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We carry on the study of the synthesis problem on data words for fragments of first order logic, and delineate precisely the border between decidability and undecidability.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Julien Grange , Mathieu Lehaut

We study the complexity of the problem of searching for a set of patterns that separate two given sets of strings. This problem has applications in a wide variety of areas, most notably in data mining, computational biology, and in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Giuseppe Lancia , Luke Mathieson , Pablo Moscato

In this paper we consider the following problems: how many different subsets of Sigma^n can occur as set of all length-n factors of a finite word? If a subset is representable, how long a word do we need to represent it? How many such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Shuo Tan , Jeffrey Shallit

Given a regular language L over an ordered alphabet $\Sigma$, the set of lexicographically smallest (resp., largest) words of each length is itself regular. Moreover, there exists an unambiguous finite-state transducer that, on a given word…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Lukas Fleischer , Jeffrey Shallit

Given a class C of word languages, the C-separation problem asks for an algorithm that, given as input two regular languages, decides whether there exists a third language in C containing the first language, while being disjoint from the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Thomas Place , Marc Zeitoun

Piecewise testable languages form the first level of the Straubing-Th\'erien hierarchy. The membership problem for this level is decidable and testing if the language of a DFA is piecewise testable is NL-complete. The question has not yet…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Tomáš Masopust

Learning word embeddings using distributional information is a task that has been studied by many researchers, and a lot of studies are reported in the literature. On the contrary, less studies were done for the case of multiple languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Marco Berlot , Evan Kaplan

Four problems related to information divergence measures defined on finite alphabets are considered. In three of the cases we consider, we illustrate a contrast which arises between the binary-alphabet and larger-alphabet settings. This is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jiantao Jiao , Thomas Courtade , Albert No , Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman

The regular separability problem asks, for two given languages, if there exists a regular language including one of them but disjoint from the other. Our main result is decidability, and PSpace-completeness, of the regular separability…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Wojciech Czerwiński , Sławomir Lasota

Given two points in the plane, and a set of "obstacles" given as curves through the plane with assigned weights, we consider the point-separation problem, which asks for the minimum-weight subset of the obstacles separating the two points.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jack Spalding-Jamieson , Anurag Murty Naredla

There are languages A such that there is a Pushdown Automata (PDA) that recognizes A which is much smaller than any Deterministic Pushdown Automata (DPDA) that recognizes A. There are languages A such that there is a Linear Bounded Automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Richard Beigel , William Gasarch

We investigate the state size of DFAs accepting the shuffle of two words. We provide words u and v, such that the minimal DFA for u shuffled with v requires an exponential number of states. We also show some conditions for the words u and v…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Franziska Biegler , Mark Daley , Ian McQuillan

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

A pattern $\alpha$ is a string of variables and terminal letters. We say that $\alpha$ matches a word $w$, consisting only of terminal letters, if $w$ can be obtained by replacing the variables of $\alpha$ by terminal words. The matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Paweł Gawrychowski , Florin Manea , Stefan Siemer

Previous studies on neural linguistic steganography, except Ueoka et al. (2021), overlook the fact that the sender must detokenize cover texts to avoid arousing the eavesdropper's suspicion. In this paper, we demonstrate that segmentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jumon Nozaki , Yugo Murawaki

Alternative novel measures of the distance between any two partitions of a n-set are proposed and compared, together with a main existing one, namely 'partition-distance' D(.,.). The comparison achieves by checking their restriction to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-06-24 Giovanni Rossi

We indicate a way of distinguishing between structures, for which, two structures are said to be separable.Being separable implies being non-isomorphic. We show that for any first order theory $T$ in a countable language, if it has an…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Mohammad Assem

A set X of partial words over a finite alphabet A is called unavoidable if every two-sided infinite word over A has a factor compatible with an element of X. Unlike the case of a set of words without holes, the problem of deciding whether…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Joey Becker , F. Blanchet-Sadri , Laure Flapan , Stephen Watkins

Counter automata are more powerful versions of finite-state automata where addition and subtraction operations are permitted on a set of n integer registers, called counters. We show that the word problem of $\Z^n$ is accepted by a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sean Cleary , Murray Elder , Gretchen Ostheimer

We consider the problem of distinguishing between two arbitrary black-box distributions defined over the domain [n], given access to $s$ samples from both. It is known that in the worst case O(n^{2/3}) samples is both necessary and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-17 Eyal Even Dar , Mark Sandler