Distributional Learning of Context-Free Languages under Fixed Finite-Monoid Typing
Abstract
We study distributional learning of context-free languages under a fixed recognizable congruence given as the kernel of an explicit finite monoid homomorphism . For this fixed- setting, we develop a finite typed reconstruction theory for context-free -substitutable languages. Starting from a reduced context-free grammar, we introduce a typed refinement that records both yield types and outer context types, show that the relevant structure is concentrated in a finite typed reconstruction basis, and prove that this basis is exposed by a finite observation set. Occurrences of the same nonterminal symbol may therefore have to be separated when their outer -contexts differ. We then prove exact reconstruction from positive data. From any finite sample , we construct a canonical hypothesis grammar , and we show that once contains the finite observation set associated with the target typed grammar, generates the target language exactly. Consequently, for every explicit finite monoid homomorphism , the class of context-free -substitutable languages is identifiable in the limit from positive data, with polynomial-time hypothesis construction and update. For the linear subclass , we further prove polynomial upper bounds on characteristic-sample size and word length. Thus the same learner gives a full polynomial time-and-data result for the linear subclass.
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@article{arxiv.1409.6247,
title = {Distributional Learning of Context-Free Languages under Fixed Finite-Monoid Typing},
author = {Takayuki Kuriyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6247},
year = {2026}
}