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In this paper we propose a family of algorithms combining tree-clustering with conditioning that trade space for time. Such algorithms are useful for reasoning in probabilistic and deterministic networks as well as for accomplishing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Rina Dechter

The store language of a machine of some arbitrary type is the set of all store configurations (state plus store contents but not the input) that can appear in an accepting computation. New algorithms and characterizations of store languages…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

Molecular Property Prediction (MPP) is a fundamental problem in drug discovery that has recently attracted growing attention. Large Language Models (LLMs), known for their impressive proficiency across domains, show promise as generalist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Khiem Le , Sreejata Dey , Marcos Martínez Galindo , Vanessa Lopez , Ting Hua , Nitesh V. Chawla , Hoang Thanh Lam

In this paper, we extend the notion of (word) derivatives and partial derivatives due to (respectively) Brzozowski and Antimirov to tree derivatives using already known inductive formulae of quotients. We define a new family of extended…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Samira Attou , Ludovic Mignot , Djelloul Ziadi

We study alternating register automata on data words and data trees in relation to logics. A data word (resp. data tree) is a word (resp. tree) whose every position carries a label from a finite alphabet and a data value from an infinite…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Diego Figueira

In this paper we study the adaptive learnability of decision trees of depth at most $d$ from membership queries. This has many applications in automated scientific discovery such as drugs development and software update problem. Feldman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Nader H. Bshouty , Catherine A. Haddad-Zaknoon

We explore from an algebraic viewpoint the properties of the tree languages definable with a first-order formula involving the ancestor predicate, using the description of these languages as those recognized by iterated block products of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Martin Beaudry

In various models of one-way pushdown automata, the explicit use of two designated endmarkers on a read-once input tape has proven to be extremely useful for making a conscious, final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each input word…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Tomoyuki Yamakami

The problem of inclusion of the language accepted by timed automaton $A$ (e.g., the implementation) in the language accepted by $B$ (e.g., the specification) is, in general, undecidable in the class of non-deterministic timed automata. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Amnon Rosenmann

In this paper, we introduce a new model of deterministic Watson-Crick automaton namely restricted deterministic Watson- Crick automaton which is a deterministic Watson-Crick automaton where the complementarity string in the lower strand is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Kingshuk Chatterjee , Kumar Sankar Ray

Decision trees are simple, yet powerful, classification models used to classify categorical and numerical data, and, despite their simplicity, they are commonly used in operations research and management, as well as in knowledge mining.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Andrea Brunello , Guido Sciavicco , Ionel Eduard Stan

Finite-turn pushdown automata (PDA) are investigated concerning their descriptional complexity. It is known that they accept exactly the class of ultralinear context-free languages. Furthermore, the increase in size when converting…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-08 Andreas Malcher , Giovanni Pighizzini

In this work we prove decidability of the model-checking problem for safe recursion schemes against properties defined by alternating B-automata. We then exploit this result to show how to compute downward closures of languages of finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Barozzini , Lorenzo Clemente , Thomas Colcombet , Paweł Parys

This papers presents a general framework for the uniform random generation of deterministic real-time accessible pushdown automata. A polynomial time algorithm to randomly generate a pushdown automaton having a fixed stack operations total…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-26 Pierre-Cyrille Héam , Jean-Luc Joly

The decidability of equivalence for three important classes of tree transducers is discussed. Each class can be obtained as a natural restriction of deterministic macro tree transducers (MTTs): (1) no context parameters, i.e., top-down tree…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Sebastian Maneth

We study the satisfiability problem of symbolic tree automata and decompose it into the satisfiability problem of the existential first-order theory of the input characters and the existential monadic second-order theory of the indices of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Rodrigo Raya

Decision trees are popular machine learning models that are simple to build and easy to interpret. Even though algorithms to learn decision trees date back to almost 50 years, key properties affecting their generalization error are still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Jean-Samuel Leboeuf , Frédéric LeBlanc , Mario Marchand

When trained on language data, do transformers learn some arbitrary computation that utilizes the full capacity of the architecture or do they learn a simpler, tree-like computation, hypothesized to underlie compositional meaning systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Shikhar Murty , Pratyusha Sharma , Jacob Andreas , Christopher D. Manning

Many different deletion operations are investigated applied to languages accepted by one-way and two-way deterministic reversal-bounded multicounter machines, deterministic pushdown automata, and finite automata. Operations studied include…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Joey Eremondi , Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

We introduce the class of P-finite automata. These are a generalisation of weighted automata, in which the weights of transitions can depend polynomially on the length of the input word. P-finite automata can also be viewed as simple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Alex Buna-Marginean , Vincent Cheval , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell