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Computing accurate low rank approximations of large matrices is a fundamental data mining task. In many applications however the matrix contains sensitive information about individuals. In such case we would like to release a low rank…

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Sorting is a fundamental algorithmic pre-processing technique which often allows to represent data more compactly and, at the same time, speeds up search queries on it. In this paper, we focus on the well-studied problem of sorting and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Sung-Hwan Kim , Francisco Olivares , Nicola Prezza

Re-rankers, which order retrieved documents with respect to the relevance score on the given query, have gained attention for the information retrieval (IR) task. Rather than fine-tuning the pre-trained language model (PLM), the large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sukmin Cho , Soyeong Jeong , Jeongyeon Seo , Jong C. Park

Counting permutations of $[n]$ by the number of records, i.e. left-to-right maxima, is a classic problem in combinatorial enumeration. In the first volume of ``The Art of Computer Programming", Donald Knuth demonstrated its relevance for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Boris Pittel

We propose an algorithmic approach for synthesizing linear hybrid automata from time-series data. Unlike existing approaches, our approach provides a whole family of models. Each model in the family is guaranteed to capture the input data…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Miriam García Soto , Thomas A. Henzinger , Christian Schilling

Algorithms for (nondeterministic) finite-state tree automata (FTAs) are often tested on random FTAs, in which all internal transitions are equiprobable. The run-time results obtained in this manner are usually overly optimistic as most such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-25 Thomas Hanneforth , Andreas Maletti , Daniel Quernheim

A randomized algorithm for computing a compressed representation of a given rank-structured matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times N}$ is presented. The algorithm interacts with $A$ only through its action on vectors. Specifically, it draws two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 James Levitt , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

In this paper we develop a method to transfer density results for primitive automatic sequences to logarithmic-density results for general automatic sequences. As an application we show that the logarithmic densities of any automatic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Boris Adamczewski , Michael Drmota , Clemens Müllner

We introduce a new class of large structured random matrices characterized by four fundamental properties which we discuss. We prove that this class is stable under matrix-valued and pointwise non-linear operations. We then formulate an…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Denis Bernard , Ludwig Hruza

An index for a finite automaton is a powerful data structure that supports locating paths labeled with a query pattern, thus solving pattern matching on the underlying regular language. In this paper, we solve the long-standing problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nicola Cotumaccio , Nicola Prezza

Bertrand's Postulate ensures existence of prime $p$ between $n$ and $2n$, $n$ an integer $\geq 2$ and the sieve of Eratosthenes, a very simple ancient algorithm, generates all prime numbers up to any given limit. Combining the above two, in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-06-18 V. Vilfred Kamalappan

We give algorithms to accelerate the computation of deterministic finite automata (DFA) by calculating the state of a DFA n positions ahead utilizing a reverse scan of the next n characters. Often this requires scanning fewer than n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Steven M. Kearns

Historical linguists have identified regularities in the process of historic sound change. The comparative method utilizes those regularities to reconstruct proto-words based on observed forms in daughter languages. Can this process be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Carlo Meloni , Shauli Ravfogel , Yoav Goldberg

We study randomized generation of sequences of test-inputs to a system using Prolog. Prolog is a natural fit to generate test-sequences that have complex logical inter-dependent structure. To counter the problems posed by a large (or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Marcus Gelderie , Maximilian Luff , Maximilian Peltzer

Symbolic Finite Automata and Register Automata are two orthogonal extensions of finite automata motivated by real-world problems where data may have unbounded domains. These automata address a demand for a model over large or infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Loris D'Antoni , Tiago Ferreira , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

We present a new recursive generation algorithm for prefix normal words. These are binary strings with the property that no substring has more 1s than the prefix of the same length. The new algorithm uses two operations on binary strings,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ferdinando Cicalese , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Massimiliano Rossi

Let $S$ be a string of length $n$ with characters from an alphabet of size $\sigma$. The \emph{subsequence automaton} of $S$ (often called the \emph{directed acyclic subsequence graph}) is the minimal deterministic finite automaton…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Frederik Rye Skjoldjensen

We introduce a stochastic algorithm that acts as a prime number generator. The dynamics of such algorithm gives rise to a continuous phase transition which separates a phase where the algorithm is able to reduce a whole set of integers into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bartolo Luque , Lucas Lacasa , Octavio Miramontes

We prove that, for any arbitrary finite alphabet and for the uniform distribution over deterministic and accessible automata with n states, the average complexity of Moore's state minimization algorithm is in O(n log n). Moreover this bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-09 Frédérique Bassino , Julien David , Cyril Nicaud

In this paper we study in complete generality the family of two-state, deterministic, monotone, local, homogeneous cellular automata in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with random initial configurations. Formally, we are given a set…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Béla Bollobás , Paul Smith , Andrew Uzzell