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Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-06-11 Bachuki Mesablishvili , Robert Wisbauer

Monads in category theory are algebraic structures that can be used to model computational effects in programming languages. We show how the notion of "centre", and more generally "centrality", i.e. the property for an effect to commute…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-31 TItouan Carette , Louis Lemonnier , Vladimir Zamdzhiev

We consider a bag (multiset) monad on the category of standard Borel spaces, and show that it gives a free measurable commutative monoid. Firstly, we show that a recent measurability result for probabilistic database queries (Grohe and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Swaraj Dash , Sam Staton

We present a categorical theory of the composition methods in finite model theory -- a key technique enabling modular reasoning about complex structures by building them out of simpler components. The crucial results required by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Tomáš Jakl , Dan Marsden , Nihil Shah

Monadic programming presents a significant challenge for many programmers. In light of category theory, we offer a new perspective on the use of monads in functional programming. This perspective is clarified through numerous examples coded…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fethi Kadhi

We present our position on the elusive quest for a general-purpose framework for specifying and studying deep learning architectures. Our opinion is that the key attempts made so far lack a coherent bridge between specifying constraints…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Bruno Gavranović , Paul Lessard , Andrew Dudzik , Tamara von Glehn , João G. M. Araújo , Petar Veličković

It came to the attention of myself and the coauthors of (S., Rozowski, Silva, Rot, 2022) that a number of process calculi can be obtained by algebraically presenting the branching structure of the transition systems they specify. Labelled…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Todd Schmid

Coherence theorems for covariant structures carried by a category have traditionally relied on the underlying term rewriting system of the structure being terminating and confluent. While this holds in a variety of cases, it is not a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-31 Jonathan A. Cohen

Bilinear maps and their classifying tensor products are well-known in the theory of linear algebra, and their generalization to algebras of commutative monads is a classical result of monad theory. Motivated by constructions needed in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Tomáš Jakl , Dan Marsden , Nihil Shah

Inspired by recent work of Batanin and Berger on the homotopy theory of operads, a general monad-theoretic context for speaking about structures within structures is presented, and the problem of constructing the universal ambient structure…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Mark Weber

We study monads resulting from the combination of nondeterministic and probabilistic behaviour with the possibility of termination, which is essential in program semantics. Our main contributions are presentation results for the monads,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Matteo Mio , Ralph Sarkis , Valeria Vignudelli

This thesis is about the problem of compositionality in distributional semantics. Distributional semantics presupposes that the meanings of words are a function of their occurrences in textual contexts. It models words as distributions over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Edward Grefenstette

We present an algorithm for deriving a spatial-behavioral type system from a formal presentation of a computational calculus. Given a 2-monad Calc: Catv$\to$ Cat for the free calculus on a category of terms and rewrites and a 2-monad…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Mike Stay , Lucius Gregory Meredith

We present a framework to formally describe probabilistic system behavior and symbolically reason about it. In particular we aim at reasoning about possible failures and fault tolerance. We regard systems which are composed of different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Jan Olaf Blech

A transduction provides us with a way of using the monadic second-order language of a structure to make statements about a derived structure. Any transduction induces a relation on the set of these structures. This article presents a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Susan Jowett , Dillon Mayhew , Songbao Mo , Christopher Tuffley

Emerging computational paradigms, such as probabilistic and hybrid programming, introduce new primitive operations that often need to be combined with classic programming constructs. However, it still remains a challenge to provide a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Fredrik Dahlqvist , Renato Neves

Applied category theory often studies symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) whose morphisms represent open systems. These structures naturally accommodate complex wiring patterns, leveraging (co)monoidal structures for splitting and merging…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Marius Furter , Yujun Huang , Gioele Zardini

The mechanisms of comprehension during language processing remains an open question. Classically, building the meaning of a linguistic utterance is said to be incremental, step-by-step, based on a compositional process. However, many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Philippe Blache , Emmanuele Chersoni , Giulia Rambelli , Alessandro Lenci

We present a categorical theory of the composition methods in finite model theory -- a key technique enabling modular reasoning about complex structures by building them out of simpler components. The crucial results required by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tomáš Jakl , Dan Marsden , Nihil Shah

For a quantaloid $\mathcal{Q}$, considered as a bicategory, Walters introduced categories enriched in $\mathcal{Q}$. Here we extend the study of monad-quantale-enriched categories of the past fifteen years by introducing…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Walter Tholen