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Polyregular functions form a robust class of string-to-string functions with polynomial growth, as evidenced by Bojanczyk (2018). This class admits numerous descriptions and enjoys several closure properties. Most notably, polyregular…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Thomas Colcombet , Nathan Lhote , Pierre Ohlmann

A word-to-word function is continuous for a class of languages~$\mathcal{V}$ if its inverse maps $\mathcal{V}$_languages to~$\mathcal{V}$. This notion provides a basis for an algebraic study of transducers, and was integral to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michaël Cadilhac , Olivier Carton , Charles Paperman

Finite (word) state transducers extend finite state automata by defining a binary relation over finite words, called rational relation. If the rational relation is the graph of a function, this function is said to be rational. The class of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker , Khushraj Madnani , Saina Sunny

We study finite-state transducers and their power for transforming infinite words. Infinite sequences of symbols are of paramount importance in a wide range of fields, from formal languages to pure mathematics and physics. While finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Jörg Endrullis , Juhani Karhumäki Jan Willem Klop , Aleksi Saarela

Encodings, that is, injective functions from words to words, have been studied extensively in several settings. In computability theory the notion of encoding is crucial for defining computability on arbitrary domains, as well as for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Jörg Endrullis , Clemens Grabmayer , Dimitri Hendriks

The class of regular transformations has several equivalent characterizations such as functional MSO transductions, deterministic two-way transducers, streaming string transducers, as well as regular transducer expressions (RTE). For…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Luc Dartois , Paul Gastin , R. Govind , Shankaranarayanan Krishna

We focus on (partial) functions that map input strings to a monoid such as the set of integers with addition and the set of output strings with concatenation. The notion of regularity for such functions has been defined using two-way…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Rajeev Alur , Adam Freilich , Mukund Raghothaman

Deterministic two-way transducers define the class of regular functions from words to words. Alur and Cern\'y introduced an equivalent model of transducers with registers called copyless streaming string transducers. In this paper, we drop…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gaëtan Douéneau-Tabot , Emmanuel Filiot , Paul Gastin

We define two classes of functions, called regular (respectively, first-order) list functions, which manipulate objects such as lists, lists of lists, pairs of lists, lists of pairs of lists, etc. The definition is in the style of regular…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Mikolaj Bojanczyk , Laure Daviaud , Krishna Shankara Narayanan

Transducers generalise automata by producing output word(s) for each input word, thereby defining a relation over words. A transducer is said to be finite-valued if, for every input word, it produces at most $k$ output words, for some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Prince Mathew , Saina Sunny

Automata-logic connections are pillars of the theory of regular languages. Such connections are harder to obtain for transducers, but important results have been obtained recently for word-to-word transformations, showing that the three…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Luc Dartois , Emmanuel Filiot , Pierre-Alain Reynier , Jean-Marc Talbot

Transductions are binary relations of finite words. For rational transductions, i.e., transductions defined by finite transducers, the inclusion, equivalence and sequential uniformisation problems are known to be undecidable. In this paper,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker , Christof Löding , Sarah Winter

We characterize regular string transductions as programs in a linear $\lambda$-calculus with additives. One direction of this equivalence is proved by encoding copyless streaming string transducers (SSTs), which compute regular functions,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Lê Thành Dũng Nguyên , Camille Noûs , Cécilia Pradic

In this paper, we define streaming register transducer (SRT), a one-way, letter-to-letter, transductional machine model for transformations of infinite data words whose data domain forms a linear group. Comparing with existing data word…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Xiaokang Qiu

We discuss various formalisms to describe string-to-string transformations. Many are based on automata and can be seen as operational descriptions, allowing direct implementations when the input scanner is deterministic. Alternatively, one…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Paul Gastin

We investigate the problem of checking if a finite-state transducer is robust to uncertainty in its input. Our notion of robustness is based on the analytic notion of Lipschitz continuity --- a transducer is K-(Lipschitz) robust if the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop , Roopsha Samanta

Rational word languages can be defined by several equivalent means: finite state automata, rational expressions, finite congruences, or monadic second-order (MSO) logic. The robust subclass of aperiodic languages is defined by: counter-free…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Emmanuel Filiot , Olivier Gauwin , Nathan Lhote

We show that a polyregular word-to-word function is regular if and only if its output size is at most linear in its input size. Moreover a polyregular function can be realized by: a transducer with two pebbles if and only if its output has…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Nathan Lhote

By the sometimes so-called 'Main Theorem' of Recursive Analysis, every computable real function is necessarily continuous. We wonder whether and which kinds of HYPERcomputation allow for the effective evaluation of also discontinuous…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-10 Martin Ziegler

Call a string-to-string transducer regular if it can be realised by one of the following equivalent models: mso transductions, two-way deterministic automata with output, and streaming transducers with registers. This paper proposes to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Mikołaj Bojańczyk