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We introduce a novel paradigm for reducing the size of finite automata by compressing repeating sub-graphs. These repeating sub-graphs can be viewed as invocations of a single procedure. Instead of representing each invocation explicitly,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Michal Šedý , Lukáš Holík

We show that transformer-based large language models are computationally universal when augmented with an external memory. Any deterministic language model that conditions on strings of bounded length is equivalent to a finite automaton,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Dale Schuurmans

A catalytic Turing machine is a variant of a Turing machine in which there exists an auxiliary tape in addition to the input tape and the work tape. This auxiliary tape is initially filled with arbitrary content. The machine can read and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Chetan Gupta , Rahul Jain , Vimal Raj Sharma , Raghunath Tewari

Nondeterministic weighted automata are finite automata with numerical weights on transitions. They define quantitative languages L that assign to each word w a real number L(w). The value of an infinite word w is computed as the maximal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-10 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Thomas A. Henzinger

Probabilistic B\"uchi Automata (PBA) are randomized, finite state automata that process input strings of infinite length. Based on the threshold chosen for the acceptance probability, different classes of languages can be defined. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Rohit Chadha , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

Symbolic automata are finite state automata that support potentially infinite alphabets, such as the set of rational numbers, generally applied to regular expressions/languages over finite words. In symbolic automata (or automata modulo…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Margus Veanes , Thomas Ball , Gabriel Ebner , Olli Saarikivi

1-way quantum finite state automata are reversible in nature, which greatly reduces its accepting property. In fact, the set of languages accepted by 1-way quantum finite automata is a proper subset of regular languages. We introduce 2-tape…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Debayan Ganguly , Kumar Sankar Ray

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit failure modes on seemingly trivial tasks. We propose a formalisation of LLM interaction using a deterministic multi-tape Turing machine, where each tape represents a distinct component: input characters,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Magnus Boman

We introduce an automata model for data words, that is words that carry at each position a symbol from a finite alphabet and a value from an unbounded data domain. The model is (semantically) a restriction of data automata, introduced by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ahmet Kara , Thomas Schwentick , Tony Tan

Abstract numeration systems encode natural numbers using radix ordered words of an infinite regular language and linear recurrence sequences play a key role in their valuation. Sequence automata, which are deterministic finite automata with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Olivier Carton , Jean-Michel Couvreur , Martin Delacourt , Nicolas Ollinger

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

Reversible forms of computations are often interesting from an energy efficiency point of view. When the computation device in question is an automaton, it is known that the minimal reversible automaton recognizing a given language is not…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Kitti Gelle , Szabolcs Iván

Symbolic Finite Automata and Register Automata are two orthogonal extensions of finite automata motivated by real-world problems where data may have unbounded domains. These automata address a demand for a model over large or infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Loris D'Antoni , Tiago Ferreira , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

We consider the typical asymptotic behaviour of cellular automata of higher dimension (greater than 2). That is, we take an initial configuration at random according to a Bernoulli (i.i.d) probability measure, iterate some cellular…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Martin Delacourt , Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus

The question of the state-size cost for simulation of two-way nondeterministic automata (2NFAs) by two-way deterministic automata (2DFAs) was raised in 1978 and, despite many attempts, it is still open. Subsequently, the problem was…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Viliam Geffert , Bruno Guillon , Giovanni Pighizzini

We report some further developments regarding the language theory of higher-dimensional automata (HDAs). Regular languages of HDAs are sets of finite interval partially ordered multisets (pomsets) with interfaces. We show a pumping lemma…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Amazigh Amrane , Hugo Bazille , Uli Fahrenberg , Krzysztof Ziemiański

In this paper, we introduce rerailing automata for $\omega$-regular languages. They generalize both deterministic parity (DPW) and minimized history-deterministic co-B\"uchi automata (with transition based acceptance, HdTbcBW) while…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Rüdiger Ehlers

Register automata extend classical finite automata with a finite set of registers that can store data from an infinite data domain for later equality comparisons with data from an input data word. While the registers in the original model…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Antoine Mottet , Karin Quaas

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

In the previous work, we have given a novel, game-semantic model of computation in an intrinsic, non-inductive and non-axiomatic manner, which is similar to Turing machines but beyond computation on natural numbers, e.g., higher-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Norihiro Yamada