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Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) with sparse rewards remains a fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning. While hindsight experience replay (HER) has shown promise by relabeling collected trajectories with achieved…

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We study here a natural situation when constraint programming can be entirely reduced to rule-based programming. To this end we explain first how one can compute on constraint satisfaction problems using rules represented by simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Krzysztof R. Apt , Eric Monfroy

In this thesis, we present two approaches to a rigorous mathematical and algorithmic foundation of quantitative and statistical inference in constraint-based natural language processing. The first approach, called quantitative constraint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stefan Riezler

Constrained Horn Clauses (CHCs) are an intermediate program representation that can be generated by several verification tools, and that can be processed and solved by a number of Horn solvers. One of the main challenges when using CHCs in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Zafer Esen , Philipp Rümmer

Constraint logic programming emerged in the late 80's as a highly declarative class of programming languages based on first-order logic and theories with decidable constraint languages, thereby subsuming Prolog restricted to equality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-28 François Fages

Safety in goal directed Reinforcement Learning (RL) settings has typically been handled through constraints over trajectories and have demonstrated good performance in primarily short horizon tasks. In this paper, we are specifically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yuxiao Lu , Arunesh Sinha , Pradeep Varakantham

Safe reinforcement learning (RL) agents accomplish given tasks while adhering to specific constraints. Employing constraints expressed via easily-understandable human language offers considerable potential for real-world applications due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Xingzhou Lou , Junge Zhang , Ziyan Wang , Kaiqi Huang , Yali Du

Constrained Horn Clauses (CHCs) are often used in automated program verification. Thus, techniques for (dis-)proving satisfiability of CHCs are a very active field of research. On the other hand, acceleration techniques for computing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl

The ability to generate test data is often a necessary prerequisite for automated software testing. For the generated data to be fit for its intended purpose, the data usually has to satisfy various logical constraints. When testing is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ghanem Soltana , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Lionel C. Briand

We elaborate upon the formal foundations of hybrid Answer Set Programming (ASP) and extend its underlying logical framework with aggregate functions over constraint values and variables. This is achieved by introducing the construct of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Torsten Schaub , Philipp Wanko

We present an example for application of Constraint Handling Rules to automated test data generation and model checking in verification of mission critical software for satellite control.

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Ralf Gerlich

We present a prescriptive type system with parametric polymorphism and subtyping for constraint logic programs. The aim of this type system is to detect programming errors statically. It introduces a type discipline for constraint logic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Francois Fages , Emmanuel Coquery

Reasoning over Commonsense Knowledge Bases (CSKB), i.e. CSKB reasoning, has been explored as a way to acquire new commonsense knowledge based on reference knowledge in the original CSKBs and external prior knowledge. Despite the advancement…

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Type classes are an elegant extension to traditional, Hindley-Milner based typing systems. They are used in modern, typed languages such as Haskell to support controlled overloading of symbols. Haskell 98 supports only single-parameter and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kevin Glynn , Martin Sulzmann , Peter J. Stuckey

Logically constrained term rewriting is a relatively new rewriting formalism that naturally supports built-in data structures, such as integers and bit vectors. In the analysis of logically constrained term rewrite systems (LCTRSs),…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanta Takahata , Jonas Schöpf , Naoki Nishida , Takahito Aoto

Many transformation techniques developed for constraint logic programs, also known as constrained Horn clauses (CHCs), have found new useful applications in the field of program verification. In this paper, we work out a nontrivial case…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Emanuele De Angelis , Fabio Fioravanti , Maurizio Proietti

We introduce constraints necessary for type checking a higher-order concurrent constraint language, and solve them with an incremental algorithm. Our constraint system extends rational unification by constraints x$\subseteq$ y saying that…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Martin Mueller , Joachim Niehren

Although unification can be used to implement a weak form of $\beta$-reduction, several linguistic phenomena are better handled by using some form of $\lambda$-calculus. In this paper we present a higher order feature description calculus…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Luis Damas , Nelma Moreira

Constrained Reinforcement Learning (CRL) addresses sequential decision-making problems where agents are required to achieve goals by maximizing the expected return while meeting domain-specific constraints. In this setting, policy-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Alessandro Montenegro , Leonardo Cesani , Marco Mussi , Matteo Papini , Alberto Maria Metelli

Concurrent Constraint Programming (CCP) is a simple and powerful model for concurrency where agents interact by telling and asking constraints. Since their inception, CCP-languages have been designed for having a strong connection to logic.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elaine Pimentel , Carlos Olarte , Vivek Nigam