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Expert demonstrations have proven an easy way to indirectly specify complex tasks. Recent algorithms even support extracting unambiguous formal specifications, e.g. deterministic finite automata (DFA), from demonstrations. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte , Karim Elmaaroufi , Stefan J. Witwicki , Matei Zaharia , Sanjit A. Seshia

The task of inferring logical formulas from examples has garnered significant attention as a means to assist engineers in creating formal specifications used in the design, synthesis, and verification of computing systems. Among various…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider

This paper provides a coalgebraic approach to the language semantics of two types of non-deterministic automata over nominal sets: non-deterministic orbit-finite automata (NOFAs) and regular nominal non-deterministic automata (RNNAs), which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Florian Frank , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat

In this paper we regard languages and their acceptors - such as deterministic or weighted automata, transducers, or monoids - as functors from input categories that specify the type of the languages and of the machines to categories that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Colcombet , Daniela Petrişan

We propose $\Lambda^*_M$-an active learning algorithm that learns symbolic Mealy automata, which support infinite input alphabets and multiple output characters. Each of these two features has been addressed separately in prior work.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Kengo Irie , Masaki Waga , Kohei Suenaga

Our broader goal is to automatically translate English sentences into formulas in appropriate knowledge representation languages as a step towards understanding and thus answering questions with respect to English text. Our focus in this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Chitta Baral , Juraj Dzifcak , Marcos A. Gonzalez , Aaron Gottesman

The theory of finite automata concerns itself with words in a free monoid together with concatenation and without further structure. There are, however, important applications which use alphabets which are structured in some sense. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hugo Bazille , Uli Fahrenberg

Grammatical inference consists in learning a formal grammar as a finite state machine or as a set of rewrite rules. In this paper, we are concerned with inferring Nondeterministic Finite Automata (NFA) that must accept some words, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Tomasz Jastrzab , Frédéric Lardeux , Eric Monfroy

Abstract numeration systems encode natural numbers using radix ordered words of an infinite regular language and linear recurrence sequences play a key role in their valuation. Sequence automata, which are deterministic finite automata with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Olivier Carton , Jean-Michel Couvreur , Martin Delacourt , Nicolas Ollinger

We introduce and implement a cognitively plausible model for learning from generic language, statements that express generalizations about members of a category and are an important aspect of concept development in language acquisition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Deniz Beser , Joe Cecil , Marjorie Freedman , Jacob Lichtefeld , Mitch Marcus , Sarah Payne , Charles Yang

Several goal-oriented problems in the real-world can be naturally expressed as Stochastic Shortest Path Problems (SSPs). However, the computational complexity of solving SSPs makes finding solutions to even moderately sized problems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Rushang Karia , Rashmeet Kaur Nayyar , Siddharth Srivastava

We give a new proof of a result from well quasi-order theory on the computability of bases for upwards-closed sets of words. This new proof is based on Angluin's L* algorithm, that learns an automaton from a minimally adequate teacher. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Quentin Aristote

We introduce a method for analyzing the complexity of natural language processing tasks, and for predicting the difficulty new NLP tasks. Our complexity measures are derived from the Kolmogorov complexity of a class of automata --- {\it…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wlodek Zadrozny

We present counting reward automata-a finite state machine variant capable of modelling any reward function expressible as a formal language. Unlike previous approaches, which are limited to the expression of tasks as regular languages, our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Tristan Bester , Benjamin Rosman , Steven James , Geraud Nangue Tasse

This paper addresses the problem of mapping natural language sentences to lambda-calculus encodings of their meaning. We describe a learning algorithm that takes as input a training set of sentences labeled with expressions in the lambda…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Luke S. Zettlemoyer , Michael Collins

Tree automata based algorithms are essential in many fields in computer science such as verification, specification, program analysis. They become also essential for databases with the development of standards such as XML. In this paper, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. Carme , R. Gilleron , A. Lemay , A. Terlutte , M. Tommasi

Data words with binders formalize concurrently allocated memory. Most name-binding mechanisms in formal languages, such as the $\lambda$-calculus, adhere to properly nested scoping. In contrast, stateful programming languages with explicit…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Simon Prucker , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder

Linearly bounded Turing machines have been mainly studied as acceptors for context-sensitive languages. We define a natural class of infinite automata representing their observable computational behavior, called linearly bounded graphs.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-25 Arnaud Carayol , Antoine Meyer

Engelfriet and Vereijken have shown that linear graph grammars based on hyperedge replacement generate graph languages that can be considered as interpretations of regular string languages over typed symbols. In this paper we show that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Frank Drewes , Berthold Hoffmann , Mark Minas

Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) represent regular languages concisely, increasing their appeal for applications such as word recognition. This paper proposes a new approach to generate NFA from an interaction language such as UML…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Erwan Mahe , Boutheina Bannour , Christophe Gaston , Arnault Lapitre , Pascale Le Gall