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Invariant inference algorithms such as interpolation-based inference and IC3/PDR show that it is feasible, in practice, to find inductive invariants for many interesting systems, but non-trivial upper bounds on the computational complexity…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Sharon Shoham

This paper addresses the complexity of SAT-based invariant inference, a prominent approach to safety verification. We consider the problem of inferring an inductive invariant of polynomial length given a transition system and a safety…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Neil Immerman , Mooly Sagiv , Sharon Shoham

We introduce a graceful approach to probabilistic inference called bounded conditioning. Bounded conditioning monotonically refines the bounds on posterior probabilities in a belief network with computation, and converges on final…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Eric J. Horvitz , Jaap Suermondt , Gregory F. Cooper

A common technique for verifying the safety of complex systems is the inductive invariant method. Inductive invariants are inductive formulas that overapproximate the reachable states of a system and imply a desired safety property.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ian Dardik , Eunsuk Kang

Regular transition systems (RTS) are a popular formalism for modeling infinite-state systems in general, and parameterised systems in particular. In a CONCUR 22 paper, Esparza et al. introduce a novel approach to the verification of RTS,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Philipp Czerner , Javier Esparza , Valentin Krasotin , Christoph Welzel-Mohr

One of the obstacles in automatic program proving is to obtain suitable loop invariants. The invariant of a loop is a weakened form of its postcondition (the loop's goal, also known as its contract); the present work takes advantage of this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia , Bertrand Meyer

The problem of inferring an inductive invariant for verifying program safety can be formulated in terms of binary classification. This is a standard problem in machine learning: given a sample of good and bad points, one is asked to find a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Siddharth Krishna , Christian Puhrsch , Thomas Wies

A program invariant is a property that holds for every execution of the program. Recent work suggest to infer likely-only invariants, via dynamic analysis. A likely invariant is a property that holds for some executions but is not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tristan Denmat , Arnaud Gotlieb , Mireille Ducasse

Infinite-state systems such as distributed protocols are challenging to verify using interactive theorem provers or automatic verification tools. Of these techniques, deductive verification is highly expressive but requires the user to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , James R. Wilcox , Sharon Shoham , Mooly Sagiv

Important insights towards the explainability of neural networks reside in the characteristics of their decision boundaries. In this work, we borrow tools from the field of adversarial robustness, and propose a new perspective that relates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Guillermo Ortiz-Jimenez , Apostolos Modas , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pascal Frossard

A unitarily invariant projective framework is introduced to analyze the complexity of path-following methods for the eigenvalue problem. A condition number, and its relation to the distance to ill-posedness, is given. A Newton map…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-27 Diego Armentano

Given an inverse problem with a normalizing flow prior, we wish to estimate the distribution of the underlying signal conditioned on the observations. We approach this problem as a task of conditional inference on the pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-16 Jay Whang , Erik M. Lindgren , Alexandros G. Dimakis

An inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain is considered. The problem is to extract information about an unknown obstacle embedded in the domain with unknown impedance boundary condition (the Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Masaru Ikehata

This study presents a conditional flow matching framework for solving physics-constrained Bayesian inverse problems. In this setting, samples from the joint distribution of inferred variables and measurements are assumed available, while…

Bayes' rule describes how to infer posterior beliefs about latent variables given observations, and inference is a critical step in learning algorithms for latent variable models (LVMs). Although there are exact algorithms for inference and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sacha Sokoloski

The sensitivities revealed by a sensitivity analysis of a probabilistic network typically depend on the entered evidence. For a real-life network therefore, the analysis is performed a number of times, with different evidence. Although…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Silja Renooij , Linda C. van der Gaag

Physics-informed neural networks have attracted significant attention in scientific machine learning for their capability to solve forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations. However, the accuracy of PINN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shota Deguchi , Mitsuteru Asai

Can a physicist make only a finite number of errors in the eternal quest to uncover the law of nature? This millennium-old philosophical problem, known as inductive inference, lies at the heart of epistemology. Despite its significance to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhou Lu

Two geometric spaces are in the same topological class if they are related by certain geometric deformations. We propose machine learning methods that automate learning of topological invariance and apply it in the context of knot theory,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-18 James Halverson , Fabian Ruehle

Invariants are a set of properties over program attributes that are expected to be true during the execution of a program. Since developing those invariants manually can be costly and challenging, there are a myriad of approaches that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Meriel Stein , Sebastian Elbaum , Lu Feng , Shili Sheng
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