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The sequential structure of language, and the order of words in a sentence specifically, plays a central role in human language processing. Consequently, in designing computational models of language, the de facto approach is to present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Rishi Bommasani

The separating words problem asks for the size of the smallest DFA needed to distinguish between two words of length <= n (by accepting one and rejecting the other). In this paper we survey what is known and unknown about the problem,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-24 Erik D. Demaine , Sarah Eisenstat , Jeffrey Shallit , David A. Wilson

Separations among the first order logic ${\cal R}ing(0,+,*)$ of finite residue class rings, its extensions with generalized quantifiers, and in the presence of a built-in order are shown, using algebraic methods from class field theory.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Argimiro Arratia , Carlos E. Ortiz

Large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across many tasks, yet face significant challenges when dealing with recursive reasoning problems, those requiring the resolution of nested hierarchical structures. While prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zhiyuan He

We study expression learning problems with syntactic restrictions and introduce the class of finite-aspect checkable languages to characterize symbolic languages that admit decidable learning. The semantics of such languages can be defined…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Paul Krogmeier , P. Madhusudan

Sequence theories are an extension of theories of strings with an infinite alphabet of letters, together with a corresponding alphabet theory (e.g. linear integer arithmetic). Sequences are natural abstractions of extendable arrays, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Artur Jeż , Anthony W. Lin , Oliver Markgraf , Philipp Rümmer

Consistency regularization describes a class of approaches that have yielded ground breaking results in semi-supervised classification problems. Prior work has established the cluster assumption - under which the data distribution consists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Geoff French , Samuli Laine , Timo Aila , Michal Mackiewicz , Graham Finlayson

Partially ordered automata are automata where the transition relation induces a partial order on states. The expressive power of partially ordered automata is closely related to the expressivity of fragments of first-order logic on finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Tomáš Masopust , Markus Krötzsch

The relationship between the complexity classes P and NP is a question that has not yet been answered by the Theory of Computation. The existence of a language in NP, proven not to belong to P, is sufficient evidence to establish the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Frank Vega Delgado

Most automated verifiers for separation logic target the symbolic-heap fragment, disallowing both the magic-wand operator and the application of classical Boolean operators to spatial formulas. This is not surprising, as support for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Jens Pagel , Florian Zuleger

A set of integers is $S$-recognizable in an abstract numeration system $S$ if the language made up of the representations of its elements is accepted by a finite automaton. For abstract numeration systems built over bounded languages with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Emilie Charlier , Michel Rigo , Wolfgang Steiner

Regular languages (RL) are the simplest family in Chomsky's hierarchy. Thanks to their simplicity they enjoy various nice algebraic and logic properties that have been successfully exploited in many application fields. Practically all of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Dino Mandrioli , Matteo Pradella

In this paper we show that {\omega}B- and {\omega}S-regular languages satisfy the following separation-type theorem If L1,L2 are disjoint languages of {\omega}-words both recognised by {\omega}B- (resp. {\omega}S)-automata then there exists…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Michał Skrzypczak

The game tree languages can be viewed as an automata-theoretic counterpart of parity games on graphs. They witness the strictness of the index hierarchy of alternating tree automata, as well as the fixed-point hierarchy over binary trees.…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Szczepan Hummel , Henryk Michalewski , Damian Niwinski

Derivatives play a critical role in computational statistics, examples being Bayesian inference using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling and the training of neural networks. Automatic differentiation is a powerful tool to automate the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Charles C. Margossian

To solve hard problems, AI relies on a variety of disciplines such as logic, probabilistic reasoning, machine learning and mathematical programming. Although it is widely accepted that solving real-world problems requires an integration…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Vaishak Belle , Luc De Raedt

The concept of decomposition in computer science and engineering is considered a fundamental component of computational thinking and is prevalent in design of algorithms, software construction, hardware design, and more. We propose a simple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dror Fried , Axel Legay , Joël Ouaknine , Moshe Y. Vardi

We provide a denotational semantics for first-order logic that captures the two-level view of the computation process typical for constraint programming. At one level we have the usual program execution. At the other level an automatic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 K. R. Apt , C. F. M. Vermeulen

It is well known that, under certain conditions, it is possible to split logic programs under stable model semantics, i.e. to divide such a program into a number of different "levels", such that the models of the entire program can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joost Vennekens , David Gilis , Marc Denecker

We consider two-variable first-order logic on finite words with a fixed number of quantifier alternations. We show that all languages with a neutral letter definable using the order and finite-degree predicates are also definable with the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Charles Paperman