{"title":"Probability monads with submonads of deterministic states","authors":"Sean K. Moss, Paolo Perrone","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3533355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533355","url":null,"abstract":"Probability theory can be studied synthetically as the computational effect embodied by a commutative monad. In the recently proposed Markov categories, one works with an abstraction of the Kleisli category and then defines deterministic morphisms equationally in terms of copying and discarding. The resulting difference between ‘pure’ and ‘deterministic’ leads us to investigate the ‘sober’ objects for a probability monad, for which the two concepts coincide. We propose natural conditions on a probability monad which allow us to identify the sober objects and define an idempotent sobrification functor. Our framework applies to many examples of interest, including the Giry monad on measurable spaces, and allows us to sharpen a previously given version of de Finetti’s theorem for Markov categories.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129545575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Locality Meets Preservation","authors":"Aliaume Lopez","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3532498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3532498","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the expressiveness of a fragment of first-order sentences in Gaifman normal form, namely the positive Boolean combinations of basic local sentences. We show that they match exactly the first-order sentences preserved under local elementary embeddings, thus providing a new general preservation theorem and extending the Łós-Tarski Theorem. This full preservation result fails as usual in the finite, and we show furthermore that the naturally related decision problems are undecidable. In the more restricted case of preservation under extensions, it nevertheless yields new well-behaved classes of finite structures: we show that preservation under extensions holds if and only if it holds locally.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"378 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114886755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Harsh Beohar, Chase Ford, B. König, Stefan Milius, Lutz Schröder
{"title":"Graded Monads and Behavioural Equivalence Games","authors":"Harsh Beohar, Chase Ford, B. König, Stefan Milius, Lutz Schröder","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3533374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533374","url":null,"abstract":"The framework of graded semantics uses graded monads to capture behavioural equivalences of varying granularity, for example as found in the linear-time / branching-time spectrum, over general system types. We describe a generic Spoiler-Duplicator game for graded semantics that is extracted from the given graded monad, and may be seen as playing out an equational proof; instances include standard pebble games for simulation and bisimulation as well as games for trace-like equivalences and coalgebraic behavioural equivalence. Considerations on an infinite variant of such games lead to a novel notion of infinite-depth graded semantics. Under reasonable restrictions, the infinite-depth graded semantics associated to a given graded equivalence can be characterized in terms of a determinization construction for coalgebras under the equivalence at hand.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124714775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curry and Howard Meet Borel","authors":"Melissa Antonelli, Ugo Dal Lago, Paolo Pistone","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3533361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533361","url":null,"abstract":"We show that an intuitionistic version of counting propositional logic corresponds, in the sense of Curry and Howard, to an expressive type system for the probabilistic event λ-calculus, a vehicle calculus in which both call-by-name and call-by-value evaluation of discrete randomized functional programs can be simulated. In this context, proofs (respectively, types) do not guarantee that validity (respectively, termination) holds, but reveal the underlying probability. We finally show how to obtain a system precisely capturing the probabilistic behavior of λ-terms, by endowing the type system with an intersection operator.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"22 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124604165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corentin Barloy, M. Cadilhac, Charles Paperman, T. Zeume
{"title":"The Regular Languages of First-Order Logic with One Alternation","authors":"Corentin Barloy, M. Cadilhac, Charles Paperman, T. Zeume","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3533371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533371","url":null,"abstract":"The regular languages with a neutral letter expressible in first-order logic with one alternation are characterized. Specifically, it is shown that if an arbitrary Σ2 formula defines a regular language with a neutral letter, then there is an equivalent Σ2 formula that only uses the order predicate. This shows that the so-called Central Conjecture of Straubing holds for Σ2 over languages with a neutral letter, the first progress on the Conjecture in more than 20 years. To show the characterization, lower bounds against polynomial-size depth-3 Boolean circuits with constant top fan-in are developed. The heart of the combinatorial argument resides in studying how positions within a language are determined from one another, a technique of independent interest.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122760794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lower Bounds for the Reachability Problem in Fixed Dimensional VASSes","authors":"Wojciech Czerwi'nski, Lukasz Orlikowski","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3533357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533357","url":null,"abstract":"We study the complexity of the reachability problem for Vector Addition Systems with States (VASSes) in fixed dimensions. We provide four lower bounds improving the currently known state-of-the-art: 1) NP-hardness for unary flat 4-VASSes (VASSes in dimension 4), 2) PSpace-hardness for unary 5-VASSes, 3) ExpSpace-hardness for binary 6-VASSes and 4) Tower-hardness for unary 8-VASSes.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132050194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Grädel, Hayyan Helal, Matthias Naaf, Richard Wilke
{"title":"Zero-One Laws and Almost Sure Valuations of First-Order Logic in Semiring Semantics","authors":"E. Grädel, Hayyan Helal, Matthias Naaf, Richard Wilke","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3533358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533358","url":null,"abstract":"Semiring semantics evaluates logical statements by values in some commutative semiring (K, +, ·, 0, 1). Random semiring interpretations, induced by a probability distribution on K, generalise random structures, and we investigate here the question of how classical results on first-order logic on random structures, most importantly the 0-1 laws of Glebskii et al. and Fagin, generalise to semiring semantics. For positive semirings, the classical 0-1 law implies that every first-order sentence is, asymptotically, either almost surely evaluated to 0 by random semiring interpretations, or almost surely takes only values different from 0. However, by means of a more sophisticated analysis, based on appropriate extension properties and on algebraic representations of first-order formulae, we can prove much stronger results. For many semirings K the first-order sentences in FO(τ) can be partitioned into classes (Φj)j ∈ K such that for each j ∈ K, every sentence in Φj evaluates almost surely to j under random semiring interpretations. Further, for finite or infinite lattice semirings, this partition actually collapses to just three classes Φ0, Φ1, and Φε, of sentences that, respectively, almost surely evaluate to 0, 1, and to the smallest value ε ≠ 0. For all other values j ∈ K we have that . The problem of computing the almost sure valuation of a first-order sentence on finite lattice semirings is Pspace-complete. Related version: All proofs can be found in the full version of this paper, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03425.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133236625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stochastic Games with Synchronizing Objectives","authors":"L. Doyen","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3532439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3532439","url":null,"abstract":"We consider two-player stochastic games played on a finite graph for infinitely many rounds. Stochastic games generalize both Markov decision processes (MDP) by adding an adversary player, and two-player deterministic games by adding stochasticity. The outcome of the game is a sequence of distributions over the states of the game graph. We consider synchronizing objectives, which require the probability mass to accumulate in a set of target states, either always, once, infinitely often, or always after some point in the outcome sequence; and the winning modes of sure winning (if the accumulated probability is equal to 1) and almost-sure winning (if the accumulated probability is arbitrarily close to 1). We present algorithms to compute the set of winning distributions for each of these synchronizing modes, showing that the corresponding decision problem is PSPACE-complete for synchronizing once and infinitely often, and PTIME-complete for synchronizing always and always after some point. These bounds are remarkably in line with the special case of MDPs, while the algorithmic solution and proof technique are considerably more involved, even for deterministic games. This is because those games have a flavour of imperfect information, in particular they are not determined and randomized strategies need to be considered, even if there is no stochastic choice in the game graph. Moreover, in combination with stochasticity in the game graph, finite-memory strategies are not sufficient in general (for synchronizing infinitely often).","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127560130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
'Edouard Bonnet, Jannik Dreier, Jakub Gajarsk'y, S. Kreutzer, Nikolas Mahlmann, Pierre Simon, Szymon Toruńczyk
{"title":"Model Checking on Interpretations of Classes of Bounded Local Cliquewidth","authors":"'Edouard Bonnet, Jannik Dreier, Jakub Gajarsk'y, S. Kreutzer, Nikolas Mahlmann, Pierre Simon, Szymon Toruńczyk","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3533367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533367","url":null,"abstract":"An interpretation is an operation that maps an input graph to an output graph by redefining its edge relation using a first-order formula. This rich framework includes operations such as taking the complement or a fixed power of a graph as (very) special cases. We prove that there is an FPT algorithm for the first-order model checking problem on classes of graphs which are first-order interpretable in classes of graphs with bounded local cliquewidth. Notably, this includes interpretations of planar graphs, and of classes of bounded genus in general. To obtain this result we develop a new tool which works in a very general setting of NIP classes and which we believe can be an important ingredient in obtaining similar results in the future.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115643271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Balaji, Klara Nosan, M. Shirmohammadi, J. Worrell
{"title":"Identity Testing for Radical Expressions","authors":"N. Balaji, Klara Nosan, M. Shirmohammadi, J. Worrell","doi":"10.1145/3531130.3533331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533331","url":null,"abstract":"We study the Radical Identity Testing problem (RIT): Given an algebraic circuit representing a polynomial and nonnegative integers a1, …, ak and d1, …, dk, written in binary, test whether the polynomial vanishes at the real radicals , i.e., test whether . We place the problem in coNP assuming the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis (GRH), improving on the straightforward PSPACE upper bound obtained by reduction to the existential theory of reals. Next we consider a restricted version, called 2-RIT, where the radicals are square roots of prime numbers, written in binary. It was known since the work of Chen and Kao [16] that 2-RIT is at least as hard as the polynomial identity testing problem, however no better upper bound than PSPACE was known prior to our work. We show that 2-RIT is in coRP assuming GRH and in coNP unconditionally. Our proof relies on theorems from algebraic and analytic number theory, such as the Chebotarev density theorem and quadratic reciprocity.","PeriodicalId":373589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126235353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}