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We present an efficient Angluin-style learning algorithm for weak deterministic B\"uchi automata (wDBAs). Different to ordinary deterministic B\"uchi and co-B\"uchi automata, wDBAs have a minimal normal form, and we show that we can learn…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Mona Alluwayma , Yong Li , Sven Schewe , Qiyi Tang

We study the problem of constructing approximations to a weighted automaton. Weighted finite automata (WFA) are closely related to the theory of rational series. A rational series is a function from strings to real numbers that can be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Borja Balle , Prakash Panangaden , Doina Precup

The concept of Deterministic Finite Cover Automata (DFCA) was introduced at WIA '98, as a more compact representation than Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) for finite languages. In some cases representing a finite language,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Cezar Câmpeanu

Due to the speed limitation of the conventional bit-chosen strategy in the existing weighted bit flipping algorithms, a high-speed LDPC decoder cannot be realized. To solve this problem, we propose a fast weighted bit flipping (FWBF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Kexiang Ma , Yongzhao Li , Caizhi Zhu , Hailin Zhang , Feng Qi

Deterministic finite automata (DFAs) are constructed for various purposes in computational biology. Little attention, however, has been given to the efficient construction of minimal DFAs. In this article, we define simple non-deterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-10 Tobias Marschall

We address the approximate minimization problem for weighted finite automata (WFAs) with weights in $\mathbb{R}$, over a one-letter alphabet: to compute the best possible approximation of a WFA given a bound on the number of states. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Borja Balle , Clara Lacroce , Prakash Panangaden , Doina Precup , Guillaume Rabusseau

We study parallel algorithms for the minimisation and equivalence checking of Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs). Regarding DFA minimisation, we implement four different massively parallel algorithms on Graphics Processing Units~(GPUs).…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jan Heemstra , Jan Martens , Anton Wijs

The identification of deterministic finite automata (DFAs) from labeled examples is a cornerstone of automata learning, yet traditional methods focus on learning monolithic DFAs, which often yield a large DFA lacking simplicity and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Junjie Meng , Jie An , Yong Li , Andrea Turrini , Fanjiang Xu , Naijun Zhan , Miaomiao Zhang

Data-driven machine learning approaches have recently been proposed to facilitate wireless network optimization by learning latent knowledge from historical optimization instances. However, existing methods do not well handle the topology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Shuai Zhang , Bo Yin , Yu Cheng

We tackle the problem of the randomized generation of slowly synchronizing deterministic automata (DFAs) by generating random primitive sets of matrices. We show that when the randomized procedure is too simple the exponent of the generated…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Costanza Catalano , Raphaël M. Jungers

In this work, we introduce DeepDFA, a novel approach to identifying Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs) from traces, harnessing a differentiable yet discrete model. Inspired by both the probabilistic relaxation of DFAs and Recurrent Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Elena Umili , Roberto Capobianco

Families of DFAs (FDFAs) have recently been introduced as a new representation of $\omega$-regular languages. They target ultimately periodic words, with acceptors revolving around accepting some representation $u\cdot v^\omega$. Three…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Yong Li , Sven Schewe , Qiyi Tang

It was conjectured by \v{C}ern\'y in 1964 that a synchronizing DFA on $n$ states always has a shortest synchronizing word of length at most $(n-1)^2$, and he gave a sequence of DFAs for which this bound is reached. In this paper, we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Michiel de Bondt , Henk Don , Hans Zantema

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) has been an essential tool in text compression and indexing. First introduced in 1994, it went on to provide the backbone for the first encoding of the classic suffix tree data structure in space close to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jason Bentley , Daniel Gibney , Sharma V. Thankachan

Co-lex partial orders were recently introduced in (Cotumaccio et al., SODA 2021 and JACM 2023) as a powerful tool to index finite state automata, with applications to regular expression matching. They generalize Wheeler orders (Gagie et…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ruben Becker , Davide Cenzato , Sung-Hwan Kim , Tomasz Kociumaka , Bojana Kodric , Alberto Policriti , Nicola Prezza

In this paper, we present a proof of the NP-completeness of computing the smallest Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA) that distinguishes two given regular languages as DFAs. A distinguishing DFA is an automaton that recognizes a language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jan Martens

A deterministic finite automaton (DFA) is composite if its language can be decomposed into an intersection of languages of smaller DFAs. Otherwise, A is prime. This notion of primality was introduced by Kupferman and Mosheiff in 2013, and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ismaël Jecker , Nicolas Mazzocchi , Petra Wolf

The Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) achieves remarkable performance in image generation, while its increasing parameter size and computational overhead hinder its deployment in practical applications. To improve this, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haoyang Jiang , Zekun Wang , Mingyang Yi , Xiuyu Li , Lanqing Hu , Junxian Cai , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Ju Fan

Finite state automata (FSA) are ubiquitous in computer science. Two of the most important algorithms for FSA processing are the conversion of a non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) to a deterministic finite automaton (DFA), and then the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-30 Vlad Slavici , Daniel Kunkle , Gene Cooperman , Stephen Linton

Weighted finite-state automata (WSFAs) are commonly used in NLP. Failure transitions are a useful extension for compactly representing backoffs or interpolation in $n$-gram models and CRFs, which are special cases of WFSAs. The pathsum in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Anej Svete , Benjamin Dayan , Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , Jason Eisner