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An interleaving sequence is obtained by combining or intertwining elements from two or more sequences. On the other hand, cellular automata are known to be generators for keystream sequences. In this paper we present two families of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sara D. Cardell

We show how to efficiently enumerate a class of finite-memory stochastic processes using the causal representation of epsilon-machines. We characterize epsilon-machines in the language of automata theory and adapt a recent algorithm for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-18 B. D. Johnson , J. P. Crutchfield , C. J. Ellison , C. S. McTague

An Abstract Graph Machine(AGM) is an abstract model for distributed memory parallel stabilizing graph algorithms. A stabilizing algorithm starts from a particular initial state and goes through series of different state changes until it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Thejaka Amila Kanewala , Marcin Zalewski , Andrew Lumsdaine

We study the problem of distributed multi-task learning with shared representation, where each machine aims to learn a separate, but related, task in an unknown shared low-dimensional subspaces, i.e. when the predictor matrix has low rank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Jialei Wang , Mladen Kolar , Nathan Srebro

We present several infinite series of synchronizing automata for which the minimum length of reset words is close to the square of the number of states. These automata are closely related to primitive digraphs with large exponent.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Dmitry S. Ananichev , Vladimir V. Gusev , Mikhail V. Volkov

We provide a new non-asymptotic analysis of distributed temporal difference learning with linear function approximation. Our approach relies on ``one-shot averaging,'' where $N$ agents run identical local copies of the TD(0) method and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Rui Liu , Alex Olshevsky

We investigate a connection between a property of the distribution and a conserved quantity for the reversible cellular automaton derived from a discrete-time quantum walk in one dimension. As a corollary, we give a detailed information of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norio Konno , Kenichi Mitsuda , Takahiro Soshi , Hyun Jae Yoo

Different classes of automata on infinite words have different expressive power. Deciding whether a given language $L \subseteq \Sigma^\omega$ can be expressed by an automaton of a desired class can be reduced to deciding a game between…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Orna Kupferman , Salomon Sickert

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

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

This paper proposes a new class of simple, distributed algorithms for scheduling in wireless networks. The algorithms generate new schedules in a distributed manner via simple local changes to existing schedules. The class is parameterized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sujay Sanghavi , Loc Bui , R. Srikant

In distributed optimization and machine learning, multiple nodes coordinate to solve large problems. To do this, the nodes need to compress important algorithm information to bits so that it can be communicated over a digital channel. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Sindri Magnússon , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Na Li

In this paper, we prove that a class of regular sequences can be viewed as projections of fixed points of uniform morphisms on a countable alphabet, and also can be generated by countable states automata. Moreover, we prove that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Jie-Meng Zhang , Jin Chen , Yingjun Guo , Zhixiong Wen

Alternating automata have been widely used to model and verify systems that handle data from finite domains, such as communication protocols or hardware. The main advantage of the alternating model of computation is that complementation is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Radu Iosif , Xiao Xu

State machine replication is standard approach to fault tolerance. One of the key assumptions of state machine replication is that replicas must execute operations deterministically and thus serially. To benefit from multi-core servers,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Eduardo Alchieri , Fernando Dotti , Fernando Pedone

Cellular automata are synchronous discrete dynamical systems used to describe complex dynamic behaviors. The dynamic is based on local interactions between the components, these are defined by a finite graph with an initial node coloring…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Volker Turau

Fuelled by the popularity of the transformer architecture in deep learning, several works have investigated what formal languages a transformer can learn from data. Nonetheless, existing results remain hard to compare due to methodological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rik Adriaensen , Jaron Maene

In this work, pseudorandom sequence generators based on finite fields have been analyzed from the point of view of their cryptographic application. In fact, a class of nonlinear sequence generators has been modelled in terms of linear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-12 Amparo Fuster-Sabater , Pino Caballero-Gil

The \v{C}ern\'y's conjecture states that for every synchronizing automaton with n states there exists a reset word of length not exceeding (n-11)^2. We prove this conjecture for a class of automata preserving certain properties of intervals…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-12 M. Grech , A. Kisielewicz

We study alternating register automata on data words and data trees in relation to logics. A data word (resp. data tree) is a word (resp. tree) whose every position carries a label from a finite alphabet and a data value from an infinite…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Diego Figueira