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We consider a system consisting of a sequential composition of Mealy machines, called head and tail. We study two problems related to these systems. In the first problem, models of both head and tail components are available, and the aim is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Alberto Larrauri , Roderick Bloem

Constructing abstract interpreters that provide global soundness guarantees remains a major obstacle in abstract interpretation. We investigate whether modern LLMs can reduce this burden by leveraging them to synthesize sound, non-trivial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiuhan Gu , Avaljot Singh , Gagandeep Singh

The use of temporal logics has long been recognised as a fundamental approach to the formal specification and verification of reactive systems. In this paper, we take on the problem of automatically verifying a temporal property, given by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Tewodros A. Beyene , Corneliu Popeea , Andrey Rybalchenko

Reactive synthesis transforms a specification of a reactive system, given in a temporal logic, into an implementation. The main advantage of synthesis is that it is automatic. The main disadvantage is that the implementation is usually very…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tom Baumeister , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

Formal control synthesis approaches over stochastic systems have received significant attention in the past few years, in view of their ability to provide provably correct controllers for complex logical specifications in an automated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Majid Zamani , Ilya Tkachev , Alessandro Abate

This paper presents a new technique for optimizing formal analysis of propositional logic formulas and Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas, namely the formula simplification table. A formula simplification table is a mathematical table…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Omar Al-Bataineh , David Rosenblum , Mark Reynolds

We introduce a technique for synthesis of control and communication strategies for a team of agents from a global task specification given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties that can be satisfied by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Yushan Chen , Xu Chu Ding , Calin Belta

This paper investigates whether recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) can assist in translating human explanations into a format that can robustly support learning Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) from demonstrations. Both LLMs and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Ashutosh Gupta , John Komp , Abhay Singh Rajput , Krishna Shankaranarayanan , Ashutosh Trivedi , Namrita Varshney

We show that given a desired closed-loop response for a system, there exists an affine subspace of controllers that achieve this response. By leveraging the existence of this subspace, we are able to separate controller design from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Jing Shuang Li , Dimitar Ho

System Level Synthesis (SLS) parametrization facilitates controller synthesis for large, complex, and distributed systems by incorporating system level constraints (SLCs) into a convex SLS problem and mapping its solution to stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Shih-Hao Tseng , Carmen {Amo Alonso} , SooJean Han

Reactive synthesis is concerned with finding a correct-by-construction controller from formal specifications, typically expressed in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The specifications describe assumptions about an environment and guarantees to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Davide G. Cavezza , Dalal Alrajeh , Andras Gyorgy

Intonations play an important role in delivering the intention of a speaker. However, current end-to-end TTS systems often fail to model proper intonations. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel, intuitive method to synthesize…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jihwan Lee , Joun Yeop Lee , Heejin Choi , Seongkyu Mun , Sangjun Park , Jae-Sung Bae , Chanwoo Kim

Text-to-speech (TTS) has advanced from generating natural-sounding speech to enabling fine-grained control over attributes like emotion, timbre, and style. Driven by rising industrial demand and breakthroughs in deep learning, e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianxin Xie , Yan Rong , Pengfei Zhang , Wenwu Wang , Li Liu

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

In formal synthesis of reactive systems an implementation of a system is automatically constructed from its formal specification. The great advantage of synthesis is that the resulting implementation is correct by construction; therefore…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Hadas Kress-Gazit , Hazem Torfah

The paper studies the expressivity, relative succinctness and complexity of satisfiability for hybrid extensions of the branching-time logics CTL and CTL+ by variables. Previous complexity results show that only fragments with one variable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Ahmet Kara , Martin Lange , Thomas Schwentick , Volker Weber

Temporal logics for the specification of information-flow properties are able to express relations between multiple executions of a system. The two most important such logics are HyperLTL and HyperCTL*, which generalise LTL and CTL* by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Marie Fortin , Louwe B. Kuijer , Patrick Totzke , Martin Zimmermann

We present the Latent Timbre Synthesis (LTS), a new audio synthesis method using Deep Learning. The synthesis method allows composers and sound designers to interpolate and extrapolate between the timbre of multiple sounds using the latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 K. Tatar , D. Bisig , P. Pasquier

Reactive synthesis from high-level specifications that combine hard constraints expressed in Linear Temporal Logic LTL with soft constraints expressed by discounted-sum (DS) rewards has applications in planning and reinforcement learning.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Suguman Bansal , Lydia Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi , Andrew Wells

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is the standard specification language for reactive systems and is successfully applied in industrial settings. However, many shortcomings of LTL have been identified in the literature, among them the limited…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Daniel Neider , Alexander Weinert , Martin Zimmermann