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Current approaches to learning vector representations of text that are compatible between different languages usually require some amount of parallel text, aligned at word, sentence or at least document level. We hypothesize however, that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone

We present efficient algorithms to reduce the size of nondeterministic B\"uchi word automata (NBA) and nondeterministic finite word automata (NFA), while retaining their languages. Additionally, we describe methods to solve PSPACE-complete…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lorenzo Clemente , Richard Mayr

The value 1 problem is a decision problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: given a probabilistic automaton, are there words accepted with probability arbitrarily close to 1? This problem was proved undecidable recently; to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Edon Kelmendi , Youssouf Oualhadj

This paper considers finite-automata based algorithms for handling linear arithmetic with both real and integer variables. Previous work has shown that this theory can be dealt with by using finite automata on infinite words, but this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bernard Boigelot , Sebastien Jodogne , Pierre Wolper

Probabilistic B\"uchi automata are a natural generalization of PFA to infinite words, but have been studied in-depth only rather recently and many interesting questions are still open. PBA are known to accept, in general, a class of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Christof Löding , Anton Pirogov

In this report we study the problem of minimising deterministic automata over finite and infinite words. Deterministic finite automata are the simplest devices to recognise regular languages, and deterministic Buchi, Co-Buchi, and parity…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Sven Schewe

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Dzmitry Bahdanau , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

The present paper uses spectral theory of linear operators to construct approximately minimal realizations of weighted languages. Our new contributions are: (i) a new algorithm for the SVD decomposition of infinite Hankel matrices based on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Borja Balle , Prakash Panangaden , Doina Precup

Unambiguous automata are nondeterministic automata in which every word has at most one accepting run. In this paper we give a polynomial-time algorithm for model checking discrete-time Markov chains against \omega-regular specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Christel Baier , Stefan Kiefer , Joachim Klein , David Müller , James Worrell

We study alternating automata with qualitative semantics over infinite binary trees: alternation means that two opposing players construct a decoration of the input tree called a run, and the qualitative semantics says that a run of the…

We develop a theory of vector spaces spanned by orbit-finite sets. Using this theory, we give a decision procedure for equivalence of weighted register automata, which are the common generalization of weighted automata and register automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Joanna Fijalkow , Bartek Klin , Joshua Moerman

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

In high-stakes English Language Assessments, low-skill test takers may employ memorized materials called ``templates'' on essay questions to ``game'' or fool the automated scoring system. In this study, we introduce the automated detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yashad Samant , Lee Becker , Scott Hellman , Bradley Behan , Sarah Hughes , Joshua Southerland

Quantum finite automata (QFAs) have been extensively studied in the literature. In this paper, we define and systematically study quantum B\"uchi automata (QBAs) over infinite words to model the long-term behavior of quantum systems, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Qisheng Wang , Mingsheng Ying

Nondeterministic automata may be viewed as succinct programs implementing deterministic automata, i.e. complete specifications. Converting a given deterministic automaton into a small nondeterministic one is known to be computationally very…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Robert Samuel Ralph Myers , Henning Urbat

We show that deterministic finite automata equipped with $k$ two-way heads are equivalent to deterministic machines with a single two-way input head and $k-1$ linearly bounded counters if the accepted language is strictly bounded, i.e., a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Holger Petersen

Rare words remain a critical bottleneck for speech-to-text systems. While direct fine-tuning improves recognition of target words, it often incurs high cost, catastrophic forgetting, and limited scalability. To address these challenges, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Ruihao Jing , Cheng Gong , Yu Jiang , Boyu Zhu , Shansong Liu , Chi Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Xuelong Li

It is decidable if a set of numbers, whose representation in a base b is a regular language, is ultimately periodic. This was established by Honkala in 1986. We give here a structural description of minimal automata that accept an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Victor Marsault , Jacques Sakarovitch

Alternating timed automata on infinite words are considered. The main result is a characterization of acceptance conditions for which the emptiness problem for these automata is decidable. This result implies new decidability results for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Pawel Parys , Igor Walukiewicz

A weighted automaton is functional if any two accepting runs on the same finite word have the same value. In this paper, we investigate functional weighted automata for four different measures: the sum, the mean, the discounted sum of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Emmanuel Filiot , Raffaella Gentilini , Jean-François Raskin