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Non-Markovian Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks present significant challenges, as agents must reason over entire trajectories of state-action pairs to make optimal decisions. A common strategy to address this is through symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hazem Dewidar , Elena Umili

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated its capability in solving various tasks but is notorious for its low sample efficiency. In this paper, we propose RLingua, a framework that can leverage the internal knowledge of large language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Liangliang Chen , Yutian Lei , Shiyu Jin , Ying Zhang , Liangjun Zhang

There are many types of automata and grammar models that have been studied in the literature, and for these models, it is common to determine whether certain problems are decidable. One problem that has been difficult to answer throughout…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

Several practical tools for automatically verifying functional programs (e.g., Liquid Haskell and Leon for Scala programs) rely on a heuristic based on unrolling recursive function definitions followed by quantifier-free reasoning using SMT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Adithya Murali , Lucas Peña , Ranjit Jhala , P. Madhusudan

Reversible weighted automata are introduced and considered in a specific setting where the weights are taken from a nontrivial locally finite commutative ring such as a finite field. It is shown that the supports of series realised by such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Peter Kostolányi , Andrej Ravinger

Model checking properties are often described by means of finite automata. Any particular such automaton divides the set of infinite trees into finitely many classes, according to which state has an infinite run. Building the full type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Klaus Aehlig

This paper gives a concise introduction into the basic theory of {\omega}-automata (as of March 2014). The starting point are the different types of recurrence conditions, modes of operation (deterministic, nondeterministic, alternating…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Thomas Wilke

We study the recognition of R-trivial idempotent (R1) languages by various models of "decide-and-halt" quantum finite automata (QFA) and probabilistic reversible automata (DH-PRA). We introduce bistochastic QFA (MM-BQFA), a model which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-07 Marats Golovkins , Maksim Kravtsev , Vasilijs Kravcevs

We consider a general class of decision problems concerning formal languages, called ``(one-dimensional) unboundedness predicates'', for automata that feature reversal-bounded counters (RBCA). We show that each problem in this class reduces…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Pascal Baumann , Flavio D'Alessandro , Moses Ganardi , Oscar Ibarra , Ian McQuillan , Lia Schütze , Georg Zetzsche

Minimization of deterministic automata on finite words results in a {\em canonical\/} automaton. For deterministic automata on infinite words, no canonical minimal automaton exists, and a language may have different minimal deterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Bader Abu Radi , Orna Kupferman

Regular expressions in an Automata Theory and Formal Languages course are mostly treated as a theoretical topic. That is, to some degree their mathematical properties and their role to describe languages is discussed. This approach fails to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Marco T. Morazán

We give a simple, direct and reusable logical relations technique for languages with term and type recursion and partially defined differentiable functions. We demonstrate it by working out the case of Automatic Differentiation (AD)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Matthijs Vákár

A condition characterizing the class of regular languages which have several nonisomorphic minimal reversible automata is presented. The condition concerns the structure of the minimum automaton accepting the language under consideration.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Giovanna J. Lavado , Giovanni Pighizzini , Luca Prigioniero

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become a cornerstone technique for post-training large language models. While most existing approaches rely on the reverse KL-regularization, recent empirical studies have begun…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Di Wu , Chengshuai Shi , Jing Yang , Cong Shen

The study of finite automata and regular languages is a privileged meeting point of algebra and logic. Since the work of Buchi, regular languages have been classified according to their descriptive complexity, i.e. the type of logical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Pascal Tesson , Denis Therien

In recent studies, linear recurrent neural networks (LRNNs) have achieved Transformer-level performance in natural language and long-range modeling, while offering rapid parallel training and constant inference cost. With the resurgence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ting-Han Fan , Ta-Chung Chi , Alexander I. Rudnicky

Consider $ A^* $, the free monoid generated by the finite alphabet $A$ with the concatenation operation. Two words have the same commutative image when one is a permutation of the symbols of the other. The commutative closure of a set $ L…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Verónica Becher , Simon Lew Deveali , Ignacio Mollo Cunningham

We propose a generic categorical framework for learning unknown formal languages of various types (e.g. finite or infinite words, weighted and nominal languages). Our approach is parametric in a monad T that represents the given type of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Henning Urbat , Lutz Schröder

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback~(RLHF) plays a crucial role in aligning Large Language Models~(LLMs). The dominant algorithm, Proximal Policy Optimization~(PPO), employs a critic network to estimate advantages, which introduces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jian Hu , Jason Klein Liu , Haotian Xu , Wei Shen

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have achieved tremendous success in processing sequential data, yet understanding and analyzing their behaviours remains a significant challenge. To this end, many efforts have been made to extract finite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Zeming Wei , Xiyue Zhang , Yihao Zhang , Meng Sun