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This paper extends the work of Laurikari and Kuklewicz on tagged deterministic finite automata (TDFA) in the context of submatch extraction in regular expressions. The main goal of this work is application of TDFA to lexer generators that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Ulya Trofimovich

Many natural language processing systems operate over tokenizations of text to address the open-vocabulary problem. In this paper, we give and analyze an algorithm for the efficient construction of deterministic finite automata (DFA)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Martin Berglund , Willeke Martens , Brink van der Merwe

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

Automata learning is a successful tool for many application domains such as robotics and automatic verification. Typically, automata learning techniques operate in a supervised learning setting (active or passive) where they learn a finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Simon Lutz , Daniil Kaminskyi , Florian Wittbold , Simon Dierl , Falk Howar , Barbara König , Emmanuel Müller , Daniel Neider

We give algorithms to accelerate the computation of deterministic finite automata (DFA) by calculating the state of a DFA n positions ahead utilizing a reverse scan of the next n characters. Often this requires scanning fewer than n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Steven M. Kearns

The identification of a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) from labeled examples is a well-studied problem in the literature; however, prior work focuses on the identification of monolithic DFAs. Although monolithic DFAs provide accurate…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Niklas Lauffer , Beyazit Yalcinkaya , Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte , Ameesh Shah , Sanjit A. Seshia

We revisit the popular \emph{delayed deterministic finite automaton} (\ddfa{}) compression algorithm introduced by Kumar~et~al.~[SIGCOMM 2006] for compressing deterministic finite automata (DFAs) used in intrusion detection systems. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Philip Bille , Inge Li Gørtz , Max Rishøj Pedersen

We present an algorithm for extraction of a probabilistic deterministic finite automaton (PDFA) from a given black-box language model, such as a recurrent neural network (RNN). The algorithm is a variant of the exact-learning algorithm L*,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Gail Weiss , Yoav Goldberg , Eran Yahav

It is proved that every regular expression of alphabetic width $n$, that is, with $n$ occurrences of symbols of the alphabet, can be transformed into a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) with $2^{\frac{n}{2}+(\frac{\log_2…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Olga Martynova , Alexander Okhotin

An acyclic deterministic finite automaton (ADFA) is a data structure that represents a set of strings (i.e., a dictionary) and facilitates a pattern searching problem of determining whether a given pattern string is present in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hiroki Shibata , Masakazu Ishihata , Shunsuke Inenaga

Minimal deterministic finite automata (DFAs) can be reduced further at the expense of a finite number of errors. Recently, such minimization algorithms have been improved to run in time O(n log n), where n is the number of states of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Andreas Maletti , Daniel Quernheim

Complementation of finite automata is a basic operation used in numerous applications. The standard way to complement a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) is to transform it into an equivalent deterministic finite automaton (DFA) and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lukáš Holík , Ondřej Lengál , Juraj Major , Adéla Štěpková , Jan Strejček

The work presents some new algorithms realized recently in the package TESTAS. They decide whether or not deterministic finite automaton (DFA) is synchronizing, several procedures find relatively short synchronizing words and a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Avraham N. Trahtman

Finite automata (FA) are a fundamental computational abstraction that is widely used in practice for various tasks in computer science, linguistics, biology, electrical engineering, and artificial intelligence. Given an input word, an FA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jaime Cuartas Granada , Alexey Ignatiev , Peter J. Stuckey

Automata play important roles in wide area of computing and the growth of multicores calls for their efficient parallel implementation. Though it is known in theory that we can perform the computation of a finite automaton in parallel by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Ryoma Sin'ya , Kiminori Matsuzaki , Masataka Sassa

Expert demonstrations have proven an easy way to indirectly specify complex tasks. Recent algorithms even support extracting unambiguous formal specifications, e.g. deterministic finite automata (DFA), from demonstrations. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte , Karim Elmaaroufi , Stefan J. Witwicki , Matei Zaharia , Sanjit A. Seshia

In modern machine (ML) learning systems, Transformer-based architectures have achieved milestone success across a broad spectrum of tasks, yet understanding their operational mechanisms remains an open problem. To improve the transparency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yihao Zhang , Zeming Wei , Meng Sun

Regular languages are closed under a wealth of formal language operators. Incorporating such operators in regular expressions leads to concise language specifications, but the transformation of such enhanced regular expressions to finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Peter Thiemann

We study the problem of synthesizing string to string transformations from a set of input/output examples. The transformations we consider are expressed using deterministic finite automata (DFA) that read pairs of letters, one letter from…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Jad Hamza , Viktor Kunčak

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
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