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Finding satisfying assignments for the variables involved in a set of constraints can be cast as a (bounded) model generation problem: search for (bounded) models of a theory in some logic. The state-of-the-art approach for bounded model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Broes De Cat , Marc Denecker , Peter Stuckey , Maurice Bruynooghe

Over the past two decades several fragments of first-order logic have been identified and shown to have good computational and algorithmic properties, to a great extent as a result of appropriately describing the image of the standard…

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The minimization problem for propositional formulas is an important optimization problem in the second level of the polynomial hierarchy. In general, the problem is Sigma-2-complete under Turing reductions, but restricted versions are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-13 Edith Hemaspaandra , Henning Schnoor

Standpoint extensions of knowledge representation formalisms have been recently introduced as a means to incorporate multi-perspective modelling and reasoning through modal operators that attribute pieces of knowledge to specific entities…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Lucía Gómez Álvarez , Sebastian Rudolph

For fragments L of first-order logic (FO) with counting quantifiers, we consider the definability problem, which asks whether a given L-formula can be equivalently expressed by a formula in some fragment of L without counting, and the more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Louwe Kuijer , Tony Tan , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

We consider fragments of first-order logic and as models we allow finite and infinite words simultaneously. The only binary relations apart from equality are order comparison < and the successor predicate +1. We give characterizations of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Jakub Kallas , Manfred Kufleitner , Alexander Lauser

We propose a perspective on knowledge compilation which calls for analyzing different compilation approaches according to two key dimensions: the succinctness of the target compilation language, and the class of queries and transformations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 A. Darwiche , P. Marquis

Automated reasoning is critical in domains such as law and governance, where verifying claims against facts in documents requires both accuracy and interpretability. Recent work adopts structured reasoning pipelines that translate natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Rizky Ramadhana Putra , Raihan Sultan Pasha Basuki , Yutong Cheng , Peng Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at generating natural language answers, yet their outputs often remain unverifiable and difficult to trace. Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offer a complementary strength by representing entities and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Alfonso Amayuelas , Joy Sain , Simerjot Kaur , Charese Smiley

We show new limits on the efficiency of using current techniques to make exact probabilistic inference for large classes of natural problems. In particular we show new lower bounds on knowledge compilation to SDD and DNNF forms. We give…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Paul Beame , Vincent Liew

Propositional model enumeration, or All-SAT, is the task to record all models of a propositional formula. It is a key task in software and hardware verification, system engineering, and predicate abstraction, to mention a few. It also…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Sibylle Möhle , Roberto Sebastiani , Armin Biere

Abduction is a fundamental and important form of non-monotonic reasoning. Given a knowledge base explaining how the world behaves it aims at finding an explanation for some observed manifestation. In this paper we focus on propositional…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Nadia Creignou , Johannes Schmidt , Michael Thomas

In probabilistic reasoning, the traditionally discrete domain has been elevated to the hybrid domain encompassing additionally continuous random variables. Inference in the hybrid domain, however, usually necessitates to condone trade-offs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires , Anton Dries , Luc De Raedt

We show that if we enrich first order logic by allowing quantification over isomorphisms between definable ordered fields the resulting logic, L(Q_{Of}), is fully compact. In this logic, we can give standard compactness proofs of various…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Alan H. Mekler , Saharon Shelah

This paper presents ReasonFormer, a unified reasoning framework for mirroring the modular and compositional reasoning process of humans in complex decision-making. Inspired by dual-process theory in cognitive science, the representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Wanjun Zhong , Tingting Ma , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin , Tiejun Zhao , Chin-Yew Lin , Nan Duan

We propose a fragment of many-sorted second order logic called EQSMT and show that checking satisfiability of sentences in this fragment is decidable. EQSMT formulae have an $\exists^*\forall^*$ quantifier prefix (over variables, functions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-28 P. Madhusudan , Umang Mathur , Shambwaditya Saha , Mahesh Viswanathan

Knowledge bases (KBs) are not static entities: new information constantly appears and some of the previous knowledge becomes obsolete. In order to reflect this evolution of knowledge, KBs should be expanded with the new knowledge and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Dmitriy Zheleznyakov , Evgeny Kharlamov , Werner Nutt , Diego Calvanese

Conventional works generally employ a two-phase model in which a generator selects the most important pieces, followed by a predictor that makes predictions based on the selected pieces. However, such a two-phase model may incur the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Wei Liu , Haozhao Wang , Jun Wang , Ruixuan Li , Chao Yue , Yuankai Zhang

Reasoning is a fundamental problem for computers and deeply studied in Artificial Intelligence. In this paper, we specifically focus on answering multi-hop logical queries on Knowledge Graphs (KGs). This is a complicated task because, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Alfonso Amayuelas , Shuai Zhang , Susie Xi Rao , Ce Zhang

The complexity class $NP$ can be logically characterized both through existential second order logic $SO\exists$, as proven by Fagin, and through simulating a Turing machine via the satisfiability problem of propositional logic SAT, as…

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