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Machine learning researchers and practitioners steadily enlarge the multitude of successful learning models. They achieve this through in-depth theoretical analyses and experiential heuristics. However, there is no known general-purpose…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Matthias C. Caro

Let $L_{>\lambda}(\mathcal{A})$ and $L_{\geq\lambda}(\mathcal{A})$ be the languages recognized by {\em measure many 1-way quantum finite automata (MM-QFA)} (or,{\em enhanced 1-way quantum finite automata(EQFA)}) $\mathcal{A}$ with strict…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Tianrong Lin

Indexed languages are a classical notion in formal language theory, which has attracted attention in recent decades due to its role in higher-order model checking: They are precisely the languages accepted by order-2 pushdown automata. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Richard Mandel , Corto Mascle , Georg Zetzsche

It is well-known that: (i) every context-free language over a singleton terminal alphabet is regular, and (ii) the class of languages that satisfy the Pumping Lemma is a proper super-class of the context-free languages. We show that any…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti

It is known that if a B\"uchi context-free language (BCFL) consists of scattered words, then there is an integer $n$, depending only on the language, such that the Hausdorff rank of each word in the language is bounded by $n$. Every BCFL is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Zoltan Esik , Satoshi Okawa

The Smallest Grammar Problem -- the problem of finding the smallest context-free grammar that generates exactly one given sequence -- has never been successfully applied to grammatical inference. We investigate the reasons and propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Payam Siyari , Matthias Gallé

We present a necessary condition for an infinite language to be multiple context-free, which we call a Substitution Lemma. We apply it to show a sample selection of languages are not multiple context-free, including the word problem of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Andrew Duncan , Murray Elder , Lisa Frenkel , Mengfan Lyu

Semantic Similarity between two sentences can be defined as a way to determine how related or unrelated two sentences are. The task of Semantic Similarity in terms of distributed representations can be thought to be generating sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Richa Sharma , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

In the literature two notions of the word problem for a variety occur. A variety has a decidable word problem if every finitely presented algebra in the variety has a decidable word problem. It has a uniformly decidable word problem if…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Alan H. Mekler , Evelyn Nelson , Saharon Shelah

We discuss the computational complexity of context-free languages, concentrating on two well-known structural properties---immunity and pseudorandomness. An infinite language is REG-immune (resp., CFL-immune) if it contains no infinite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Tomoyuki Yamakami

We study Turing machines that are allowed absolutely no space overhead. The only work space the machines have, beyond the fixed amount of memory implicit in their finite-state control, is that which they can create by cannibalizing the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Proshanto Mukherji , Till Tantau

The Random Language Model, proposed as a simple model of human languages, is defined by the averaged model of a probabilistic context-free grammar. This grammar expresses the process of sentence generation as a tree graph with nodes having…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-07 Kai Nakaishi , Koji Hukushima

Classifying formal languages according to the expressiveness of grammars able to generate them is a fundamental problem in computational linguistics and, therefore, in the theory of computation. Furthermore, such kind of analysis can give…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Marco B. Caminati

We consider a language together with the subword relation, the cover relation, and regular predicates. For such structures, we consider the extension of first-order logic by threshold- and modulo-counting quantifiers. Depending on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Dietrich Kuske , Georg Zetzsche

Patterns are words with terminals and variables. The language of a pattern is the set of words obtained by uniformly substituting all variables with words that contain only terminals. Length constraints restrict valid substitutions of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dirk Nowotka , Max Wiedenhöft

In this paper, we describe an approach to sentence categorization which has the originality to be based on natural properties of languages with no training set dependency. The implementation is fast, small, robust and textual errors…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Emmanuel Giguet

Tree-controlled grammars are context-free grammars where the derivation process is controlled in such a way that every word on a level of the derivation tree must belong to a certain control language. We investigate the generative capacity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Bianca Truthe

We show the existence of finitely presented torsion-free groups with decidable word problem that cannot be embedded in any finitely generated group with decidable conjugacy problem. This answers a well-known question of Collins from the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Arman Darbinyan

The notion of non-deterministic logical matrix (where connectives are interpreted as multi-functions) preserves many good properties of traditional semantics based on logical matrices (where connectives are interpreted as functions) whilst…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Pedro Filipe , Carlos Caleiro , Sérgio Marcelino

A test set for a formal language (set of strings) L is a subset T of L such that for any two string homomorphisms f and g defined on L, if the restrictions of f and g on T are identical functions, then f and g are identical on the entire L.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Mikaël Mayer , Jad Hamza