Tapes as Stochastic Matrices of String Diagrams
Abstract
Tape diagrams provide a graphical notation for categories equipped with two monoidal products, $\otimes$ and $\oplus$, where $\oplus$ is a biproduct. Recently, they have been generalised to handle Kleisli categories of arbitrary monoidal monads. In this work, we show that for the subdistribution monad, tapes are isomorphic to stochastic matrices of subdistributions of string diagrams. We then exploit this result to provide a complete axiomatisation of probabilistic Boolean circuits.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Logic
Reasoning
and Knowledge
programming
and type systems
Advanced Algebra and Logic
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 4 January 2026
- Document type
- Preprint