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We show how well known rules of back propagation arise from a weighted combination of finite automata. By redefining a finite automata as a predictor we combine the set of all $k$-state finite automata using a weighted majority algorithm.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Finn Macleod

Algorithm design is a laborious process and often requires many iterations of ideation and validation. In this paper, we explore automating algorithm design and present a method to learn an optimization algorithm, which we believe to be the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik

Compact representations of automata are important for efficiency. In this paper, we study methods to compute reduced automata, in which no two states accept the same language. We do this for finitary automata (FA), an abstract definition…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Keri D'Angelo , Alexandra Silva , Gerco van Heerdt , Leon Witzman

One way to interpret the behavior of a blackbox recurrent neural network (RNN) is to extract from it a more interpretable discrete computational model, like a finite state machine, that captures its behavior. In this work, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 William Merrill , Nikolaos Tsilivis

This paper is a survey of extensions to finite automata theory to model real-time systems as well as systems exhibiting mixed discrete-continuous behavior. Real-time systems maintain a continuous and timely interaction with the environment,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Lakhan Shiva Kamireddy

Much research in machine learning involves finding appropriate inductive biases (e.g. convolutional neural networks, momentum-based optimizers, transformers) to promote generalization on tasks. However, quantification of the amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Akhilan Boopathy , William Yue , Jaedong Hwang , Abhiram Iyer , Ila Fiete

We present the efficient implementations of probabilistic deterministic finite automaton learning methods available in FlexFringe. These implement well-known strategies for state-merging including several modifications to improve their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Sicco Verwer , Christian Hammerschmidt

Hybrid learning methods use theoretical knowledge of a domain and a set of classified examples to develop a method for classification. Methods that use domain knowledge have been shown to perform better than inductive learners. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-01-26 Ridwan Al Iqbal

We present a complexity reduction algorithm for a family of parameter-dependent linear systems when the system parameters belong to a compact semi-algebraic set. This algorithm potentially describes the underlying dynamical system with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Farhad Farokhi , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

Biological systems often choose actions without an explicit reward signal, a phenomenon known as intrinsic motivation. The computational principles underlying this behavior remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigate an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Stas Tiomkin , Ilya Nemenman , Daniel Polani , Naftali Tishby

We present abstraction-refinement algorithms for model checking safety properties of timed automata. The abstraction domain we consider abstracts away zones by restricting the set of clock constraints that can be used to define them, while…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Victor Roussanaly , Ocan Sankur , Nicolas Markey

We present an end-to-end imitation learning system for agile, off-road autonomous driving using only low-cost sensors. By imitating a model predictive controller equipped with advanced sensors, we train a deep neural network control policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yunpeng Pan , Ching-An Cheng , Kamil Saigol , Keuntaek Lee , Xinyan Yan , Evangelos Theodorou , Byron Boots

In this short position paper we briefly review the development history of automated inductive theorem proving and computer-assisted mathematical induction. We think that the current low expectations on progress in this field result from a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Claus-Peter Wirth

Guided policy search algorithms have been proven to work with incredible accuracy for not only controlling a complicated dynamical system, but also learning optimal policies from various unseen instances. One assumes true nature of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Prakash Mallick , Zhiyong Chen , Mohsen Zamani

This work introduces a non-intrusive model reduction approach for learning reduced models from partially observed state trajectories of high-dimensional dynamical systems. The proposed approach compensates for the loss of information due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Wayne Isaac Tan Uy , Benjamin Peherstorfer

This paper describes a new algorithm for exact Bayesian inference that is based on a recently proposed compositional semantics of Bayesian networks in terms of channels. The paper concentrates on the ideas behind this algorithm, involving a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Bart Jacobs

In natural-language discourse, related events tend to appear near each other to describe a larger scenario. Such structures can be formalized by the notion of a frame (a.k.a. template), which comprises a set of related events and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Hoifung Poon , Lucy Vanderwende

Controlling complex dynamical systems has been a topic of considerable interest in academic circles in recent decades. While existing works have primarily focused on closed-loop control schemes with infinite-time durations, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Xiaoxiao Peng , Shijie Zhou

We propose an active learning algorithm for linear system identification with optimal centered noise excitation. Notably, our algorithm, based on ordinary least squares and semidefinite programming, attains the minimal sample complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Kaito Ito , Alexandre Proutiere

Finite State Machine is a popular modeling notation for various systems, especially software and electronic. Test paths can be automatically generated from the system model to test such systems using a suitable algorithm. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Vaclav Rechtberger , Miroslav Bures , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Hynek Schvach