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We consider input-deterministic finite state transducers with infinite inputs and infinite outputs, and we consider the property of Borel normality on infinite words. When these transducers are given by a strongly connected set of states,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Olivier Carton , Elisa Orduna

We study succinctness as a measure of the expressive power of transformers. Succinctness -- how compactly a formalism can describe a language relative to other formalisms -- is a classical notion in logic and automata theory. We prove that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pascal Bergsträßer , Ryan Cotterell , Anthony W. Lin

We consider equivalence and containment problems for word transductions. These problems are known to be undecidable when the transductions are relations between words realized by non-deterministic transducers, and become decidable when…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Sougata Bose , Anca Muscholl , Vincent Penelle , Gabriele Puppis

Deterministic 2-head finite automata which are machines that process an input word from both ends are analyzed for their ability to perform reversible computations. This implies that the automata are backward deterministic, enabling unique…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Benedek Nagy , Walaa Yasin

Deterministic two-way transducers on finite words have been shown by Engelfriet and Hoogeboom to have the same expressive power as MSO-transductions. We introduce a notion of aperiodicity for these transducers and we show that aperiodic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Olivier Carton , Luc Dartois

Linear extended top-down tree transducers (or synchronous tree-substitution grammars) are popular formal models of tree transformations. The expressive power of compositions of such transducers with and without regular look-ahead is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-09 Zoltán Fülöp , Andreas Maletti

Deterministic synchronous systems consisting of two finite automata running in opposite directions on a shared read-only input are studied with respect to their ability to perform reversible computations, which means that the automata are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

Reversible computing is motivated by both pragmatic and foundational considerations arising from a variety of disciplines. We take a particular path through the development of reversible computation, emphasizing compositional reversible…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jacques Carette , Chris Heunen , Robin Kaarsgaard , Amr Sabry

We introduce a logic, called LT, to express properties of transductions, i.e. binary relations from input to output (finite) words. In LT, the input/output dependencies are modelled via an origin function which associates to any position of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Luc Dartois , Emmanuel Filiot , Nathan Lhote

The question whether P equals NP revolves around the discrepancy between active production and mere verification by Turing machines. In this paper, we examine the analogous problem for finite transducers and automata. Every nondeterministic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Elisabet Burjons , Fabian Frei , Martin Raszyk

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing computable functions of infinite words over an infinite alphabet (data $\omega$-words). The notion of computability is defined through Turing machines with infinite inputs which can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Nathan Lhote , Pierre-Alain Reynier

This paper proposes a definition of recognizable transducers over monads and comonads, which bridges two important ongoing efforts in the current research on regularity. The first effort is the study of regular transductions, which extends…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Rafał Stefański

String transductions that are definable in monadic second-order (mso) logic (without the use of parameters) are exactly those realized by deterministic two-way finite state transducers. Nondeterministic mso definable string transductions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-11-24 Joost Engelfriet , Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom

Boja\'nczyk recently initiated an intensive study of deterministic pebble transducers, which are two-way automata that can drop marks (named "pebbles") on their input word, and produce an output word. They describe functions from words to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Gaëtan Douéneau-Tabot

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

Most expressivity results for transformers treat them as language recognizers -- devices that accept or reject strings -- rather than as they are used in practice: as language models that generate strings autoregressively and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Andy Yang , Anej Svete , Jiaoda Li , Anthony Widjaja Lin , Jonathan Rawski , Ryan Cotterell , David Chiang

We study implicit reasoning, i.e. the ability to combine knowledge or rules within a single forward pass. While transformer-based large language models store substantial factual knowledge and rules, they often fail to compose this knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Harsh Kohli , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Huan Sun , Yuekun Yao

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing computable functions of infinite words over an infinite alphabet (data omega-words). The notion of computability is defined through Turing machines with infinite inputs which can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Pierre-Alain Reynier

The transducer synthesis problem on finite words asks, given a specification $S \subseteq I \times O$, where $I$ and $O$ are sets of finite words, whether there exists an implementation $f: I \rightarrow O$ which (1) fulfils the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker

We investigate the problem of checking if a finite-state transducer is robust to uncertainty in its input. Our notion of robustness is based on the analytic notion of Lipschitz continuity --- a transducer is K-(Lipschitz) robust if the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop , Roopsha Samanta