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Nonuniform families of polynomial-size finite automata, which are series of indexed finite automata having polynomially many inner states, are used in the past literature to solve nonuniform families of promise decision problems. Among such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Tomoyuki Yamakami

In [1], we introduced the weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata. In this report, we show that the emptiness problem of weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata is undecidable. This implies that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Laurent Doyen , Thierry Massart , Mahsa Shirmohammadi

We study the connection between the order of phase transitions in combinatorial problems and the complexity of decision algorithms for such problems. We rigorously show that, for a class of random constraint satisfaction problems, a limited…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gabriel Istrate , Stefan Boettcher , Allon G. Percus

Transductions are binary relations of finite words. For rational transductions, i.e., transductions defined by finite transducers, the inclusion, equivalence and sequential uniformisation problems are known to be undecidable. In this paper,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker , Christof Löding , Sarah Winter

Given a nondeterministic finite-state automaton (NFA), we aim to estimate the size of an equivalent deterministic finite-state automaton (DFA). We demonstrate that computing the state complexity of an NFA within polynomial precision is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ivan Baburin , Ryan Cotterell

We consider a computational model which is known as set automata. The set automata are one-way finite automata with an additional storage---the set. There are two kinds of set automata---the deterministic and the nondeterministic ones. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Alexander A. Rubtsov , Mikhail N. Vyalyi

We present new results on realtime alternating, private alternating, and quantum alternating automaton models. Firstly, we show that the emptiness problem for alternating one-counter automata on unary alphabets is undecidable. Then, we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Gökalp Demirci , Mika Hirvensalo , Klaus Reinhardt , A. C. Cem Say , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) involves deciding, given a set of variables and a set of constraints on the variables, whether or not there is an assignment to the variables satisfying all of the constraints. One formulation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Hubie Chen , Benoit Larose

Reasoning over procedural sequences, where the order of steps directly impacts outcomes, is a critical capability for large language models (LLMs). In this work, we study the task of reconstructing globally ordered sequences from shuffled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Adrita Anika , Md Messal Monem Miah

The hairpin completion is an operation on formal languages which is inspired by the hairpin formation in biochemistry. Hairpin formations occur naturally within DNA-computing. It has been known that the hairpin completion of a regular…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-26 Volker Diekert , Steffen Kopecki

In connection with machine arithmetic, we are interested in systems of constraints of the form x + k \leq y + k'. Over integers, the satisfiability problem for such systems is polynomial time. The problem becomes NP complete if we restrict…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-07 Nikolaj Bjørner , Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich , Madan Musuvathi

The call-by-value language RML may be viewed as a canonical restriction of Standard ML to ground-type references, augmented by a "bad variable" construct in the sense of Reynolds. We consider the fragment of (finitary) RML terms of order at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Conrad Cotton-Barratt , David Hopkins , Andrzej S. Murawski , C. -H. Luke Ong

In this paper, we investigate the structure of the most general kind of substitution shifts, including non-minimal ones, and allowing erasing morphisms. We prove the decidability of many properties of these morphisms with respect to the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Marie-Pierre Béal , Dominique Perrin , Antonio Restivo

We consider the problem of Data Flow Analysis over monotone data flow frameworks with a finite lattice. The problem of computing the Maximum Fixed Point (MFP) solution is shown to be P-complete even when the lattice has just four elements.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Gaurav Sood , K. Murali Krishnan

The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in human-AI collaborative decision-making hinges on their ability to provide trustworthy, gradual, and tailored explanations. Solving complex puzzles, such as Sudoku, offers a canonical example of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Anirudh Maiya , Razan Alghamdi , Maria Leonor Pacheco , Ashutosh Trivedi , Fabio Somenzi

The non-clairvoyant scheduling problem has gained new interest within learning-augmented algorithms, where the decision-maker is equipped with predictions without any quality guarantees. In practical settings, access to predictions may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ziyad Benomar , Vianney Perchet

We generalize the concept of synchronizing words for finite automata, which map all states of the automata to the same state, to deterministic visibly push-down automata. Here, a synchronizing word w does not only map all states to the same…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Henning Fernau , Petra Wolf

We propose constant approximation algorithms for generalizations of the Flexible Flow Shop (FFS) problem which form a realistic model for non-preemptive scheduling in MapReduce systems. Our results concern the minimization of the total…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Dimitrios Fotakis , Ioannis Milis , Emmanouil Zampetakis , Georgios Zois

Altenbernd, Thomas and W\"ohrle have considered acceptance of languages of infinite two-dimensional words (infinite pictures) by finite tiling systems, with usual acceptance conditions, such as the B\"uchi and Muller ones [1]. It was proved…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Olivier Finkel

The main result of this paper is the decidability of the membership problem for $2\times 2$ nonsingular integer matrices. Namely, we will construct the first algorithm that for any nonsingular $2\times 2$ integer matrices $M_1,\dots,M_n$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Igor Potapov , Pavel Semukhin