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Several variants of linear logic have been proposed to characterize complexity classes in the proofs-as-programs correspondence. Light linear logic (LLL) ensures a polynomial bound on reduction time, and characterizes in this way polynomial…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Matthieu Perrinel

We study the entropy of Chinese and English texts, based on characters in case of Chinese texts and based on words for both languages. Significant differences are found between the languages and between different personal styles of debating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-17 R. R. Xie , W. B. Deng , D. J. Wang , L. P. Csernai

We give new proofs of soundness (all representable functions on base types lies in certain complexity classes) for Elementary Affine Logic, LFPL (a language for polytime computation close to realistic functional programming introduced by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 U. Dal Lago , M. Hofmann

Separations among the first order logic ${\cal R}ing(0,+,*)$ of finite residue class rings, its extensions with generalized quantifiers, and in the presence of a built-in order are shown, using algebraic methods from class field theory.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Argimiro Arratia , Carlos E. Ortiz

Current methods for Black-Box NLP interpretability, like LIME or SHAP, are based on altering the text to interpret by removing words and modeling the Black-Box response. In this paper, we outline limitations of this approach when using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yves Rychener , Xavier Renard , Djamé Seddah , Pascal Frossard , Marcin Detyniecki

We introduce tree stack automata as a new class of automata with storage and identify a restricted form of tree stack automata that recognises exactly the multiple context-free languages.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Tobias Denkinger

The logical connectivity of text is represented by the connectivity of words that form archipelagoes. Here, each archipelago is a sequence of islands of the occurrences of a certain word. An island here means the local sequence of sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yukio Ohsawa

In this paper we study the expressive power of Horn-formulae in dependence logic and show that they can express NP-complete problems. Therefore we define an even smaller fragment D-Horn* and show that over finite successor structures it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Johannes Ebbing , Juha Kontinen , Julian-Steffen Müller , Heribert Vollmer

We investigate models for learning the class of context-free and context-sensitive languages (CFLs and CSLs). We begin with a brief discussion of some early hardness results which show that unrestricted language learning is impossible, and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Jacob Andreas

For fragments L of first-order logic (FO) with counting quantifiers, we consider the definability problem, which asks whether a given L-formula can be equivalently expressed by a formula in some fragment of L without counting, and the more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Louwe Kuijer , Tony Tan , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

Despite the recent successes of deep learning in natural language processing (NLP), there remains widespread usage of and demand for techniques that do not rely on machine learning. The advantage of these techniques is their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Adam Hare , Yu Chen , Yinan Liu , Zhenming Liu , Christopher G. Brinton

We introduce $L^2_{K,P}$, a monadic second-order language for reasoning about trees which characterizes the strongly Context-Free Languages in the sense that a set of finite trees is definable in $L^2_{K,P}$ iff it is (modulo a projection)…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 James Rogers

The paper is focused on temporal logics for the description of the behaviour of real-time pushdown reactive systems. The paper is motivated to bridge tractable logics specialized for expressing separately dense-time real-time properties and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Laura Bozzelli , Aniello Murano , Adriano Peron

In the Intersection Non-Emptiness problem, we are given a list of finite automata $A_1,A_2,\dots,A_m$ over a common alphabet $\Sigma$ as input, and the goal is to determine whether some string $w\in \Sigma^*$ lies in the intersection of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Emmanuel Arrighi , Henning Fernau , Stefan Hoffmann , Markus Holzer , Ismaël Jecker , Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Petra Wolf

We prove that QCSP$(\mathbb{N};x=y\rightarrow y=z)$ is PSpace-complete, settling a question open for more than ten years. This completes the complexity classification for the QCSP over equality languages as a trichotomy between Logspace,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dmitriy Zhuk , Barnaby Martin , Michal Wrona

Generalizing the notion of automatic complexity of individual strings due to Shallit and Wang, we define the automatic complexity $A(E)$ of an equivalence relation $E$ on a finite set $S$ of strings. We prove that the problem of determining…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen

In this paper we study the logical aspects of branching automata, as defined by Lodaya and Weil. We first prove that the class of languages of finite N-free posets recognized by branching automata is closed under complementation. Then we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Bedon Nicolas

Time-space tradeoff has been studied in a variety of models, such as Turing machines, branching programs, and finite automata, etc. While communication complexity as a technique has been applied to study finite automata, it seems it has not…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Shenggen Zheng , Yaqiao Li , Minghua Pan , Jozef Gruska , Lvzhou Li

We study the relation between the standard two-way automata and more powerful devices, namely, two-way finite automata with an additional "pebble" movable along the input tape. Similarly as in the case of the classical two-way machines, it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Viliam Geffert , Lubomíra Ištoňová

This article introduces three invariance principles under which P is different from NP. In the second part a theorem of convergence is proven. This theorem states that for any language L there exists an infinite sequence of languages from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mircea Alexandru Popescu Moscu