English
Related papers

Related papers: New Lower Bounds for Reachability in Vector Additi…

200 papers

A vector addition system (VAS) with an initial and a final marking and transition labels induces a language. In part because the reachability problem in VAS remains far from being well-understood, it is difficult to devise decision…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Wojciech Czerwiński , Piotr Hofman , Georg Zetzsche

We study the complexity of reachability problems on branching extensions of vector addition systems, which allows us to derive new non-elementary complexity bounds for fragments and variants of propositional linear logic. We show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ranko Lazić , Sylvain Schmitz

We consider the task of fitting low-dimensional embeddings to high-dimensional data. In particular, we study the $k$-Euclidean Metric Violation problem ($\textsf{$k$-EMV}$), where the input is $D \in \mathbb{R}^{\binom{n}{2}}_{\geq 0}$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Prashanti Anderson , Ainesh Bakshi , Samuel B. Hopkins

The aim of this paper is to deliver broad understanding of a class of languages of boundedly-ambiguous VASS, that is k-ambiguous VASS for some natural k. These are languages of Vector Addition Systems with States with the acceptance…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wojciech Czerwiński , Łukasz Orlikowski

When designing optimal controllers for any system, it is often the case that the true state of the system is unknown to the controller, for example due to noisy measurements or partially observable states. Incomplete state information must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi

Node-connectivity augmentation is a fundamental network design problem. We are given a $k$-node connected graph $G$ together with an additional set of links, and the goal is to add a cheap subset of links to $G$ to make it $(k+1)$-node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Waldo Galvez , Dylan Hyatt-Denesik , Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Laura Sanita

The decision problems on matrices were intensively studied for many decades as matrix products play an essential role in the representation of various computational processes. However, many computational problems for matrix semigroups are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Igor Potapov , Pavel Semukhin

We analyze affine reachability problems in dimensions 1 and 2. We show that the reachability problem for 1-register machines over the integers with affine updates is PSPACE-hard, hence PSPACE-complete, strengthening a result by Finkel et…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Stefan Jaax , Stefan Kiefer

We investigate the complexity of the reachability problem for (deep) neural networks: does it compute valid output given some valid input? It was recently claimed that the problem is NP-complete for general neural networks and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Marco Sälzer , Martin Lange

We study the language universality problem for One-Counter Nets, also known as 1-dimensional Vector Addition Systems with States (1-VASS), parameterized either with an initial counter value, or with an upper bound on the allowed counter…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Shaull Almagor , Udi Boker , Piotr Hofman , Patrick Totzke

It is well-known that any admissible unidirectional heuristic search algorithm must expand all states whose $f$-value is smaller than the optimal solution cost when using a consistent heuristic. Such states are called "surely expanded"…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Jingwei Chen , Robert C. Holte , Sandra Zilles , Nathan R. Sturtevant

This paper presents the reachability analysis of curves in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with a prescribed curvature bound. Based on Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we leverage the existing knowledge on the structure of solutions to minimum-time problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Juho Bae , Ji Hoon Bai , Byung-Yoon Lee , Jun-Yong Lee , Chang-Hun Lee

Autonomous systems are increasingly implemented using end-to-end learning-based controllers. Such controllers make decisions that are executed on the real system, with images as one of the primary sensing modalities. Deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yuang Geng , Jake Brandon Baldauf , Souradeep Dutta , Chao Huang , Ivan Ruchkin

A vector addition system with states (VASS) consists of a finite set of states and counters. A configuration is a state and a value for each counter; a transition changes the state and each counter is incremented, decremented, or left…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

We prove an n-EXPTIME lower bound for the problem of deciding the winner in a reachability game on Higher Order Pushdown Automata (HPDA) of level n. This bound matches the known upper bound for parity games on HPDA. As a consequence the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thierry Cachat , Igor Walukiewicz

The basic goal of survivable network design is to build cheap networks that guarantee the connectivity of certain pairs of nodes despite the failure of a few edges or nodes. A celebrated result by Jain [Combinatorica'01] provides a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Fabrizio Grandoni , Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Vera Traub

Reachability queries ask whether there exists a path from the source vertex to the target vertex on a graph. Recently, several powerful reachability queries, such as Label-Constrained Reachability (LCR) queries and Regular Path Queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Huihui Yang , Pingpeng Yuan

Pushdown systems (PDSs) and recursive state machines (RSMs), which are linearly equivalent, are standard models for interprocedural analysis. Yet RSMs are more convenient as they (a) explicitly model function calls and returns, and (b)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Bernhard Kragl , Samarth Mishra , Andreas Pavlogiannis

In this paper we introduce a new network reachability problem where the goal is to find the most reliable path between two nodes in a network, represented as a directed acyclic graph. Individual edges within this network may fail according…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Allen Chang , Eyal Amir

Forward reachability analysis is the predominant approach for verifying reach-avoid properties in neural feedback systems (dynamical systems controlled by neural networks). This dominance stems from the limited scalability of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Samuel I. Akinwande , Sydney M. Katz , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Clark Barrett