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Hopfield attractor networks are robust distributed models of human memory, but lack a general mechanism for effecting state-dependent attractor transitions in response to input. We propose construction rules such that an attractor network…

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Cognitive computation such as e.g. language processing, is conventionally regarded as Turing computation, and Turing machines can be uniquely implemented as nonlinear dynamical systems using generalized shifts and subsequent G\"odel…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Peter beim Graben , Roland Potthast

We present a new family of exchangeable stochastic processes, the Functional Neural Processes (FNPs). FNPs model distributions over functions by learning a graph of dependencies on top of latent representations of the points in the given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Christos Louizos , Xiahan Shi , Klamer Schutte , Max Welling

Finite Automata (FAs) are fundamental components in the domains of programming languages. For instance, regular expressions, which are pivotal in languages such as JavaScript and Python, are frequently implemented using FAs. Finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shuanglong Kan , Anthony W. Lin

Automata play important roles in wide area of computing and the growth of multicores calls for their efficient parallel implementation. Though it is known in theory that we can perform the computation of a finite automaton in parallel by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Ryoma Sin'ya , Kiminori Matsuzaki , Masataka Sassa

We introduce a quantum-like classical computational model, called affine computation, as a generalization of probabilistic computation. After giving the basics of affine computation, we define affine finite automata (AfA) and compare it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Machines that can replicate human intelligence with type 2 reasoning capabilities should be able to reason at multiple levels of spatio-temporal abstractions and scales using internal world models. Devising formalisms to develop such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Vaisakh Shaj

The computational burden of probabilistic inference remains a hurdle for applying probabilistic programming languages to practical problems of interest. In this work, we provide a semantic and algorithmic foundation for efficient exact…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Steven Holtzen , Todd Millstein , Guy Van den Broeck

Abstract reasoning is a cornerstone of human intelligence, and replicating it with artificial intelligence (AI) presents an ongoing challenge. This study focuses on efficiently solving Raven's progressive matrices (RPM), a visual test for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Michael Hersche , Francesco di Stefano , Thomas Hofmann , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

We define a new subclass of nondeterministic finite automata for prefix-closed languages called Flanked Finite Automata (FFA). We show that this class enjoys good complexity properties while preserving the succinctness of nondeterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Florent Avellaneda , Silvano Dal Zilio , Jean-Baptiste Raclet

Currently, it is hard to reap the benefits of deep learning for Bayesian methods, which allow the explicit specification of prior knowledge and accurately capture model uncertainty. We present Prior-Data Fitted Networks (PFNs). PFNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Samuel Müller , Noah Hollmann , Sebastian Pineda Arango , Josif Grabocka , Frank Hutter

A very popular model in machine learning is the feedforward neural network (FFN). The FFN can approximate general functions and mitigate the curse of dimensionality. Here we introduce FFNs which represent sections of holomorphic line…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Michael R. Douglas

Feedforward neural networks (FNNs) are typically viewed as pure prediction algorithms, and their strong predictive performance has led to their use in many machine-learning applications. However, their flexibility comes with an…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-15 Andrew McInerney , Kevin Burke

We prove that two-way probabilistic and quantum finite automata (2PFA's and 2QFA's) can be considerably more concise than both their one-way versions (1PFA's and 1QFA's), and two-way nondeterministic finite automata (2NFA's). For this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say

Conventional computer vision models rely on very deep, feedforward networks processing whole images and trained offline with extensive labeled data. In contrast, biological vision relies on comparatively shallow, recurrent networks that…

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Affine automata provide a finite-state computational model that preserves the linear-algebraic structure of quantum computation while operating entirely over the reals. Recent work has shown that affine automata can far surpass classical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu

The backpropagation algorithm, despite its widespread use in neural network learning, may not accurately emulate the human cortex's learning process. Alternative strategies, such as the Forward-Forward Algorithm (FFA), offer a closer match…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Desmond Y. M. Tang

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

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Symbolic rule learners generate interpretable solutions, however they require the input to be encoded symbolically. Neuro-symbolic approaches overcome this issue by mapping raw data to latent symbolic concepts using a neural network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Theo Charalambous , Yaniv Aspis , Alessandra Russo

Two of the most popular modelling paradigms in computer vision are feed-forward neural networks (FFNs) and probabilistic graphical models (GMs). Various connections between the two have been studied in recent works, such as e.g. expressing…

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