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{\it Learning finite automata} (termed as {\it model learning}) has become an important field in machine learning and has been useful realistic applications. Quantum finite automata (QFA) are simple models of quantum computers with finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Daowen Qiu

We propose a new algorithm to learn a one-hidden-layer convolutional neural network where both the convolutional weights and the outputs weights are parameters to be learned. Our algorithm works for a general class of (potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Simon S. Du , Surbhi Goel

The recent focus and release of pre-trained models have been a key components to several advancements in many fields (e.g. Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision), as a matter of fact, pre-trained models learn disparate latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Elia Piccoli , Malio Li , Giacomo Carfì , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Bacciu

A new implementation of an adiabatically-trained ensemble model is derived that shows significant improvements over classical methods. In particular, empirical results of this new algorithm show that it offers not just higher performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Salvatore Certo , Andrew Vlasic , Daniel Beaulieu

Learning robotic tasks in the real world is still highly challenging and effective practical solutions remain to be found. Traditional methods used in this area are imitation learning and reinforcement learning, but they both have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Abdalkarim Mohtasib , Gerhard Neumann , Heriberto Cuayahuitl

Weighted automata (WA) are an important formalism to describe quantitative properties. Obtaining equivalent deterministic machines is a longstanding research problem. In this paper we consider WA with a set semantics, meaning that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Laure Daviaud , Ismael Jecker , Pierre-Alain Reynier , Didier Villevalois

The incorporation of prior knowledge into learning is essential in achieving good performance based on small noisy samples. Such knowledge is often incorporated through the availability of related data arising from domains and tasks similar…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-24 Baruch Epstein , Ron Meir , Tomer Michaeli

Models often need to be constrained to a certain size for them to be considered interpretable. For example, a decision tree of depth 5 is much easier to understand than one of depth 50. Limiting model size, however, often reduces accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Abhishek Ghose , Balaraman Ravindran

We demonstrate a compactness result holding broadly across supervised learning with a general class of loss functions: Any hypothesis class $H$ is learnable with transductive sample complexity $m$ precisely when all of its finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Julian Asilis , Siddartha Devic , Shaddin Dughmi , Vatsal Sharan , Shang-Hua Teng

We present an interactive version of an evidence-driven state-merging (EDSM) algorithm for learning variants of finite state automata. Learning these automata often amounts to recovering or reverse engineering the model generating the data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-01 Christian A. Hammerschmidt , Radu State , Sicco Verwer

Inspired by distributed algorithms, we introduce a new class of finite graph automata that recognize precisely the graph languages definable in monadic second-order logic. For the cases of words and trees, it has been long known that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Fabian Reiter

The fields of explainable AI and mechanistic interpretability aim to uncover the internal structure of neural networks, with circuit discovery as a central tool for understanding model computations. Existing approaches, however, rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Elena Golimblevskaia , Aakriti Jain , Bruno Puri , Ammar Ibrahim , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin

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

With the aim of completing the previous study by A. Or{\l}owski and the author concerning intertwining maps between induced representations and conjugation representation, termed here weighted class operators, we compute the latter…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aleksander Strasburger

This paper proposes a novel approach to pattern classification using a probabilistic neural network model. The strategy is based on a compact-sized probabilistic neural network capable of continuous incremental learning and unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tetsuya Hoya , Shunpei Morita

We propose a new weighted average estimator for the high dimensional parameters under the distributed learning system, in which the weight assigned to each coordinate is precisely proportional to the inverse of the variance of the local…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-06 Jun Lu , Xiaoyu Mao , Mengyao Li , Chenping Hou

Weighted automata are nondeterministic automata with numerical weights on transitions. They can define quantitative languages~$L$ that assign to each word~$w$ a real number~$L(w)$. In the case of infinite words, the value of a run is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Thomas A Henzinger

Weighted timed automata (WTA) model quantitative aspects of real-time systems like continuous consumption of memory, power or financial resources. They accept quantitative timed languages where every timed word is mapped to a value, e.g., a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Manfred Droste , Vitaly Perevoshchikov

The fully enriched μ-calculus is the extension of the propositional μ-calculus with inverse programs, graded modalities, and nominals. While satisfiability in several expressive fragments of the fully enriched μ-calculus is known…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Piero A. Bonatti , Carsten Lutz , Aniello Murano , Moshe Y. Vardi

Linear attention methods offer a compelling alternative to softmax attention due to their efficiency in recurrent decoding. Recent research has focused on enhancing standard linear attention by incorporating gating while retaining its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yingcong Li , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Ankit Singh Rawat , Maryam Fazel , Samet Oymak