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The value 1 problem is a decision problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: given a probabilistic automaton A, are there words accepted by A with probability arbitrarily close to 1? This problem was proved undecidable recently.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Youssouf Oualhadj

Word ordering is a constrained language generation task taking unordered words as input. Existing work uses linear models and neural networks for the task, yet pre-trained language models have not been studied in word ordering, let alone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zebin Ou , Meishan Zhang , Yue Zhang

Characterisations theorems serve as important tools in model theory and can be used to assess and compare the expressive power of temporal languages used for the specification and verification of properties in formal methods. While complete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Massimo Benerecetti , Laura Bozzelli , Fabio Mogavero , Adriano Peron

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

In order to speed-up classification models when facing a large number of categories, one usual approach consists in organizing the categories in a particular structure, this structure being then used as a way to speed-up the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Aurélia Léon , Ludovic Denoyer

We consider the computational complexity of tree transducers, depending on their separable sets of input variables.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Slavcho Shtrakov , Vladimir Shtrakov

We present an efficient algorithm for checking language equivalence of states in top-down deterministic finite tree automata (DFTAs). Unlike string automata, tree automata operate over hierarchical structures, posing unique challenges for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhibo Deng , Vladimir A. Zakharov

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is a prominent specification formalism for real-time systems. In this paper, we show that the satisfiability problem for MTL over finite timed words is decidable, with non-primitive recursive complexity. We also…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joel Ouaknine , James Worrell

We show that it is decidable in exponential time whether the lexicographic ordering of a context-free language is scattered, or a well-ordering.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Zoltan Esik

The meaning of a sentence is a function of the relations that hold between its words. We instantiate this relational view of semantics in a series of neural models based on variants of relation networks (RNs) which represent a set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Lei Yu , Cyprien de Masson d'Autume , Chris Dyer , Phil Blunsom , Lingpeng Kong , Wang Ling

We investigate the decidability of the emptiness problem for three classes of distributed automata. These devices operate on finite directed graphs, acting as networks of identical finite-state machines that communicate in an infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Antti Kuusisto , Fabian Reiter

We consider $\omega^n$-automatic structures which are relational structures whose domain and relations are accepted by automata reading ordinal words of length $\omega^n$ for some integer $n\geq 1$. We show that all these structures are…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-02-02 Olivier Finkel , Stevo Todorcevic

A deterministic finite automaton is said to be synchronizing if it has a reset word, i.e. a word that brings all states of the automaton to a particular one. We prove that it is a PSPACE-complete problem to check whether the language of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Marina Maslennikova

Tree-structured recursive neural networks (TreeRNNs) for sentence meaning have been successful for many applications, but it remains an open question whether the fixed-length representations that they learn can support tasks as demanding as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Samuel R. Bowman , Christopher Potts , Christopher D. Manning

Neural networks with tree-based sentence encoders have shown better results on many downstream tasks. Most of existing tree-based encoders adopt syntactic parsing trees as the explicit structure prior. To study the effectiveness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Haoyue Shi , Hao Zhou , Jiaze Chen , Lei Li

In this paper we describe an approach to constraint-based syntactic theories in terms of finite tree automata. The solutions to constraints expressed in weak monadic second order (MSO) logic are represented by tree automata recognizing the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Frank Morawietz , Tom Cornell

Due to the works of S. Bozapalidis and A. Alexandrakis, there is a well-known characterization of recognizable weighted tree languages over fields in terms of finite-dimensionality of syntactic vector spaces. Here we prove a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zoltán Fülöp , Heiko Vogler

Nested words are a structured model of execution paths in procedural programs, reflecting their call and return nesting structure. Finite nested words also capture the structure of parse trees and other tree-structured data, such as XML. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Rajeev Alur , Marcelo Arenas , Pablo Barcelo , Kousha Etessami , Neil Immerman , Leonid Libkin

It is an open problem whether definability in Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) on forests is decidable. Based on an algebraic characterization by Boja\'nczyk, et. al.,(2012) in terms of forest algebras, Straubing (2013) described an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Michael Hahn , Andreas Krebs , Howard Straubing

The emptiness and containment problems for probabilistic automata are natural quantitative generalisations of the classical language emptiness and inclusion problems for Boolean automata. It is well known that both problems are undecidable.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Laure Daviaud , Marcin Jurdziński , Ranko Lazić , Filip Mazowiecki , Guillermo A. Pérez , James Worrell