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Data trees serve as an abstraction of structured data, such as XML documents. A number of specification formalisms for languages of data trees have been developed, many of them adhering to the paradigm of register automata, which is based…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Simon Prucker , Lutz Schröder

Automata for unordered unranked trees are relevant for defining schemas and queries for data trees in Json or Xml format. While the existing notions are well-investigated concerning expressiveness, they all lack a proper notion of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Adrien Boiret , Vincent Hugot , Joachim Niehren , Ralf Treinen

Hyper-minimization is a state reduction technique that allows a finite change in the semantics. The theory for hyper-minimization of deterministic weighted tree automata is provided. The presence of weights slightly complicates the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Andreas Maletti , Daniel Quernheim

We present an extension of the Angluin-style learning algorithm for tree automata that incorporates deductive inference. The learning algorithm is provided with a term rewriting system that specifies properties of the target tree language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jakub Kopystiański , Jan Otop

Tree ensembles are powerful models that achieve excellent predictive performances, but can grow to unwieldy sizes. These ensembles are often post-processed (pruned) to reduce memory footprint and improve interpretability. We present…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-26 Brian Liu , Rahul Mazumder

While multimodal large language models demonstrate strong performance in complex reasoning tasks, they pose significant challenges related to model complexity during deployment, especially for resource-limited devices. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yinan Liang , Ziwei Wang , Xiuwei Xu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We present an algorithm that enumerates all the minimal triangulations of a graph in incremental polynomial time. Consequently, we get an algorithm for enumerating all the proper tree decompositions, in incremental polynomial time, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Nofar Carmeli , Batya Kenig , Benny Kimelfeld , Markus Kröll

To remove redundant components of large language models (LLMs) without incurring significant computational costs, this work focuses on single-shot pruning without a retraining phase. We simplify the pruning process for Transformer-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Jianwei Li , Yijun Dong , Qi Lei

Comparative analyses of phylogenetic trees typically require identical taxon sets, however, in practice, trees often include distinct but overlapping taxa. Pruning non-shared leaves discards phylogenetic signal, whereas tree completion can…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-28 Aleksandr Koshkarov , Nadia Tahiri

Existing pruning techniques for large language models (LLMs) targeting domain-specific applications typically follow a two-stage process: pruning the pretrained general-purpose LLMs and then fine-tuning the pruned LLMs on specific domains.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Lei Lu , Zhepeng Wang , Runxue Bao , Mengbing Wang , Fangyi Li , Yawen Wu , Weiwen Jiang , Jie Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Shangqian Gao

Given an $\mathbb{N}$-weighted tree automaton, we give a decision procedure for exponential vs polynomial growth (with respect to the input size) in quadratic time, and an algorithm that computes the exact polynomial degree of growth in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Paul Gallot , Nathan Lhote , Lê Thành Dũng Nguyên

We consider algorithms and lower bounds for various problems over forest languages; as input models we allow forest algebras, deterministic forest automata and nondeterministic forest automata. For the equivalence problem, we give an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Marcial Gaißert , Manfred Kufleitner

Boltzmann samplers and the recursive method are prominent algorithmic frameworks for the approximate-size and exact-size random generation of large combinatorial structures, such as maps, tilings, RNA sequences or various tree-like…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Maciej Bendkowski , Olivier Bodini , Sergey Dovgal

Decision trees and randomized forests are widely used in computer vision and machine learning. Standard algorithms for decision tree induction optimize the split functions one node at a time according to some splitting criteria. This greedy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Mohammad Norouzi , Maxwell D. Collins , Matthew Johnson , David J. Fleet , Pushmeet Kohli

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional reasoning abilities, enabling strong generalization across diverse tasks such as commonsense reasoning and instruction following. However, as LLMs scale, inference costs become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Benedikt Staffler , Frank Hutter , Aaron Klein

We consider the complexity of equivalence and learning for multiplicity tree automata, i.e., weighted tree automata over a field. We first show that the equivalence problem is logspace equivalent to polynomial identity testing, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Ines Marusic , James Worrell

In this paper, we investigate adaptive nonlinear regression and introduce tree based piecewise linear regression algorithms that are highly efficient and provide significantly improved performance with guaranteed upper bounds in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-30 N. Denizcan Vanli , Suleyman S. Kozat

Although deep learning has demonstrated remarkable capability in learning from unstructured data, modern tree-based ensemble models remain superior in extracting relevant information and learning from structured datasets. While several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yi-Chun Liao , Chieh-Lin Tsai , Yuan-Hao Chang , Camélia Slimani , Jalil Boukhobza , Tei-Wei Kuo

Pruning provides a practical solution to reduce the resources required to run large language models (LLMs) to benefit from their effective capabilities as well as control their cost for training and inference. Research on LLM pruning often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuanhe Tian , Junjie Liu , Xican Yang , Haishan Ye , Yan Song

We present the first polynomial time algorithm to learn nontrivial classes of languages of infinite trees. Specifically, our algorithm uses membership and equivalence queries to learn classes of $\omega$-tree languages derived from weak…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dana Angluin , Timos Antonopoulos , Dana Fisman