Improved constructions for succinct affine automata (2106.16197v1)

Abstract: Affine finite automata (AfA) can be more succinct than probabilistic and quantum finite automata when recognizing some regular languages with bounded-error. In this paper, we improve previously known constructions given for the succinctness of AfAs in three ways. First, we replace some of fixed error bounds with arbitrarily small error bounds. Second, we present new constructions by using less states than the previous constructions. Third, we show that any language recognized by a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) is also recognized by bounded-error AfAs having one more state, and so, AfAs inherit all succinct results by NFAs. As a special case, we also show that any language recognized by a NFA is recognized by AfAs with zero error if the number of accepting path(s) for each member is exactly the same number.