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Abu Radi and Kupferman (2019) demonstrated the efficient minimization of history-deterministic (transition-based) co-B\"uchi automata, building on the results of Kuperberg and Skrzypczak (2015). We give a congruence-based description of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Christof Löding , Igor Walukiewicz

Parikh automata extend finite automata by counters that can be tested for membership in a semilinear set, but only at the end of a run, thereby preserving many of the desirable algorithmic properties of finite automata. Here, we study the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shibashis Guha , Ismaël Jecker , Karoliina Lehtinen , Martin Zimmermann

Automata expressiveness is an essential feature in understanding which of the formalisms available should be chosen for modelling a particular problem. Probabilistic and stochastic automata are suitable for modelling systems exhibiting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Valentin Bura , Tim French , Mark Reynolds

We show that there are $\Sigma_3^0$-complete languages of infinite words accepted by non-deterministic Petri nets with B\"uchi acceptance condition, or equivalently by B\"uchi blind counter automata. This shows that omega-languages accepted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Olivier Finkel , Michał Skrzypczak

Unambiguous automata are nondeterministic automata in which every word has at most one accepting run. In this paper we give a polynomial-time algorithm for model checking discrete-time Markov chains against \omega-regular specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Christel Baier , Stefan Kiefer , Joachim Klein , David Müller , James Worrell

Boolean automata networks (aka Boolean networks) are space-time discrete dynamical systems, studied as a model of computation and as a representative model of natural phenomena. A collection of simple entities (the automata) update their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kévin Perrot , Sylvain Sené , Léah Tapin

Distributed optimization methods for large-scale machine learning suffer from a communication bottleneck. It is difficult to reduce this bottleneck while still efficiently and accurately aggregating partial work from different machines. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Chenxin Ma , Virginia Smith , Martin Jaggi , Michael I. Jordan , Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

We introduce improvements in the algorithm by Gastin and Oddoux translating LTL formulae into B\"uchi automata via very weak alternating co-B\"uchi automata and generalized B\"uchi automata. Several improvements are based on specific…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-02 Tomáš Babiak , Mojmír Křetínský , Vojtěch Řehák , Jan Strejček

Concurrent Kleene Algebra (CKA) is a formalism to study concurrent programs. Like previous Kleene Algebra extensions, developing a correspondence between denotational and operational perspectives is important, for both foundations and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Tobias Kappé , Paul Brunet , Bas Luttik , Alexandra Silva , Fabio Zanasi

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to learn a B\"uchi automaton from a teacher who knows an $\omega$-regular language. The algorithm is based on learning a formalism named family of DFAs (FDFAs) recently proposed by Angluin and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Yong Li , Yu-Fang Chen , Lijun Zhang , Depeng Liu

Distributed optimization algorithms are essential for training machine learning models on very large-scale datasets. However, they often suffer from communication bottlenecks. Confronting this issue, a communication-efficient primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Chenxin Ma , Martin Jaggi , Frank E. Curtis , Nathan Srebro , Martin Takáč

Prompt tuning, which adapts vision-language models by freezing model parameters and optimizing only the prompt, has proven effective for task-specific adaptations. The core challenge in prompt tuning is improving specialization for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Dasol Hong , Wooju Lee , Hyun Myung

We study structural restrictions on biautomata such as, e.g., acyclicity, permutation-freeness, strongly permutation-freeness, and orderability, to mention a few. We compare the obtained language families with those induced by deterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Markus Holzer , Sebastian Jakobi

Symbolic automata are finite state automata that support potentially infinite alphabets, such as the set of rational numbers, generally applied to regular expressions/languages over finite words. In symbolic automata (or automata modulo…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Margus Veanes , Thomas Ball , Gabriel Ebner , Olli Saarikivi

Co-lex partial orders were recently introduced in (Cotumaccio et al., SODA 2021 and JACM 2023) as a powerful tool to index finite state automata, with applications to regular expression matching. They generalize Wheeler orders (Gagie et…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ruben Becker , Davide Cenzato , Sung-Hwan Kim , Tomasz Kociumaka , Bojana Kodric , Alberto Policriti , Nicola Prezza

We provide new insights on the determinization and minimization of tree automata using congruences on trees. From this perspective, we study a Brzozowski's style minimization algorithm for tree automata. First, we prove correct this method…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Pierre Ganty , Elena Gutiérrez , Pedro Valero

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

We introduce a new family of neural network models called Convolutional Dynamic Alignment Networks (CoDA Nets), which are performant classifiers with a high degree of inherent interpretability. Their core building blocks are Dynamic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Moritz Böhle , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

We propose an efficient algorithm for determinising counting automata (CAs), i.e., finite automata extended with bounded counters. The algorithm avoids unfolding counters into control states, unlike the na\"ive approach, and thus produces…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Lukáš Holík , Ondřej Lengál , Olli Saarikivi , Lenka Turoňová , Margus Veanes , Tomáš Vojnar

The class of omega languages recognized by deterministic parity acceptors (DPAs) or deterministic Muller acceptors (DMAs) is exactly the regular omega languages. The inclusion problem is the following: given two acceptors A1 and A2,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Dana Angluin , Dana Fisman