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The states of a deterministic finite automaton A can be identified with collections of words in Pf(L(A)) -- the set of prefixes of words belonging to the regular language accepted by A. But words can be ordered and among the many possible…

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This paper presents the first empirical demonstration of controllable locality in transformer language models, a novel architectural framework that enables continuous control over the degree of representation localization through a tunable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Joachim Diederich

We show the surprising result that the cutpoint isolation problem is decidable for Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) where input words are taken from a letter-bounded context-free language. A context-free language $\mathcal{L}$ is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Paul C. Bell , Pavel Semukhin

A classical problem in grammatical inference is to identify a language from a set of examples. In this paper, we address the problem of identifying a union of languages from examples that belong to several different unknown languages.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Alexis Linard , Colin de la Higuera , Frits Vaandrager

Although polynomial-time probabilistic Turing machines can utilize uncomputable transition probabilities to recognize uncountably many languages with bounded error when allowed to use logarithmic space, it is known that such "magic coins"…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-01 A. C. Cem Say , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

Monitoring is an important part of the verification toolbox, in particular in situations where exhaustive verification using, e.g., model-checking is infeasible. The goal of online monitoring is to determine the satisfaction or violation of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Thomas M. Grosen , Sean Kauffman , Kim G. Larsen , Martin Zimmermann

We give a simple combinatorial algorithm to deterministically approximately count the number of satisfying assignments of general constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Suppose that the CSP has domain size $q=O(1)$, each constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kun He , Chunyang Wang , Yitong Yin

Every language in NL has a $k$-head two-way nondeterministic finite automaton (2nfa($k$)) recognizing it. It is known how to build a constant-space verifier algorithm from a 2nfa($k$) for the same language with constant-randomness, but with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-03 M. Utkan Gezer

Given a Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA), a set of states S, and an error threshold e > 0, our algorithm approximates the infimum probability (quantifying over all infinite words) that the automata reaches S. Our result contrasts with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-09-21 Sergio Giro

First-order linear temporal logic (FOLTL) is a flexible and expressive formalism capable of naturally describing complex behaviors and properties. Although the logic is in general highly undecidable, the idea of using it as a specification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Luca Geatti , Alessandro Gianola , Nicola Gigante

We consider blind, deterministic, finite automata equipped with a register which stores an element of a given monoid, and which is modified by right multiplication by monoid elements. We show that, for monoids M drawn from a large class…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Kambites

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is a specification language for finite sequences (called traces) widely used in program verification, motion planning in robotics, process mining, and many other areas. We consider the problem of learning LTL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Daniel Neider

We study the membership problem to context-free languages L (CFLs) on probabilistic words, that specify for each position a probability distribution on the letters (assuming independence across positions). Our task is to compute, given a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Antoine Amarilli , Mikaël Monet , Paul Raphaël , Sylvain Salvati

We present an algorithm for active learning of deterministic timed automata with multiple clocks. The algorithm is within the querying framework of Angluin's $L^*$ algorithm and follows the idea proposed in existing work on the active…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yu Teng , Miaomiao Zhang , Jie An

We characterize complete deterministic finite automata with two input letters in which every non-empty set of states occurs as the image of the whole state set under the action of a suitable input word. The characterization leads to a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 David Casas , Mikhail V. Volkov

We study a model of one-way quantum automaton where only measurement operations are allowed (MOn-1qfa). We give an algebraic characterization of LMO, showing that the syntactic monoids of the languages in LMO are exactly the literal…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Carlo Comin , Maria Paola Bianchi

We consider the value 1 problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: it asks whether a given probabilistic automaton accepts words with probability arbitrarily close to 1. This problem is known to be undecidable. However, different…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Nathanaël Fijalkow

We show that for any two distinct words $ s_1, s_2 $ over an arbitrary alphabets, there exists a deterministic finite automaton with $ O(\log^2 n) $ states that accepts $ s_1 $ and rejects $ s_2 $. This improves the previous upper bound of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Bogdan C. Dumitru

The downward closure of a language is the set of all (not necessarily contiguous) subwords of its members. It is well-known that the downward closure of every language is regular. Moreover, recent results show that downward closures are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Georg Zetzsche

The question if a deterministic finite automaton admits a software reset in the form of a so-called synchronizing word can be answered in polynomial time. In this paper, we extend this algorithmic question to deterministic automata beyond…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Henning Fernau , Petra Wolf , Tomoyuki Yamakami