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Term pattern matching is the problem of finding all pattern matches in a subject term, given a set of patterns. Finding efficient algorithms for this problem is an important direction for research [19]. We present a new set automaton…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Rick Erkens , Jan Friso Groote

Set constraints provide a highly general way to formulate program analyses. However, solving arbitrary boolean combinations of set constraints is NEXPTIME-hard. Moreover, while theoretical algorithms to solve arbitrary set constraints…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Joseph Eremondi

Pattern matching is a widely used technique in functional languages, especially those in the ML and Haskell traditions, where it is at the core of the semantics. In languages in the Lisp tradition, in contrast, pattern matching it typically…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

We develop a formal perspective on how regular expression matching works in Java, a popular representative of the category of regex-directed matching engines. In particular, we define an automata model which captures all the aspects needed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Martin Berglund , Frank Drewes , Brink van der Merwe

In the problem of composite hypothesis testing, identifying the potential uniformly most powerful (UMP) unbiased test is of great interest. Beyond typical hypothesis settings with exponential family, it is usually challenging to prove the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-03 Tianyu Zhan , Jian Kang

Extended regular expressions with counting and interleaving are widely used in practice. However the related theoretical studies for this kind of expressions currently cannot meet the need of practical work. This paper develops syntax…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Xiaoying Mou , Haiming Chen

We study the problem of finding solutions to the stable matching problem that are robust to errors in the input and we obtain a polynomial time algorithm for a special class of errors. In the process, we also initiate work on a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Tung Mai , Vijay V. Vazirani

We prove that any mixed-integer linear extended formulation for the matching polytope of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, with a polynomial number of constraints, requires $\Omega(\sqrt{\sfrac{n}{\log n}})$ many integer variables. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Robert Hildebrand , Robert Weismantel , Rico Zenklusen

We introduce a high-level language with Python-like syntax for string-to-string, polyregular, first-order definable transductions. This language features function calls, boolean variables, and nested for-loops. We devise and implement a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Aliaume Lopez , Rafał Stefański

We consider a many-to-one variant of the stable matching problem. More concretely, we consider the variant of the stable matching problem where one side has a matroid constraint. Furthermore, we consider the situation where the preference…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Naoyuki Kamiyama

The regular expression matching problem asks whether a given regular expression of length $m$ matches a given string of length $n$. As is well known, the problem can be solved in $O(nm)$ time using Thompson's algorithm. Moreover, recent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Taisei Nogami , Yoshiki Nakamura , Tachio Terauchi

In this note, we provide complexity characterizations of model checking multi-pushdown systems. Multi-pushdown systems model recursive concurrent programs in which any sequential process has a finite control. We consider three standard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-10 Kshitij Bansal , Stéphane Demri

Neural network based approaches for sentence relation modeling automatically generate hidden matching features from raw sentence pairs. However, the quality of matching feature representation may not be satisfied due to complex semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Peng Li , Heng Huang

Efficient pattern matching is fundamental for practical term rewrite engines. By preprocessing the given patterns into a finite deterministic automaton the matching patterns can be decided in a single traversal of the relevant parts of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rick Erkens , Maurice Laveaux

Deciding in an efficient way weak probabilistic bisimulation in the context of Probabilistic Automata is an open problem for about a decade. In this work we close this problem by proposing a procedure that checks in polynomial time the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Holger Hermanns , Andrea Turrini

We present new algorithms for the problem of multiple string matching of gapped patterns, where a gapped pattern is a sequence of strings such that there is a gap of fixed length between each two consecutive strings. The problem has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Emanuele Giaquinta , Kimmo Fredriksson , Szymon Grabowski , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Esko Ukkonen

We study the basic regular expression intersection testing problem, which asks to determine whether the intersection of the languages of two regular expressions is nonempty. A textbook solution to this problem is to construct the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Rocco Ascone , Giulia Bernardini , Alessio Conte , Veronica Guerrini , Giulia Punzi

We study the problem of factoring univariate polynomials over finite fields. Under the assumption of the Extended Riemann Hypothesis (ERH), (Gao, 2001) designed a polynomial time algorithm that fails to factor only if the input polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Chandan Saha

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

This paper presents efficient algorithms for testing the finite, polynomial, and exponential ambiguity of finite automata with $\epsilon$-transitions. It gives an algorithm for testing the exponential ambiguity of an automaton $A$ in time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-25 Cyril Allauzen , Mehryar Mohri , Ashish Rastogi