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In [[computer science]], '''corecursion''' is a type of operation that is [[Dual (category theory)|dual]] to [[recursion (computer science)|recursion]]. Whereas recursion works analytically, starting on data further from a base case and breaking it down into smaller data and repeating until one reaches a base case, corecursion works synthetically, starting from a base case and building it up, iteratively producing data further removed from a base case. Put simply, corecursive algorithms use the data that they themselves produce, bit by bit, as they become available, and needed, to produce further bits of data. Some authors refer to this as ''[[generative recursion]].'' | |||
Where recursion allows programs to operate on arbitrarily complex data, so long as it can be reduced to simple data (base cases), corecursion allows programs to produce arbitrarily complex and potentially infinite data structures, such as [[stream (type theory)|stream]]s, so long as it can be produced from simple data (base cases). Where recursion may not terminate, never reaching a base state, corecursion starts from a base state, and thus produces subsequent steps deterministically, but the result may be infinite (and thus not terminate). Many functions that are traditionally analyzed as recursive can alternatively, and arguably more naturally, be interpreted as corecursive function that are terminated at a given stage, for example [[recurrence relation]]s such as the factorial. | |||
Corecursion can produce both [[Finite set|finite]] and [[Infinite set|infinite]] [[data structure]]s as result, and may employ [[self-reference|self-referential]] data structures. Corecursion is often used in conjunction with [[lazy evaluation]], to only produce a finite subset of a potentially infinite structure (rather than trying to produce an entire infinite structure at once). Corecursion is a particularly important concept in [[functional programming]], where corecursion and '''codata''' allow [[total language]]s to work with infinite data structures. | |||
== Examples == | |||
Corecursion can be understood by contrast with recursion, which is more familiar. While corecursion is primarily of interest in functional programming, it can be illustrated using imperative programming, which is done below using the [[Generator (computer programming)|generator]] facility in Python. In these examples local variables are used, and [[Assignment (computer science)|assigned values]] imperatively (destructively), though these are not necessary in corecursion in pure functional programming. In pure functional programming, rather than assigning to local variables, these computed values form an invariable sequence, and prior values are accessed by self-reference (later values in the sequence reference earlier values in the sequence to be computed). The assignments simply express this in the imperative paradigm and explicitly specify where the computations happen, which serves to clarify the exposition. | |||
== | === Factorial === | ||
A classic example of recursion is computing the factorial, which is defined recursively as <math>0! := 1</math> and <math>n! := n \times (n-1)!</math> | |||
To ''recursively'' compute its result on a given input, a recursive function calls ''itself'' with a different input and uses the result of this call to construct its result. The recursive call does the same, unless the base case is reached. Thus a [[call stack]] develops in the process. For example, to compute ''fac(3)'', this recursively calls in turn ''fac(2)'', ''fac(1)'', ''fac(0)'' ("winding up" the stack), at which point recursion terminates with ''fac(0) = 1'', and then the stack unwinds in reverse order and the results are calculated on the way back along the call stack to the initial call frame ''fac(3)'', where the final result is calculated as ''3*2 =: 6'' and finally returned. In this example a function returns a single value. | |||
== | By contrast the factorial can be defined ''corecursively'', as an [[Iteration|iterator]], where one ''starts'' with the base case of <math>0! := 1</math>, then from this base value constructs factorial values for increasing numbers ''1, 2, 3...'' as in the above recursive definition with "time arrow" reversed, as it where, from <math>n! := n \times (n-1)!</math> to <math>(n-1)! \times n =: n!</math>. The corecursive algorithm thus produces the ''stream'' of ''all'' factorials. This may be concretely implemented as a [[Generator (computer programming)|generator]]. Symbolically, noting that computing next factorial value requires keeping track of both ''n'' and ''f'' (a previous factorial value), this can be represented as: | ||
:<math>n, f = (0, 1) : (n + 1, f \times (n+1))</math> | |||
or in Haskell, | |||
<source lang=haskell> | |||
(\(n,f) -> (n+1, f*(n+1))) `iterate` (0,1) | |||
</source> | |||
meaning, "starting from <math>n, f = 0, 1</math>, on each step the next values are calculated as <math>n+1, f \times (n+1)</math>". This is mathematically equivalent and almost identical to the recursive definition, but the <math>+1</math> emphasizes that the factorial values are being built ''up'', going forwards from the starting case, rather than being computed after first going backwards, ''down'' to the base case, with a <math>-1</math> decrement. Note also that the direct output of the corecursive function does not simply contain the factorial <math>n!</math> values, but also includes for each value the auxiliary data of its index ''n'' in the sequence, so that any one specific result can be selected among them all, as and when needed. | |||
Note the connection with [[denotational semantics]], where the [[Denotational semantics#Denotations of recursive programs|denotations of recursive programs]] is built up corecursively in this way. | |||
= | In Python, a recursive factorial function can be defined as:{{efn|Not validating input data.}} | ||
<source lang=python> | |||
def factorial(n): | |||
if n == 0: | |||
return 1 | |||
else: | |||
return n * factorial(n - 1) | |||
</source> | |||
This could then be called for example as <code>factorial(5)</code> to compute ''5!''. | |||
A corresponding corecursive generator can be defined as: | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
def factorials(): | |||
n, f = 0, 1 | |||
while True: | |||
yield f | |||
n, f = n + 1, f * (n + 1) | |||
</source> | |||
This generates an infinite stream of factorials in order; a finite portion of it can be produced by: | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
def n_factorials(k): | |||
n, f = 0, 1 | |||
while n <= k: | |||
yield f | |||
n, f = n + 1, f * (n + 1) | |||
</source> | |||
This could then be called to produce the factorials up to ''5!'' via: | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
for f in n_factorials(5): | |||
print(f) | |||
</source> | |||
If we're only interested in a certain factorial, just the last value can be taken, or we can fuse the production and the access into one function, | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
def nth_factorial(k): | |||
n, f = 0, 1 | |||
while n < k: | |||
n, f = n + 1, f * (n + 1) | |||
return f | |||
</source> | |||
As can be readily seen here, this is equivalent to the accumulator argument technique for tail recursion, unwound into an explicit loop. Thus it can be said that the concept of corecursion is an explication of the embodiment of iterative computation processes by recursive definitions, where applicable. | |||
== | === Fibonacci sequence === | ||
In the same way, the [[Fibonacci sequence]] can be represented as: | |||
:<math>a, b = (0, 1) : (b, a+b)</math> | |||
Note that because the Fibonacci sequence is a [[recurrence relation]] of order 2, the corecursive relation must track two successive terms, with the <math>(b, -)</math> corresponding to shift forward by one step, and the <math>(-, a+b)</math> corresponding to computing the next term. This can then be implemented as follows (using [[parallel assignment]]): | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
def fibonacci_sequence(): | |||
a, b = 0, 1 | |||
while True: | |||
yield a | |||
a, b = b, a + b | |||
</source> | |||
In Haskell, <source lang=haskell> map fst $ (\(a,b) -> (b,a+b)) `iterate` (0,1)</source> | |||
=== Tree traversal === | |||
[[Tree traversal]] via a [[depth-first]] approach is a classic example of recursion. Dually, [[breadth-first]] traversal can very naturally be implemented via corecursion. | |||
Without using recursion or corecursion, one may traverse a tree by starting at the root node, placing the child nodes in a data structure, then removing the nodes in the data structure in turn and iterating over its children.{{efn|More elegantly, one can start by placing the root node itself in the structure and then iterating.}} If the data structure is a [[Stack (abstract data type)|stack]] (LIFO), this yields depth-first traversal, while if the data structure is a [[Queue (abstract data type)|queue]] (FIFO), this yields breadth-first traversal. | |||
Using recursion, a (post-order){{efn|Post-order is to make "leaf node is base case" explicit for exposition, but the same analysis works for pre-order or in-order.}} depth-first traversal can be implemented by starting at the root node and recursively traversing each child subtree in turn (the subtree based at each child node) – the second child subtree does not start processing until the first child subtree is finished. Once a leaf node is reached or the children of a branch node have been exhausted, the node itself is visited (e.g., the value of the node itself is outputted). In this case, the call stack (of the recursive functions) acts as the stack that is iterated over. | |||
= | Using corecursion, a breadth-first traversal can be implemented by starting at the root node, outputting its value,{{efn|Breadth-first traversal, unlike depth-first, is unambiguous, and visits a node value before processing children.}} then breadth-first traversing the subtrees – i.e., passing on the ''whole list'' of subtrees to the next step (not a single subtree, as in the recursive approach) – at the next step outputting the value of all of their root nodes, then passing on their child subtrees, etc.{{efn|Technically, one may define a breadth-first traversal on an ordered, disconnected set of trees – first the root node of each tree, then the children of each tree in turn, then the grandchildren in turn, etc.}} In this case the generator function, indeed the output sequence itself, acts as the queue. As in the factorial example (above), where the auxiliary information of the index (which step one was at, ''n'') was pushed forward, in addition to the actual output of ''n''!, in this case the auxiliary information of the remaining subtrees is pushed forward, in addition to the actual output. Symbolically: | ||
v,t = ([], FullTree) : (RootValues, ChildTrees) | |||
meaning that at each step, one outputs the list of values of root nodes, then proceeds to the child subtrees. Generating just the node values from this sequence simply requires discarding the auxiliary child tree data, then flattening the list of lists (values are initially grouped by level (depth); flattening (ungrouping) yields a flat linear list). | |||
These can be compared as follows. The recursive traversal handles a ''leaf node'' (at the ''bottom'') as the base case (when there are no children, just output the value), and ''analyzes'' a tree into subtrees, traversing each in turn, eventually resulting in just leaf nodes – actual leaf nodes, and branch nodes whose children have already been dealt with (cut off ''below''). By contrast, the corecursive traversal handles a ''root node'' (at the ''top'') as the base case (given a node, first output the value), treats a tree as being ''synthesized'' of a root node and its children, then produces as auxiliary output a list of subtrees at each step, which are then the input for the next step – the child nodes of the original root are the root nodes at the next step, as their parents have already been dealt with (cut off ''above''). Note also that in the recursive traversal there is a distinction between leaf nodes and branch nodes, while in the corecursive traversal there is no distinction, as each node is treated as the root node of the subtree it defines. | |||
Notably, given an infinite tree,{{efn|Assume fixed [[branching factor]] (e.g., binary), or at least bounded, and balanced (infinite in every direction).}} the corecursive breadth-first traversal will traverse all nodes, just as for a finite tree, while the recursive depth-first traversal will go down one branch and not traverse all nodes, and indeed if traversing post-order, as in this example (or in-order), it will visit no nodes at all, because it never reaches a leaf. This shows the usefulness of corecursion rather than recursion for dealing with infinite data structures. | |||
In Python, this can be implemented as follows.{{efn|First defining a tree class, say via: | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
class Tree: | |||
def __init__(self, value, left=None, right=None): | |||
self.value = value | |||
self.left = left | |||
self.right = right | |||
== | def __str__(self): | ||
return str(self.value) | |||
</source> | |||
and initializing a tree, say via: | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
t = Tree(1, Tree(2, Tree(4), Tree(5)), Tree(3, Tree(6), Tree(7))) | |||
</source> | |||
In this example nodes are labeled in breadth-first order: | |||
1 | |||
2 3 | |||
4 5 6 7 | |||
}} | |||
The usual post-order depth-first traversal can be defined as:{{efn|Intuitively, the function iterates over subtrees (possibly empty), then once these are finished, all that is left is the node itself, whose value is then returned; this corresponds to treating a leaf node as basic.}} | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
def df(node): | |||
if node is not None: | |||
df(node.left) | |||
df(node.right) | |||
print(node.value) | |||
</source> | |||
This can then be called by <code>df(t)</code> to print the values of the nodes of the tree in post-order depth-first order. | |||
The breadth-first corecursive generator can be defined as:{{efn|1=Here the argument (and loop variable) is considered as a whole, possible infinite tree, represented by (identified with) its root node (tree = root node), rather than as a potential leaf node, hence the choice of variable name.}} | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
def bf(tree): | |||
tree_list = [tree] | |||
< | while tree_list: | ||
new_tree_list = [] | |||
for tree in tree_list: | |||
if tree is not None: | |||
yield tree.value | |||
new_tree_list.append(tree.left) | |||
new_tree_list.append(tree.right) | |||
tree_list = new_tree_list | |||
</source> | |||
This can then be called to print the values of the nodes of the tree in breadth-first order: | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
for i in bf(t): | |||
print(i) | |||
</source> | |||
==Definition== | |||
{{technical|section|date=November 2010}} | |||
[[Initial and terminal objects|Initial data type]]s can be defined as being the [[least fixpoint]] ([[up to isomorphism]]) of some type equation; the [[isomorphism]] is then given by an [[Initial algebra|initial]] [[F-algebra|algebra]]. Dually, final (or terminal) data types can be defined as being the [[greatest fixpoint]] of a type equation; the isomorphism is then given by a final [[F-coalgebra|coalgebra]]. | |||
If the domain of discourse is the [[category of sets]] and total functions, then final data types may contain infinite, [[Non-well-founded set theory|non-wellfounded]] values, whereas initial types do not.<ref>Barwise and Moss 1996.</ref><ref>Moss and Danner 1997.</ref> On the other hand, if the domain of discourse is the category of [[complete partial order]]s and [[Scott continuity|continuous functions]], which corresponds roughly to the [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]] programming language, then final types coincide with initial types, and the corresponding final coalgebra and initial algebra form an isomorphism.<ref>Smyth and Plotkin 1982.</ref> | |||
Corecursion is then a technique for recursively defining functions whose range (codomain) is a final data type, dual to the way that ordinary [[recursion]] recursively defines functions whose domain is an initial data type.<ref>Gibbons and Hutton 2005.</ref><!--G&H ascribe this definition to Barwise and Moss--> | |||
The discussion below provides several examples in Haskell that distinguish corecursion. Roughly speaking, if one were to port these definitions to the category of sets, they would still be corecursive. This informal usage is consistent with existing textbooks about Haskell.<ref>Doets and van Eijck 2004.</ref> Also note that the examples used in this article predate the attempts to define corecursion and explain what it is. | |||
==Discussion== | |||
{{cleanup|section|reason=mix of discussion, examples, and related concepts|date=July 2012}} | |||
{{Expert-subject|Computer science|2=section|date=November 2010}} | |||
The rule for ''primitive corecursion'' on [[codata]] is the dual to that for [[primitive recursion]] on data. Instead of descending on the argument by [[pattern-matching]] on its constructors (that ''were called up before'', somewhere, so we receive a ready-made datum and get at its constituent sub-parts, i.e. "fields"), we ascend on the result by filling-in its "destructors" (or "observers", that ''will be called afterwards'', somewhere - so we're actually calling a constructor, creating another bit of the result to be observed later on). Thus corecursion ''creates'' (potentially infinite) codata, whereas ordinary recursion ''analyses'' (necessarily finite) data. Ordinary recursion might not be applicable to the codata because it might not terminate. Conversely, corecursion is not strictly necessary if the result type is data, because data must be finite. | |||
Here is an example in Haskell. The following definition produces the list of [[Fibonacci numbers]] in linear time: | |||
<source lang=haskell> | |||
fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs) | |||
</source> | |||
This infinite list depends on lazy evaluation; elements are computed on an as-needed basis, and only finite prefixes are ever explicitly represented in memory. This feature allows algorithms on parts of codata to terminate; such techniques are an important part of Haskell programming. | |||
This can be done in Python as well:<ref>Hettinger 2009.</ref> | |||
<source lang=python> | |||
from itertools import tee, chain, islice, imap | |||
def add(x, y): | |||
return x + y | |||
def fibonacci(): | |||
def deferred_output(): | |||
for i in output: | |||
yield i | |||
result, c1, c2 = tee(deferred_output(), 3) | |||
paired = imap(add, c1, islice(c2, 1, None)) | |||
output = chain([0, 1], paired) | |||
return result | |||
for i in islice(fibonacci(), 20): | |||
print(i) | |||
</source> | |||
The definition of <code>zipWith</code> can be inlined, leading to this: | |||
<source lang=haskell> | |||
fibs = 0 : 1 : next fibs | |||
where | |||
next (a: t@(b:_)) = (a+b):next t | |||
</source> | |||
This example employs a self-referential ''data structure''. Ordinary recursion makes use of self-referential ''functions'', but does not accommodate self-referential data. However, this is not essential to the Fibonacci example. It can be rewritten as follows: | |||
<source lang=haskell> | |||
fibs = fibgen (0,1) | |||
fibgen (x,y) = x : fibgen (y,x+y) | |||
</source> | |||
This employs only self-referential ''function'' to construct the result. If it were used with strict list constructor it would be an example of runaway recursion, but with [[lazy evaluation|non-strict]] list constructor this guarded recursion gradually produces an indefinitely defined list. | |||
{{anchor|corecursive queue breadth-first tree traversal}}Corecursion need not produce an infinite object; a corecursive queue<ref>Allison 1989; Smith 2009.</ref> is a particularly good example of this phenomenon. The following definition produces a [[Breadth-first search|breadth-first traversal]] of a binary tree in linear time: | |||
<source lang=haskell> | |||
data Tree a b = Leaf a | Branch b (Tree a b) (Tree a b) | |||
bftrav :: Tree a b -> [Tree a b] | |||
bftrav tree = queue | |||
where | |||
queue = tree : gen 1 queue | |||
gen 0 p = [] | |||
gen len (Leaf _ : p) = gen (len-1) p | |||
gen len (Branch _ l r : p) = l : r : gen (len+1) p | |||
</source> | |||
This definition takes an initial tree and produces a list of subtrees. This list serves dual purpose as both the queue and the result (<small>''<code>gen len p</code>''</small> produces its output <small>''<code>len</code>''</small> notches after its input back-pointer, <small>''<code>p</code>''</small>, along the <small>''<code>queue</code>''</small>). It is finite if and only if the initial tree is finite. The length of the queue must be explicitly tracked in order to ensure termination; this can safely be elided if this definition is applied only to infinite trees. <!-- Even if the result is finite, this example depends on lazy evaluation due to the use of self-referential data structures. | |||
why the above was removed: it isn't true: the Haskell code can be translated into Prolog quite straightforwardly. Prolog is not a lazy language. But it does have tail recursion modulo cons. Which is emulatable in Scheme, C, etc. | |||
bftrav(Tree,Q):- Q=[Tree|R], bfgen(1,Q,R). | |||
bfgen(0,_,[]):- !. | |||
bfgen(N,[leaf(_) |P], R ):- N2 is N-1, bfgen(N2,P,R). | |||
bfgen(N,[branch(_,Lt,Rt)|P],[Lt,Rt|R]):- N2 is N+1, bfgen(N2,P,R). | |||
--> | |||
Another particularly good example gives a solution to the problem of breadth-first labeling.<ref>Jones and Gibbons 1992.</ref> The function <code>label</code> visits every node in a binary tree in a breadth first fashion, and replaces each label with an integer, each subsequent integer is bigger than the last by one. This solution employs a self-referential data structure, and the binary tree can be finite or infinite. | |||
<source lang=haskell> | |||
label :: Tree a b -> Tree Int Int | |||
label t = t′ | |||
where | |||
(t′,ns) = label′ t (1:ns) | |||
label′ :: Tree a b -> [Int] -> (Tree Int Int, [Int]) | |||
label′ (Leaf _ ) (n:ns) = (Leaf n , n+1 : ns ) | |||
label′ (Branch _ l r) (n:ns) = (Branch n l′ r′ , n+1 : ns′′) | |||
where | |||
(l′,ns′ ) = label′ l ns | |||
(r′,ns′′) = label′ r ns′ | |||
</source> | |||
An [[apomorphism]] (such as an [[anamorphism]], such as [[Unfold (higher-order function)|unfold]]) is a form of corecursion in the same way that a [[paramorphism]] (such as a [[catamorphism]], such as [[Fold (higher-order function)|fold]]) is a form of recursion. | |||
The [[Coq]] proof assistant supports corecursion and [[coinduction]] using the CoFixpoint command. | |||
== History == | |||
Corecursion, referred to as ''circular programming,'' dates at least to {{Harv|Bird|1984}}, who credits [[John Hughes (computer scientist)|John Hughes]] and [[Philip Wadler]]; more general forms were developed in {{Harv|Allison|1989}}. The original motivations included producing more efficient algorithms (allowing 1 pass over data in some cases, instead of requiring multiple passes) and implementing classical data structures, such as doubly linked lists and queues, in functional languages. | |||
== See also == | |||
* [[Bisimulation]] | |||
* [[Coinduction]] | |||
* [[Recursion]] | |||
== Notes == | |||
{{notelist}} | |||
== References == | |||
{{Reflist|2}} | |||
{{refbegin}} | |||
* {{cite doi| 10.1007/BF00264249 }} | |||
* {{cite journal | |||
| doi = 10.1002/spe.4380190202 | |||
| author = Lloyd Allison | |||
| date = April 1989 | |||
| title = Circular Programs and Self-Referential Structures | |||
| url = http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeFP/1989SPE/ | |||
| journal = Software Practice and Experience | |||
| volume = 19 | |||
| issue = 2 | |||
| pages = 99–109 | |||
}} | |||
* {{cite techreport | |||
| author = Geraint Jones and [[Jeremy Gibbons]] | |||
| title = Linear-time breadth-first tree algorithms: An exercise in the arithmetic of folds and zips | |||
| institution = Dept of Computer Science, University of Auckland | |||
| year = 1992 | |||
| url = http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.32.5446 | |||
}} | |||
* {{cite book | |||
| author = Jon Barwise and Lawrence S Moss | |||
| title = Vicious Circles | |||
| url = http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=3630257 | |||
| publisher = Center for the Study of Language and Information | |||
| date = June 1996 | |||
| isbn = 978-1-57586-009-1 | |||
}} | |||
* {{cite journal | |||
| doi = 10.1093/jigpal/5.2.231 | |||
| author = Lawrence S Moss and Norman Danner | |||
| title = On the Foundations of Corecursion | |||
| url = http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.40.4243 | |||
| journal = Logic Journal of the IGPL | |||
| volume = 5 | |||
| issue = 2 | |||
| pages = 231–257 | |||
| year = 1997 | |||
}} | |||
* {{cite book | |||
| author = Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck | |||
| title = The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming | |||
| url = http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/ | |||
| publisher = King's College Publications | |||
| date = May 2004 | |||
| isbn = 978-0-9543006-9-2 | |||
}} | |||
* {{cite journal | |||
| author = David Turner | |||
| date = 2004-07-28 | |||
| title = Total Functional Programming | |||
| url = http://www.jucs.org/jucs_10_7/total_functional_programming | |||
| journal = Journal of Universal Computer Science | |||
| volume = 10 | |||
| issue = 7 | |||
| pages = 751–768 | |||
| doi = 10.3217/jucs-010-07-0751 | |||
| authorlink = David Turner (computer scientist) | |||
}} | |||
* {{cite journal | |||
| author = Jeremy Gibbons and Graham Hutton | |||
| title = Proof methods for corecursive programs | |||
| journal = Fundamenta Informaticae Special Issue on Program Transformation | |||
| volume = 66 | |||
| issue = 4 | |||
| pages = 353–366 | |||
| date = April 2005 | |||
| url = http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/bib.html#corecursion | |||
}} | |||
* {{citation | |||
| author = Leon P Smith | |||
| date = 2009-07-29 | |||
| title = Lloyd Allison's Corecursive Queues: Why Continuations Matter | |||
| url = http://themonadreader.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/issue-14/ | |||
| journal = The Monad Reader | |||
| issue = 14 | |||
| pages = 37–68 | |||
}} | |||
* {{cite web | |||
| author = Raymond Hettinger | |||
| title = Recipe 576961: Technique for cyclical iteration | |||
| url = http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576961/ | |||
| date = 2009-11-19 | |||
}} | |||
* {{cite journal | |||
| author = M. B. Smyth and [[Gordon Plotkin|G. D. Plotkin]] | |||
| year = 1982 | |||
| title = The Category-Theoretic Solution of Recursive Domain Equations | |||
| journal = [[SIAM Journal on Computing]] | |||
| volume = 11 | |||
| issue = 4 | |||
| pages = 761–783 | |||
| doi = 10.1137/0211062 | |||
}} | |||
{{refend}} | |||
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In computer science, corecursion is a type of operation that is dual to recursion. Whereas recursion works analytically, starting on data further from a base case and breaking it down into smaller data and repeating until one reaches a base case, corecursion works synthetically, starting from a base case and building it up, iteratively producing data further removed from a base case. Put simply, corecursive algorithms use the data that they themselves produce, bit by bit, as they become available, and needed, to produce further bits of data. Some authors refer to this as generative recursion.
Where recursion allows programs to operate on arbitrarily complex data, so long as it can be reduced to simple data (base cases), corecursion allows programs to produce arbitrarily complex and potentially infinite data structures, such as streams, so long as it can be produced from simple data (base cases). Where recursion may not terminate, never reaching a base state, corecursion starts from a base state, and thus produces subsequent steps deterministically, but the result may be infinite (and thus not terminate). Many functions that are traditionally analyzed as recursive can alternatively, and arguably more naturally, be interpreted as corecursive function that are terminated at a given stage, for example recurrence relations such as the factorial.
Corecursion can produce both finite and infinite data structures as result, and may employ self-referential data structures. Corecursion is often used in conjunction with lazy evaluation, to only produce a finite subset of a potentially infinite structure (rather than trying to produce an entire infinite structure at once). Corecursion is a particularly important concept in functional programming, where corecursion and codata allow total languages to work with infinite data structures.
Examples
Corecursion can be understood by contrast with recursion, which is more familiar. While corecursion is primarily of interest in functional programming, it can be illustrated using imperative programming, which is done below using the generator facility in Python. In these examples local variables are used, and assigned values imperatively (destructively), though these are not necessary in corecursion in pure functional programming. In pure functional programming, rather than assigning to local variables, these computed values form an invariable sequence, and prior values are accessed by self-reference (later values in the sequence reference earlier values in the sequence to be computed). The assignments simply express this in the imperative paradigm and explicitly specify where the computations happen, which serves to clarify the exposition.
Factorial
A classic example of recursion is computing the factorial, which is defined recursively as and
To recursively compute its result on a given input, a recursive function calls itself with a different input and uses the result of this call to construct its result. The recursive call does the same, unless the base case is reached. Thus a call stack develops in the process. For example, to compute fac(3), this recursively calls in turn fac(2), fac(1), fac(0) ("winding up" the stack), at which point recursion terminates with fac(0) = 1, and then the stack unwinds in reverse order and the results are calculated on the way back along the call stack to the initial call frame fac(3), where the final result is calculated as 3*2 =: 6 and finally returned. In this example a function returns a single value.
By contrast the factorial can be defined corecursively, as an iterator, where one starts with the base case of , then from this base value constructs factorial values for increasing numbers 1, 2, 3... as in the above recursive definition with "time arrow" reversed, as it where, from to . The corecursive algorithm thus produces the stream of all factorials. This may be concretely implemented as a generator. Symbolically, noting that computing next factorial value requires keeping track of both n and f (a previous factorial value), this can be represented as:
or in Haskell,
(\(n,f) -> (n+1, f*(n+1))) `iterate` (0,1)
meaning, "starting from , on each step the next values are calculated as ". This is mathematically equivalent and almost identical to the recursive definition, but the emphasizes that the factorial values are being built up, going forwards from the starting case, rather than being computed after first going backwards, down to the base case, with a decrement. Note also that the direct output of the corecursive function does not simply contain the factorial values, but also includes for each value the auxiliary data of its index n in the sequence, so that any one specific result can be selected among them all, as and when needed.
Note the connection with denotational semantics, where the denotations of recursive programs is built up corecursively in this way.
In Python, a recursive factorial function can be defined as:Template:Efn
def factorial(n):
if n == 0:
return 1
else:
return n * factorial(n - 1)
This could then be called for example as factorial(5)
to compute 5!.
A corresponding corecursive generator can be defined as:
def factorials():
n, f = 0, 1
while True:
yield f
n, f = n + 1, f * (n + 1)
This generates an infinite stream of factorials in order; a finite portion of it can be produced by:
def n_factorials(k):
n, f = 0, 1
while n <= k:
yield f
n, f = n + 1, f * (n + 1)
This could then be called to produce the factorials up to 5! via:
for f in n_factorials(5):
print(f)
If we're only interested in a certain factorial, just the last value can be taken, or we can fuse the production and the access into one function,
def nth_factorial(k):
n, f = 0, 1
while n < k:
n, f = n + 1, f * (n + 1)
return f
As can be readily seen here, this is equivalent to the accumulator argument technique for tail recursion, unwound into an explicit loop. Thus it can be said that the concept of corecursion is an explication of the embodiment of iterative computation processes by recursive definitions, where applicable.
Fibonacci sequence
In the same way, the Fibonacci sequence can be represented as:
Note that because the Fibonacci sequence is a recurrence relation of order 2, the corecursive relation must track two successive terms, with the corresponding to shift forward by one step, and the corresponding to computing the next term. This can then be implemented as follows (using parallel assignment):
def fibonacci_sequence():
a, b = 0, 1
while True:
yield a
a, b = b, a + b
In Haskell,
map fst $ (\(a,b) -> (b,a+b)) `iterate` (0,1)
Tree traversal
Tree traversal via a depth-first approach is a classic example of recursion. Dually, breadth-first traversal can very naturally be implemented via corecursion.
Without using recursion or corecursion, one may traverse a tree by starting at the root node, placing the child nodes in a data structure, then removing the nodes in the data structure in turn and iterating over its children.Template:Efn If the data structure is a stack (LIFO), this yields depth-first traversal, while if the data structure is a queue (FIFO), this yields breadth-first traversal.
Using recursion, a (post-order)Template:Efn depth-first traversal can be implemented by starting at the root node and recursively traversing each child subtree in turn (the subtree based at each child node) – the second child subtree does not start processing until the first child subtree is finished. Once a leaf node is reached or the children of a branch node have been exhausted, the node itself is visited (e.g., the value of the node itself is outputted). In this case, the call stack (of the recursive functions) acts as the stack that is iterated over.
Using corecursion, a breadth-first traversal can be implemented by starting at the root node, outputting its value,Template:Efn then breadth-first traversing the subtrees – i.e., passing on the whole list of subtrees to the next step (not a single subtree, as in the recursive approach) – at the next step outputting the value of all of their root nodes, then passing on their child subtrees, etc.Template:Efn In this case the generator function, indeed the output sequence itself, acts as the queue. As in the factorial example (above), where the auxiliary information of the index (which step one was at, n) was pushed forward, in addition to the actual output of n!, in this case the auxiliary information of the remaining subtrees is pushed forward, in addition to the actual output. Symbolically:
v,t = ([], FullTree) : (RootValues, ChildTrees)
meaning that at each step, one outputs the list of values of root nodes, then proceeds to the child subtrees. Generating just the node values from this sequence simply requires discarding the auxiliary child tree data, then flattening the list of lists (values are initially grouped by level (depth); flattening (ungrouping) yields a flat linear list).
These can be compared as follows. The recursive traversal handles a leaf node (at the bottom) as the base case (when there are no children, just output the value), and analyzes a tree into subtrees, traversing each in turn, eventually resulting in just leaf nodes – actual leaf nodes, and branch nodes whose children have already been dealt with (cut off below). By contrast, the corecursive traversal handles a root node (at the top) as the base case (given a node, first output the value), treats a tree as being synthesized of a root node and its children, then produces as auxiliary output a list of subtrees at each step, which are then the input for the next step – the child nodes of the original root are the root nodes at the next step, as their parents have already been dealt with (cut off above). Note also that in the recursive traversal there is a distinction between leaf nodes and branch nodes, while in the corecursive traversal there is no distinction, as each node is treated as the root node of the subtree it defines.
Notably, given an infinite tree,Template:Efn the corecursive breadth-first traversal will traverse all nodes, just as for a finite tree, while the recursive depth-first traversal will go down one branch and not traverse all nodes, and indeed if traversing post-order, as in this example (or in-order), it will visit no nodes at all, because it never reaches a leaf. This shows the usefulness of corecursion rather than recursion for dealing with infinite data structures.
In Python, this can be implemented as follows.Template:Efn The usual post-order depth-first traversal can be defined as:Template:Efn
def df(node):
if node is not None:
df(node.left)
df(node.right)
print(node.value)
This can then be called by df(t)
to print the values of the nodes of the tree in post-order depth-first order.
The breadth-first corecursive generator can be defined as:Template:Efn
def bf(tree):
tree_list = [tree]
while tree_list:
new_tree_list = []
for tree in tree_list:
if tree is not None:
yield tree.value
new_tree_list.append(tree.left)
new_tree_list.append(tree.right)
tree_list = new_tree_list
This can then be called to print the values of the nodes of the tree in breadth-first order:
for i in bf(t):
print(i)
Definition
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Initial data types can be defined as being the least fixpoint (up to isomorphism) of some type equation; the isomorphism is then given by an initial algebra. Dually, final (or terminal) data types can be defined as being the greatest fixpoint of a type equation; the isomorphism is then given by a final coalgebra.
If the domain of discourse is the category of sets and total functions, then final data types may contain infinite, non-wellfounded values, whereas initial types do not.[1][2] On the other hand, if the domain of discourse is the category of complete partial orders and continuous functions, which corresponds roughly to the Haskell programming language, then final types coincide with initial types, and the corresponding final coalgebra and initial algebra form an isomorphism.[3]
Corecursion is then a technique for recursively defining functions whose range (codomain) is a final data type, dual to the way that ordinary recursion recursively defines functions whose domain is an initial data type.[4]
The discussion below provides several examples in Haskell that distinguish corecursion. Roughly speaking, if one were to port these definitions to the category of sets, they would still be corecursive. This informal usage is consistent with existing textbooks about Haskell.[5] Also note that the examples used in this article predate the attempts to define corecursion and explain what it is.
Discussion
Template:Cleanup Template:Expert-subject The rule for primitive corecursion on codata is the dual to that for primitive recursion on data. Instead of descending on the argument by pattern-matching on its constructors (that were called up before, somewhere, so we receive a ready-made datum and get at its constituent sub-parts, i.e. "fields"), we ascend on the result by filling-in its "destructors" (or "observers", that will be called afterwards, somewhere - so we're actually calling a constructor, creating another bit of the result to be observed later on). Thus corecursion creates (potentially infinite) codata, whereas ordinary recursion analyses (necessarily finite) data. Ordinary recursion might not be applicable to the codata because it might not terminate. Conversely, corecursion is not strictly necessary if the result type is data, because data must be finite.
Here is an example in Haskell. The following definition produces the list of Fibonacci numbers in linear time:
fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)
This infinite list depends on lazy evaluation; elements are computed on an as-needed basis, and only finite prefixes are ever explicitly represented in memory. This feature allows algorithms on parts of codata to terminate; such techniques are an important part of Haskell programming.
This can be done in Python as well:[6]
from itertools import tee, chain, islice, imap
def add(x, y):
return x + y
def fibonacci():
def deferred_output():
for i in output:
yield i
result, c1, c2 = tee(deferred_output(), 3)
paired = imap(add, c1, islice(c2, 1, None))
output = chain([0, 1], paired)
return result
for i in islice(fibonacci(), 20):
print(i)
The definition of zipWith
can be inlined, leading to this:
fibs = 0 : 1 : next fibs
where
next (a: t@(b:_)) = (a+b):next t
This example employs a self-referential data structure. Ordinary recursion makes use of self-referential functions, but does not accommodate self-referential data. However, this is not essential to the Fibonacci example. It can be rewritten as follows:
fibs = fibgen (0,1)
fibgen (x,y) = x : fibgen (y,x+y)
This employs only self-referential function to construct the result. If it were used with strict list constructor it would be an example of runaway recursion, but with non-strict list constructor this guarded recursion gradually produces an indefinitely defined list.
<corecursive queue breadth-first tree traversal>...</corecursive queue breadth-first tree traversal>
Corecursion need not produce an infinite object; a corecursive queue[7] is a particularly good example of this phenomenon. The following definition produces a breadth-first traversal of a binary tree in linear time:
data Tree a b = Leaf a | Branch b (Tree a b) (Tree a b)
bftrav :: Tree a b -> [Tree a b]
bftrav tree = queue
where
queue = tree : gen 1 queue
gen 0 p = []
gen len (Leaf _ : p) = gen (len-1) p
gen len (Branch _ l r : p) = l : r : gen (len+1) p
This definition takes an initial tree and produces a list of subtrees. This list serves dual purpose as both the queue and the result (gen len p
produces its output len
notches after its input back-pointer, p
, along the queue
). It is finite if and only if the initial tree is finite. The length of the queue must be explicitly tracked in order to ensure termination; this can safely be elided if this definition is applied only to infinite trees.
Another particularly good example gives a solution to the problem of breadth-first labeling.[8] The function label
visits every node in a binary tree in a breadth first fashion, and replaces each label with an integer, each subsequent integer is bigger than the last by one. This solution employs a self-referential data structure, and the binary tree can be finite or infinite.
label :: Tree a b -> Tree Int Int
label t = t′
where
(t′,ns) = label′ t (1:ns)
label′ :: Tree a b -> [Int] -> (Tree Int Int, [Int])
label′ (Leaf _ ) (n:ns) = (Leaf n , n+1 : ns )
label′ (Branch _ l r) (n:ns) = (Branch n l′ r′ , n+1 : ns′′)
where
(l′,ns′ ) = label′ l ns
(r′,ns′′) = label′ r ns′
An apomorphism (such as an anamorphism, such as unfold) is a form of corecursion in the same way that a paramorphism (such as a catamorphism, such as fold) is a form of recursion.
The Coq proof assistant supports corecursion and coinduction using the CoFixpoint command.
History
Corecursion, referred to as circular programming, dates at least to Template:Harv, who credits John Hughes and Philip Wadler; more general forms were developed in Template:Harv. The original motivations included producing more efficient algorithms (allowing 1 pass over data in some cases, instead of requiring multiple passes) and implementing classical data structures, such as doubly linked lists and queues, in functional languages.
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In its statement, the singapore property listing - website link, government claimed that the majority citizens buying their first residence won't be hurt by the new measures. Some concessions can even be prolonged to chose teams of consumers, similar to married couples with a minimum of one Singaporean partner who are purchasing their second property so long as they intend to promote their first residential property. Lower the LTV limit on housing loans granted by monetary establishments regulated by MAS from 70% to 60% for property purchasers who are individuals with a number of outstanding housing loans on the time of the brand new housing purchase. Singapore Property Measures - 30 August 2010 The most popular seek for the number of bedrooms in Singapore is 4, followed by 2 and three. Lush Acres EC @ Sengkang
Discover out more about real estate funding in the area, together with info on international funding incentives and property possession. Many Singaporeans have been investing in property across the causeway in recent years, attracted by comparatively low prices. However, those who need to exit their investments quickly are likely to face significant challenges when trying to sell their property – and could finally be stuck with a property they can't sell. Career improvement programmes, in-house valuation, auctions and administrative help, venture advertising and marketing, skilled talks and traisning are continuously planned for the sales associates to help them obtain better outcomes for his or her shoppers while at Knight Frank Singapore. No change Present Rules
Extending the tax exemption would help. The exemption, which may be as a lot as $2 million per family, covers individuals who negotiate a principal reduction on their existing mortgage, sell their house short (i.e., for lower than the excellent loans), or take part in a foreclosure course of. An extension of theexemption would seem like a common-sense means to assist stabilize the housing market, but the political turmoil around the fiscal-cliff negotiations means widespread sense could not win out. Home Minority Chief Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) believes that the mortgage relief provision will be on the table during the grand-cut price talks, in response to communications director Nadeam Elshami. Buying or promoting of blue mild bulbs is unlawful.
A vendor's stamp duty has been launched on industrial property for the primary time, at rates ranging from 5 per cent to 15 per cent. The Authorities might be trying to reassure the market that they aren't in opposition to foreigners and PRs investing in Singapore's property market. They imposed these measures because of extenuating components available in the market." The sale of new dual-key EC models will even be restricted to multi-generational households only. The models have two separate entrances, permitting grandparents, for example, to dwell separately. The vendor's stamp obligation takes effect right this moment and applies to industrial property and plots which might be offered inside three years of the date of buy. JLL named Best Performing Property Brand for second year running
The data offered is for normal info purposes only and isn't supposed to be personalised investment or monetary advice. Motley Fool Singapore contributor Stanley Lim would not personal shares in any corporations talked about. Singapore private home costs increased by 1.eight% within the fourth quarter of 2012, up from 0.6% within the earlier quarter. Resale prices of government-built HDB residences which are usually bought by Singaporeans, elevated by 2.5%, quarter on quarter, the quickest acquire in five quarters. And industrial property, prices are actually double the levels of three years ago. No withholding tax in the event you sell your property. All your local information regarding vital HDB policies, condominium launches, land growth, commercial property and more
There are various methods to go about discovering the precise property. Some local newspapers (together with the Straits Instances ) have categorised property sections and many local property brokers have websites. Now there are some specifics to consider when buying a 'new launch' rental. Intended use of the unit Every sale begins with 10 p.c low cost for finish of season sale; changes to 20 % discount storewide; follows by additional reduction of fiftyand ends with last discount of 70 % or extra. Typically there is even a warehouse sale or transferring out sale with huge mark-down of costs for stock clearance. Deborah Regulation from Expat Realtor shares her property market update, plus prime rental residences and houses at the moment available to lease Esparina EC @ Sengkang