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In this article, we study the complexity of weighted team definability for logics with team semantics. This problem is a natural analogue of one of the most studied problems in parameterized complexity, the notion of weighted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Juha Kontinen , Yasir Mahmood , Arne Meier , Heribert Vollmer

Combinatorial counting problems pervade artificial intelligence, statistics, and discrete mathematics. Whether the task is enumerating subsets, multisets, permutations, partitions, or compositions under structural and arithmetic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuanhong Wang , Juhua Pu , Yuxu Zhou , Yuyi Wang , Ondřej Kuželka

We study Two-Variable First-Order Logic, FO2, under semantic constraints that model hierarchically structured data. Our first logic extends FO2 with a linear order < and a chain of increasingly coarser equivalence relations E_1, E_2, ... .…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Oskar Fiuk , Emanuel Kieronski , Vincent Michielini

Recent work introduced Generalized First Order Decision Diagrams (GFODD) as a knowledge representation that is useful in mechanizing decision theoretic planning in relational domains. GFODDs generalize function-free first order logic and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Benjamin J. Hescott , Roni Khardon

We study the finite satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic extended with counting quantifiers (C2) and interpreted over linearly ordered structures. We show that the problem is undecidable in the case of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Witold Charatonik , Piotr Witkowski

We study transformers' in-context learning of variable-length Markov chains (VOMCs), focusing on the finite-sample accuracy as the number of in-context examples increases. Compared to fixed-order Markov chains (FOMCs), learning VOMCs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Suhas Diggavi

By fundamental results of Sch\"utzenberger, McNaughton and Papert from the 1970s, the classes of first-order definable and aperiodic languages coincide. Here, we extend this equivalence to a quantitative setting. For this, weighted automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Manfred Droste , Paul Gastin

The first-order (FO) model checking problem asks, given an FO sentence $\phi$ and a graph $G$, whether $G$ is a model of $\phi$. This problem is known to be $\mathsf{AW[*]}$-hard when parameterized by the quantifier rank of the formula. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jan Jedelský

We combine integer linear programming and recent advances in Monadic Second-Order model checking to obtain two new algorithmic meta-theorems for graphs of bounded vertex-cover. The first shows that cardMSO1, an extension of the well-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Robert Ganian , Jan Obdržálek

This paper presents a new data structure, called \emph{Weighted Context-Free-Language Ordered BDDs} (WCFLOBDDs), which are a hierarchically structured decision diagram, akin to Weighted BDDs (WBDDs) enhanced with a procedure-call mechanism.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Meghana Sistla , Swarat Chaudhuri , Thomas Reps

The assignment of weights to attacks in a classical Argumentation Framework allows to compute semantics by taking into account the different importance of each argument. We represent a Weighted Argumentation Framework by a non-binary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Stefano Bistarelli , Alessandra Tappini , Carlo Taticchi

In deduction modulo, a theory is not represented by a set of axioms but by a congruence on propositions modulo which the inference rules of standard deductive systems---such as for instance natural deduction---are applied. Therefore, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Guillaume Burel

Progression, the task of updating a knowledge base to reflect action effects, generally requires second-order logic. Identifying first-order special cases, by restricting either the knowledge base or action effects, has long been a central…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jens Classen , Daxin Liu

During the last decades, a lot of effort was put into identifying decidable fragments of first-order logic. Such efforts gave birth, among the others, to the two-variable fragment and the guarded fragment, depending on the type of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Maja Orłowska , Anna Pacanowska , Tony Tan

The Feferman-Vaught theorem provides a way of evaluating a first order sentence $\varphi$ on a disjoint union of structures by producing a decomposition of $\varphi$ into sentences which can be evaluated on the individual structures and the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Abhisekh Sankaran

Verification of properties of first order logic with two variables FO2 has been investigated in a number of contexts. Over arbitrary structures it is known to be decidable with NEXPTIME complexity, with finitely satisfiable formulas having…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Saguy Benaim , Michael Benedikt , Rastislav Lenhardt , James Worrell

Local-order-invariant (first-order) logic is an extension of first-order logic where formulae have access to a ternary local order relation on the Gaifman graph, provided that the truth value does not depend on the specific order relation…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Derek Aoki

The finite satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic interpreted over trees was recently shown to be ExpSpace-complete. We consider two extensions of this logic. We show that adding either additional binary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Witold Charatonik , Emanuel Kieroński

Weighted model counting (WMC) has proven effective at a range of tasks within computer science, physics, and beyond. However, existing approaches for using WMC in quantum physics only target specific problem instances, lacking a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Dirck van den Ende , Joon Hyung Lee , Alfons Laarman , Henning Basold

First-Fit is a greedy algorithm for partitioning the elements of a poset into chains. Let $\textrm{FF}(w,Q)$ be the maximum number of chains that First-Fit uses on a $Q$-free poset of width $w$. A result due to Bosek, Krawczyk, and Matecki…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Kevin G. Milans , Michael C. Wigal