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Design and control of autonomous systems that operate in uncertain or adversarial environments can be facilitated by formal modelling and analysis. Probabilistic model checking is a technique to automatically verify, for a given temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker

This work studies the applicability of expensive external oracles such as large language models in answering top-k queries over predicted scores. Such scores are incurred by user-defined functions to answer personalized queries over…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Sohrab Namazi Nia , Subhodeep Ghosh , Senjuti Basu Roy , Sihem Amer-Yahia

For Finite State Machines (FSMs) a rich testing theory has been developed to discover aspects of their behavior and ensure their correct functioning. Although this theory is widely used, e.g., to check conformance of protocol…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Petra van den Bos , Frits Vaandrager

We introduce a tool for rigorous and automated verification of large language model (LLM)- based policies in memoryless sequential decision-making tasks. Given a Markov decision process (MDP) representing the sequential decision-making…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Dennis Gross , Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in high-stakes applications impacting society. Therefore, it is of critical importance that ML models do not propagate discrimination. Collecting accurate labeled data in societal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Hadis Anahideh , Abolfazl Asudeh , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

Large language models (LLMs) have significant potential to improve operational efficiency in operations management. Deploying these models requires specifying a policy that governs response quality, shapes user experience, and influences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Mingjie Hu , Siyang Gao , Jian-qiang Hu , Enlu Zhou

Now-a-days they are very much considering about the changes to be done at shorter time since the reaction time needs are decreasing every moment. Business Logic Evaluation Model (BLEM) are the proposed solution targeting business logic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Thirumaran. M , Dhavachelvan. P , S. Abarna , Lakshmi. P

Linear exact modeling is a problem coming from system identification: Given a set of observed trajectories, the goal is find a model (usually, a system of partial differential and/or difference equations) that explains the data as precisely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-26 Kristina Schindelar , Viktor Levandovskyy , Eva Zerz

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have gained increasing popularity due to their compelling prediction performance in diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks. When formulating a PLM-based prediction pipeline for NLP tasks, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yuxin Xiao , Paul Pu Liang , Umang Bhatt , Willie Neiswanger , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

We present a novel and well automatable approach to formal verification of C programs with underspecified semantics, i.e., a language semantics that leaves open the order of certain evaluations. First, we reduce this problem to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Eduard Kamburjan , Nathan Wasser

Linear Finite State Machines (LFSMs) are particular primitives widely used in information theory, coding theory and cryptography. Among those linear automata, a particular case of study is Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs) used in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 François Arnault , Thierry Berger , Marine Minier , Benjamin Pousse

Fault-tolerant distributed algorithms are central for building reliable spatially distributed systems. Unfortunately, the lack of a canonical precise framework for fault-tolerant algorithms is an obstacle for both verification and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Annu John , Igor Konnov , Ulrich Schmid , Helmut Veith , Josef Widder

Recently there has been a great attention from the scientific community towards the use of the model-checking technique as a tool for test generation in the simulation field. This paper aims to provide a useful mean to get more insights…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Margherita Napoli , Mimmo Parente

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in natural language understanding and reasoning. However, their ability to perform exact, deterministic computation remains unclear. In this work, we systematically evaluate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hongkun Yu

Nondeterministic choice is a useful program construct that provides a way to describe the behaviour of a program without specifying the details of possible implementations. It supports the stepwise refinement of programs, a method that has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yuan Feng , Yingte Xu

Many real-world applications are increasingly incorporating automated decision-making, driven by the widespread adoption of ML/AI inference for planning and guidance. This study examines the growing need for verifiable computing in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Michele Dallachiesa , Antonio Pitasi , David Pinger , Josh Goodbody , Luis Vaello

Training large language models (LLMs) with synthetic reasoning data has become a popular approach to enhancing their reasoning capabilities, while a key factor influencing the effectiveness of this paradigm is the quality of the generated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhuojie Yang , Wentao Wan , Keze Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) can solve previously intractable tasks given only natural-language instructions and a few examples, but they remain difficult to steer precisely and lack a key capability for building reliable software at scale:…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jonathan Laurent , André Platzer

Probabilistic model checking computes probabilities and expected values related to designated behaviours of interest in Markov models. As a formal verification approach, it is applied to critical systems; thus we trust that probabilistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Arnd Hartmanns

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has gained significant attention across various domains. However, the increasing complexity of RL programs presents testing challenges, particularly the oracle problem: defining the correctness of the RL program.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shiyu Zhang , Haoyang Song , Qixin Wang , Yu Pei