From Formal Language Theory to Statistical Learning: Finite Observability of Subregular Languages
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Hidetaka Kamigaito · Sep 26, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Abstract
We prove that all standard subregular language classes are linearly separable when represented by their deciding predicates. This establishes finite observability and guarantees learnability with simple linear models. Synthetic experiments confirm perfect separability under noise-free conditions, while real-data experiments on English morphology show that learned features align with well-known linguistic constraints. These results demonstrate that the subregular hierarchy provides a rigorous and interpretable foundation for modeling natural language structure. Our code used in real-data experiments is available at https://github.com/UTokyo-HayashiLab/subregular.