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In this paper, we introduce the new concept of state complexity approximation, which is a further development of state complexity estimation. We show that this new concept is useful in both of the following two cases: the exact state…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Yuan Gao , Sheng Yu

Compositions of tree-walking tree transducers form a hierarchy with respect to the number of transducers in the composition. As main technical result it is proved that any such composition can be realized as a linear bounded composition,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Joost Engelfriet , Kazuhiro Inaba , Sebastian Maneth

Matrix product operators allow efficient descriptions (or realizations) of states on a 1D lattice. We consider the task of learning a realization of minimal dimension from copies of an unknown state, such that the resulting operator is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Marco Fanizza , Niklas Galke , Josep Lumbreras , Cambyse Rouzé , Andreas Winter

Finite-state automata are a very effective tool in natural language processing. However, in a variety of applications and especially in speech precessing, it is necessary to consider more general machines in which arcs are assigned weights…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mehryar Mohri , Fernando Pereira , Michael Riley

The present paper presents and proves a proposition concerning the time complexity of finite languages. It is shown herein, that for any finite language (a language for which the set of words composing it is finite) there is a Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mircea Alexandru Popescu Moscu

Checking infinite-state systems is frequently done by encoding infinite sets of states as regular languages. Computing such a regular representation of, say, the set of reachable states of a system requires acceleration techniques that can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Axel Legay , Pierre Wolper

How much information a fermionic state contains? To address this fundamental question, we define the complexity of a particle-conserving many-fermion state as the entropy of its Fock space probability distribution, minimized over all Fock…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Tuomas I. Vanhala , Teemu Ojanen

We introduce stochastic and quantum finite-state transducers as computation-theoretic models of classical stochastic and quantum finitary processes. Formal process languages, representing the distribution over a process's behaviors, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-29 Karoline Wiesner , James P. Crutchfield

Until now, Computer Scientists have concerned themselves with identifying efficient algorithms for solving the general case of some problem -- that is finding one which performs well when the size of the input tends to infinity. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mircea-Adrian Digulescu

We study succinctness as a measure of the expressive power of transformers. Succinctness -- how compactly a formalism can describe a language relative to other formalisms -- is a classical notion in logic and automata theory. We prove that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pascal Bergsträßer , Ryan Cotterell , Anthony W. Lin

Numerous computer systems use dynamic control and data structures of unbounded size. These data structures have often the character of trees or they can be encoded as trees with some additional pointers. This is exploited by some currently…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Ondřej Lengál

We prove that every online learnable class of functions of Littlestone dimension $d$ admits a learning algorithm with finite information complexity. Towards this end, we use the notion of a globally stable algorithm. Generally, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Aditya Pradeep , Ido Nachum , Michael Gastpar

We show that finite size superconductors have a spectrum of states at extremely low energy, i.e. inside the superconducting gap. The presence of this {\it thin spectrum} is a generic feature and related to the fact that in a superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-29 Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink

We use fast-growing finite and infinite sequences of natural numbers and more complicated constructs to define models of hypercomputation and interpret non-arithmetic predicates, with the strongest extensions reaching full second order…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Dmytro Taranovsky

We start by an introduction to the basic concepts of computability theory and the introduction of the concept of Turing machine and computation universality. Then se turn to the exploration of trade-offs between different measures of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Joost J. Joosten , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

We describe an alternative method (to compression) that combines several theoretical and experimental results to numerically approximate the algorithmic (Kolmogorov-Chaitin) complexity of all $\sum_{n=1}^82^n$ bit strings up to 8 bits long,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Jean-Paul Delahaye , Hector Zenil

The complexity of a quantum state may be closely related to the usefulness of the state for quantum computation. We discuss this link using the tree size of a multiqubit state, a complexity measure that has two noticeable (and, so far,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Yu Cai , Huy Nguyen Le , Valerio Scarani

A transducer is finite-valued if for some bound k, it maps any given input to at most k outputs. For classical, one-way transducers, it is known since the 80s that finite valuedness entails decidability of the equivalence problem. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker , Christof Löding , Anca Muscholl , Gabriele Puppis , Sarah Winter

We prove that any Turing machine running on inputs of arbitrary length can be simulated by a constant bit-size transformer, as long as the context window is sufficiently long. This improves previous works, which require scaling up either…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qian Li , Yuyi Wang

We investigate the nondeterministic state complexity of basic operations for suffix-free regular languages. The nondeterministic state complexity of an operation is the number of states that are necessary and sufficient in the worst-case…

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