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This paper is about certain string-to-string functions, called the polyregular functions. These are like the regular string-to-string functions, except that they can have polynomial (and not just linear) growth. The class has four…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Mikołaj Bojańczyk

Visibly pushdown transducers form a subclass of pushdown transducers that (strictly) extends finite state transducers with a stack. Like visibly pushdown automata, the input symbols determine the stack operations. In this paper, we prove…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Emmanuel Filiot , Jean-François Raskin , Pierre-Alain Reynier , Frédéric Servais , Jean-Marc Talbot

We are interested in regular expressions and transducers that represent word relations in an alphabet-invariant way---for example, the set of all word pairs u,v where v is a prefix of u independently of what the alphabet is. Current…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Stavros Konstantinidis , Nelma Moreira , Rogerio Reis , Joshua Young

We consider a class of finite state three-tape transducers which models the operation of shuffling and splitting words. We present them as automata over the so-called Shuffling Monoid. These automata can be seen as either shufflers or…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ignacio Mollo Cunningham

Transformer based language models exhibit intelligent behaviors such as understanding natural language, recognizing patterns, acquiring knowledge, reasoning, planning, reflecting and using tools. This paper explores how their underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Sumeet S. Singh

Streaming generation models are utilized across fields, with the Transducer architecture being popular in industrial applications. However, its input-synchronous decoding mechanism presents challenges in tasks requiring non-monotonic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhengrui Ma , Yang Feng , Min Zhang

A uniformization of a binary relation is a function that is contained in the relation and has the same domain as the relation. The synthesis problem asks for effective uniformization for classes of relations and functions that can be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sarah Winter

Transformer networks have seen great success in natural language processing and machine vision, where task objectives such as next word prediction and image classification benefit from nuanced context sensitivity across high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuxuan Li , James L. McClelland

Learning word embeddings using distributional information is a task that has been studied by many researchers, and a lot of studies are reported in the literature. On the contrary, less studies were done for the case of multiple languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Marco Berlot , Evan Kaplan

We give $\operatorname{CMSO}$-transductions that, given a graph $G$, output its modular decomposition, its split decomposition and its bi-join decomposition. This improves results by Courcelle [Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2006] who…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rutger Campbell , Bruno Guillon , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté , Eun Jung Kim , Noleen Köhler

The purpose of this paper is to present an algorithm for inferring nondeterministic functional transducers. It has a lot in common with other well known algorithms such has RPNI and OSTIA. Indeed we will argue that this algorithm is a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Aleksander Mendoza-Drosik

Pebble transducers are nested two-way transducers which can drop marks (named "pebbles") on their input word. Blind transducers have been introduced by Nguy\^en et al. as a subclass of pebble transducers, which can nest two-way transducers…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Gaëtan Douéneau-Tabot

While transformers have proven enormously successful in a range of tasks, their fundamental properties as models of computation are not well understood. This paper contributes to the study of the expressive capacity of transformers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Lena Strobl , Dana Angluin , Robert Frank

A transducer is finite-valued if for some bound k, it maps any given input to at most k outputs. For classical, one-way transducers, it is known since the 80s that finite valuedness entails decidability of the equivalence problem. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker , Christof Löding , Anca Muscholl , Gabriele Puppis , Sarah Winter

We study the relation of containment up to unknown regular resynchronization between two-way non-deterministic transducers. We show that it constitutes a preorder, and that the corresponding equivalence relation is properly intermediate…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Denis Kuperberg , Jan Martens

This work studies the representational mapping across multimodal data such that given a piece of the raw data in one modality the corresponding semantic description in terms of the raw data in another modality is immediately obtained. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Zachary Seymour , Yingming Li , Zhongfei Zhang

Transductive tasks on graphs differ fundamentally from typical supervised machine learning tasks, as the independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) assumption does not hold among samples. Instead, all train/test/validation samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hamed Shirzad , Honghao Lin , Ameya Velingker , Balaji Venkatachalam , David Woodruff , Danica Sutherland

Transformers have recently been shown to be capable of reliably performing logical reasoning over facts and rules expressed in natural language, but abductive reasoning - inference to the best explanation of an unexpected observation - has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Nathan Young , Qiming Bao , Joshua Bensemann , Michael Witbrock

We introduce streaming data string transducers that map input data strings to output data strings in a single left-to-right pass in linear time. Data strings are (unbounded) sequences of data values, tagged with symbols from a finite set,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Rajeev Alur , Pavol Cerny

We show that the equivalence of deterministic linear top-down tree-to-word transducers is decidable in polynomial time. Linear tree-to-word transducers are non-copying but not necessarily order-preserving and can be used to express XML and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Adrien Boiret , Raphaela Palenta