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We introduce Zero-Knowledge Location Privacy (ZKLP), enabling users to prove to third parties that they are within a specified geographical region while not disclosing their exact location. ZKLP supports varying levels of granularity,…

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With the widespread adoption of Zero-Knowledge Proof systems, particularly ZK-SNARK, the efficiency of proof generation, encompassing both the witness generation and proof computation phases, has become a significant concern. While…

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Zero-shot in-context learning (ZS-ICL) aims to conduct in-context learning (ICL) without using human-annotated demonstrations. Most ZS-ICL methods use large language models (LLMs) to generate (input, label) pairs as pseudo-demonstrations…

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Several formal systems, such as resolution and minimal model semantics, provide a framework for logic programming. In this paper, we will survey the use of structural proof theory as an alternative foundation. Researchers have been using…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Dale Miller

New intent discovery (NID) seeks to recognize both new and known intents from unlabeled user utterances, which finds prevalent use in practical dialogue systems. Existing works towards NID mainly adopt a cascaded architecture, wherein the…

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Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are an emerging technology that has become the solution to efficiently provide security and privacy along with the transparency requirement of blockchains. ZKPs are usually expressed by means of arithmetic…

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Zero-shot stance detection (ZSSD) seeks to determine the stance of text toward previously unseen targets, a task critical for analyzing dynamic and polarized online discourse with limited labeled data. While large language models (LLMs)…

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Despite the growing use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) for AI-assisted diagnosis prediction, most data-driven models struggle to incorporate clinically meaningful medical knowledge. They often rely on limited ontologies, lacking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Pengfei Hu , Chang Lu , Fei Wang , Yue Ning

Education in the practical applications of logic and proving such as the formal specification and verification of computer programs is substantially hampered by the fact that most time and effort that is invested in proving is actually…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Wolfgang Schreiner , Alexander Brunhuemer , Christoph Fürst

Prompt-based methods have been used extensively across NLP to build zero- and few-shot label predictors. Many NLP tasks are naturally structured: that is, their outputs consist of multiple labels which constrain each other. Annotating data…

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Training on verifiable symbolic data is a promising way to expand the reasoning frontier of language models beyond what standard pre-training corpora provide. Yet existing procedural generators often rely on fixed puzzles or templates and…

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We describe here a simple application of rational trees to the implementation of an interpreter for a procedural language written in a logic programming language. This is possible in languages designed to support rational trees (such as…

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Discrete structures are currently second-class in differentiable programming. Since functions over discrete structures lack overt derivatives, differentiable programs do not differentiate through them and limit where they can be used. For…

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Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition (ZS-SAR) is fundamentally constrained by prevailing approaches that rely on aligning skeleton features with static, class-level semantics. This coarse-grained alignment fails to bridge the domain…

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Instruction tuning is an emergent paradigm in NLP wherein natural language instructions are leveraged with language models to induce zero-shot performance on unseen tasks. Instructions have been shown to enable good performance on unseen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Prakhar Gupta , Cathy Jiao , Yi-Ting Yeh , Shikib Mehri , Maxine Eskenazi , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Despite their impressive performance, contemporary neural networks often lack structural safeguards that promote stable learning and interpretable behavior. In this work, we introduce a reformulation of layer-level transformations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

Synthetic Separation Logic (SSL) is a formalism that powers SuSLik, the state-of-the-art approach for the deductive synthesis of provably-correct programs in C-like languages that manipulate Heap-based linked data structures. Despite its…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-16 David Young , Ziyi Yang , Ilya Sergey , Alex Potanin

DEKL 2.0 is a dependent type-theoretic framework for trace-indexed knowledge evolution. Its central claim is that the proof calculus remains monotone under standard structural rules, while non-monotonic behavior arises semantically from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chen Peng

This thesis introduces the "method of structural refinement", which serves as a means of transforming the relational semantics of a modal and/or constructive logic into an 'economical' proof system by connecting two proof-theoretic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Tim Lyon