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We examine the characteristic features of reversible and quantum computations in the presence of supplementary external information, known as advice. In particular, we present a simple, algebraic characterization of languages recognized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Tomoyuki Yamakami

The minimum amount of resources to recognize a nonregular language is a fundamental research topic in theoretical computer science which has been examined for different kinds of resources and many different models. In this note, we focus on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

In this paper we present a quantization of Cellular Automata. Our formalism is based on a lattice of qudits, and an update rule consisting of local unitary operators that commute with their own lattice translations. One purpose of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-17 Carlos A. Perez-Delgado , Donny Cheung

We propose a query learning algorithm for residual symbolic finite automata (RSFAs). Symbolic finite automata (SFAs) are finite automata whose transitions are labeled by predicates over a Boolean algebra, in which a big collection of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Kaizaburo Chubachi , Diptarama Hendrian , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

Quantum machine learning consists in taking advantage of quantum computations to generate classical data. A potential application of quantum machine learning is to harness the power of quantum computers for generating classical data, a…

We introduce Merlin-Arthur (MA) automata where Merlin provides a certificate at the beginning of computation and it is scanned by Arthur before reading the input. We define Merlin-Arthur deterministic, probabilistic, and quantum finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Many applications of quantum computing in the near term rely on variational quantum circuits (VQCs). They have been showcased as a promising model for reaching a quantum advantage in machine learning with current noisy intermediate scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jonas Landman , Slimane Thabet , Constantin Dalyac , Hela Mhiri , Elham Kashefi

Consider the finite regular language L_n = {w0 : w \in {0,1}^*, |w| \le n}. It was shown by Ambainis, Nayak, Ta-Shma and Vazirani that while this language is accepted by a deterministic finite automaton of size O(n), any one-way quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashwin Nayak

Quantum cellular automata are alternative quantum-computing paradigms to quantum Turing machines and quantum circuits. Their working mechanisms are inherently automated, therefore measurement free, and they act in a translation invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Thiago L. M. Guedes , Don Winter , Markus Müller

Combining quantum computers with classical compute power has become a standard means for developing algorithms that are eventually supposed to beat any purely classical alternatives. While in-principle advantages for solution quality or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Simon Thelen , Wolfgang Mauerer

Reversible weighted automata are introduced and considered in a specific setting where the weights are taken from a nontrivial locally finite commutative ring such as a finite field. It is shown that the supports of series realised by such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Peter Kostolányi , Andrej Ravinger

Since the seminal work by Angluin and the introduction of the L*-algorithm, active learning of automata by membership and equivalence queries has been extensively studied to learn various extensions of automata. For weighted automata,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Laure Daviaud , Marianne Johnson

Since the 1970s with the work of McNaughton, Papert and Sch\"utzenberger, a regular language is known to be definable in the first-order logic if and only if its syntactic monoid is aperiodic. This algebraic characterisation of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Dhruv Nevatia , Benjamin Monmege

The theory of computation is based on abstract computing automata which can be classified into a three-class hierarchy: Finite Automata (FA), Push-down Automata (PDA) and the Turing Machines (TM). Each class corresponds to grammar/language…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Marta Duenas-Diez , Juan Perez-Mercader

Automata over infinite words, also known as omega-automata, play a key role in the verification and synthesis of reactive systems. The spectrum of omega-automata is defined by two characteristics: the acceptance condition (e.g. B\"uchi or…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

Quantitative automata (QAs) extend finite-state automata on infinite words with weighted transitions to specify quantitative system properties. However, their finite weight sets rule out properties like average response time, where response…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thomas A. Henzinger , Nicolas Mazzocchi , N. Ege Saraç , Harun Yılmaz

In the past decade quantum algorithms have been found which outperform the best classical solutions known for certain classical problems as well as the best classical methods known for simulation of certain quantum systems. This suggests…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David A. Meyer

Quantum language models have shown competitive performance on sequential tasks, yet whether trained quantum circuits exploit genuinely quantum resources -- or merely embed classical computation in quantum hardware -- remains unknown. Prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Nathan Roll

We study the learnability of symbolic finite state automata (SFA), a model shown useful in many applications in software verification. The state-of-the-art literature on this topic follows the query learning paradigm, and so far all…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Dana Fisman , Hadar Frenkel , Sandra Zilles

This set of notes re-proves known results on weighted automata (over a field, also known as multiplicity automata). The text offers a unified view on theorems and proofs that have appeared in the literature over decades and were written in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Stefan Kiefer