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In the past few years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have exploded in usefulness and popularity for code generation tasks. However, LLMs still struggle with accuracy and are unsuitable for high-risk applications without additional oversight…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 William Murphy , Nikolaus Holzer , Feitong Qiao , Leyi Cui , Raven Rothkopf , Nathan Koenig , Mark Santolucito

We present a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to synthesize a control policy from a given linear temporal logic (LTL) specification in an unknown stochastic environment that can be modeled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Yu Wang , Michael M. Zavlanos , Miroslav Pajic

LTLf synthesis is the process of finding a strategy that satisfies a linear temporal specification over finite traces. An existing solution to this problem relies on a reduction to a DFA game. In this paper, we propose a symbolic framework…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Shufang Zhu , Lucas M. Tabajara , Jianwen Li , Geguang Pu , Moshe Y. Vardi

Reactive synthesis deals with the automated construction of implementations of reactive systems from their specifications. To make the approach feasible in practice, systems engineers need effective and efficient means of debugging these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Rüdiger Ehlers , Vasumathi Raman

Existing approaches to the synthesis of reactive systems typically involve the construction of transition systems such as Mealy automata. However, in order to obtain a succinct representation of the desired system, structured programs can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Benedikt Brütsch

Logic Production System (LPS) is a logic-based framework for modelling reactive behaviour. Based on abductive logic programming, it combines reactive rules with logic programs, a database and a causal theory that specifies transitions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Krysia Broda , Fariba Sadri , Stephen Butler

Reactive synthesis supports designers by automatically constructing correct hardware from declarative specifications. Synthesis algorithms usually compute a strategy, and then construct a circuit that implements it. In this work, we study…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Roderick Bloem , Uwe Egly , Patrick Klampfl , Robert Koenighofer , Florian Lonsing

Temporal logic based synthesis approaches are often used to find trajectories that are correct-by-construction for tasks in systems with complex behavior. Some examples of such tasks include synchronization for multi-agent hybrid systems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Sumanth Dathathri , Richard M. Murray

The parameter synthesis problem for parametric timed automata is undecidable in general even for very simple reachability properties. In this paper we introduce restrictions on parameter valuations under which the parameter synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Peter Bezděk , Nikola Beneš , Jiří Barnat , Ivana Černá

Approximate computing is an effective computing paradigm for improving the energy efficiency of error-tolerant applications. Approximate logic synthesis (ALS) is an automatic process to generate approximate circuits with reduced area,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chang Meng , Weikang Qian , Giovanni De Micheli

We investigate the problem of controller synthesis for hyperproperties specified in the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces. Hyperproperties can elegantly express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner

In real-time and safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPSs), control synthesis must guarantee that generated policies meet stringent timing and correctness requirements under uncertain and dynamic conditions. Signal temporal logic (STL)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xiaochen Tang , Zhenya Zhang , Miaomiao Zhang , Jie An

Many systems are naturally modeled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), combining probabilities and strategic actions. Given a model of a system as an MDP and some logical specification of system behavior, the goal of synthesis is to find a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Andrew M. Wells , Morteza Lahijanian , Lydia E. Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi

We propose Teamwork Synthesis, a version of the distributed synthesis problem with application to teamwork multi-agent systems. We reformulate the distributed synthesis question by dropping the fixed interaction architecture among agents as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Nir Piterman

The unrealizability of a specification is often due to the assumption that the behavior of the environment is unrestricted. In this paper, we present algorithms for synthesis in bounded environments, where the environment can only generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

Program Synthesis is the task of generating a program from a provided specification. Traditionally, this has been treated as a search problem by the programming languages (PL) community and more recently as a supervised learning problem by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Riley Simmons-Edler , Anders Miltner , Sebastian Seung

Hardware synthesis is a general term used to refer to the processes involved in automatically generating a hardware design from its specification. High-level synthesis (HLS) could be defined as the translation from a behavioral description…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Issam Damaj

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

In reactive controller synthesis, a number of implementations (controllers) are possible for a given specification because of the incomplete nature of specification. To choose the most desirable one from the various options, we need to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Amol Wakankar , Paritosh K. Pandya , Rajmohan Matteplackel

The difficulty of manually specifying reward functions has led to an interest in using linear temporal logic (LTL) to express objectives for reinforcement learning (RL). However, LTL has the downside that it is sensitive to small…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Rajeev Alur , Osbert Bastani , Kishor Jothimurugan , Mateo Perez , Fabio Somenzi , Ashutosh Trivedi