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How do we measure genuine understanding in artificial cognitive systems? Current approaches face a measurement gap: probabilistic systems refine confidence gradually, practice-based systems compile knowledge through repeated execution, and…

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Automaton models are often seen as interpretable models. Interpretability itself is not well defined: it remains unclear what interpretability means without first explicitly specifying objectives or desired attributes. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-28 Christian Albert Hammerschmidt , Sicco Verwer , Qin Lin , Radu State

The task of learning a quantum circuit to prepare a given mixed state is a fundamental quantum subroutine. We present a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) to learn mixed states which is suitable for near-term hardware. Our algorithm…

A core problem in machine learning is to learn expressive latent variables for model prediction on complex data that involves multiple sub-components in a flexible and interpretable fashion. Here, we develop an approach that improves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yi-Lin Tuan , Zih-Yun Chiu , William Yang Wang

State machines are popular models to model and visualize discrete systems such as software systems, and to represent regular grammars. Most algorithms that passively learn state machines from data assume all the data to be available from…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Robert Baumgartner , Sicco Verwer

We define a two-step learner for RFSAs based on an observation table by using an algorithm for minimal DFAs to build a table for the reversal of the language in question and showing that we can derive the minimal RFSA from it after some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Anna Kasprzik

Video prediction is a crucial task for intelligent agents such as robots and autonomous vehicles, since it enables them to anticipate and act early on time-critical incidents. State-of-the-art video prediction methods typically model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Eliyas Suleyman , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

The Chemical Master Equation (CME) is well known to provide the highest resolution models of a biochemical reaction network. Unfortunately, even simulating the CME can be a challenging task. For this reason more simple approximations to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Aivar Sootla , James Anderson

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

One approach for improving sample efficiency in cooperative multi-agent learning is to decompose overall tasks into sub-tasks that can be assigned to individual agents. We study this problem in the context of reward machines: symbolic tasks…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ameesh Shah , Niklas Lauffer , Thomas Chen , Nikhil Pitta , Sanjit A. Seshia

Automata-based modeling languages, like Component Interaction Automata, offer an attractive means to capture and analyze the behavioral aspects of interacting components. At the center of these modeling languages we find finite state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-10-15 Markus Lumpe , Rajesh Vasa

This paper reports a novel method for supervised machine learning based on the mathematical formalism that supports quantum mechanics. The method uses projective quantum measurement as a way of building a prediction function. Specifically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Fabio A. González , Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Herbert Vinck-Posada

Automata learning techniques automatically generate system models from test observations. These techniques usually fall into two categories: passive and active. Passive learning uses a predetermined data set, e.g., system logs. In contrast,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Martin Tappler , Bernhard K. Aichernig , Giovanni Bacci , Maria Eichlseder , Kim G. Larsen

Machine learning, artificial intelligence and especially deep learning based approaches are often used to simplify or eliminate the burden of programming industrial robots. Using these approaches robots inherently learn a skill instead of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Sanaz Behbahani , Siddharth Chhatpar , Said Zahrai , Vishakh Duggal , Mohak Sukhwani

The finite element method can be viewed as a machine that automates the discretization of differential equations, taking as input a variational problem, a finite element and a mesh, and producing as output a system of discrete equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Anders Logg

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to construct self-contained chunks of knowledge and reuse them in novel combinations for solving different problems. Learning such compositional structures has been a challenge for artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jorge A. Mendez

A powerful and flexible approach to structured prediction consists in embedding the structured objects to be predicted into a feature space of possibly infinite dimension by means of output kernels, and then, solving a regression problem in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-03 Luc Brogat-Motte , Alessandro Rudi , Céline Brouard , Juho Rousu , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Active automata learning in the framework of Angluin's $L^*$ algorithm has been applied to learning many kinds of automata models. In applications to timed models such as timed automata, the main challenge is to determine guards on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Runqing Xu , Jie An , Bohua Zhan

Automaton learning is a domain in which the target system is inferred by the automaton learning algorithm in the form of an automaton, by synthesizing a finite number of inputs and their corresponding outputs. Automaton learning makes use…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Farah Haneef

In this paper, we present a novel approach to incrementally learn an Abstract Model of an unknown environment, and show how an agent can reuse the learned model for tackling the Object Goal Navigation task. The Abstract Model is a finite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tommaso Campari , Leonardo Lamanna , Paolo Traverso , Luciano Serafini , Lamberto Ballan