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Evidential Decision Theory via Partial Markov Categories

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arxiv 2301.12989 v4 pith:M5F2O4YQ submitted 2023-01-30 cs.LO math.CT

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We introduce partial Markov categories. In the same way that Markov categories encode stochastic processes, partial Markov categories encode stochastic processes with constraints, observations and updates. In particular, we prove a synthetic Bayes theorem and we apply it to define a syntactic partial theory of observations on any Markov category, whose normalisations can be computed in the original Markov category. Finally, we formalise Evidential Decision Theory in terms of partial Markov categories, and provide implemented examples.

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