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NetKAT is a domain-specific programming language and logic that has been successfully used to specify and verify the behavior of packet-switched networks. This paper develops techniques for automatically learning NetKAT models of unknown…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mark Moeller , Tiago Ferreira , Thomas Lu , Nate Foster , Alexandra Silva

We study the adaptive control of an unknown linear system with a quadratic cost function subject to safety constraints on both the states and actions. The challenges of this problem arise from the tension among safety, exploration,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Yingying Li , Subhro Das , Jeff Shamma , Na Li

We present two active learning algorithms for sound deterministic negotiations. Sound deterministic negotiations are models of distributed systems, a kind of Petri nets or Zielonka automata with additional structure. We show that this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Anca Muscholl , Igor Walukiewicz

We present an Angluin-style algorithm to learn nominal automata, which are acceptors of languages over infinite (structured) alphabets. The abstract approach we take allows us to seamlessly extend known variations of the algorithm to this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Joshua Moerman , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva , Bartek Klin , Michał Szynwelski

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence techniques have emerged as useful tools for solving various engineering problems that were not possible or convenient to handle by traditional methods. AI has directly influenced many areas of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Erik Cuevas , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez- , Marte Ramirez

In this paper, we define the class of hourglass automata, which are timed automata with bounded clocks that can be made to progress backwards as well as forwards at a constant rate. We then introduce a new clock update for timed automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Yuki Osada , Tim French , Mark Reynolds , Harry Smallbone

One clock alternating timed automata OCATA have been recently introduced as natural extension of (one clock) timed automata to express the semantics of MTL (Ouaknine, Worrell 2005). We consider the application of OCATA to problem of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Thomas Brihaye , Morgane Estiévenart , Gilles Geeraerts

Automata learning is a popular technique used to automatically construct an automaton model from queries. Much research went into devising ad hoc adaptations of algorithms for different types of automata. The CALF project seeks to unify…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Gerco van Heerdt , Tobias Kappé , Jurriaan Rot , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

We consider the problem of explaining the temporal behavior of black-box systems using human-interpretable models. To this end, based on recent research trends, we rely on the fundamental yet interpretable models of deterministic finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Rajarshi Roy , Jean-Raphaël Gaglione , Nasim Baharisangari , Daniel Neider , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

We develop a learning algorithm for closed signal flow graphs - a graphical model of signal transducers. The algorithm relies on the correspondence between closed signal flow graphs and weighted finite automata on a singleton alphabet. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ekaterina Piotrovskaya , Leo Lobski , Fabio Zanasi

Data-efficient learning algorithms are essential in many practical applications where data collection is expensive, e.g., in robotics due to the wear and tear. To address this problem, meta-learning algorithms use prior experience about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jean Kaddour , Steindór Sæmundsson , Marc Peter Deisenroth

We consider the problem of learning temporal logic formulas from examples of system behavior. Learning temporal properties has crystallized as an effective mean to explain complex temporal behaviors. Several efficient algorithms have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

Weighted timed automata have been defined in the early 2000's for modelling resource-consumption or -allocation problems in real-time systems. Optimal reachability is decidable in weighted timed automata, and a symbolic forward algorithm…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Patricia Bouyer , Maximilien Colange , Nicolas Markey

Angluin's L$^*$ algorithm learns the minimal deterministic finite automaton (DFA) of a regular language using membership and equivalence queries. Its probabilistic approximatively correct (PAC) version substitutes an equivalence query by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Lina Ye , Igor Khmelnitsky , Serge Haddad , Benoît Barbot , Benedikt Bollig , Martin Leucker , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

Machine teaching is an algorithmic framework for teaching a target hypothesis via a sequence of examples or demonstrations. We investigate machine teaching for temporal logic formulas -- a novel and expressive hypothesis class amenable to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Zhe Xu , Yuxin Chen , Ufuk Topcu

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and tool use, yet they often suffer from rigid, reactive control flows that limit their adaptability and efficiency. Most existing frameworks rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hong Su

Given a member A of the class of non-deterministic timed automata with silent transitions (eNTA), we effectively compute its timestamp: the set of all pairs (time value, action) of all observable timed traces of A, a generalization of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Amnon Rosenmann

We propose an algorithm to actively estimate the parameters of a linear dynamical system. Given complete control over the system's input, our algorithm adaptively chooses the inputs to accelerate estimation. We show a finite time bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Andrew Wagenmaker , Kevin Jamieson

Although time is one of the fundamental notions in physics, it does not have a unique description. In quantum theory time is a parameter ordering the succession of the probability amplitudes of a quantum system, while according to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-04 Pavel Bushev , Jared H. Cole , Dmitry Sholokhov , Nadezhda Kukharchyk , Magdalena Zych

ELAN is a powerful language and environment for specifying and prototyping deduction systems in a language based on rewrite rules controlled by strategies. Timed automata is a class of continuous real-time models of reactive systems for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Beffara , Olivier Bournez , Hassen Kacem , Claude Kirchner