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We propose a generalisation of concurrent Kleene algebra \cite{Hoa09} that can take account of probabilistic effects in the presence of concurrency. The algebra is proved sound with respect to a model of automata modulo a variant of rooted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Annabelle McIver , Tahiry Rabehaja , Georg Struth

Scalable and automatic formal verification for concurrent systems is always demanding. In this paper, we propose a verification framework to support automated compositional reasoning for concurrent programs with shared variables. Our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fuyuan Zhang , Yongwang Zhao , David Sanan , Yang Liu , Alwen Tiu , Shang-Wei Lin , Jun Sun

Identifying the top-$k$ items is fundamental but often prohibitive when exact valuations are expensive. We study a two-oracle setting with a fast, noisy weak oracle and a scarce, high-fidelity strong oracle (e.g., human expert verification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Lutz Oettershagen

We prove that in asynchronous message-passing systems where at most one process may crash, there is no lock-free strongly linearizable implementation of a weak object that we call Test-or-Set (ToS). This object allows a single distinguished…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 David Yu Cheng Chan , Vassos Hadzilacos , Xing Hu , Sam Toueg

In the classical theory of formal languages, finite state automata allow to recognize the words of a rational subset of $\Sigma^*$ where $\Sigma$ is a set of symbols (or the alphabet). Now, given a semiring $(\K,+,.)$, one can construct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Gérard Duchamp , Eric Laugerotte , Jean-Gabriel Luque

Outcome probability estimation via classical methods is an important task for validating quantum computing devices. Outcome probabilities of any quantum circuit can be estimated using Monte Carlo sampling, where the amount of negativity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Nikolaos Koukoulekidis , Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyejung H. Jee , David Jennings , M. S. Kim

Probabilistic automata are an extension of nondeterministic finite automata in which transitions are annotated with probabilities. Despite its simplicity, this model is very expressive and many of the associated algorithmic questions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Cristian Riveros , James Worrell

Safe memory reclamation (SMR) schemes are an essential tool for lock-free data structures and concurrent programming. However, manual SMR schemes are notoriously difficult to apply correctly, and automatic schemes, such as reference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch , Yuanhao Wei

Providing compact and understandable counterexamples for violated system properties is an essential task in model checking. Existing works on counterexamples for probabilistic systems so far computed either a large set of system runs or a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Ralf Wimmer , Nils Jansen , Erika Ábrahám , Joost-Pieter Katoen

This work addresses the problem of computing measures of recognisable sets of infinite trees. An algorithm is provided to compute the probability measure of a tree language recognisable by a weak alternating automaton, or equivalently…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Damian Niwiński , Marcin Przybyłko , Michał Skrzypczak

We consider the model of priced (a.k.a. weighted) timed automata, an extension of timed automata with cost information on both locations and transitions, and we study various model-checking problems for that model based on extensions of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Patricia Bouyer , Kim G. Larsen , Nicolas Markey

Inspired by the invariant of a number field given by its zeta function, we define the notion of {\it weak arithmetic equivalence}, and show that under certain ramification hypothesis, this equivalence determines the local root numbers of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Guillermo Mantilla-Soler

Hyper-minimization is a state reduction technique that allows a finite change in the semantics. The theory for hyper-minimization of deterministic weighted tree automata is provided. The presence of weights slightly complicates the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Andreas Maletti , Daniel Quernheim

We present a theoretical analysis and empirical evaluations of a novel set of techniques for computational cost reduction of test time operations of network classifiers based on extreme learning machine (ELM). By exploring some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Emerson Lopes Machadoa , Cristiano Jacques Miosso , Ricardo Pezzuol Jacobi

In many security and healthcare systems a sequence of features/sensors/tests are used for detection and diagnosis. Each test outputs a prediction of the latent state, and carries with it inherent costs. Our objective is to {\it learn}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Manjesh Hanawal , Csaba Szepesvari , Venkatesh Saligrama

We present a relatively simple description of binary, definable subsets of models of weakly quasi-o-minimal theories. In particular, we closely describe definable linear orders and prove a weak version of the monotonicity theorem. We also…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Slavko Moconja , Predrag Tanović

This paper explores the well known approximation approach to decide weak bisimilarity of Basic Parallel Processes. We look into how different refinement functions can be used to prove weak bisimilarity decidable for certain subclasses. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Piotr Hofman , Patrick Totzke

Parikh (tree) automata are an expressive and yet computationally well-behaved extension of finite automata -- they allow to increment a number of counters during their computations, which are finally tested by a semilinear constraint. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Luisa Herrmann , Johannes Osterholzer

Semiring algebras have been shown to provide a suitable language to formalize many noteworthy combinatorial problems. For instance, the Shortest-Path problem can be seen as a special case of the Algebraic-Path problem when applied to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Ambroise Baril , Miguel Couceiro , Victor Lagerkvist

We present optimal sample complexity estimates for one-bit compressed sensing problems in a realistic scenario: the procedure uses a structured matrix (a randomly sub-sampled circulant matrix) and is robust to analog pre-quantization noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sjoerd Dirksen , Shahar Mendelson