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We show that the following problem is undecidable: given two polygonal prototiles, determine whether the plane can be tiled with rotated and translated copies of them. This improves a result of Demaine and Langerman [SoCG 2025], who showed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jack Stade

In this paper, we present a proof of the NP-completeness of computing the smallest Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA) that distinguishes two given regular languages as DFAs. A distinguishing DFA is an automaton that recognizes a language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jan Martens

We show that strict deterministic propositional dynamic logic with intersection is highly undecidable, solving a problem in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In fact we show something quite a bit stronger. We introduce the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Robert Goldblatt , Marcel Jackson

Separation Logic is a widely used formalism for describing dynamically allocated linked data structures, such as lists, trees, etc. The decidability status of various fragments of the logic constitutes a long standing open problem. Current…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Radu Iosif , Adam Rogalewicz , Jiri Simacek

The convergence of simultaneous and marginal predictive classifiers under partition exchangeability in supervised classification is obtained. The result shows the asymptotic convergence of these classifiers under infinite amount of training…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-27 Ali Amiryousefi

We investigate the expressive power of the two main kinds of program logics for complex, non-regular program properties found in the literature: those extending propositional dynamic logic (PDL), and those extending the modal mu-calculus.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Eric Alsmann , Florian Bruse , Martin Lange

Cross-lingual speaker verification suffers from severe language-speaker entanglement. This causes systematic degradation in the hardest scenario: correctly accepting utterances from the same speaker across different languages while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Qituan Shangguan , Junhao Du , Kunyang Peng , Feng Xue , Hui Zhang , Xinsheng Wang , Kai Yu , Shuai Wang

Similarity learning is a general problem to elicit useful representations by predicting the relationship between a pair of patterns. This problem is related to various important preprocessing tasks such as metric learning, kernel learning,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-02 Han Bao , Takuya Shimada , Liyuan Xu , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

We investigate decidability of equivalence of register transducers, also called copyful Streaming String Transducers in case of string input, extended with an operation of substituting a register for all occurrences of a given letter in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Janusz Schmude

A common standpoint when designing the syntax of programming languages is that the grammar definition has to be unambiguous. However, requiring up front unambiguous grammars can force language designers to make more or less arbitrary…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Viktor Palmkvist , Elias Castegren , Philipp Haller , David Broman

The origin semantics for transducers was proposed in 2014, and led to various characterizations and decidability results that are in contrast with the classical semantics. In this paper we add a further decidability result for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Sougata Bose , S. N. Krishna , Anca Muscholl , Gabriele Puppis

The finite satisfiability problem of two-variable logic extended by a linear order successor and a preorder successor is shown to be undecidable.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Amaldev Manuel , Thomas Schwentick , Thomas Zeume

Parametric timed automata (PTA) extend timed automata with unknown constants ("parameters"), at the price of undecidability of most interesting problems. The (untimed) language preservation problem ("given a parameter valuation, can we find…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Étienne André , Shang-Wei Lin

The Lueders postulate is reviewed and implications for the distinguishability of observables are discussed. As an example the distinguishability of two similar observables for spin-1/2 particles is described. Implementation issues are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Bernhard K. Meister

We use a semantic interpretation to investigate the problem of defining an expressive but decidable type system with bounded quantification. Typechecking in the widely studied System Fsub is undecidable thanks to an undecidable subtyping…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 James Laird

The $P$ versus $NP$ problem is still unsolved. But there are several oracles with $P$ unequal $NP$ relative to them. Here we will prove, that $P\not=NP$ relative to a $P$-complete oracle. In this paper, we use padding arguments as the proof…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Reiner Czerwinski

We consider a class of finite state three-tape transducers which models the operation of shuffling and splitting words. We present them as automata over the so-called Shuffling Monoid. These automata can be seen as either shufflers or…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ignacio Mollo Cunningham

We study the separation of positive and negative data examples in terms of description logic (DL) concepts and formulas of decidable FO fragments, in the presence of an ontology. In contrast to previous work, we add a signature that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz , Hadrien Pulcini , Frank Wolter

We consider the following practical question: given a finite algebra A in a finite language, can we efficiently decide whether the variety generated by A has a difference term? We answer this question (positively) in the idempotent case and…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-08 William DeMeo , Ralph Freese , Matthew Valeriote