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End-to-end automatic speech recognition often degrades on domain-specific data due to scarce in-domain resources. We propose a synthetic-data-based domain adaptation framework with two contributions: (1) a large language model (LLM)-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Natsuo Yamashita , Koichi Nagatsuka , Hiroaki Kokubo , Kota Dohi , Tuan Vu Ho

We investigate the constrained synchronization problem for weakly acyclic, or partially ordered, input automata. We show that, for input automata of this type, the problem is always in NP. Furthermore, we give a full classification of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Stefan Hoffmann

Data trees serve as an abstraction of structured data, such as XML documents. A number of specification formalisms for languages of data trees have been developed, many of them adhering to the paradigm of register automata, which is based…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Simon Prucker , Lutz Schröder

We introduce the notion of adaptive synchronisation for pushdown automata, in which there is an external observer who has no knowledge about the current state of the pushdown automaton, but can observe the contents of the stack. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 A. R. Balasubramanian , K. S. Thejaswini

The deterministic membership problem for timed automata asks whether the timed language given by a nondeterministic timed automaton can be recognised by a deterministic timed automaton. An analogous problem can be stated in the setting of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota , Radosław Piórkowski

A word $w$ is called synchronizing (recurrent, reset, magic, directable) word of deterministic finite automaton (DFA) if $w$ sends all states of the automaton to a unique state. In 1964 Jan \v{C}erny found a sequence of n-state complete DFA…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-24 A. N. Trahtman

Extensions to finite-state automata on strings, such as multi-head automata or multi-counter automata, have been successfully used to encode many infinite-state non-regular verification problems. In this paper, we consider a generalization…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Rayna Dimitrova , Rupak Majumdar

We present an efficient algorithm for checking language equivalence of states in top-down deterministic finite tree automata (DFTAs). Unlike string automata, tree automata operate over hierarchical structures, posing unique challenges for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhibo Deng , Vladimir A. Zakharov

A deterministic finite automaton is synchronizing if there exists a word that sends all states of the automaton to the same state. \v{C}ern\'y conjectured in 1964 that a synchronizing automaton with $n$ states has a synchronizing word of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Henk Don

We refine a uniform algebraic approach for deriving upper bounds on reset thresholds of synchronizing automata. We express the condition that an automaton is synchronizing in terms of linear algebra, and obtain upper bounds for the reset…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Mikhail Berlinkov , Marek Szykuła

For any synchronizing $n$-state deterministic automaton, \v{C}ern\'{y} conjectures the existence of a synchronizing word of length at most $(n-1)^2$. We prove that there exists a synchronizing word of length at most $2n^2 - 7n + 7$ for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yinfeng Zhu

We revisit the membership problem for subclasses of rational relations over finite and infinite words: Given a relation R in a class C_2, does R belong to a smaller class C_1? The subclasses of rational relations that we consider are formed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Pascal Bergsträßer , Moses Ganardi

Imagine an assembly line where a box with a lid and liquid in it enters in some unknown orientation. The box should leave the line with the open lid facing upwards with the liquid still in it. To save costs there are no complex sensors or…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Petra Wolf

Analogous to regular string and tree languages, regular languages of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are defined in the literature. Although called regular, those DAG-languages are more powerful and, consequently, standard problems have a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yvo Ad Meeres

Several reachability problems in finite automata, such as completeness of NFAs and synchronisation of total DFAs, correspond to fundamental properties of sets of nonnegative matrices. In particular, the two mentioned properties correspond…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Stefan Kiefer , Andrew Ryzhikov

The usage of Rational Speech Acts (RSA) framework has been successful in building \emph{pragmatic} program synthesizers that return programs which, in addition to being logically consistent with user-generated examples, account for the fact…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yewen Pu , Saujas Vaduguru , Priyan Vaithilingam , Elena Glassman , Daniel Fried

Data words with binders formalize concurrently allocated memory. Most name-binding mechanisms in formal languages, such as the $\lambda$-calculus, adhere to properly nested scoping. In contrast, stateful programming languages with explicit…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Simon Prucker , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder

Algorithms which learn environments represented by automata in the past have had complexity scaling with the number of states in the automaton, which can be exponentially large even for automata recognizing regular expressions with a small…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ali Cataltepe , Vanessa Kosoy

We propose an automaton model which is a combination of symbolic and register automata, i.e., we enrich symbolic automata with memory. We call such automata Symbolic Register Automata (SRA). SRA extend the expressive power of symbolic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Elias Alevizos , Alexander Artikis , Georgios Paliouras

We prove that a random automaton with $n$ states and any fixed non-singleton alphabet is synchronizing with high probability (modulo an unpublished result about unique highest trees of random graphs). Moreover, we also prove that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Mikhail V. Berlinkov