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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Navdeep Jaitly , David Sussillo , Quoc V. Le , Oriol Vinyals , Ilya Sutskever , Samy Bengio

Recently, an infinite hierarchy of languages accepted by stateless deterministic pushdown automata has been established based on the number of pushdown symbols. However, the witness language for the n-th level of the hierarchy is over an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Tomáš Masopust

We present a differentiable stack data structure that simultaneously and tractably encodes an exponential number of stack configurations, based on Lang's algorithm for simulating nondeterministic pushdown automata. We call the combination…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Brian DuSell , David Chiang

It is well known that the "store language" of every pushdown automaton -- the set of store configurations (state and stack contents) that can appear as an intermediate step in accepting computations -- is a regular language. Here many…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

Finite-turn pushdown automata (PDA) are investigated concerning their descriptional complexity. It is known that they accept exactly the class of ultralinear context-free languages. Furthermore, the increase in size when converting…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-08 Andreas Malcher , Giovanni Pighizzini

We study deterministic tree-walking-storage automata, which are finite-state devices equipped with a tree-like storage. These automata are generalized stack automata, where the linear stack storage is replaced by a non-linear tree-like…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Martin Kutrib , Uwe Meyer

We introduce partially ordered two-way B\"uchi automata and characterize their expressive power in terms of fragments of first-order logic FO[<]. Partially ordered two-way B\"uchi automata are B\"uchi automata which can change the direction…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Manfred Kufleitner , Alexander Lauser

A three-way (resp., two-way) two-dimensional automaton has a read-only input head that moves in three (resp., two) directions on a finite array of cells labelled by symbols of the input alphabet. Restricting the input head movement of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Taylor J. Smith , Kai Salomaa

Automata operating on strings of nested brackets, known as input-driven pushdown automata, and as visibly pushdown automata, have been studied since the 1980s. They were extended to the case of infinite strings by Alur and Madhusudan…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Alexander Okhotin , Victor L. Selivanov

A nondeterministic automaton is history-deterministic if its nondeterminism can be resolved by only considering the prefix of the word read so far. Due to their good compositional properties, history-deterministic automata are useful in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Udi Boker , Karoliina Lehtinen

We study three levels in a hierarchy of nondeterminism: A nondeterministic automaton $\mathcal{A}$ is determinizable by pruning (DBP) if we can obtain a deterministic automaton equivalent to $\mathcal{A}$ by removing some of its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bader Abu Radi , Orna Kupferman , Ofer Leshkowitz

It has been widely observed that language models (LMs) respond in predictable ways to algorithmically generated prompts that are seemingly unintelligible. This is both a sign that we lack a full understanding of how LMs work, and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina , Corentin Kervadec , Francesca Franzon , Marco Baroni

Automata with monitor counters, where the transitions do not depend on counter values, and nested weighted automata are two expressive automata-theoretic frameworks for quantitative properties. For a well-studied and wide class of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

We characterize complete deterministic finite automata with two input letters in which every non-empty set of states occurs as the image of the whole state set under the action of a suitable input word. The characterization leads to a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 David Casas , Mikhail V. Volkov

Nowadays, neural network (NN) and deep learning (DL) techniques are widely adopted in many applications, including recommender systems. Given the sparse and stochastic nature of collaborative filtering (CF) data, recent works have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Giuseppe Serra , Peter Tino , Zhao Xu , Xin Yao

Weighted automata is a basic tool for specification in quantitative verification, which allows to express quantitative features of analysed systems such as resource consumption. Quantitative specification can be assisted by automata…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop

A non-deterministic recursion scheme recognizes a language of finite trees. This very expressive model can simulate, among others, higher-order pushdown automata with collapse. We show decidability of the diagonal problem for schemes. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Lorenzo Clemente , Paweł Parys , Sylvain Salvati , Igor Walukiewicz

We generalize the concept of synchronizing words for finite automata, which map all states of the automata to the same state, to deterministic visibly push-down automata. Here, a synchronizing word w does not only map all states to the same…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Henning Fernau , Petra Wolf

Probabilistic automata are an extension of nondeterministic finite automata in which transitions are annotated with probabilities. Despite its simplicity, this model is very expressive and many of the associated algorithmic questions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Cristian Riveros , James Worrell

An automaton is history-deterministic if its nondeterminism can be resolved on the fly, only using the prefix of the word read so far. This mild form of nondeterminism has attracted particular attention for its applications in synthesis…

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