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Recursive neural networks (RvNN) have been shown useful for learning sentence representations and helped achieve competitive performance on several natural language inference tasks. However, recent RvNN-based models fail to learn simple…

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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 give a new simple proof of the decidability of the First Order Theory of (omega^omega^i,+) and the Monadic Second Order Theory of (omega^i,<), improving the complexity in both cases. Our algorithm is based on tree automata and a new…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thierry Cachat

Recent advances in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) show that adding syntactic information to NMT systems can improve the quality of their translations. Most existing work utilizes some specific types of linguistically-inspired tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Xinyi Wang , Hieu Pham , Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

We consider a class of infinite weighted metric trees obtained as perturbations of self-similar regular trees. Possible definitions of the boundary traces of functions in the Sobolev space on such a structure are discussed by using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Valentina Franceschi , Kiyan Naderi , Konstantin Pankrashkin

Transformer-based embedding models suffer from quadratic computational and linear memory complexity, limiting their utility for long sequences. We propose recurrent architectures as an efficient alternative, introducing a vertically chunked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tobias Grantner , Emanuel Sallinger , Martin Flechl

Learning vector representations for programs is a critical step in applying deep learning techniques for program understanding tasks. Various neural network models are proposed to learn from tree-structured program representations, e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Wenhan Wang , Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Shangqing Liu , Anran Li , Zhi Jin , Yang Liu

We prove that for a given partial functional attributed tree transducer with monadic output, it is decidable whether or not an equivalent top-down transducer (with or without look-ahead) exists. We present a procedure that constructs an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sebastian Maneth , Martin Vu

Tree Regular Model Checking (TRMC) is the name of a family of techniques for analyzing infinite-state systems in which states are represented by terms, and sets of states by Tree Automata (TA). The central problem in TRMC is to decide…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Thomas Genet , Tristan Le Gall , Axel Legay , Valerie Murat

Neural finite-state transducers (NFSTs) form an expressive family of neurosymbolic sequence transduction models. An NFST models each string pair as having been generated by a latent path in a finite-state transducer. As they are deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Weiting Tan , Chu-cheng Lin , Jason Eisner

We consider the representational state complexity of unranked tree automata. The bottom-up computation of an unranked tree automaton may be either deterministic or nondeterministic, and further variants arise depending on whether the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Xiaoxue Piao , Kai Salomaa

Top-down tree transducers are a convenient formalism for describing tree transformations. They can be equipped with regular look-ahead, which allows them to inspect a subtree before processing it. In certain cases, such a look-ahead can be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Joost Engelfriet , Sebastian Maneth , Helmut Seidl

We present a feedforward graph architecture in which heterogeneous frozen large language models serve as computational nodes, communicating through a shared continuous latent space via learned linear projections. Building on recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Marcus Armstrong , Navid Ayoobi , Arjun Mukherjee

Due to the works of S. Bozapalidis and A. Alexandrakis, there is a well-known characterization of recognizable weighted tree languages over fields in terms of finite-dimensionality of syntactic vector spaces. Here we prove a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zoltán Fülöp , Heiko Vogler

Data trees serve as an abstraction of structured data, such as XML documents. A number of specification formalisms for languages of data trees have been developed, many of them adhering to the paradigm of register automata, which is based…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Simon Prucker , Lutz Schröder

We propose a hybrid architecture that integrates decision tree-based symbolic reasoning with the generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs) within a coordinated multi-agent framework. Unlike prior approaches that loosely couple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Andrew Kiruluta

We introduce a model of register automata over infinite trees with extrema constraints. Such an automaton can store elements of a linearly ordered domain in its registers, and can compare those values to the suprema and infima of register…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Szymon Toruńczyk , Thomas Zeume

We consider a new kind of interpretation over relational structures: finite sets interpretations. Those interpretations are defined by weak monadic second-order (WMSO) formulas with free set variables. They transform a given structure into…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Thomas Colcombet , Christof Löding

In this paper, we give a Nivat-like characterization for weighted alternating automata over commutative semirings (WAFA). To this purpose we prove that weighted alternating can be characterized as the concatenation of weighted finite tree…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Gustav Grabolle

How well will current interpretability techniques generalize to future models? A relevant case study is Mamba, a recent recurrent architecture with scaling comparable to Transformers. We adapt pre-Mamba techniques to Mamba and partially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Danielle Ensign , Adrià Garriga-Alonso