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The aim of a probabilistic output analysis is to derive a probability distribution of possible output values for a program from a probability distribution of its input. We present a method for performing static output analysis, based on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Mads Rosendahl , Maja H. Kirkeby

We present a formulation of the problem of probabilistic model checking as one of query evaluation over probabilistic logic programs. To the best of our knowledge, our formulation is the first of its kind, and it covers a rich class of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-24 Andrey Gorlin , C. R. Ramakrishnan , Scott A. Smolka

Probabilistic programming is a growing area that strives to make statistical analysis more accessible, by separating probabilistic modelling from probabilistic inference. In practice this decoupling is difficult. No single inference…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Maria I. Gorinova

We introduce a model of probabilistic verification in mechanism design. The principal elicits a message from the agent and then selects a test to give the agent. The agent's true type determines the probability with which he can pass each…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-01-16 Ian Ball , Deniz Kattwinkel

Probabilistic models are a critical part of the modern deep learning toolbox - ranging from generative models (VAEs, GANs), sequence to sequence models used in machine translation and speech processing to models over functional spaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Marta Garnelo , Alhussein Fawzi , Pushmeet Kohli

Bounded Model Checking is one the most successful techniques for finding bugs in program. However, for programs with loops iterating over large-sized arrays, bounded model checkers often exceed the limit of resources available to them. We…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Anushri Jana , Uday P. Khedker , Advaita Datar , R Venkatesh , C Niyas

In parametric lock-sharing systems processes can spawn new processes to run in parallel, and can create new locks. The behavior of every process is given by a pushdown automaton. We consider infinite behaviors of such systems under strong…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Corto Mascle , Anca Muscholl , Igor Walukiewicz

We consider the model checking problem for probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) and properties expressible in various probabilistic logics. We start with properties that can be formulated as instances of a generalized random walk problem.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Javier Esparza , Antonin Kucera , Richard Mayr

This tutorial paper presents a hands-on perspective on probabilistic model checking with the Storm model checker. Storm is a decade-old model checker that excels in performance and a rich Python-based ecosystem, which makes it easy to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Matthias Volk , Linus Heck , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Tim Quatmann

In model-based testing (MBT) we may have to deal with a non-deterministic model, e.g. because abstraction was applied, or because the software under test itself is non-deterministic. The same test case may then trigger multiple possible…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-13 I. S. W. B. Prasetya , Rick Klomp

This paper presents a novel approach for augmenting proof-based verification with performance-style analysis of the kind employed in state-of-the-art model checking tools for probabilistic systems. Quantitative safety properties usually…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-11 Ukachukwu Ndukwu

Quantitative properties of stochastic systems are usually specified in logics that allow one to compare the measure of executions satisfying certain temporal properties with thresholds. The model checking problem for stochastic systems with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-11 Axel Legay , Benoit Delahaye

Model checking is an established technique to formally verify automation systems which are required to be trusted. However, for sufficiently complex systems model checking becomes computationally infeasible. On the other hand, testing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Igor Buzhinsky , Valeriy Vyatkin

Probabilistic model checking is a widely used formal verification technique to automatically verify qualitative and quantitative properties for probabilistic models. However, capturing such systems, writing corresponding properties, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Kangfeng Ye , Fang Yan , Simos Gerasimou

Software model checking, as an undecidable problem, has three possible outcomes: (1) the program satisfies the specification, (2) the program does not satisfy the specification, and (3) the model checker fails. The third outcome usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Dirk Beyer , Thomas A. Henzinger , M. Erkan Keremoglu , Philipp Wendler

We report on an effort to develop methodologies for formal verification of parts of the Multi-Purpose Daemon (MPD) parallel process management system. MPD is a distributed collection of communicating processes. While the individual…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Olga Shumsky Matlin , William McCune , Ewing Lusk

Model-checking is one of the most powerful techniques for verifying systems and programs, which since the pioneering results by Knapik et al., Ong, and Kobayashi, is known to be applicable to functional programs with higher-order types…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ugo Dal Lago , Alexis Ghyselen

We study discrete probabilistic programs with potentially unbounded looping behaviors over an infinite state space. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first decidability result for the problem of determining whether such a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Mingshuai Chen , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Lutz Klinkenberg , Tobias Winkler

We introduce the problem of formally verifying properties of Markov processes where the parameters are given by the output of machine learning models. For a broad class of machine learning models, including linear models, tree-based models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Muhammad Maaz , Timothy C. Y. Chan

This paper presents a probabilistic model validation methodology for nonlinear systems in time-domain. The proposed formulation is simple, intuitive, and accounts both deterministic and stochastic nonlinear systems with parametric and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Abhishek Halder , Raktim Bhattacharya