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Multi-letter {\it quantum finite automata} (QFAs) were a quantum variant of classical {\it one-way multi-head finite automata} (J. Hromkovi\v{c}, Acta Informatica 19 (1983) 377-384), and it has been shown that this new one-way QFAs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Daowen Qiu , Xiangfu Zou , Lvzhou Li , Paulo Mateus

Transductions are binary relations of finite words. For rational transductions, i.e., transductions defined by finite transducers, the inclusion, equivalence and sequential uniformisation problems are known to be undecidable. In this paper,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker , Christof Löding , Sarah Winter

We investigate the decidability of the definability problem for fragments of first order logic over finite words enriched with modular predicates. Our approach aims toward the most generic statements that we could achieve, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Luc Dartois , Charles Paperman

Broadbent and G\"oller (FSTTCS 2012) proved the undecidability of bisimulation equivalence for processes generated by epsilon-free second-order pushdown automata. We add a few remarks concerning the used proof technique, called Defender's…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Petr Jančar , Jiří Srba

Linearizability is a standard correctness criterion for concurrent algorithms, typically proved by establishing the algorithms' linearization points. However, relying on linearization points leads to proofs that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jesús Domínguez , Aleksandar Nanevski

Model-checking is one of the most powerful techniques for verifying systems and programs, which since the pioneering results by Knapik et al., Ong, and Kobayashi, is known to be applicable to functional programs with higher-order types…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ugo Dal Lago , Alexis Ghyselen

Algorithmic \emph{replicability} has recently been introduced to address the need for reproducible experiments in machine learning. A \emph{replicable online learning} algorithm is one that takes the same sequence of decisions across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Matteo Bollini , Gianmarco Genalti , Francesco Emanuele Stradi , Matteo Castiglioni , Alberto Marchesi

We solve some decision problems for timed automata which were recently raised by S. Tripakis in [ Folk Theorems on the Determinization and Minimization of Timed Automata, in the Proceedings of the International Workshop FORMATS'2003, LNCS,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-12-11 Olivier Finkel

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

Using recent machine learning results that present an information-theoretic perspective on underfitting and overfitting, we prove that deciding whether an encodable learning algorithm will always underfit a dataset, even if given unlimited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Sonia Sehra , David Flores , George D. Montanez

Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) is arguably the most commonly used method for linear multi-arm bandit problems. While conceptually and computationally simple, this method highly relies on the confidence bounds, failing to strike the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Kaige Yang , Laura Toni

Slot and van Emde Boas' weak invariance thesis states that reasonable machines can simulate each other within a polynomially overhead in time. Is lambda-calculus a reasonable machine? Is there a way to measure the computational complexity…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Beniamino Accattoli , Ugo Dal Lago

This paper develops an algorithmic-based approach for proving inductive properties of propositional sequent systems such as admissibility, invertibility, cut-elimination, and identity expansion. Although undecidable in general, these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Carlos Olarte , Elaine Pimentel , Camilo Rocha

Temporal logics for the specification of information-flow properties are able to express relations between multiple executions of a system. The two most important such logics are HyperLTL and HyperCTL*, which generalise LTL and CTL* by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Marie Fortin , Louwe B. Kuijer , Patrick Totzke , Martin Zimmermann

We show that the first-order logical theory of the binary overlap-free words (and, more generally, the ${\alpha}$-free words for rational ${\alpha}$, $2 < {\alpha} \leq 7/3$), is decidable. As a consequence, many results previously obtained…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 L. Schaeffer , J. Shallit

This paper presents a theory of systemic undecidability, reframing incomputability as a structural property of systems rather than a localized feature of specific functions or problems. We define a notion of causal embedding and prove a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Seth Bulin

Bisimulation equivalence (or bisimilarity) of first-order grammars is decidable, as follows from the decidability result by Senizergues (1998, 2005) that has been given in an equivalent framework of equational graphs with finite out-degree,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-16 Petr Jancar

For two given $\omega$-terms $\alpha$ and $\beta$, the word problem for $\omega$-terms over a variety $\boldsymbol{\mathrm{V}}$ asks whether $\alpha=\beta$ in all monoids in $\boldsymbol{\mathrm{V}}$. We show that the word problem for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Manfred Kufleitner , Jan Philipp Wächter

History-deterministic automata are those in which nondeterministic choices can be correctly resolved stepwise: there is a strategy to select a continuation of a run given the next input letter so that if the overall input word admits some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Soumyajit Paul , David Purser , Sven Schewe , Qiyi Tang , Patrick Totzke , Di-De Yen

We lift the computability path order and its extensions from plain higher-order rewriting to higher-order rewriting on beta-eta-normal forms where matching modulo beta-eta is employed. The resulting order NCPO is shown to be useful on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Johannes Niederhauser , Aart Middeldorp