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We consider parameterized concurrent systems consisting of a finite but unknown number of components, obtained by replicating a given set of finite state automata. Components communicate by executing atomic interactions whose participants…

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Program synthesis techniques construct or infer programs from user-provided specifications, such as input-output examples. Yet most specifications, especially those given by end-users, leave the synthesis problem radically ill-posed,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yewen Pu , Kevin Ellis , Marta Kryven , Josh Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

We initiate a formal study on the use of low-dimensional latent representations of dynamical systems for verifiable control synthesis. Our main goal is to enable the application of verification techniques -- such as Lyapunov or barrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Paul Lutkus , Kaiyuan Wang , Lars Lindemann , Stephen Tu

Two-player zero-sum games of infinite duration and their quantitative versions are used in verification to model the interaction between a controller (Eve) and its environment (Adam). The question usually addressed is that of the existence…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Paul Hunter , Guillermo A. Pérez , Jean-François Raskin

Reactive synthesis from high-level specifications that combine hard constraints expressed in Linear Temporal Logic LTL with soft constraints expressed by discounted-sum (DS) rewards has applications in planning and reinforcement learning.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Suguman Bansal , Lydia Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi , Andrew Wells

Repair mechanisms are important within resilient systems to maintain the system in an operational state after an error occurred. Usually, constraints on the repair mechanisms are imposed, e.g., concerning the time or resources required…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Christel Baier , Clemens Dubslaff , Ľuboš Korenčiak , Antonín Kučera Vojtěch Řehák

Recent approaches in music generation rely on disentangled representations, often labeled as structure and timbre or local and global, to enable controllable synthesis. Yet the underlying properties of these embeddings remain underexplored.…

Scalability issues may prevent users from verifying critical properties of a complex hardware design. In this situation, we propose to synthesize a "safety shield" that is attached to the design to enforce the properties at run time. Shield…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Roderick Bloem , Bettina Koenighofer , Robert Koenighofer , Chao Wang

Controller synthesis is a theoretical approach to the systematic design of discrete event systems. It constructs a controller to provide feedback and control to the system, ensuring it meets specified control specifications. Traditional…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ruohan Huang , Zining Cao

The design of a complex system warrants a compositional methodology, i.e., composing simple components to obtain a larger system that exhibits their collective behavior in a meaningful way. We propose an automaton-based paradigm for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Tobias Kappé , Farhad Arbab , Carolyn Talcott

Reinforcement Learning views the maximization of rewards and avoidance of punishments as central to explaining goal-directed behavior. However, over a life, organisms will need to learn about many different aspects of the world's structure:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Thomas J. Ringstrom

Most algorithms for the synthesis of reactive systems focus on the construction of finite-state machines rather than actual programs. This often leads to badly structured, unreadable code. In this paper, we present a bounded synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Carsten Gerstacker , Felix Klein , Bernd Finkbeiner

Component-based synthesis seeks to build programs using the APIs provided by a set of libraries. Oftentimes, these APIs have effects, which make it challenging to reason about the correctness of potential synthesis candidates. This is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ashish Mishra , Suresh Jagannathan

We consider robust control synthesis for linear systems with complex specifications that are affected by uncertain disturbances. This work is motivated by autonomous systems interacting with partially known, time-varying environments. Given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Damian Frick , Tony A. Wood , Gian Ulli , Maryam Kamgarpour

Real-world reinforcement learning applications are often hindered by delayed feedback from environments, which violates the Markov assumption and introduces significant challenges. Although numerous delay-compensating methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jongsoo Lee , Jangwon Kim , Jiseok Jeong , Soohee Han

Partial observability and controllability are two well-known issues in test-case synthesis for interactive systems. We address the problem of partial control in the synthesis of test cases from timed-automata specifications. Building on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Léo Henry , Thierry Jéron , Nicolas Markey

Severe impossibility results restrict the design of strategyproof random assignment mechanisms, and trade-offs are necessary when aiming for more demanding efficiency requirements, such as ordinal or rank efficiency. We introduce hybrid…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Timo Mennle , Sven Seuken

Timed regular expressions serve as a formalism for specifying real-time behaviors of Cyber-Physical Systems. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of timed regular expressions, focusing on generating a timed regular expression consistent…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Ziran Wang , Jie An , Naijun Zhan , Miaomiao Zhang , Zhenya Zhang

We introduce a novel resampling criterion using lift scores, for improving compositional generation in diffusion models. By leveraging the lift scores, we evaluate whether generated samples align with each single condition and then compose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chenning Yu , Sicun Gao

Modern generative models exhibit unprecedented capabilities to generate extremely realistic data. However, given the inherent compositionality of the real world, reliable use of these models in practical applications requires that they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Maya Okawa , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Robert P. Dick , Hidenori Tanaka