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We introduce a sound and complete coinductive proof system for reachability properties in transition systems generated by logically constrained term rewriting rules over an order-sorted signature modulo builtins. A key feature of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ştefan Ciobâcă , Dorel Lucanu

This paper develops a computational model of paraphrase under which text modification is carried out reluctantly; that is, there are external constraints, such as length or readability, on an otherwise ideal text, and modifications to the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Mark Dras

Structured texts refer to texts containing structured elements beyond plain texts, such as code snippets and placeholders. Such structured texts increasingly require segmentation into semantically meaningful components, which cannot be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Haoyuan Li , Zhengyuan Shen , Sullam Jeoung , Yueyan Chen , Jiayu Li , Qi Zhu , Shuai Wang , Vassilis Ioannidis , Huzefa Rangwala

Many automatic theorem-provers rely on rewriting. Using theorems as rewrite rules helps to simplify the subgoals that arise during a proof. LCF is an interactive theorem-prover intended for reasoning about computation. Its implementation of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Lawrence C. Paulson

SQL query rewriting aims to reformulate a query into a more efficient form while preserving equivalence. Most existing methods rely on predefined rewrite rules. However, such rule-based approaches face fundamental limitations: (1) fixed…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Dongjie Xu , Yue Cui , Weijie Shi , Qingzhi Ma , Hanghui Guo , Jiaming Li , Yao Zhao , Ruiyuan Zhang , Shimin Di , Jia Zhu , Kai Zheng , Jiajie Xu

Query rewriting refers to an established family of approaches that are applied to underspecified and ambiguous queries to overcome the vocabulary mismatch problem in document ranking. Queries are typically rewritten during query processing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Abhijit Anand , Venktesh V , Vinay Setty , Avishek Anand

Dominant sequence models like the Transformer represent structure implicitly through dense attention weights, incurring quadratic complexity. We propose RewriteNets, a novel neural architecture built on an alternative paradigm: explicit,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Harshil Vejendla

Term rewriting is a Turing complete model of computation. When taught to students of computer science, key properties of computation as well as techniques to analyze programs on an abstract level are conveyed. This paper gives a swift…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Sarah Winkler , Aart Middeldorp

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) often impose limitations on the length of the text input to ensure the generation of fluent and relevant responses. This constraint restricts their applicability in scenarios involving long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Weizhi Fei , Xueyan Niu , Pingyi Zhou , Lu Hou , Bo Bai , Lei Deng , Wei Han

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform is a string transformation that plays a fundamental role for the design of self-indexing compressed data structures. Over the years, researchers have successfully extended this transformation outside the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Raffaele Giancarlo , Giovanni Manzini , Giovanna Rosone , Marinella Sciortino

We present crest, a tool for automatically proving (non-)confluence and termination of logically constrained rewrite systems. We compare crest to other tools for logically constrained rewriting. Extensive experiments demonstrate the promise…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Jonas Schöpf , Aart Middeldorp

Rewriting logic is naturally concurrent: several subterms of the state term can be rewritten simultaneously. But state terms are global, which makes compositionality difficult to achieve. Compositionality here means being able to decompose…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Óscar Martín , Alberto Verdejo , Narciso Martí-Oliet

In this paper we use the decreasing diagrams technique to show that a left-linear term rewrite system R is confluent if all its critical pairs are joinable and the critical pair steps are relatively terminating with respect to R. We further…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-10-30 Nao Hirokawa , Aart Middeldorp

Grammar-based compression is a popular and powerful approach to compressing repetitive texts but until recently its relatively poor time-space trade-offs during real-life construction made it impractical for truly massive datasets such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Travis Gagie , Tomohiro I , Giovanni Manzini , Gonzalo Navarro , Hiroshi Sakamoto , Louisa Seelbach Benkner , Yoshimasa Takabatake

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive results in natural language processing tasks but require a significant amount of computational and memory resources. Structured matrix representations are a promising way for reducing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ekaterina Grishina , Mikhail Gorbunov , Maxim Rakhuba

Generating structured textual content requires mechanisms that enforce coherence, stability, and adherence to predefined constraints while maintaining semantic fidelity. Conventional approaches often rely on rule-based heuristics or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Derek Yotheringhay , Beatrix Nightingale , Maximilian Featherstone , Edmund Worthington , Hugo Ashdown

The recently introduced framework of Graded Quantitative Rewriting is an innovative extension of traditional rewriting systems, in which rules are annotated with degrees drawn from a quantale. This framework provides a robust foundation for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mauricio Ayala-Rincón , Thaynara Arielly de Lima , Georg Ehling , Temur Kutsia

Conversational query rewriting is crucial for effective conversational search, yet traditional supervised methods require substantial labeled data, which is scarce in low-resource settings. This paper introduces Prompt-Guided In-Context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Raymond Wilson , Chase Carter , Cole Graham

Building neural systems that can learn to execute symbolic algorithms is a challenging open problem in artificial intelligence, especially when aiming for strong generalization and out-of-distribution performance. In this work, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Flavio Petruzzellis , Alberto Testolin , Alessandro Sperduti

The rapid advancement of large-language models (LLMs) has driven extensive research into parameter compression after training has been completed, yet compression during the training phase remains largely unexplored. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jun Wu , Jiangtao Wen , Yuxing Han