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We investigate the dimension-parametric complexity of the reachability problem in vector addition systems with states (VASS) and its extension with pushdown stack (pushdown VASS). Up to now, the problem is known to be $\mathcal{F}_k$-hard…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Wojciech Czerwiński , Ismaël Jecker , Sławomir Lasota , Jérôme Leroux , Łukasz Orlikowski

A vector addition system with states (VASS) consists of a finite set of states and counters. A transition changes the current state to the next state, and every counter is either incremented, or decremented, or left unchanged. A state and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

An {\omega}-language is a set of infinite words over a finite alphabet X. We consider the class of recursive {\omega}-languages, i.e. the class of {\omega}-languages accepted by Turing machines with a B\"uchi acceptance condition, which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Olivier Finkel

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are high-dimensional vector representations of objects (eg., words, image parts), relations (eg., sentence structures), and sequences for use with machine learning algorithms. They consist of a vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Stephen I. Gallant , T. Wendy Okaywe

Unambiguous B\"uchi automata, i.e. B\"uchi automata allowing only one accepting run per word, are a useful restriction of B\"uchi automata that is well-suited for probabilistic model-checking. In this paper we propose a more permissive…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Christof Löding , Anton Pirogov

Vector Addition Systems with States (VASS) provide a well-known and fundamental model for the analysis of concurrent processes, parameterized systems, and are also used as abstract models of programs in resource bound analysis. In this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Tomáš Brázdil , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný , Dominik Velan , Florian Zuleger

We study the class of languages that have membership proofs which can be verified by real-time finite-state machines using only a constant number of random bits, regardless of the size of their inputs. Since any further restriction on the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Özdeniz Dolu , Nevzat Ersoy , M. Utkan Gezer , A. C. Cem Say

We investigate a subclass of languages recognized by vector addition systems, namely languages of nondeterministic Parikh automata. While the regularity problem (is the language of a given automaton regular?) is undecidable for this model,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Lorenzo Clemente , Wojciech Czerwiński , Sławomir Lasota , Charles Paperman

Despite recent progress which settled the complexity of the reachability problem for Vector Addition Systems with States (VASSes) as being Ackermann-complete we still lack much understanding for that problem. A striking example is the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Wojciech Czerwiński , Adam Jędrych

Vector Addition Systems with States (VASS) consists of a finite state space equipped with d counters, where in each transition every counter is incremented, decremented, or left unchanged. VASS provide a fundamental model for analysis of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Tomáš Brázdil , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný , Dominik Velan

Pushdown Vector Addition Systems with States (PVASS) consist of finitely many control states, a pushdown stack, and a set of counters that can be incremented and decremented, but not tested for zero. Whether the reachability problem is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 A. R. Balasubramanian , Rupak Majumdar , Ramanathan S. Thinniyam , Georg Zetzsche

A classical problem in grammatical inference is to identify a language from a set of examples. In this paper, we address the problem of identifying a union of languages from examples that belong to several different unknown languages.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Alexis Linard , Colin de la Higuera , Frits Vaandrager

We study the complexity of the reachability problem for Vector Addition Systems with States (VASSes) in fixed dimensions. We provide four lower bounds improving the currently known state-of-the-art: 1) \np-hardness for unary flat $4$-VASSes…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Wojciech Czerwiński , Łukasz Orlikowski

A set of integers is $S$-recognizable in an abstract numeration system $S$ if the language made up of the representations of its elements is accepted by a finite automaton. For abstract numeration systems built over bounded languages with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Emilie Charlier , Michel Rigo , Wolfgang Steiner

It is an open problem to characterize the class of languages recognized by quantum finite automata (QFA). We examine some necessary and some sufficient conditions for a (regular) language to be recognizable by a QFA. For a subclass of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Arnolds Kikusts , Maris Valdats

Vector Addition Systems with States (VASS), equivalent to Petri nets, are a well-established model of concurrency. The central algorithmic challenge in VASS is the reachability problem: is there a run from a given starting state and counter…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Dmitry Chistikov , Wojciech Czerwiński , Filip Mazowiecki , Łukasz Orlikowski , Henry Sinclair-Banks , Karol Węgrzycki

Reachability in pushdown vector addition systems with states (PVASS) is among the longest standing open problems in Theoretical Computer Science. We show that the problem is decidable in full generality. Our decision procedure is similar in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Roland Guttenberg , Eren Keskin , Roland Meyer

A vector addition system with states (VASS) consists of a finite set of states and counters. A configuration is a state and a value for each counter; a transition changes the state and each counter is incremented, decremented, or left…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

Automata over infinite objects are a well-established model with applications in logic and formal verification. Traditionally, acceptance in such automata is defined based on the set of states visited infinitely often during a run. However,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Antonio Casares

Vector addition systems (VAS) constitute an important model of computation and concurrency that is equally expressive as the Petri net model. Recently, a lot of research has been conducted on vector addition systems with states (VASS),…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Weijun Chen , Yuxi Fu , Yangluo Zheng