arXiv AI

A strengthening of the MCFL-ness of $O_2$

arXiv:2608. 18813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the last years, a number of proofs of the fact that $O_2$ is a multiple context-free grammar (MCFG) were given.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Language Identification with Succinct Machine-Independent Traces

arXiv:2607. 12443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by the power of large language models, there has been renewed interest in the Gold-Angluin model of language identification in the limit, with an eye toward variants of the model that might overcome the negative results for its original formulation.

By Moses Charikar, Jon Kleinberg, Chirag Pabbaraju
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Decode-Time Grammars: Constrained LLM Generation over a Refinement Order of Grammar Fragments

arXiv:2607. 18357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models now write a growing share of the world's code, increasingly inside agents and serving systems that compile, execute, or dispatch generated code without line-by-line review.

By Shuoming Zhang, Ruiyuan Xu, Haofeng Li, Qiuchu Yu, Yangyu Zhang, Chunwei Xia, Xiaobing Feng, Chenxi Wang, Huimin Cui, Jiacheng Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Polynomial-Time Mistake-Bounded Language Generation

arXiv:2606. 16077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this note, we introduce a polynomial-time version of the mistake-bounded language generation (MBLG) framework due to Kleinberg, Peale, and Reingold (2026).

By H\'ector Jimenez, Alexander Kozachinskiy, Vicente Opazo
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Monadic Second-Order Logic in HOL: Deep and Shallow with Automated Faithfulness (Extended Preprint)

The paper presents three Isabelle/HOL embeddings of monadic second‑order logic (MSO): a deep embedding, a maximal‑shallow embedding, and a minimal‑shallow embedding that collapses formulas to bool. It introduces a two‑sorted substitution system that ensures capture‑avoiding substitution and proves the faithfulness of all embeddings. A fully mechanised two‑sorted downward Löwenheim‑Skolem theorem is established, showing that the minimal embedding recovers deep validity relative to countable assignments and aligns with both the general (Henkin‑style) and standard readings of MSO, while also demonstrating differences in classical MSO properties across the embeddings.

By Christoph Benzmueller, Daniel Kirchner