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Rational verification is the problem of determining which temporal logic properties will hold in a multi-agent system, under the assumption that agents in the system act rationally, by choosing strategies that collectively form a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Julian Gutierrez , Lewis Hammond , Anthony W. Lin , Muhammad Najib , Michael Wooldridge

It is known that the verification of imperative, functional, and logic programs can be reduced to the satisfiability of constrained Horn clauses (CHCs), and this satisfiability check can be performed by using CHC solvers, such as Eldarica…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Emanuele De Angelis , Fabio Fioravanti , Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti

Runtime verification is checking whether a system execution satisfies or violates a given correctness property. A procedure that automatically, and typically on the fly, verifies conformance of the system's behavior to the specified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Mikhail Chupilko , Alexander Kamkin

Despite the recent progress of automated program verification techniques, fully automated verification of programs manipulating recursive data structures remains a challenge. We introduce solvable tuple patterns (STPs) and conjunctive STPs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Naoki Kobayashi , Ryosuke Sato , Ayumi Shinohara , Ryo Yoshinaka

High complexity models are notorious in machine learning for overfitting, a phenomenon in which models well represent data but fail to generalize an underlying data generating process. A typical procedure for circumventing overfitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-11 James Schmidt

Runtime verification enables checking temporal logic specifications over individual execution traces and offers a scalable alternative to exhaustive formal verification. In practice, systems must satisfy dozens to hundreds of temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Arınç Demir , Dogan Ulus

HyperQPTL and HyperQPTL$^+$ are expressive specification languages for hyperproperties, properties that relate multiple executions of a system. Tight complexity bounds are known for HyperQPTL finite-state satisfiability and model-checking.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Gaëtan Regaud , Martin Zimmermann

Deep neural network based question answering (QA) models are neither robust nor explainable in many cases. For example, a multiple-choice QA model, tested without any input of question, is surprisingly "capable" to predict the most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Sicheng Yu , Yulei Niu , Shuohang Wang , Jing Jiang , Qianru Sun

Rational verification refers to the problem of checking which temporal logic properties hold of a concurrent multiagent system, under the assumption that agents in the system choose strategies that form a game-theoretic equilibrium.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Julian Gutierrez , Muhammad Najib , Giuseppe Perelli , Michael Wooldridge

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is often tuned by trial and error. When a baseline linear controller exists that is already well tuned in the absence of constraints and MPC is introduced to enforce them, one would like to avoid altering the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Mario Zanon , Alberto Bemporad

Modular deductive verification is a powerful technique capable to show that each function in a program satisfies its contract. However, function contracts do not provide a global view of which high-level (e.g. security-related properties of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Virgile Robles , Nikolai Kosmatov , Virgile Prevosto , Louis Rilling , Pascale Le Gall

Variational inequality problems allow for capturing an expansive class of problems, including convex optimization problems, convex Nash games and economic equilibrium problems, amongst others. Yet in most practical settings, such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Uma V. Ravat , Uday V. Shanbhag

A suitable feature representation that can both preserve the data intrinsic information and reduce data complexity and dimensionality is key to the performance of machine learning models. Deeply rooted in algebraic topology, persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Chi Seng Pun , Kelin Xia , Si Xian Lee

Once failure is irreversible, continuation payoffs cannot be meaningfully aggregated across strategies that differ in their survival properties. Standard scalar evaluation sidesteps this by arbitrarily completing payoffs beyond termination,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-10 Nicholas H. Kirk

This work introduces a formulation of model predictive control (MPC) which adaptively reasons about the complexity of the model based on the task while maintaining feasibility and stability guarantees. Existing MPC implementations often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Joseph Norby , Ardalan Tajbakhsh , Yanhao Yang , Aaron M. Johnson

Hypersafety properties of arity $n$ are program properties that relate $n$ traces of a program (or, more generally, traces of $n$ programs). Classic examples include determinism, idempotence, and associativity. A number of relational…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Emanuele D'Osualdo , Azadeh Farzan , Derek Dreyer

The complex software systems developed nowadays require assessing their quality and proneness to errors. Reducing code complexity is a never-ending problem, especially in today's fast pace of software systems development. Therefore, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Laura Diana Cernau , Laura Diosan , Camelia Serban

This paper focuses on infinite-horizon optimal control problems for dissipative systems and the relations to their finite-horizon formulations. We show that, for a large class of problems, dissipativity of the state equation, when a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Matteo Della Rossa , Thiago Alves Lima , Lorenzo Freddi

Property Directed Reachability (PDR) is a widely used technique for formal verification of hardware and software systems. This paper presents an incremental version of PDR (IPDR), which enables the automatic verification of system instances…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Max Blankestijn , Alfons Laarman

As hyperparameter tuning becomes increasingly costly at scale, efficient tuning methods are essential. Yet principles for guiding hyperparameter tuning remain limited. In this work, we seek to establish such principles by considering a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bingrui Li , Jiaxin Wen , Zhanpeng Zhou , Jun Zhu , Jianfei Chen