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We investigate the complexity of the reachability problem for (deep) neural networks: does it compute valid output given some valid input? It was recently claimed that the problem is NP-complete for general neural networks and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Marco Sälzer , Martin Lange

We present an approach to approximate reachable sets for linear systems with bounded L-infinity controls in finite time. Our first approach investigates the boundaries of these sets and reveals an exact characterization for single-input,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Steven Nguyen , Jorge Cortés , Boris Kramer

Verifying the correct behavior of robots in contact tasks is challenging due to model uncertainties associated with contacts. Standard methods for testing often fall short since all (uncountable many) solutions cannot be obtained. Instead,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chencheng Tang , Matthias Althoff

Visibly pushdown automata (VPA), introduced by Alur and Madhusuan in 2004, is a subclass of pushdown automata whose stack behavior is completely determined by the input symbol according to a fixed partition of the input alphabet. Since its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Nguyen Van Tang

We study the bisimilarity problem for probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) and subclasses thereof. Our definition of pPDA allows both probabilistic and non-deterministic branching, generalising the classical notion of pushdown automata…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Vojtěch Forejt , Petr Jančar , Stefan Kiefer , James Worrell

Timed pushdown automata are pushdown automata extended with a finite set of real-valued clocks. Additionaly, each symbol in the stack is equipped with a value representing its age. The enabledness of a transition may depend on the values of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Jari Stenman

Input-driven pushdown automata (also known as visibly pushdown automata and as nested word automata) are a subclass of deterministic pushdown automata and a superclass of the parenthesis languages. Nguyen and Ogawa ("Event-clock visibly…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Mizuhito Ogawa , Alexander Okhotin

We consider the reachability problem for higher-order functional programs and study the relationship between reachability games (i.e., the reachability problem for programs with angelic and demonic nondeterminism) and may-reachability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Kazuyuki Asada , Hiroyuki Katsura , Naoki Kobayashi

Several reachability problems in finite automata, such as completeness of NFAs and synchronisation of total DFAs, correspond to fundamental properties of sets of nonnegative matrices. In particular, the two mentioned properties correspond…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Stefan Kiefer , Andrew Ryzhikov

In this note, we consider the problem of choosing which nodes of a linear dynamical system should be actuated so that the state transfer from the system's initial condition to a given final state is possible. Assuming a standard complexity…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Ali Jadbabaie , Alexander Olshevsky , George J. Pappas , Vasileios Tzoumas

We study explorability, a measure of nondeterminism in pushdown automata, which generalises history-determinism. An automaton is k-explorable if, while reading the input, it suffices to follow k concurrent runs, built step-by-step based…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ayaan Bedi , Karoliina Lehtinen

Vector addition systems with states (VASS) are a classic model in concurrency theory. Grammar vector addition systems (GVAS), equivalently, pushdown VASS, extend VASS by using a context-free grammar to control addition. In this paper, our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chengfeng Xue , Yuxi Fu

This paper deals with the CREP (Configuration REachability Problem) for non-uniform cellular automata (CAs). The cells of non-uniform CAs, we have considered here, can use different Wolfram's rules to generate their next states. We report…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Sumit Adak , Sukanya Mukherjee , Sukanta Das

Autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) rely on the correct operation of numerous components, with state-of-the-art methods relying on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) components in various stages of sensing and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Weiming Xiang , Taylor T. Johnson

In this article we approach a class of stochastic reachability problems with state constraints from an optimal control perspective. Preceding approaches to solving these reachability problems are either confined to the deterministic setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

In a reachability-time game, players Min and Max choose moves so that the time to reach a final state in a timed automaton is minimised or maximised, respectively. Asarin and Maler showed decidability of reachability-time games on strongly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Marcin Jurdziński , Ashutosh Trivedi

We study a new modification of the Arrival problem, which allows for nodes that exhibit random as well as controlled behaviour, in addition to switching nodes. We study the computational complexity of these extensions, building on existing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Thomas Webster

Probabilistic guarantees of safety and performance are important in constrained dynamical systems with stochastic uncertainty. We consider the stochastic reachability problem, which maximizes the probability that the state remains within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Abraham P. Vinod , Meeko M. K. Oishi

In this paper we study reachability verification problems of stochastic discrete-time dynamical systems over the infinite time horizon. The reachability verification of interest in this paper is to certify specified lower and upper bounds…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Bai Xue

Higher-order counter automata (\HOCS) can be either seen as a restriction of higher-order pushdown automata (\HOPS) to a unary stack alphabet, or as an extension of counter automata to higher levels. We distinguish two principal kinds of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Alexander Heußner , Alexander Kartzow