no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard
We present a universal construction that relates reversible dynamics on open systems to arbitrary dynamics on closed systems: the restriction affine completion of a monoidal restriction category quotiented by well-pointedness.
Quantum Physics Logic in Computer Science Category Theory
1 code implementation • 27 Nov 2018 • Pablo Andrés-Martínez, Chris Heunen
Quantum algorithms are usually monolithic circuits, becoming large at modest input size.
Quantum Physics
no code implementations • 10 Jan 2017 • Chris Heunen, Ohad Kammar, Sam Staton, Hongseok Yang
Higher-order probabilistic programming languages allow programmers to write sophisticated models in machine learning and statistics in a succinct and structured way, but step outside the standard measure-theoretic formalization of probability theory.
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2016 • Sam Staton, Hongseok Yang, Chris Heunen, Ohad Kammar, Frank Wood
We study the semantic foundation of expressive probabilistic programming languages, that support higher-order functions, continuous distributions, and soft constraints (such as Anglican, Church, and Venture).