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We study parallel algorithms for the minimization of Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs). In particular, we implement four different massively parallel algorithms on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Our results confirm the expectations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jan Martens , Anton Wijs

We present techniques to parallelize membership tests for Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs). Our method searches arbitrary regular expressions by matching multiple bytes in parallel using speculation. We partition the input string into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Yousun Ko , Minyoung Jung , Yo-Sub Han , Bernd Burgstaller

We investigate means of efficient computation of the simulation relation over symbolic finite automata (SFAs), i.e., finite automata with transitions labeled by predicates over alphabet symbols. In one approach, we build on the algorithm by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Lukáš Holík , Ondřej Lengál , Juraj Síč , Margus Veanes , Tomáš Vojnar

Finite-state transducers (FSTs) are frequently used in speech recognition. Transducer composition is an essential operation for combining different sources of information at different granularities. However, composition is also one of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Shubho Sengupta , Vineel Pratap , Awni Hannun

Speculative data-parallel algorithms for language recognition have been widely experimented for various types of finite-state automata (FA), deterministic (DFA) and nondeterministic (NFA), often derived from regular expressions (RE). Such…

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Regular expressions provide a flexible means for matching strings and they are often used in data-intensive applications. They are formally equivalent to either deterministic finite automata (DFAs) or nondeterministic finite automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Luis Quesada , Fernando Berzal , Francisco J. Cortijo

The overall problem addressed in this paper is the long-standing problem of program correctness, and in particular programs that describe systems of parallel executing processes. We propose a new method for proving correctness of parallel…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Frank S. de Boer , Einar Broch Johnsen , Violet Ka I Pun , Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa

We present an algorithm for regular expression parsing and submatch extraction based on tagged deterministic finite automata. The algorithm works with different disambiguation policies. We give detailed pseudocode for the algorithm,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Angelo Borsotti , Ulya Trafimovich

Asynchronous automata are a model of distributed finite state processes synchronising on shared actions. A celebrated result by Zielonka shows how a deterministic asynchronous automaton (AA) can be synthesised, starting from two inputs: a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Béatrice Bérard , Benjamin Monmege , B Srivathsan , Arnab Sur

Automaton models are often seen as interpretable models. Interpretability itself is not well defined: it remains unclear what interpretability means without first explicitly specifying objectives or desired attributes. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-28 Christian Albert Hammerschmidt , Sicco Verwer , Qin Lin , Radu State

This paper focuses on automated synthesis of divide-and-conquer parallelism, which is a common parallel programming skeleton supported by many cross-platform multithreaded libraries. The challenges of producing (manually or automatically) a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Azadeh Farzan , Victor Nicolet

The processor accelerators are effective because they are working not (completely) on principles of stored program computers. They use some kind of parallelism, and it is rather hard to program them effectively: a parallel architecture by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-26 János Végh

We introduce a quantum-like classical computational model, called affine computation, as a generalization of probabilistic computation. After giving the basics of affine computation, we define affine finite automata (AfA) and compare it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

The rapid growth of symbolic data in areas like internet, biological, and financial data has increased the demand for efficient pattern matching and regular expression processing. Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) are used for these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ryan Karbowniczak Rasha Karakchi

With the growing complexity and capability of contemporary robotic systems, the necessity of sophisticated computing solutions to efficiently handle tasks such as real-time processing, sensor integration, decision-making, and control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Md Rafid Islam

Alternating automata have been widely used to model and verify systems that handle data from finite domains, such as communication protocols or hardware. The main advantage of the alternating model of computation is that complementation is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Radu Iosif , Xiao Xu

Parallel batched data structures are designed to process synchronized batches of operations in a parallel computing model. In this paper, we propose parallel combining, a technique that implements a concurrent data structure from a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Vitaly Aksenov , Petr Kuznetsov , Anatoly Shalyto

Prior work on Automatically Scalable Computation (ASC) suggests that it is possible to parallelize sequential computation by building a model of whole-program execution, using that model to predict future computations, and then…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Peter Kraft , Amos Waterland , Daniel Y Fu , Anitha Gollamudi , Shai Szulanski , Margo Seltzer

The Biham-Middleton-Levine (BML) traffic model is a simple two-dimensional, discrete Cellular Automaton (CA) that has been used to study self-organization and phase transitions arising in traffic flows. From the computational point of view,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Moreno Marzolla

Satisfiability-based verification techniques, leveraging modern Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, have demonstrated efficacy in addressing practical problem instances within program analysis.…

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