I teach the third part of this course on weighted automata,
transducers and a category theoretic approach to automata
minimization and learning. Due to the sanitary crisis the
lectures are held online, on BBB.
Lecture 1: Weighted automata. Basic definitions. Rational series.
Lecture 2: The Kleene–Schützenberger Theorem.
Lecture 3: Minimal automata. Factorization system, initial and final objects. Minimal object in a category.
References:
Jacques Sakarovitch: Elements of Automata Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2009)