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Subzero automata is a class of tree automata whose acceptance condition can express probabilistic constraints. Our main result is that the problem of determining if a subzero automaton accepts some regular tree is decidable.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Henryk Michalewski , Matteo Mio , Mikołaj Bojańczyk

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

Machine learning provides algorithms that can learn from data and make inferences or predictions on data. Stochastic acceptors or probabilistic automata are stochastic automata without output that can model components in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Karl-Heinz Zimmermann

Probabilistic timed automata (PTAs) are timed automata (TAs) extended with discrete probability distributions.They serve as a mathematical model for a wide range of applications that involve both stochastic and timed behaviours. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Hongfei Fu , Yi Li , Jianlin Li , Lijun Zhang

This paper develops an assume-guarantee (AG) framework for the compositional verification of probabilistic automata (PAs) with uncertain transition probabilities. We study parametric probabilistic automata (pPAs), where probabilities are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hannah Mertens , Tim Quatmann , Joost-Pieter Katoen

The RPNI algorithm (Oncina, Garcia 1992) constructs deterministic finite automata from finite sets of negative and positive example words. We propose and analyze an extension of this algorithm to deterministic $\omega$-automata with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 León Bohn , Christof Löding

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

We introduce a new class of automata on infinite trees called \emph{alternating nonzero automata}, which extends the class of non-deterministic nonzero automata. We reduce the emptiness problem for alternating nonzero automata to the same…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Paulin Fournier , Hugo Gimbert

Promise problems were mainly studied in quantum automata theory. Here we focus on state complexity of classical automata for promise problems. First, it was known that there is a family of unary promise problems solvable by quantum automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Viliam Geffert , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

This paper is concerned with the computational complexity of equivalence and minimisation for automata with transition weights in the field Q of rational numbers. We use polynomial identity testing and the Isolation Lemma to obtain…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Stefan Kiefer , Andrzej Murawski , Joel Ouaknine , Bjoern Wachter , James Worrell

Hybrid automata are a natural framework for modeling and analyzing systems which exhibit a mixed discrete continuous behaviour. However, the standard operational semantics defined over such models implicitly assume perfect knowledge of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Alberto Casagrande , Tommaso Dreossi , Carla Piazza

We introduce a measure called width, quantifying the amount of nondeterminism in automata. Width generalises the notion of good-for-games (GFG) automata, that correspond to NFAs of width 1, and where an accepting run can be built on-the-fly…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Denis Kuperberg , Anirban Majumdar

Probabilistic timed automata are an extension of timed automata with discrete probability distributions. We consider model-checking algorithms for the subclasses of probabilistic timed automata which have one or two clocks. Firstly, we show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Marcin Jurdzinski , Francois Laroussinie , Jeremy Sproston

Zero automata are a probabilistic extension of parity automata on infinite trees. The satisfiability of a certain probabilistic variant of mso, called tmso + zero, reduces to the emptiness problem for zero automata. We introduce a variant…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Mikolaj Bojańczyk , Hugo Gimbert , Edon Kelmendi

We study Parikh automata on finite and infinite words. First we establish some results for Parikh automata on finite words. Following, we present several definitions of Parikh automata on infinite words. We consider the deterministic as…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mario Grobler , Leif Sabellek , Sebastian Siebertz

An automaton is unambiguous if for every input it has at most one accepting computation. An automaton is k-ambiguous (for k > 0) if for every input it has at most k accepting computations. An automaton is boundedly ambiguous if it is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Alexander Rabinovich , Doron Tiferet

Limit-average automata are weighted automata on infinite words that use average to aggregate the weights seen in infinite runs. We study approximate learning problems for limit-average automata in two settings: passive and active. In the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop

The determinisation problem for min-plus (tropical) weighted automata was recently shown to be decidable. However, the proof is purely existential, relying on several non-constructive arguments. Our contribution in this work is twofold:…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shaull Almagor , Guy Arbel , Sarai Sheinvald

Register automata are finite automata equipped with a finite set of registers ranging over the domain of some relational structure like $(\mathbb N;=)$ or $(\mathbb Q;<)$. Register automata process words over the domain, and along a run of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Wojciech Czerwiński , Antoine Mottet , Karin Quaas

We consider decision problems for relations over finite and infinite words defined by finite automata. We prove that the equivalence problem for binary deterministic rational relations over infinite words is undecidable in contrast to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Christof Löding , Christopher Spinrath