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New Algorithms for Combinations of Objectives using Separating Automata

Computer Science and Game Theory 2021-09-20 v1 Computational Complexity Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

The notion of separating automata was introduced by Bojanczyk and Czerwinski for understanding the first quasipolynomial time algorithm for parity games. In this paper we show that separating automata is a powerful tool for constructing algorithms solving games with combinations of objectives. We construct two new algorithms: the first for disjunctions of parity and mean payoff objectives, matching the best known complexity, and the second for disjunctions of mean payoff objectives, improving on the state of the art. In both cases the algorithms are obtained through the construction of small separating automata, using as black boxes the existing constructions for parity objectives and for mean payoff objectives.

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@article{arxiv.2109.08322,
  title  = {New Algorithms for Combinations of Objectives using Separating Automata},
  author = {Ashwani Anand and Nathanaël Fijalkow and Aliénor Goubault-Larrecq and Jérôme Leroux and Pierre Ohlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08322},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

In Proceedings GandALF 2021, arXiv:2109.07798. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2104.05262

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