Learning weighted automata over principal ideal domains

van Heerdt, Gerco and Kupke, Clemens and Rot, Jurriaan and Silva, Alexandra; Goubault-Larrecq, Jean and König, Barbara, eds. (2020) Learning weighted automata over principal ideal domains. In: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, IRL, pp. 602-621. ISBN 978-3-030-45231-5 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45231-5_31)

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Abstract

In this paper, we study active learning algorithms for weighted automata over a semiring. We show that a variant of Angluin’s seminal L⋆ algorithm works when the semiring is a principal ideal domain, but not for general semirings such as the natural numbers.