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We consider the representational state complexity of unranked tree automata. The bottom-up computation of an unranked tree automaton may be either deterministic or nondeterministic, and further variants arise depending on whether the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Xiaoxue Piao , Kai Salomaa

The question if a deterministic finite automaton admits a software reset in the form of a so-called synchronizing word can be answered in polynomial time. In this paper, we extend this algorithmic question to deterministic automata beyond…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Henning Fernau , Petra Wolf , Tomoyuki Yamakami

Here we propose an extension of the (deterministic and the nondeterministic) finite automaton with translucent letters (DFAwtl and NFAwtl), which lies between these automata and their non-returning variants (that is, the nr-DFAwtl and the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 František Mráz , Friedrich Otto

Many natural language processing systems operate over tokenizations of text to address the open-vocabulary problem. In this paper, we give and analyze an algorithm for the efficient construction of deterministic finite automata (DFA)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Martin Berglund , Willeke Martens , Brink van der Merwe

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a first-order temporal logic, LTLFO, and a corresponding monitor construction based on a new type of automaton, called spawning automaton. Specifically, we show that monitoring a specification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Andreas Bauer , Jan-Christoph Küster , Gil Vegliach

We present an SMT-based active learning algorithm for nondeterministic weighted automata (WFAs) as a practical and robust alternative to Hankel/L*-style methods. Our algorithm is parametric in a given semiring and, if it terminates,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tiago Ferreira , Kevin Batz , Alexandra Silva

The Abelian Sandpile Model, seen as a deterministic lattice automaton, on two-dimensional periodic graphs generates complex regular patterns displaying (fractal) self-similarity. In particular, on a variety of lattices and initial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-12 Sergio Caracciolo , Guglielmo Paoletti , Andrea Sportiello

We propose a lazy decision procedure for the logic WSkS. It builds a term-based symbolic representation of the state space of the tree automaton (TA) constructed by the classical WSkS decision procedure. The classical decision procedure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Vojtěch Havlena , Lukáš Holík , Ondřej Lengál , Tomáš Vojnar

For any nontrivial abelian group $\mathbb{X}$ we construct a reversible (bireversible in case the order of $\mathbb{X}$ is odd) automaton such that its set of states and alphabet are identified with $\mathbb{X}$, transition and output…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Piotr W. Nowak , Andriy Oliynyk , Veronika Prokhorchuk

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) provides a rigorous framework for specifying long-horizon robotic tasks, yet existing approaches face a trade-off: model-based synthesis relies on accurate labeled transition systems, whereas learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiang Yin

Extracting finite state automata (FSAs) from black-box models offers a powerful approach to gaining interpretable insights into complex model behaviors. To support this pursuit, we present a weighted variant of Angluin's (1987)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Clemente Pasti , Talu Karagöz , Anej Svete , Franz Nowak , Reda Boumasmoud , Ryan Cotterell

The RPNI algorithm (Oncina, Garcia 1992) constructs deterministic finite automata from finite sets of negative and positive example words. We propose and analyze an extension of this algorithm to deterministic $\omega$-automata with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 León Bohn , Christof Löding

We introduce layered automata, a subclass of alternating parity automata that generalises deterministic automata. Assuming a consistency property, these automata are history deterministic and 0-1 probabilistic. We show that every…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Antonio Casares , Christof Löding , Igor Walukiewicz

Separation Logic (SL) with inductive definitions is a natural formalism for specifying complex recursive data structures, used in compositional verification of programs manipulating such structures. The key ingredient of any automated…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Radu Iosif , Adam Rogalewicz , Tomas Vojnar

We introduce a novel algorithm for approximating the logarithm of the determinant of a symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix. The algorithm is randomized and approximates the traces of a small number of matrix powers of a specially…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Christos Boutsidis , Petros Drineas , Prabhanjan Kambadur , Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou , Anastasios Zouzias

Algorithms for (nondeterministic) finite-state tree automata (FTAs) are often tested on random FTAs, in which all internal transitions are equiprobable. The run-time results obtained in this manner are usually overly optimistic as most such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-25 Thomas Hanneforth , Andreas Maletti , Daniel Quernheim

Reactive synthesis is a key technique for the design of correct-by-construction systems and has been thoroughly investigated in the last decades. It consists in the synthesis of a controller that reacts to environment's inputs satisfying a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alessandro Cimatti , Luca Geatti , Nicola Gigante , Angelo Montanari , Stefano Tonetta

We generalize some of the central results in automata theory to the abstraction level of coalgebras and thus lay out the foundations of a universal theory of automata operating on infinite objects. Let F be any set functor that preserves…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 C. Kupke , Y. Venema

We present a framework for obtaining effective characterizations of simple fragments of future temporal logic (LTL) with the natural numbers as time domain. The framework is based on a form of strongly unambiguous automata, also known as…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Preugschat Sebastian , Thomas Wilke

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a widely used specification framework for linear time properties of systems. The standard approach for verifying such properties is by transforming LTL formulae to suitable $\omega$-automata and then applying…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Martin Sulzmann , Peter Thiemann