Neural Induction of Finite-State Transducers

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Main Authors: Ginn, Michael, Palmer, Alexis, Hulden, Mans
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Published: 2026
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author Ginn, Michael
Palmer, Alexis
Hulden, Mans
author_facet Ginn, Michael
Palmer, Alexis
Hulden, Mans
contents Finite-State Transducers (FSTs) are effective models for string-to-string rewriting tasks, often providing the efficiency necessary for high-performance applications, but constructing transducers by hand is difficult. In this work, we propose a novel method for automatically constructing unweighted FSTs following the hidden state geometry learned by a recurrent neural network. We evaluate our methods on real-world datasets for morphological inflection, grapheme-to-phoneme prediction, and historical normalization, showing that the constructed FSTs are highly accurate and robust for many datasets, substantially outperforming classical transducer learning algorithms by up to 87% accuracy on held-out test sets.
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spellingShingle Neural Induction of Finite-State Transducers
Ginn, Michael
Palmer, Alexis
Hulden, Mans
Computation and Language
Finite-State Transducers (FSTs) are effective models for string-to-string rewriting tasks, often providing the efficiency necessary for high-performance applications, but constructing transducers by hand is difficult. In this work, we propose a novel method for automatically constructing unweighted FSTs following the hidden state geometry learned by a recurrent neural network. We evaluate our methods on real-world datasets for morphological inflection, grapheme-to-phoneme prediction, and historical normalization, showing that the constructed FSTs are highly accurate and robust for many datasets, substantially outperforming classical transducer learning algorithms by up to 87% accuracy on held-out test sets.
title Neural Induction of Finite-State Transducers
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10918