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We give an active learning algorithm for deterministic one-counter automata (DOCAs) where the learner can ask the teacher membership and minimal equivalence queries. The algorithm called OL* learns a DOCA in time polynomial in the size of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Prince Mathew , Vincent Penelle , A. V. Sreejith

We study a variant of the classical membership problem in automata theory, which consists of deciding whether a given input word is accepted by a given automaton. We do so under a different perspective, that is, we consider a dynamic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alejandro Grez , Filip Mazowiecki , Michał Pilipczuk , Gabriele Puppis , Cristian Riveros

We discuss the problem of learning a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) from a confidence oracle. That is, we are given access to an oracle $Q$ with incomplete knowledge of some target language $L$ over an alphabet $\Sigma$; the oracle…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Wilson Wu

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 present ALMA (Automata Learner using modulo 2 Multiplicity Automata), a Java-based tool that can learn any automaton accepting regular languages of finite or infinite words with an implementable membership query function. Users can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Nevin George

We investigate a learning algorithm in the context of nominal automata, an extension of classical automata to alphabets featuring names. This class of automata captures nominal regular languages; analogously to the classical language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Yi Xiao , Emilio Tuosto

We present the first algorithm for query learning Mealy machines with timers in a black-box context. Our algorithm is an extension of the L# algorithm of Vaandrager et al. to a timed setting. We rely on symbolic queries which empower us to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Véronique Bruyère , Bharat Garhewal , Guillermo A. Pérez , Gaëtan Staquet , Frits W. Vaandrager

We present an extended automata learning framework that combines active automata learning with deductive inference. The learning algorithm asks membership and equivalence queries as in the original framework, but it is also given advice,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Michał Fica , Jan Otop

Automata learning has many applications in artificial intelligence and software engineering. Central to these applications is the $L^*$ algorithm, introduced by Angluin. The $L^*$ algorithm learns deterministic finite-state automata (DFAs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sebastian Hagedorn , Martín Muñoz , Cristian Riveros , Rodrigo Toro Icarte

We present a new learning algorithm for realtime one-counter automata. Our algorithm uses membership and equivalence queries as in Angluin's L* algorithm, as well as counter value queries and partial equivalence queries. In a partial…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Véronique Bruyère , Guillermo A. Pérez , Gaëtan Staquet

This paper presents a state-merging algorithm for learning timed languages definable by Event-Recording Automata (ERA) using positive and negative samples in the form of symbolic timed words. Our algorithm, LEAP (Learning Event-recording…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anirban Majumdar , Sayan Mukherjee , Jean-François Raskin

Given a member A of the class of non-deterministic timed automata with silent transitions (eNTA), we effectively compute its timestamp: the set of all pairs (time value, action) of all observable timed traces of A, a generalization of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Amnon Rosenmann

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have shown great success in modeling time-dependent patterns, but there is limited research on their learned representations of latent temporal features and the emergence of these representations during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Peter DelMastro , Rushiv Arora , Edward Rietman , Hava T. Siegelmann

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

Sequences and time-series often arise in robot tasks, e.g., in activity recognition and imitation learning. In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as an effective data-driven methodology for processing sequences given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Yaqi Xie , Fan Zhou , Harold Soh

We propose a new symbolic trace semantics for register automata (extended finite state machines) which records both the sequence of input symbols that occur during a run as well as the constraints on input parameters that are imposed by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Frits Vaandrager , Abhisek Midya

In this paper, we introduce a restriction of Timed Automata (TA), called non-resetting test Timed Automata (nrtTA). An nrtTA does not allow to test and reset the same clock on the same transition. The model has the same expressive power of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Marcello M. Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

Training neural networks on image datasets generally require extensive experimentation to find the optimal learning rate regime. Especially, for the cases of adversarial training or for training a newly synthesized model, one would not know…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Koyel Mukherjee , Alind Khare , Ashish Verma

This paper deals with the problem of recognizability of functions l: Sigma* --> M that map words to values in the support set M of a monoid (M,.,1). These functions are called M-languages. M-languages are studied from the aspect of their…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-12 José Ramón González de Mendívil , Federico Fariña

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