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Property-based testing (PBT) is a popular technique for establishing confidence in software, where users write properties -- i.e., executable specifications -- that can be checked many times in a loop by a testing framework. In modern PBT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alperen Keles , Justine Frank , Ceren Mert , Harrison Goldstein , Leonidas Lampropoulos

Interactive robotic grasping using natural language is one of the most fundamental tasks in human-robot interaction. However, language can be a source of ambiguity, particularly when there are ambiguous visual or linguistic contents. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Yang Yang , Xibai Lou , Changhyun Choi

In recent years, we observe an increasing amount of software with machine learning components being deployed. This poses the question of quality assurance for such components: how can we validate whether specified requirements are fulfilled…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Arnab Sharma , Caglar Demir , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Heike Wehrheim

We present a method to generate a robot control strategy that maximizes the probability to accomplish a task. The task is given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties that can be satisfied at the regions of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xu Chu Ding , Stephen L. Smith , Calin Belta , Daniela Rus

Noisy sensing, imperfect control, and environment changes are defining characteristics of many real-world robot tasks. The partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) provides a principled mathematical framework for modeling and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Mikko Lauri , David Hsu , Joni Pajarinen

In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic formal verification of stochastic dynamical systems over continuous state spaces. Motivated by problems in state estimation and information-flow security, we introduce the notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Bohan Cui , Jianing Zhao , Yu Chen , Alessandro Abate , Marta Kwiatkowska , Xiang Yin

For widespread deployment in domains characterized by partial observability, non-deterministic actions and unforeseen changes, robots need to adapt sensing, processing and interaction with humans to the tasks at hand. While robots typically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Shiqi Zhang , Mohan Sridharan

In this paper we present our work in progress towards a domain-specific language called Robot Perception Specification Language (RPSL). RSPL provide means to specify the expected result (task knowledge) of a Robot Perception Architecture in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Nico Hochgeschwender , Sven Schneider , Holger Voos , Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar

This paper is about modeling and verification languages with their pros and cons. Modeling is dynamic part of system development process before realization. The cost and risky situations obligate designer to model system before production…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Mostafavi Amjad Davoud , Zolfy Lighvan Mina

Many product lines are critical, and therefore reliability is a vital part of their requirements. Reliability is a probabilistic property. We therefore propose a model for feature-aware discrete-time Markov chains as a basis for verifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Maxime Cordy , Patrick Heymans , Pierre-Yves Schobbens , Amir Molzam Sharifloo , Carlo Ghezzi , Axel Legay

Rust's novel type system has proved an attractive target for verification and program analysis tools, due to the rich guarantees it provides for controlling aliasing and mutability. However, fully understanding, extracting and exploiting…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zachary Grannan , Aurel Bílý , Jonáš Fiala , Jasper Geer , Markus de Medeiros , Peter Müller , Alexander J. Summers

Evaluation of robotic manipulation systems has largely relied on fixed benchmarks authored by a small number of experts, where task instances, constraints, and success criteria are predefined and difficult to extend. This paradigm limits…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yi Ru Wang , Carter Ung , Evan Gubarev , Christopher Tan , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Dieter Fox

Transaction-level modeling with SystemC has been very successful in describing the behavior of embedded systems by providing high-level executable models, in which many of them have inherent probabilistic behaviors, e.g., random data and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Van Chan Ngo , Axel Legay

Many important properties of cyber-physical systems (CPS) are defined upon the relationship between multiple executions simultaneously in continuous time. Examples include probabilistic fairness and sensitivity to modeling errors (i.e.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Yu Wang , Mojtaba Zarei , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Miroslav Pajic

We present a novel multimodal language model approach for predicting molecular properties by combining chemical language representation with physicochemical features. Our approach, MULTIMODAL-MOLFORMER, utilizes a causal multistage feature…

Property prediction accuracy has long been a key parameter of machine learning in materials informatics. Accordingly, advanced models showing state-of-the-art performance turn into highly parameterized black boxes missing interpretability.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-03 Vadim Korolev , Pavel Protsenko

Current protein language models (PLMs) learn protein representations mainly based on their sequences, thereby well capturing co-evolutionary information, but they are unable to explicitly acquire protein functions, which is the end goal of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-06 Minghao Xu , Xinyu Yuan , Santiago Miret , Jian Tang

We present an efficient parametric model checking (PMC) technique for the analysis of software performability, i.e., of the performance and dependability properties of software systems. The new PMC technique works by automatically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xinwei Fang , Radu Calinescu , Simos Gerasimou , Faisal Alhwikem

We introduce an efficient parametric model checking (ePMC) method for the analysis of reliability, performance and other quality-of-service (QoS) properties of software systems. ePMC speeds up the analysis of parametric Markov chains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Radu Calinescu , Colin Paterson , Kenneth Johnson

Probabilistic programming is perfectly suited to reliable and transparent data science, as it allows the user to specify their models in a high-level language without worrying about the complexities of how to fit the models. Static analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ryan Bernstein , Matthijs Vákár , Jeannette Wing