Learning Unary Output Two-Tape Automata from Multiplicity and Equivalence Queries

  • Authors:
  • Giovanna Melideo;Stefano Varricchio

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ALT '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We investigate the learning problem of unary output two-tape non deterministic finite automata (unary output 2-tape NFAs) from multiplicity and equivalence queries. Given an alphabet A and a unary alphabet {x}, a unary output 2-tape NFA accepts a subset of A* × {x}*. In [6] Bergadano and Varricchio proved that the behavior of an unknown automaton with multiplicity in a field K (K-automaton) is exactly identifiable when multiplicity and equivalence queries are allowed. In this paper multiplicity automata are used to prove the learnability of unary output 2-tape NFA's. We shall identify the behavior of a unary output 2- tape NFA using an automaton with multiplicity in Krat〈x〉. We provide an algorithm which is polynomial in the size of this automaton.