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The Fibonacci infinite word ${\bf f} = (f_i)_{i \geq 0} = 01001010\cdots$ is one of the most celebrated objects in combinatorics on words. There is a simple $5$-state automaton that, given $i$ in lsd-first Zeckendorf representation,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Delaram Moradi , Pierre Popoli , Jeffrey Shallit , Ingrid Vukusic

Lambek's production machines may be used to generate and recognize sentences in a subset of the language described by a production grammar. We determine in this paper the subset of the language of a grammar generated and recognized by such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Riccardo Pucella

A deterministic finite automaton is said to be synchronizing if it has a reset word, i.e. a word that brings all states of the automaton to a particular one. We prove that it is a PSPACE-complete problem to check whether the language of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Marina Maslennikova

An attractive mechanism to specify global constraints in rostering and other domains is via formal languages. For instance, the Regular and Grammar constraints specify constraints in terms of the languages accepted by an automaton and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-04 George Katsirelos , Nina Narodytska , Toby Walsh

We define a class of languages of infinite words over infinite alphabets, and the corresponding automata. The automata used for recognition are a generalisation of deterministic Muller automata to the setting of nominal sets. Remarkably,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Vincenzo Ciancia , Matteo Sammartino

This work proposes a novel concept for tree and plant reconstruction by directly inferring a Lindenmayer-System (L-System) word representation from image data in an image captioning approach. We train a model end-to-end which is able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jannes S. Magnusson , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

The classical subset construction for non-deterministic automata can be generalized to other side-effects captured by a monad. The key insight is that both the state space of the determinized automaton and its semantics---languages over an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Gerco van Heerdt , Joshua Moerman , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

A fundamental question in logic and verification is the following: for which unary predicates $P_1, \ldots, P_k$ is the monadic second-order theory of $\langle \mathbb{N}; <, P_1, \ldots, P_k \rangle$ decidable? Equivalently, for which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Valérie Berthé , Toghrul Karimov , Mihir Vahanwala

Automaton models are often seen as interpretable models. Interpretability itself is not well defined: it remains unclear what interpretability means without first explicitly specifying objectives or desired attributes. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-28 Christian Albert Hammerschmidt , Sicco Verwer , Qin Lin , Radu State

Given an $\omega$-automaton and a set of substitutions, we look at which accepted words can also be defined through these substitutions, and in particular if there is at least one. We introduce a method using desubstitution of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Pierre Béaur , Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus

Deterministic 2-head finite automata which are machines that process an input word from both ends are analyzed for their ability to perform reversible computations. This implies that the automata are backward deterministic, enabling unique…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Benedek Nagy , Walaa Yasin

An infinite permutation $\alpha$ is a linear ordering of $\mathbb N$. We study properties of infinite permutations analogous to those of infinite words, and show some resemblances and some differences between permutations and words. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Anna Frid , Luca Zamboni

It is known that an ordinal is the order type of the lexicographic ordering of a regular language if and only if it is less than omega^omega. We design a polynomial time algorithm that constructs, for each well-ordered regular language L…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Zoltan Ésik

We revisit the problem of deciding whether a given string is uniquely decodable from its bigram counts by means of a finite automaton. An efficient algorithm for constructing a polynomial-size nondeterministic finite automaton that decides…

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In this paper, we present a categorical approach to learning automata over words, in the sense of the $L^*$-algorithm of Angluin. This yields a new generic $L^*$-like algorithm which can be instantiated for learning deterministic automata,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Thomas Colcombet , Daniela Petrişan , Riccardo Stabile

In this work we use a framework of finite-state automata constructions based on equivalences over words to provide new insights on the relation between well-known methods for computing the minimal deterministic automaton of a language.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Pierre Ganty , Elena Gutiérrez , Pedro Valero

Lindenmayer systems (L-systems) are a formal grammar system, where the most notable feature is a set of rewriting rules that are used to replace every symbol in a string in parallel; by repeating this process, a sequence of strings is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jason Bernard , Ian McQuillan

A typewriter automaton is a special variant of a two-dimensional automaton that receives two-dimensional words as input and is only capable of moving its input head through its input word in three directions: downward, leftward, and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Taylor J. Smith

In this paper, we propose and investigate algorithms for the structured orthogonal dictionary learning problem. First, we investigate the case when the dictionary is a Householder matrix. We give sample complexity results and show…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Anirudh Dash , Aditya Siripuram

We implement a decision procedure for answering questions about a class of infinite words that might be called (for lack of a better name) "Tribonacci-automatic". This class includes, for example, the famous Tribonacci word T =…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Hamoon Mousavi , Jeffrey Shallit