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A central theme in distributed network algorithms concerns understanding and coping with the issue of locality. Inspired by sequential complexity theory, we focus on a complexity theory for distributed decision problems. In the context of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-04 Pierre Fraigniaud , Amos Korman , David Peleg

Given a regular language $L$, we study the language of words $\mathsf{D}(L)$, that distinguish between pairs of different left-quotients of $L$. We characterize this distinguishability operation, show that its iteration has always a fixed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Cezar Câmpeanu , Nelma Moreira , Rogério Reis

Learning-based systems are increasingly deployed across various domains, yet the complexity of traditional neural networks poses significant challenges for formal verification. Unlike conventional neural networks, learned Logic Gate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fabian Kresse , Emily Yu , Christoph H. Lampert , Thomas A. Henzinger

In this paper, we investigate the computational and verification power of bounded-error postselecting realtime probabilistic finite state automata (PostPFAs). We show that PostPFAs using rational-valued transitions can do different variants…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Maksims Dimitrijevs , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We show that if a language $L$ admits a public-coin unambiguous interactive proof (UIP) with round complexity $\ell$, where $a$ bits are communicated per round, then the batch language $L^{\otimes k}$, i.e. the set of $k$-tuples of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Bonnie Berger , Rohan Goyal , Matthew M. Hong , Yael Tauman Kalai

A finitary automaton group is a group generated by an invertible, deterministic finite-state letter-to-letter transducer whose only cycles are self-loops at an identity state. We show that, for this presentation of finite groups, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Maximilian Kotowsky , Jan Philipp Wächter

Regular languages (RL) are the simplest family in Chomsky's hierarchy. Thanks to their simplicity they enjoy various nice algebraic and logic properties that have been successfully exploited in many application fields. Practically all of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Dino Mandrioli , Matteo Pradella

We provide an empirical study of the stability of recurrent neural networks trained to recognize regular languages. When a small amount of noise is introduced into the activation function, the neurons in the recurrent layer tend to saturate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Christian Oliva , Luis F. Lago-Fernández

We initiate the study of the verification power of AfAs as part of Arthur-Merlin (AM) proof systems. We show that every unary language is verified by a real-valued AfA verifier. Then, we focus on the verifiers restricted to have only…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Aliya Khadieva , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

With deep neural networks providing state-of-the-art machine learning models for numerous machine learning tasks, quantifying the robustness of these models has become an important area of research. However, most of the research literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Lam M. Nguyen , Mark S. Squillante , Ivan Oseledets , Luca Daniel

In this paper we investigate formal verification problems for Neural Network computations. Of central importance will be various robustness and minimization problems such as: Given symbolic specifications of allowed inputs and outputs in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Adrian Wurm

We present three protocols for verifying all languages: (i) For any unary (binary) language, there is a log-space (linear-space) interactive proof system (IPS); (ii) for any language, there is a constant-space weak-IPS (the non-members may…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Maksims Dimitrijevs , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We consider two-variable first-order logic on finite words with a fixed number of quantifier alternations. We show that all languages with a neutral letter definable using the order and finite-degree predicates are also definable with the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Charles Paperman

We show that for any $i > 0$, it is decidable, given a regular language, whether it is expressible in the $\Sigma_i[<]$ fragment of first-order logic FO[<]. This settles a question open since 1971. Our main technical result relies on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Corentin Barloy , Michaël Cadilhac , Charles Paperman , Howard Straubing

In a game of incomplete information, an infinite state space can create problems. When the space is uncountably large, the strategy spaces of the players may be unwieldly, resulting in a lack of measurable equilibria. When the knowledge of…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Robert Samuel Simon

This paper studies quantum refereed games, which are quantum interactive proof systems with two competing provers: one that tries to convince the verifier to accept and the other that tries to convince the verifier to reject. We prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Gus Gutoski , John Watrous

The use of monoids in the study of word languages recognized by finite-state automata has been quite fruitful. In this work, we look at the same idea of "recognizability by finite monoids" for other monoids. In particular, we attempt to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Pranshu Gaba , Arnab Sur

Termination analysis of linear loops plays a key r\^{o}le in several areas of computer science, including program verification and abstract interpretation. Already for the simplest variants of linear loops the question of termination…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Shaull Almagor , Dmitry Chistikov , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

Formal verification guarantees proof validity but not formalization faithfulness. For natural-language logical reasoning, where models construct axiom systems from scratch without library constraints, this gap between valid proofs and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Kyuhee Kim , Auguste Poiroux , Antoine Bosselut

We study the problem of recognizing regular languages in a variant of the streaming model of computation, called the sliding window model. In this model, we are given a size of the sliding window $n$ and a stream of symbols. At each time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Moses Ganardi , Danny Hucke , Markus Lohrey , Tatiana Starikovskaya