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We construct a probabilistic quantum cloning machine by a general unitary-reduction operation. With a postselection of the measurement results, the machine yields faithful copies of the input states. It is shown that the states secretly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lu-Ming Duan , Guang-Can Guo

In a recent paper we have described an optical implementation of a measure-once one-way quantum finite automaton recognizing a well-known family of unary periodic languages, accepting words not in the language with a given error…

The edge detection task is essential in image processing aiming to extract relevant information from an image. One recurring problem in this task is the weaknesses found in some detectors, such as the difficulty in detecting loose edges and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Vinícius Ferraria , Eurico Ruivo

The searching for the stable patterns in the evolution of cellular automata is implemented using stochastic synchronization between the present structures of the system and its precedent configurations. For most of the known evolution rules…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Sanchez , R. Lopez-Ruiz

Manipulating logic functions via majority operators recently drew the attention of researchers in computer science. For example, circuit optimization based on majority operators enables superior results as compared to traditional logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Luca Amaru , Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Giovanni De Micheli

CA has grown as potential classifier for addressing major problems in bioinformatics. Lot of bioinformatics problems like predicting the protein coding region, finding the promoter region, predicting the structure of protein and many other…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Pokkuluri Kiran Sree , Inampudi Ramesh Babu , SSSN Usha Devi Nedunuri

The emergence of complex behaviors in cellular automata is an area that has been widely developed in recent years with the intention to generate and analyze automata that produce space-moving patterns or gliders that interact in a periodic…

We study in detail the fitness landscape of a difficult cellular automata computational task: the majority problem. Our results show why this problem landscape is so hard to search, and we quantify the large degree of neutrality found in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Sébastien Verel , Philippe Collard , Marco Tomassini , Leonardo Vanneschi

Deterministic timed automata are strictly less expressive than their non-deterministic counterparts, which are again less expressive than those with silent transitions. As a consequence, timed automata are in general non-determinizable.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Florian Lorber , Amnon Rosenmann , Dejan Nickovic , Bernhard Aichernig

This paper studies complexity of recognition of classes of bounded configurations by a generalization of conventional cellular automata (CA) -- finite dynamic cellular automata (FDCA). Inspired by the CA-based models of biological and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maxim Makatchev

In this paper, we propose a new approach for building cellular automata to solve real-world segmentation problems. We design and train a cellular automaton that can successfully segment high-resolution images. We consider a colony that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Mark Sandler , Andrey Zhmoginov , Liangcheng Luo , Alexander Mordvintsev , Ettore Randazzo , Blaise Agúera y Arcas

We say that a Cellular Automata (CA) is coalescing when its execution on two distinct (random) initial configurations in the same asynchronous mode (the same cells are updated in each configuration at each time step) makes both…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-12-13 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier , Michel Morvan

This short note aims at proving that the isolation problem is undecidable for probabilistic automata with only one probabilistic transition. This problem is known to be undecidable for general probabilistic automata, without restriction on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Youssouf Oualhadj

Cellular automata have been useful artificial models for exploring how relatively simple rules combined with spatial memory can give rise to complex emergent patterns. Moreover, studying the dynamics of how rules emerge under artificial…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2014-07-11 Theodore P. Pavlic , Alyssa M. Adams , Paul C. W. Davies , Sara Imari Walker

Clustering has been widely applied to Information Retrieval (IR) on the grounds of its potential improved effectiveness over inverted file search. Clustering is a mostly unsupervised procedure and the majority of the clustering algorithms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Pokkuluri Kiran Sree , Inampudi Ramesh Babu

The notions of universality and completeness are central in the theories of computation and computational complexity. However, proving lower bounds and necessary conditions remains hard in most of the cases. In this article, we introduce…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-09-17 Eric Goles Chacc , Pierre-Etienne Meunier , Ivan Rapaport , Guillaume Theyssier

It has been found that stochastic algorithms often find good solutions much more rapidly than inherently-batch approaches. Indeed, a very useful rule of thumb is that often, when solving a machine learning problem, an iterative technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Andrew Cotter

The problem of discriminating the state of a quantum system among a number of hypothetical states is usually addressed under the assumption that one has perfect knowledge of the possible states of the system. In this thesis, I analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Gael Sentís

This paper details how to parameterize the posterior distribution of state-space systems to generate improved optimization problems for system identification using variational inference. Three different parameterizations of the assumed…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-15 Dimas Abreu Archanjo Dutra

The paper proposes a simple formalism for dealing with deterministic, non-deterministic and stochastic cellular automata in a unifying and composable manner. Armed with this formalism, we extend the notion of intrinsic simulation between…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Pablo Arrighi , Nicolas Schabanel , Guillaume Theyssier