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We consider the synthesis of distributed implementations for specifications in Prompt Linear Temporal Logic (PROMPT-LTL), which extends LTL by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. For single process synthesis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Swen Jacobs , Leander Tentrup , Martin Zimmermann

In this paper, a method for learning a recurrent neural network (RNN) controller that maximizes the robustness of signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is presented. In contrast to previous methods, we consider synthesizing the RNN…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Wataru Hashimoto , Kazumune Hashimoto , Shigemasa Takai

Our main result is a polynomial time algorithm for deciding realizability for the GXU sublogic of linear temporal logic. This logic is particularly suitable for the specification of embedded control systems, and it is more expressive than…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xin Ye , Harald Ruess

How do LLMs compare with symbolic tools on program synthesis tasks? We investigate this question on several synthesis domains: LTL reactive synthesis, syntax-guided synthesis, distributed protocol synthesis, and recursive function…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Derek Egolf , Yuhao Zhou , Stavros Tripakis

The classical LTL synthesis problem is purely qualitative: the given LTL specification is realized or not by a reactive system. LTL is not expressive enough to formalize the correctness of reactive systems with respect to some quantitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Aaron Bohy , Véronique Bruyère , Emmanuel Filiot , Jean-François Raskin

In this paper, we consider a control synthesis problem for a class of polynomial dynamical systems subject to bounded disturbances and with input constraints. More precisely, we aim at synthesizing at the same time a controller and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-11 Mohamed Amin Ben Sassi , Antoine Girard

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a compelling approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), where an LLM generator serves as a policy guided by a verifier (reward model). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kaiwen Zha , Zhengqi Gao , Maohao Shen , Zhang-Wei Hong , Duane S. Boning , Dina Katabi

We propose a counterexample-guided inductive synthesis framework for the formal synthesis of closed-form sampled-data controllers for nonlinear systems to meet STL specifications over finite-time trajectories. Rather than stating the STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Cees F. Verdier , Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff , Manuel Mazo

Autonomous systems often have complex and possibly unknown dynamics due to, e.g., black-box components. This leads to unpredictable behaviors and makes control design with performance guarantees a major challenge. This paper presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 John Jackson , Luca Laurenti , Eric Frew , Morteza Lahijanian

We consider a problem on the synthesis of reactive controllers that optimize some a priori unknown performance criterion while interacting with an uncontrolled environment such that the system satisfies a given temporal logic specification.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-09 Min Wen , Ruediger Ehlers , Ufuk Topcu

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a specification. Recent years have seen proposal of a number of neural approaches for program synthesis, many of which adopt a sequence generation paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Rudy Bunel , Matthew Hausknecht , Jacob Devlin , Rishabh Singh , Pushmeet Kohli

The requirements for real-world manipulation tasks are diverse and often conflicting; some tasks require precise motion while others require force compliance; some tasks require avoidance of certain regions, while others require convergence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Tianhao Wei , Liqian Ma , Rui Chen , Weiye Zhao , Changliu Liu

The Central Pattern Generator (CPG) is adept at generating rhythmic gait patterns characterized by consistent timing and adequate foot clearance. Yet, its open-loop configuration often compromises the system's control performance in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Xinyu Zhang , Zhiyuan Xiao , Qingrui Zhang , Wei Pan

When developing text classification models for real world applications, one major challenge is the difficulty to collect sufficient data for all text classes. In this work, we address this challenge by utilizing large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chenhao Xue , Yuanzhe Jin , Adrian Carrasco-Revilla , Joyraj Chakraborty , Min Chen

Although it is widely accepted that every system should be robust, in the sense that "small" violations of environment assumptions should lead to "small" violations of system guarantees, it is less clear how to make this intuitive notion of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Paulo Tabuada , Daniel Neider

LCRL is a software tool that implements model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms over unknown Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), synthesising policies that satisfy a given linear temporal specification with maximal probability. LCRL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hosein Hasanbeig , Daniel Kroening , Alessandro Abate

We study the reactive synthesis problem (RS) for specifications given in Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL). RS is known to be undecidable in a very general setting, but on infinite words only; and only the very restrictive BRRS subcase…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Thomas Brihaye , Morgane Estiévenart , Gilles Geeraerts , Hsi-Ming Ho , Benjamin Monmege , Nathalie Sznajder

This paper explores continuous-time control synthesis for target-driven navigation to satisfy complex high-level tasks expressed as linear temporal logic (LTL). We propose a model-free framework using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mingyu Cai , Makai Mann , Zachary Serlin , Kevin Leahy , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a widely employed machine learning architecture that has been applied to a variety of control problems. However, applications in safety-critical domains require a systematic and formal approach to specifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Hosein Hasanbeig , Daniel Kroening , Alessandro Abate

Temporal logic specifications play an important role in a wide range of software analysis tasks, such as model checking, automated synthesis, program comprehension, and runtime monitoring. Given a set of positive and negative examples,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Changjian Zhang , Parv Kapoor , Ian Dardik , Leyi Cui , Romulo Meira-Goes , David Garlan , Eunsuk Kang