English
Related papers

Related papers: Two heads are better than two tapes

200 papers

We introduce the bilingual dual-coding theory as a model for bilingual mental representation. Based on this model, lexical selection neural networks are implemented for a connectionist transfer project in machine translation. This lexical…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Ye-Yi Wang

To enumerate 3-manifold triangulations with a given property, one typically begins with a set of potential face pairing graphs (also known as dual 1-skeletons), and then attempts to flesh each graph out into full triangulations using an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Benjamin A. Burton , William Pettersson

A two-dimensional automaton operates on arrays of symbols. While a standard (four-way) two-dimensional automaton can move its input head in four directions, restricted two-dimensional automata are only permitted to move their input heads in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Taylor J. Smith , Kai Salomaa

We prove the following surprising result: there exist a 1-counter B\"uchi automaton and a 2-tape B\"uchi automaton such that the \omega-language of the first and the infinitary rational relation of the second in one model of ZFC are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Olivier Finkel

An algebraic representation of the Turing machines is given, where the configurations of Turing machines are represented by 4 order tensors, and the transition functions by 8 order tensors. Two types of tensor product are defined, one is to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Yue Liu

In 1978 Sakoda and Sipser raised the question of the cost, in terms of size of representations, of the transformation of two-way and one-way nondeterministic automata into equivalent two-way deterministic automata. Despite all the attempts,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Bruno Guillon , Giovanni Pighizzini , Luca Prigioniero , Daniel Průša

Recent work showed that embeddings from related languages can improve the performance of sequence tagging, even for monolingual models. In this analysis paper, we investigate whether the best auxiliary language can be predicted based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Lukas Lange , Heike Adel , Jannik Strötgen

Traditional Turing machines are semantically poor, they only concern the syntactic manipulation of symbols, discarding the mathematical semantics behind the symbols. This semantic deficiency is considered the root cause of the three major…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bojin Zheng , Jingwen Zheng , Weiwu Wang

Our book "The Reality of Multi-Lingual Machine Translation" discusses the benefits and perils of using more than two languages in machine translation systems. While focused on the particular task of sequence-to-sequence processing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Tom Kocmi , Dominik Macháček , Ondřej Bojar

Tracking user reported bugs requires considerable engineering effort in going through many repetitive reports and assigning them to the correct teams. This paper proposes a neural architecture that can jointly (1) detect if two bug reports…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Lahari Poddar , Leonardo Neves , William Brendel , Luis Marujo , Sergey Tulyakov , Pradeep Karuturi

Simultaneous translation is a task in which translation begins before the speaker has finished speaking, so it is important to decide when to start the translation process. However, deciding whether to read more input words or start to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yasumasa Kano , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

In a multilingual neural machine translation model that fully shares parameters across all languages, an artificial language token is usually used to guide translation into the desired target language. However, recent studies show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Renren Jin , Deyi Xiong

One central mystery of neural NLP is what neural models "know" about their subject matter. When a neural machine translation system learns to translate from one language to another, does it learn the syntax or semantics of the languages?…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Chaitanya Malaviya , Graham Neubig , Patrick Littell

In this paper we examine the possibility of describing omitting types 1 and 2 by two at most ternary terms and any number of linear identities. All possible cases of systems of linear identities on two at most ternary terms are being…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-07-19 Jelena Jovanović

The store language of an automaton is the set of store configurations (state and store contents, but not the input) that can appear as an intermediate step in an accepting computation. A one-way nondeterministic finite-visit Turing machine…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Noah Friesen , Oscar H. Ibarra , Jozef Jirásek , Ian McQuillan

A two-way deterministic finite state automaton with one counter (2D1CA) is a fundamental computational model that has been examined in many different aspects since sixties, but we know little about its power in the case of unary languages.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Marzio De Biasi , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

Recent advances in reasoning models have demonstrated significant improvements in accuracy by employing detailed and comprehensive reasoning processes. However, generating these lengthy reasoning sequences is computationally expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yijiong Yu

Previous research has explored the computational expressivity of Transformer models in simulating Boolean circuits or Turing machines. However, the learnability of these simulators from observational data has remained an open question. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Morris Yau , Ekin Akyürek , Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Stefanie Jegelka , Jacob Andreas

Multilingual translation suffers from computational redundancy, especially when translating into multiple languages simultaneously. In addition, translation quality can suffer for low-resource languages. To address this, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiwen Guan , Jacob Whitehill

We study the capacity of the self-attention key-query channel: for a fixed budget, how many distinct token-token relations can a single layer reliably encode? We introduce Relational Graph Recognition, where the key-query channel encodes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Micah Adler