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We consider the value 1 problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: it asks whether a given probabilistic automaton accepts words with probability arbitrarily close to 1. This problem is known to be undecidable. However, different…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Nathanaël Fijalkow

Concolic testing is a popular dynamic validation technique that can be used for both model checking and automatic test case generation. We have recently introduced concolic testing in the context of logic programming. In contrast to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet , German Vidal

Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on generating extensive intermediate reasoning units (e.g., tokens, sentences) to enhance final answer quality across a wide range of complex tasks. While this approach has proven effective, it inevitably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Joonwon Jang , Jaehee Kim , Wonbin Kweon , Seonghyeon Lee , Hwanjo Yu

In this paper we study a subclass of pebble automata (PA) for data languages for which the emptiness problem is decidable. Namely, we introduce the so-called top view weak PA. Roughly speaking, top view weak PA are weak PA where the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Tony Tan

In many security and healthcare systems, the detection and diagnosis systems use a sequence of sensors/tests. Each test outputs a prediction of the latent state and carries an inherent cost. However, the correctness of the predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Arun Verma , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Csaba Szepesvári , Venkatesh Saligrama

Following some previous studies on restarting automata, we introduce a refined model - the h-lexicalized restarting automaton (h-RLWW). We argue that this model is useful for expressing lexicalized syntax in computational linguistics. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Martin Plátek , Friedrich Otto

Convertibility checking - determining whether two lambda-terms are equal up to reductions - is a crucial component of proof assistants and dependently-typed languages. Practical implementations often use heuristics to quickly conclude that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Nathanaëlle Courant , Xavier Leroy

Weighted automata are non-deterministic automata where the transitions are equipped with weights. They can model quantitative aspects of systems like costs or energy consumption. The value of a run can be computed, for example, as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Manfred Droste , Vitaly Perevoshchikov

There are more than 7,000 languages around the world, and current Large Language Models (LLMs) only support hundreds of languages. Dictionary-based prompting methods can enhance translation on them, but most methods use all the available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hongyuan Lu , Zixuan Li , Zefan Zhang , Wai Lam

Quantum finite automata derive their strength by exploiting interference in complex valued probability amplitudes. Of particular interest is the 2-way model of Ambainis and Watrous that has both quantum and classical states (2QCFA) [A.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Panduranga Rao , V. Vinay

These notes present the essentials of first- and second-order monadic logics on strings with introductory purposes. We discuss Monadic First-Order logic and show that it is strictly less expressive than Finite-State Automata, in that it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Dino Mandrioli , Davide Martinenghi , Angelo Morzenti , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

We extend the two-variable logic on data words with guarded regular binary predicates of the form $\widetilde{L}(x,y)$ that is true if positions $x$ and $y$ are in the same class and the factor strictly between $x$ and $y$ is in the regular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shibashis Guha , Amaldev Manuel , S P Rishal

Artificial Intelligence aims to provide computer programs with commonsense knowledge to reason about our world. This paper offers a new practical approach towards automated commonsense reasoning with first-order logic (FOL) ontologies. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Javier Álvez , Paqui Lucio , German Rigau

Linear temporal logic was introduced in order to reason about reactive systems. It is often considered with respect to infinite words, to specify the behaviour of long-running systems. One can consider more general models for linear time,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-01-11 Julien Cristau

Solving symmetric Bayesian decision problems is a computationally intensive task to perform regardless of the algorithm used. In this paper we propose a method for improving the efficiency of algorithms for solving Bayesian decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Anders L. Madsen , Finn Verner Jensen

Language models (LMs) are often expected to generate strings in some formal language; for example, structured data, API calls, or code snippets. Although LMs can be tuned to improve their adherence to formal syntax, this does not guarantee…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Terry Koo , Frederick Liu , Luheng He

While logical reasoning evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted significant attention, existing benchmarks predominantly rely on multiple-choice formats that are vulnerable to random guessing, leading to overestimated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Qin Zhu , Fei Huang , Runyu Peng , Keming Lu , Bowen Yu , Qinyuan Cheng , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang , Junyang Lin

A two-dimensional finite automaton has a read-only input head that moves in four directions on a finite array of cells labelled by symbols of the input alphabet. A three-way two-dimensional automaton is prohibited from making upward moves,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Taylor J. Smith , Kai Salomaa

We investigate the descriptional complexity of different variants of 1-limited automata (1-las), an extension of two-way finite automata (2nfas) characterizing regular languages. In particular, we consider 2nfas with common-guess…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Bruno Guillon , Luca Prigioniero , Javad Taheri

The task of inferring logical formulas from examples has garnered significant attention as a means to assist engineers in creating formal specifications used in the design, synthesis, and verification of computing systems. Among various…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider