the literature. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Dietrich Kuske , Nicole Schweikardt

Quantitative extensions of logic programming often require the solution of so called second level inference tasks, i.e., problems that involve a third operation, such as maximization or normalization, on top of addition and multiplication,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Rafael Kiesel , Pietro Totis , Angelika Kimmig

It is known due to the work of Van den Broeck et al [KR, 2014] that weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) in the two-variable fragment of first-order logic can be solved in time polynomial in the number of domain elements. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Ondrej Kuzelka

The Weighted First-Order Model Counting Problem (WFOMC) asks to compute the weighted sum of models of a given first-order logic sentence over a given domain. It can be solved in time polynomial in the domain size for sentences from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qipeng Kuang , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yuyi Wang

The Weighted First-Order Model Counting Problem (WFOMC) asks to compute the weighted sum of models of a given first-order logic sentence over a given domain. The boundary between fragments for which WFOMC can be computed in polynomial time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Qipeng Kuang , Václav Kůla , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yuyi Wang

Reasoning in language models is difficult to evaluate: natural-language traces are unverifiable, symbolic datasets are too small, and most benchmarks conflate heuristics with inference. We present FOL-Traces, the first large-scale dataset…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Isabelle Lee , Sarah Liaw , Dani Yogatama
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