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We consider two natural problems about nondeterministic finite automata. First, given such an automaton M of n states, and a length l, does M accept a word of length l? We show that the classic problem of triangle-free graph recognition…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Aaron Potechin , Jeffrey Shallit

In general, the representation of combinatorial objects is decisive for the feasibility of several enumerative tasks. In this work, we show how a (unique) string representation for (complete) initially-connected deterministic automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Marco Almeida , Nelma Moreira , Rogério Reis

An automaton is synchronizing if there is a word that maps all states onto the same state. \v{C}ern\'{y}'s conjecture on the length of the shortest such word is probably the most famous open problem in automata theory. We consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Natalie C. Behague , J. Robert Johnson

This paper presents and analyzes an incremental algorithm for the construction of Acyclic Non-deterministic Finite-state Automata (NFA). Automata of this type are quite useful in computational linguistics, especially for storing lexicons.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kyriakos N. Sgarbas , Nikos D. Fakotakis , George K. Kokkinakis

The random greedy algorithm for constructing a large partial Steiner-Triple-System is defined as follows. We begin with a complete graph on $n$ vertices and proceed to remove the edges of triangles one at a time, where each triangle removed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-15 Tom Bohman , Alan Frieze , Eyal Lubetzky

We exhibit the construction of a deterministic automaton that, given k > 0, recognizes the (regular) language of k-differentiable words. Our approach follows a scheme of Crochemore et al. based on minimal forbidden words. We extend this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Jean-Marc Fédou , Gabriele Fici

Probabilistic B\"uchi Automata (PBA) are randomized, finite state automata that process input strings of infinite length. Based on the threshold chosen for the acceptance probability, different classes of languages can be defined. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Rohit Chadha , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

We construct a hierarchy of regular languages such that the current language in the hierarchy can be accepted by 1-way quantum finite automata with a probability smaller than the corresponding probability for the preceding language in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Richard Bonner , Rusins Freivalds , Arnolds Kikusts

We propose a method for natural language generation, choosing the most representative output rather than the most likely output. By viewing the language generation process from the voting theory perspective, we define representativeness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Sebastian Borgeaud , Guy Emerson

We construct an embedding of any right-angled Artin group $G(\Delta)$ defined by a graph $\Delta$ into a graph braid group. The number of strands required for the braid group is equal to the chromatic number of $\Delta$. This construction…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-05 Lucas Sabalka

Dependency trees have proven to be a very successful model to represent the syntactic structure of sentences of human languages. In these structures, vertices are words and edges connect syntactically-dependent words. The tendency of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lluís Alemany-Puig , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

Topological quantum computing is an alternative framework for avoiding the quantum decoherence problem in quantum computation. The problem of executing a gate in this framework can be posed as the problem of braiding quasiparticles. Because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Roberto Santana , Ross B. McDonald , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Automated story generation is the problem of automatically selecting a sequence of events, actions, or words that can be told as a story. We seek to develop a system that can generate stories by learning everything it needs to know from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Lara J. Martin , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Xinyu Wang , William Hancock , Shruti Singh , Brent Harrison , Mark O. Riedl

Although current large language models are complex, the most basic specifications of the underlying language generation problem itself are simple to state: given a finite set of training samples from an unknown language, produce valid new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jon Kleinberg , Sendhil Mullainathan

A conjecture of Dehornoy claims that, given a presentation of an Artin-Tits group, every word that represents the identity can be transformed into the trivial word using the braid relations, together with certain rules (between pairs of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Eddy Godelle , Sarah Rees

We present a creative poem generator for the morphologically rich Finnish language. Our method falls into the master-apprentice paradigm, where a computationally creative genetic algorithm teaches a BRNN model to generate poetry. We model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Mika Hämäläinen , Khalid Alnajjar

The probability that $m$ randomly chosen elements of a finite power associative loop $C$ have prescribed orders and generate $C$ is calculated in terms of certain constants related to the action of $Aut(C)$ on the subloop lattice of $C$. As…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Petr Vojtěchovský

We describe a novel algorithm for random sampling of freely reduced words equal to the identity in a finitely presented group. The algorithm is based on Metropolis Monte Carlo sampling. The algorithm samples from a stretched Boltzmann…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-23 M. Elder , A. Rechnitzer , E. J. Janse van Rensburg

We present the first algorithm for generating random variates exactly uniformly from the set of perfect matchings of a bipartite graph with a polynomial expected running time over a nontrivial set of graphs. Previous Markov chain approaches…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Huber

We introduce an algorithm for the uniform generation of infinite runs in concurrent systems under a partial order probabilistic semantics. We work with trace monoids as concurrency models. The algorithm outputs on-the-fly approximations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Samy Abbes , Vincent Jugé