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Understanding how the structure of language can be learned from sentences alone is a central question in both cognitive science and machine learning. Studies of the internal representations of Large Language Models (LLMs) support their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Jack T. Parley , Francesco Cagnetta , Matthieu Wyart

We study algorithmic complexity and expressive power of fusion grammars, a novel formalism introduced in [Kreowski, Kuske, and Lye 2017], which extends hyperedge replacement grammars. In the first part of the work, we prove that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tikhon Pshenitsyn

Natural Language Processing enables computers to understand human language by analysing and classifying text efficiently with deep-level grammatical and semantic features. Existing models capture features by learning from large corpora with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Azrin Sultana , Firoz Ahmed

The recent work of Kleinberg & Mullainathan [KM24] provides a concrete model for language generation in the limit: given a sequence of examples from an unknown target language, the goal is to generate new examples from the target language…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Moses Charikar , Chirag Pabbaraju

Description Logics (DLs) are used in knowledge-based systems to represent and reason about terminological knowledge of the application domain in a semantically well-defined manner. In this thesis, we establish a number of novel complexity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephan Tobies

This paper describes a computational, declarative approach to prosodic morphology that uses inviolable constraints to denote small finite candidate sets which are filtered by a restrictive incremental optimization mechanism. The new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Markus Walther

To model behavioral and neural correlates of language comprehension in naturalistic environments researchers have turned to broad-coverage tools from natural-language processing and machine learning. Where syntactic structure is explicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Miloš Stanojević , Jonathan R. Brennan , Donald Dunagan , Mark Steedman , John T. Hale

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) often impose limitations on the length of the text input to ensure the generation of fluent and relevant responses. This constraint restricts their applicability in scenarios involving long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Weizhi Fei , Xueyan Niu , Pingyi Zhou , Lu Hou , Bo Bai , Lei Deng , Wei Han

The paper gives an example of a tree language G that is recognised by an unambiguous parity automaton and is analytic-complete as a set in Cantor space. This already shows that the unambiguous languages are topologically more complex than…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Szczepan Hummel

We introduce "representative generation," extending the theoretical framework for generation proposed by Kleinberg et al. (2024) and formalized by Li et al. (2024), to additionally address diversity and bias concerns in generative models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Charlotte Peale , Vinod Raman , Omer Reingold

We present a new proof that $O_2$ is a multiple context-free language. It contrasts with a recent proof by Salvati (2015) in its avoidance of concepts that seem specific to two-dimensional geometry, such as the complex exponential function.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Mark-Jan Nederhof

Every finite group $G$ has a normal series each of whose factors is either a solvable group or a direct product of non-abelian simple groups. The minimum number of nonsolvable factors, attained on all possible such series in $G$, is called…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Francesco Fumagalli , Felix Leinen , Orazio Puglisi

Much work in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been for resource-rich languages, making generalization to new, less-resourced languages challenging. We present two approaches for improving generalization to low-resourced languages by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Aditi Chaudhary , Chunting Zhou , Lori Levin , Graham Neubig , David R. Mortensen , Jaime G. Carbonell

Isolated word meanings are inherently uncertain. This uncertainty reduces when they are combined and anchored in context. We propose that grammar compresses meaning uncertainty cross-linguistically, which is reflected in brain and…

We show that almost all known lower bound methods for communication complexity are also lower bounds for the information complexity. In particular, we define a relaxed version of the partition bound of Jain and Klauck and prove that it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Iordanis Kerenidis , Sophie Laplante , Virginie Lerays , Jérémie Roland , David Xiao

We study the framework of abductive logic programming extended with integrity constraints. For this framework, we introduce a new measure of the simplicity of an explanation based on its degree of \emph{arbitrariness}: the more arbitrary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Luciano Caroprese , Irina Trubitsyna , Miroslaw Truszczynski , Ester Zumpano

Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs) are a recognition-based formalism which allows to describe the syntactical and the lexical elements of a language. The main difference between Context-Free Grammars (CFGs) and PEGs relies on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sérgio Medeiros , Carlos Olarte

Various grammar compression algorithms have been proposed in the last decade. A grammar compression is a restricted CFG deriving the string deterministically. An efficient grammar compression develops a smaller CFG by finding duplicated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Shouhei Fukunaga , Yoshimasa Takabatake , I Tomohiro , Hiroshi Sakamoto

We consider Parikh images of languages accepted by non-deterministic finite automata and context-free grammars; in other words, we treat the languages in a commutative way --- we do not care about the order of letters in the accepted word,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Eryk Kopczyński

In this paper we prove lower bounds on randomized multiparty communication complexity, both in the \emph{blackboard model} (where each message is written on a blackboard for all players to see) and (mainly) in the \emph{message-passing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Jeff M. Phillips , Elad Verbin , Qin Zhang