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Users of program analyses expect that results change predictably in response to changes in their programs, but many analyses fail to provide such robustness. This paper introduces a theoretical framework that provides a unified language to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zachary Kincaid , Shaowei Zhu

Uncertainty quantification for LLMs is a key research direction towards addressing hallucination and other issues that limit their reliable deployment. In this work, we show that reasoning trace length is a simple and useful confidence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Siddartha Devic , Charlotte Peale , Arwen Bradley , Sinead Williamson , Preetum Nakkiran , Aravind Gollakota

Runtime verification enables checking temporal logic specifications over individual execution traces and offers a scalable alternative to exhaustive formal verification. In practice, systems must satisfy dozens to hundreds of temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Arınç Demir , Dogan Ulus

Real-world robotic systems must comply with safety requirements in the presence of uncertainty. To define and measure requirement adherence, Signal Temporal Logic (STL) offers a mathematically rigorous and expressive language. However,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Elizabeth Dietrich , Hanna Krasowski , Emir Cem Gezer , Roger Skjetne , Asgeir Johan Sørensen , Murat Arcak

To realize a market entry of autonomous vehicles in the foreseeable future, the behavior planning system will need to abide by the same rules that humans follow. Product liability cannot be enforced without a proper solution to the approval…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Klemens Esterle , Vincent Aravantinos , Alois Knoll

We develop a timeout based extension of propositional linear temporal logic (which we call TLTL) to specify timing properties of timeout based models of real time systems. TLTL formulas explicitly refer to a running global clock together…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-20 Janardan Misra , Suman Roy

Hyperproperties are a modern specification paradigm that extends trace properties to express properties of sets of traces. Temporal logics for hyperproperties studied in the literature, including HyperLTL, assume a synchronous semantics and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Laura Bozzelli , Adriano Peron , Cesar Sanchez

We develop team semantics for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) to express hyperproperties, which have recently been identified as a key concept in the verification of information flow properties. Conceptually, we consider an asynchronous and a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema , Martin Zimmermann

Robustness has become a critical attribute for the deployment of RAG systems in real-world applications. Existing research focuses on robustness to explicit noise (e.g., document semantics) but overlooks implicit noise (spurious features).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shiping Yang , Jie Wu , Wenbiao Ding , Ning Wu , Shining Liang , Ming Gong , Hongzhi Li , Hengyuan Zhang , Angel X. Chang , Dongmei Zhang

Non-volatile memory (NVM), aka persistent memory, is a new paradigm for memory that preserves its contents even after power loss. The expected ubiquity of NVM has stimulated interest in the design of novel concepts ensuring correctness of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Eleni Bila , Simon Doherty , Brijesh Dongol , John Derrick , Gerhard Schellhorn , Heike Wehrheim

This paper introduces time window temporal logic (TWTL), a rich expressivity language for describing various time bounded specifications. In particular, the syntax and semantics of TWTL enable the compact representation of serial tasks,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Cristian-Ioan Vasile , Derya Aksaray , Calin Belta

Automatic techniques for program verification usually suffer the well-known state explosion problem. Most of the classical approaches are based on browsing the structure of some form of model (which represents the behavior of the program)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Marco Comini , Laura Titolo , Alicia Villanueva

Linearizability is a widely accepted notion of correctness for concurrent objects. Recent research has investigated redefining linearizability for particular hardware weak memory models, in particular for TSO. In this paper, we provide an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Graeme Smith , Kirsten Winter , Robert J. Colvin

Execution of concurrent programs implies frequent switching between different thread contexts. This property perplexes analyzing and reasoning about concurrent programs. Trace simplification is a technique that aims at alleviating this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Mohamed A. El-Zawawy , Mohammad N. Alanazi

Concurrent systems are notoriously difficult to validate: subtle bugs may only manifest under rare thread interleavings, and existing tools often require intrusive instrumentation or unrealistic execution models. We present OmniLink, a new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Finn Hackett , Evan Wrench , Peter Macko , A. Jesse Jiryu Davis , Yuanhao Wei , Ivan Beschastnikh

Control systems can show robustness to many events, like disturbances and model inaccuracies. It is natural to speculate that they are also robust to sporadic deadline misses when implemented as digital tasks on an embedded platform. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Nils Vreman , Paolo Pazzaglia , Jie Wang , Victor Magron , Martina Maggio

Static analysis is one of the most widely adopted techniques to find software bugs before code is put in production. Designing and implementing effective and efficient static analyses is difficult and requires high expertise, which results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Andrew Habib , Michael Pradel

Reasoning-capable large language models solve hard problems by emitting long chains of thought, paying heavily in latency, GPU time, and energy. Casual inspection of their traces reveals extensive reformulation, verification, and circular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xinkai You , Wenjing Yan , Xin Wang

A bitmap is a data structure designed to compactly represent sets of integers; it provides very fast operations for querying and manipulating such sets, exploiting bit-level parallelism. In this paper, we describe a technique for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Kun Xie , Sylvain Hallé

Linear-time temporal logic on finite traces (LTLf) is rapidly becoming a de-facto standard to produce specifications in many application domains (e.g., planning, business process management, run-time monitoring, reactive synthesis). Several…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Marco Roveri , Claudio Di Ciccio , Chiara Di Francescomarino , Chiara Ghidini