Equivalence of History and Generator -Machines

-Machines are minimal, unifilar presentations of stationary stochastic processes. They were originally defined in the history machine sense, as hidden Markov models whose states are the equivalence classes of infinite pasts with the same probability distribution over futures. In analyzing synchronization, though, an alternative generator definition was given: unifilar, edge-emitting hidden Markov models with probabilistically distinct states. The key difference is that history -machines are defined by a process, whereas generator -machines define a process. We show here that these two definitions are equivalent in the finite-state case.