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While transformers have proven enormously successful in a range of tasks, their fundamental properties as models of computation are not well understood. This paper contributes to the study of the expressive capacity of transformers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Lena Strobl , Dana Angluin , Robert Frank

A decision tree looks like a simple directed acyclic computational graph, where only the leaf nodes specify the output values and the non-terminals specify their tests or split conditions. From the numerical perspective, we express decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jinxiong Zhang

We introduce a novel architecture and computational framework for formal, automated analysis of systems with a broad set of nonlinearities in the feedback loop, such as neural networks, vision controllers, switched systems, and even simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Ivan Papusha , Ufuk Topcu , Steven Carr , Niklas Lauffer

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is an important but challenging task due to high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances caused by deformation, occlusion, illumination, etc. An attention convolutional binary neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ruyi Ji , Longyin Wen , Libo Zhang , Dawei Du , Yanjun Wu , Chen Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Feiyue Huang

This paper presents a complete axiomatization of Monadic Second-Order Logic (MSO) over infinite trees. MSO on infinite trees is a rich system, and its decidability ("Rabin's Tree Theorem") is one of the most powerful known results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Anupam Das , Colin Riba

Transducers extend finite state automata with outputs, and describe transformations from strings to strings. Sequential transducers, which have a deterministic behaviour regarding their input, are of particular interest. However, unlike…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Pierre-Alain Reynier , Didier Villevalois

Functional transductions realized by two-way transducers (or, equally, by streaming transducers or MSO transductions) are the natural and standard notion of "regular" mappings from words to words. It was shown in 2013 that it is decidable…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Félix Baschenis , Olivier Gauwin , Anca Muscholl , Gabriele Puppis

Circuit representations are becoming the lingua franca to express and reason about tractable generative and discriminative models. In this paper, we show how complex inference scenarios for these models that commonly arise in machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-12 Antonio Vergari , YooJung Choi , Anji Liu , Stefano Teso , Guy Van den Broeck

We consider a specific class of tree structures that can represent basic structures in linguistics and computer science such as XML documents, parse trees, and treebanks, namely, finite node-labeled sibling-ordered trees. We present…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Amélie Gheerbrant , Balder ten Cate

In modern machine (ML) learning systems, Transformer-based architectures have achieved milestone success across a broad spectrum of tasks, yet understanding their operational mechanisms remains an open problem. To improve the transparency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yihao Zhang , Zeming Wei , Meng Sun

We introduce Transformer Grammars (TGs), a novel class of Transformer language models that combine (i) the expressive power, scalability, and strong performance of Transformers and (ii) recursive syntactic compositions, which here are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Laurent Sartran , Samuel Barrett , Adhiguna Kuncoro , Miloš Stanojević , Phil Blunsom , Chris Dyer

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

Graph-walking automata (GWA) are a model for graph traversal using finite-state control: these automata move between the nodes of an input graph, following its edges. This paper investigates the effect of node-replacement graph…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Olga Martynova , Alexander Okhotin

Decision trees are widely used for non-linear modeling, as they capture interactions between predictors while producing inherently interpretable models. Despite their popularity, performing inference on the non-linear fit remains largely…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Soham Bakshi , Snigdha Panigrahi

We introduce saturation of nondeterministic tree automata, a technique that consists of adding new transitions to an automaton while preserving its language. We implemented our algorithm on minotaut - a module of the tree automata library…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Ricardo Manuel de Oliveira Almeida

The class of tree-adjoining languages can be characterized by various two-level formalisms, consisting of a context-free grammar (CFG) or pushdown automaton (PDA) controlling another CFG or PDA. These four formalisms are equivalent to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alexandra Butoi , Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , David Chiang

For years, recursive neural networks (RvNNs) have been shown to be suitable for representing text into fixed-length vectors and achieved good performance on several natural language processing tasks. However, the main drawback of RvNNs is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Jihun Choi , Kang Min Yoo , Sang-goo Lee

We present a new class of fast polylog-linear algorithms based on the theory of structured matrices (in particular low displacement rank) for integrating tensor fields defined on weighted trees. Several applications of the resulting fast…

Foundation models learn transferable representations, motivating growing interest in their application to wireless systems. Existing wireless foundation models are predominantly based on transformer architectures, whose quadratic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Tomer Raviv , Nir Shlezinger

Probabilistic modeling over the combinatorially large space of tree topologies remains a central challenge in phylogenetic inference. Previous approaches often necessitate pre-sampled tree topologies, limiting their modeling capability to a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-25 Tianyu Xie , Yicong Mao , Cheng Zhang