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In a recent paper we analyzed the space complexity of streaming algorithms whose goal is to decide membership of a sliding window to a fixed language. For the class of regular languages we proved a space trichotomy theorem: for every…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Moses Ganardi , Danny Hucke , Daniel König , Markus Lohrey , Konstantinos Mamouras

We study the sweep complexity of DFA in one-way jumping mode answering several questions posed earlier. This measure is the number of times in the worst case that such machines have to return to the beginning of their input after having…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas , Robert Mercaş

We prove in this paper that there is a language $L_s$ accepted by some nondeterministic Turing machine that runs within time $O(n^k)$ for any positive integer $k\in\mathbb{N}_1$ but not by any ${\rm co}\mathcal{NP}$ machines. Then we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianrong Lin

A zero-one language L is a regular language whose asymptotic probability converges to either zero or one. In this case, we say that L obeys the zero-one law. We prove that a regular language obeys the zero-one law if and only if its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Ryoma Sin'ya

We prove a kind of a pumping lemma for languages accepted by one-register alternating finite-memory automata. As a corollary, we obtain that the set of lengths of words in such languages is semi-linear.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yoav Danieli

We study the languages recognized by well-structured transition systems (WSTS) with upward and downward compatibility. Our first result shows that every pair of disjoint WSTS languages is regularly separable: there is a regular language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Wojciech Czerwiński , Eren Keskin , Sławomir Lasota , Roland Meyer , Sebastian Muskalla , K Narayan Kumar , Prakash Saivasan

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

Commutative languages with the semilinear property (SLIP) can be naturally recognized by real-time NLOG-SPACE multi-counter machines. We show that unions and concatenations of such languages can be similarly recognized, relying on -- and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Stefano Crespi Reghizzi , Pierluigi San Pietro

The following problem is shown undecidable: given regular languages L,K of finite trees, decide if there exists a deterministic tree-walking automaton which accepts all trees in L and rejects all trees in K. The proof uses a technique of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Mikołaj Bojańczyk

We introduce a flexible class of well-quasi-orderings (WQOs) on words that generalizes the ordering of (not necessarily contiguous) subwords. Each such WQO induces a class of piecewise testable languages (PTLs) as Boolean combinations of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Georg Zetzsche

We consider decision problems for deterministic pushdown automata over a unary alphabet (udpda, for short). Udpda are a simple computation model that accept exactly the unary regular languages, but can be exponentially more succinct than…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Dmitry Chistikov , Rupak Majumdar

We study a model of one-way quantum automaton where only measurement operations are allowed ($\mon$). We give an algebraic characterization of $\lmo(\Sigma)$, showing that the syntactic monoids of the languages in $\lmo(\Sigma)$ are exactly…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-30 Carlo Comin

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing computable functions of infinite words over an infinite alphabet (data $\omega$-words). The notion of computability is defined through Turing machines with infinite inputs which can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Nathan Lhote , Pierre-Alain Reynier

We investigate the performance of large language models on repetitive deterministic prediction tasks and study how the sequence accuracy rate scales with output length. Each such task involves repeating the same operation n times. Examples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wanda Hou , Leon Zhou , Hong-Ye Hu , Yubei Chen , Yi-Zhuang You , Xiao-Liang Qi

In this paper, we discuss the computational power of parallel communicating finite automata system with 1-way reversible finite automaton as components. We show that unlike the multi-head one way reversible finite automata model (where we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Debayan Ganguly , Kingshuk Chatterjee , Kumar Sankar Ray

A locally testable language L is a language with the property that for some non negative integer k, called the order of local testability, whether or not a word u is in the language L depends on (1) the prefix and suffix of the word u of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 A. N. Trahtman

Br\"uggemann-Klein and Wood define a one-unambiguous regular language as a language that can be recognized by a deterministic Glushkov automaton. They give a procedure performed on the minimal DFA, the BW-test, to decide whether a language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Pascal Caron , Ludovic Mignot , Clément Miklarz

This work investigates the computational expressivity of language models (LMs) based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Siegelmann and Sontag (1992) famously showed that RNNs with rational weights and hidden states and unbounded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Franz Nowak , Anej Svete , Li Du , Ryan Cotterell

We introduce and study the repetitive variants of the deterministic and the nondeterministic finite automaton with translucent words (DFAwtw and NFAwtw). On seeing the right sentinel, a repetitive NFAwtw need not halt immediately, accepting…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 František Mráz , Friedrich Otto

Given a regular language $L$, we study the language of words $\mathsf{D}(L)$, that distinguish between pairs of different left-quotients of $L$. We characterize this distinguishability operation, show that its iteration has always a fixed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Cezar Câmpeanu , Nelma Moreira , Rogério Reis