arXiv Machine Learning

Backward through Time, Algebraically

The paper introduces a differentiable evaluation engine for linear temporal logic (LTL) that is algebra‑generic and suitable for training soft‑valued systems such as neural policies and adaptive controllers. It presents an executable specification of the algebras it can accept, implements several algebras, and audits their forward and backward behavior, all within the PyTorch library telos.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

Unraveling the iterative CHAD

arXiv:2505.15002v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Combinatory Homomorphic Automatic Differentiation (CHAD) was originally formulated as a semantics-driven source-to-source transformation for...

By Fernando Lucatelli Nunes, Gordon Plotkin, Matthijs V\'ak\'ar
arXiv AI
Sep 3

FormalEvolve: Neuro-Symbolic Evolutionary Search for Diverse Autoformalization

FormalEvolve is a neuro‑symbolic evolutionary search framework that treats autoformalization as a budgeted test‑time search problem. It builds a compilation‑feasible archive of formal statements and expands it using LLM‑driven mutation, crossover, bounded patch repair, and symbolic AST rewrites to generate diverse, semantically accepted formalizations. In experiments on CombiBench and ProofNet, FormalEvolve achieves higher SH@100 scores and improves theorem‑complete proving under fixed prover budgets compared to no‑archive baselines.

By Haijian Lu, Wei Wang, Jing Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

On the Representational Geometry of Dynamic Programs

The paper examines why standard neural architectures struggle to generalize to longer inputs when solving dynamic programming (DP) problems. It shows that every finite min-plus DP can be represented as a shortest‑path problem on a directed acyclic graph, equivalently as a tropical polynomial whose extended Newton polyhedron captures the decision boundary of the winning path. The authors prove that the graph, polynomial, and polyhedron descriptions form isomorphic semirings at both the formal polynomial and computed function levels, and they demonstrate that the natural dimensionality‑reduction operations in this semiring are neither injective nor closed, revealing structural limitations that hinder length‑generalization.

By Richard F. M. Lim, Ruriko Yoshida