Graded String Diagrams for Imprecise Probability and Causal Intervention

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Auteurs principaux: Sarkis, Ralph, Zanasi, Fabio
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author Sarkis, Ralph
Zanasi, Fabio
author_facet Sarkis, Ralph
Zanasi, Fabio
contents We introduce string diagrams for graded symmetric monoidal categories. Our approach includes a definition of graded monoidal theory and the corresponding freely generated syntactic category. Also, we show how an axiomatic presentation for the graded theory may be modularly obtained from one for the grading theory and one for the base category. The Para construction on monoidal actegories is a motivating example for our framework. As a case study, we show how to axiomatise a variant of the graded category ImP, recently introduced by Liell-Cock and Staton to model imprecise probability. This culminates in a representation, as string diagrams with grading wires, of programs with primitives for nondeterministic and probabilistic choices and conditioning.
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spellingShingle Graded String Diagrams for Imprecise Probability and Causal Intervention
Sarkis, Ralph
Zanasi, Fabio
Category Theory
Logic in Computer Science
We introduce string diagrams for graded symmetric monoidal categories. Our approach includes a definition of graded monoidal theory and the corresponding freely generated syntactic category. Also, we show how an axiomatic presentation for the graded theory may be modularly obtained from one for the grading theory and one for the base category. The Para construction on monoidal actegories is a motivating example for our framework. As a case study, we show how to axiomatise a variant of the graded category ImP, recently introduced by Liell-Cock and Staton to model imprecise probability. This culminates in a representation, as string diagrams with grading wires, of programs with primitives for nondeterministic and probabilistic choices and conditioning.
title Graded String Diagrams for Imprecise Probability and Causal Intervention
topic Category Theory
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18404