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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

A two-way deterministic finite state automaton with one counter (2D1CA) is a fundamental computational model that has been examined in many different aspects since sixties, but we know little about its power in the case of unary languages.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Marzio De Biasi , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

Stochastic languages are the languages recognized by probabilistic finite automata (PFAs) with cutpoint over the field of real numbers. More general computational models over the same field such as generalized finite automata (GFAs) and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Arseny M. Shur , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

Grammatical inference consists in learning a language or a grammar from data. In this paper, we consider a number of models for inferring a non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) with 3 sorts of states, that must accept some words, and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Tomasz Jastrząb , Frédéric Lardeux , Eric Monfroy

We propose DFAMiner, a passive learning tool for learning minimal separating deterministic finite automata (DFA) from a set of labelled samples. Separating automata are an interesting class of automata that occurs generally in regular model…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Daniele Dell'Erba , Yong Li , Sven Schewe

We study the problem of constructing approximations to a weighted automaton. Weighted finite automata (WFA) are closely related to the theory of rational series. A rational series is a function from strings to real numbers that can be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Borja Balle , Prakash Panangaden , Doina Precup

We study the expressiveness and succinctness of history-deterministic pushdown automata (HD-PDA) over finite words, that is, pushdown automata whose nondeterminism can be resolved based on the run constructed so far, but independently of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shibashis Guha , Ismaël Jecker , Karoliina Lehtinen , Martin Zimmermann

The infimal prefix-closed, controllable and observable superlanguage plays an essential role in the relationship between controllability, observability and co-observability -- the central notions of supervisory control theory. Existing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Tomáš Masopust

Deterministic finite automata are one of the simplest and most practical models of computation studied in automata theory. Their conceptual extension is the non-deterministic finite automata which also have plenty of applications. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Roberto Grossi , Kunihiko Sadakane , Srinivasa Rao Satti

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

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

In this paper, a compressed membership problem for finite automata, both deterministic and non-deterministic, with compressed transition labels is studied. The compression is represented by straight-line programs (SLPs), i.e. context-free…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Artur Jeż

We consider two natural problems about nondeterministic finite automata. First, given such an automaton M of n states, and a length l, does M accept a word of length l? We show that the classic problem of triangle-free graph recognition…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Aaron Potechin , Jeffrey Shallit

In this work we study a non-linear generalization based on affine transformations of probabilistic and quantum automata proposed recently by D\'iaz-Caro and Yakary{\i}lmaz \cite{DCY16A} referred as affine automata. First, we present…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Marcos Villagra , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Families of DFAs (FDFAs) provide an alternative formalism for recognizing $\omega$-regular languages. The motivation for introducing them was a desired correlation between the automaton states and right congruence relations, in a manner…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dana Angluin , Udi Boker , Dana Fisman

Bernard Lang defines parsing as the calculation of the intersection of a FSA (the input) and a CFG. Viewing the input for parsing as a FSA rather than as a string combines well with some approaches in speech understanding systems, in which…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Gertjan van Noord

Regular expressions (res), because of their succinctness and clear syntax, are the common choice to represent regular languages. However, efficient pattern matching or word recognition depend on the size of the equivalent nondeterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-21 Hugo Gouveia , Nelma Moreira , Rogério Reis

Wheeler DFAs (WDFAs) are a sub-class of finite-state automata which is playing an important role in the emerging field of compressed data structures: as opposed to general automata, WDFAs can be stored in just $\log\sigma + O(1)$ bits per…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jarno Alanko , Nicola Cotumaccio , Nicola Prezza

{\it Two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states} (2QCFA) were introduced by Ambainis and Watrous, and {\it two-way two-tape deterministic finite automata} (2TFA) were introduced by Rabin and Scott. In this paper we study 2TFA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 Shenggen Zheng , Lvzhou Li , Daowen Qiu

Transformers are ubiquitous models in the natural language processing (NLP) community and have shown impressive empirical successes in the past few years. However, little is understood about how they reason and the limits of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Michael Rizvi , Maude Lizaire , Clara Lacroce , Guillaume Rabusseau