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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly tasked with generating structured outputs. While structured generation methods ensure validity, they often lack output diversity, a critical limitation that we confirm in our preliminary study.…

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Recent work on learning multilingual word representations usually relies on the use of word-level alignements (e.g. infered with the help of GIZA++) between translated sentences, in order to align the word embeddings in different languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Stanislas Lauly , Alex Boulanger , Hugo Larochelle

We study decidability of verification problems for timed automata extended with unbounded discrete data structures. More detailed, we extend timed automata with a pushdown stack. In this way, we obtain a strong model that may for instance…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Karin Quaas

We consider the previously defined notion of finite-state independence and we focus specifically on normal words. We characterize finite-state independence of normal words in three different ways, using three different kinds of asynchronous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Nicolás Álvarez , Verónica Becher , Olivier Carton

Many complex generative systems use languages to create structured objects. We consider a model of random languages, defined by weighted context-free grammars. As the distribution of grammar weights broadens, a transition is found from a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-04-03 E. DeGiuli

Local grammars can be represented in a very convenient way by automata. This paper describes and illustrates an efficient algorithm for the application of local grammars put in this form to lemmatized texts.

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Mehryar Mohri

We model the recursive production property of context-free grammars for natural and synthetic languages. To this end, we present a dynamic programming algorithm that marginalises over latent binary tree structures with $N$ leaves, allowing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Shawn Tan , Yikang Shen , Timothy J. O'Donnell , Alessandro Sordoni , Aaron Courville

A classical theorem states that the set of languages given by a pushdown automaton coincides with the set of languages given by a context-free grammar. In previous work, we proved the pendant of this theorem in a setting with interaction:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jos C. M. Baeten , Bas Luttik

We give in this paper a logical characterization for unambiguous Context Free Languages, in the vein of descriptive complexity. A fragment of the logic characterizing context free languages given by Lautemann, Schwentick and Th\'erien [18]…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Yassine Hachaïchi

Deterministic timed automata are strictly less expressive than their non-deterministic counterparts, which are again less expressive than those with silent transitions. As a consequence, timed automata are in general non-determinizable.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Florian Lorber , Amnon Rosenmann , Dejan Nickovic , Bernhard Aichernig

Traditional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have a fixed, finite number of memory cells. In theory (assuming bounded range and precision), this limits their formal language recognition power to regular languages, and in practice, RNNs have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Brian DuSell , David Chiang

Separation Logic (SL) with inductive definitions is a natural formalism for specifying complex recursive data structures, used in compositional verification of programs manipulating such structures. The key ingredient of any automated…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Radu Iosif , Adam Rogalewicz , Tomas Vojnar

Building models that take advantage of the hierarchical structure of language without a priori annotation is a longstanding goal in natural language processing. We introduce such a model for the task of machine translation, pairing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-07 James Bradbury , Richard Socher

Context-free grammars (CFGs) are the de-facto formalism for declaratively describing concrete syntax for programming languages and generating parsers. One of the major challenges in defining a desired syntax is ruling out all possible…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yunjeong Lee , Gokul Rajiv , Ilya Sergey

We study multi-task reinforcement learning (RL), a setting in which an agent learns a single, universal policy capable of generalising to arbitrary, possibly unseen tasks. We consider tasks specified as linear temporal logic (LTL) formulae,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Alessandro Abate , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Mathias Jackermeier , Jan Kretínský , Maximilian Prokop , Christoph Weinhuber

We describe a derivational approach to abstract interpretation that yields novel and transparently sound static analyses when applied to well-established abstract machines for higher-order and imperative programming languages. To…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-07-19 David Van Horn , Matthew Might

Automated fault diagnosis can facilitate diagnostics assistance, speedier troubleshooting, and better-organised logistics. Currently, AI-based prognostics and health management in the automotive industry ignore the textual descriptions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 John Pavlopoulos , Alv Romell , Jacob Curman , Olof Steinert , Tony Lindgren , Markus Borg

We introduce languages of higher-dimensional automata (HDAs) and develop some of their properties. To this end, we define a new category of precubical sets, uniquely naturally isomorphic to the standard one, and introduce a notion of event…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Uli Fahrenberg , Christian Johansen , Georg Struth , Krzysztof Ziemiański

We introduce a logic to express structural properties of automata with string inputs and, possibly, outputs in some monoid. In this logic, the set of predicates talking about the output values is parametric, and we provide sufficient…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Emmanuel Filiot , Nicolas Mazzocchi , Jean-François Raskin

Tree kernels have been proposed to be used in many areas as the automatic learning of natural language applications. In this paper, we propose a new linear time algorithm based on the concept of weighted tree automata for SubTree kernel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ludovic Mignot , Faissal Ouardi , Djelloul Ziadi