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Linear temporal logic (LTL) is a compelling framework for specifying complex, structured tasks for reinforcement learning (RL) agents. Recent work has shown that interpreting LTL instructions as finite automata, which can be seen as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Mattia Giuri , Mathias Jackermeier , Alessandro Abate

Synthesizing a reactive system from specifications given in linear temporal logic (LTL) is a classical problem, finding its applications in safety-critical systems design. These systems are typically represented using either Mealy machines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jan Křetínský , Tobias Meggendorfer , Maximilian Prokop

We develop an approach to estimate the probability that a program sampled from a large language model is correct. Given a natural language description of a programming problem, our method samples both candidate programs as well as candidate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Darren Key , Wen-Ding Li , Kevin Ellis

Reactive synthesis is the process of using temporal logic specifications in LTL to generate correct controllers, but its use has been restricted to Boolean specifications. Recently, a Boolean abstraction technique allows to translate LTL T…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Andoni Rodríguez , Cesar Sanchez

Children acquire their native language with apparent ease by observing how language is used in context and attempting to use it themselves. They do so without laborious annotations, negative examples, or even direct corrections. We take a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Christopher Wang , Candace Ross , Yen-Ling Kuo , Boris Katz , Andrei Barbu

The semantic foundations for logic programming are usually separated into two different approaches. The operational semantics, which uses SLD-resolution, the proof method that computes answers in logic programming, and the declarative…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-02 João Barbosa , Mário Florido , Vítor Santos Costa

Autonomous agents often operate in uncertain environments where their decisions are made based on beliefs over states of targets. We are interested in controller synthesis for complex tasks defined over belief spaces. Designing such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Chanyeol Yoo , Calin Belta

The program synthesis problem within the Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) community has typically been seen as untyped. We consider the benefits of user provided types on background knowledge. Building on the Meta-Interpretive Learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Rolf Morel

In this paper, we consider a temporal logic planning problem in which the objective is to find an infinite trajectory that satisfies an optimal selection from a set of soft specifications expressed in linear temporal logic (LTL) while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Hazhar Rahmani , Jason M. O'Kane

We extend previous work on symbolic self-triggered control for non-deterministic continuous-time nonlinear systems without stability assumptions to a larger class of specifications. Our goal is to synthesise a controller for two objectives:…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Clovis Eberhart , Jérémy Dubut

In this paper, we consider networks of static sensors with integrated sensing and communication capabilities. The goal of the sensors is to propagate their collected information to every other agent in the network and possibly a human…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Hans Riess , Yiannis Kantaros , George Pappas , Robert Ghrist

The classical formulation of the program-synthesis problem is to find a program that meets a correctness specification given as a logical formula. Syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS) is a standardized format for specifying the correctness…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Saswat Padhi , Elizabeth Polgreen , Mukund Raghothaman , Andrew Reynolds , Abhishek Udupa

This paper studies the controller synthesis problem for nonlinear control systems under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications using zonotope techniques. A local-to-global control strategy is proposed for the desired specification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Wei Ren , Raphael M. Jungers , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper describes a technique for inferring temporal-logic properties for sets of finite data streams. Such data streams arise in many domains, including server logs, program testing, and financial and marketing data; temporal-logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Samuel Huang , Rance Cleaveland

Generating sub-optimal synthesis transformation sequences ("synthesis recipe") is an important problem in logic synthesis. Manually crafted synthesis recipes have poor quality. State-of-the art machine learning (ML) works to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Animesh Basak Chowdhury , Benjamin Tan , Ryan Carey , Tushit Jain , Ramesh Karri , Siddharth Garg

We introduce a metric that can quantify the temporal relaxation of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications and facilitate resilient control synthesis in the face of infeasibilities. The proposed metric quantifies a cumulative notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray

Inspired by the recent evolution of deep neural networks (DNNs) in machine learning, we explore their application to PL-related topics. This paper is the first step towards this goal; we propose a proof-synthesis method for the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Taro Sekiyama , Akifumi Imanishi , Kohei Suenaga

Several decision problems that are encountered in various business domains can be modeled as mathematical programs, i.e. optimization problems. The process of conducting such modeling often requires the involvement of experts trained in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ganesh Prasath , Shirish Karande

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

This paper deals with the control synthesis problem for a continuous nonlinear dynamical system under a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula. The proposed solution is a top-down hierarchical decomposition of the control problem involving…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Dimos V. Dimarogonas