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Continuous linear dynamical systems are used extensively in mathematics, computer science, physics, and engineering to model the evolution of a system over time. A central technique for certifying safety properties of such systems is by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shaull Almagor , Edon Kelmendi , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

Linear Programming (LP) is widely applied in industry and is a key component of various other mathematical problem-solving techniques. Recent work introduced an LP compiler translating polynomial-time, polynomial-space algorithms into…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shermin Khosravi , David Bremner

Linear-constraint loops are programs whose transition relation is specified by a system of linear inequalities. The termination problem asks, given a loop, whether it admits an infinite computation. Decidability of termination remains open…

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We propose a "formula slicing" method for finding inductive invariants. It is based on the observation that many loops in the program affect only a small part of the memory, and many invariants which were valid before a loop are still valid…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Egor George Karpenkov , David Monniaux

A central question in verification is characterizing when a system has invariants of a certain form, and then synthesizing them. We say a system has a $k$ linear invariant, $k$-LI in short, if it has a conjunction of $k$ linear (non-strict)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Ashish Tiwari

In this article, we consider the problem of approximating a finite set of data (usually huge in applications) by invariant subspaces generated through a small set of smooth functions. The invariance is either by translations under a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Davide Barbieri , Eugenio Hernández , Carlos Cabrelli , Ursula Molter

Algorithmic computation in polynomial rings is a classical topic in mathematics. However, little attention has been given to the case of rings with an infinite number of variables until recently when theoretical efforts have made possible…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Christopher J. Hillar , Robert Krone , Anton Leykin

The goal of invariant theory is to find all the generators for the algebra of representations of a group that leave the group invariant. Such generators will be called \emph{basic invariants}. In particular, we set out to find the set of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2011-10-26 Quinton Westrich

We propose a novel framework that provides constructive feedback to an LLM in the "guess-and-check" paradigm by formally verifying its own thinking process and detecting local reasoning errors. We apply this framework to the loop invariant…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianchi Li , Zhenyu Yan , Junhao Liu , Peng Di , Xin Zhang

The template-based method is one of the most successful approaches to algebraic invariant synthesis. In this method, an algorithm designates a template polynomial p over program variables, generates constraints for p=0 to be an invariant,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Kensuke Kojima , Minoru Kinoshita , Kohei Suenaga

In numeric-intensive computations, it is well known that the execution of floating-point programs is imprecise as floating-point arithmetic incurs round-off errors. Although round-off errors are small for a single floating-point operation,…

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A program invariant is a property that holds for every execution of the program. Recent work suggest to infer likely-only invariants, via dynamic analysis. A likely invariant is a property that holds for some executions but is not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tristan Denmat , Arnaud Gotlieb , Mireille Ducasse

Linear and semidefinite programming (LP, SDP), regularisation through basis pursuit (BP) and Lasso have seen great success in mathematics, statistics, data science, computer-assisted proofs and learning. The success of LP is traditionally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Alexander Bastounis , Anders C Hansen , Verner Vlačić

This article presents a new approach to the real-time solution of inverse problems on embedded systems. The class of problems addressed corresponds to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with generalized linear constraints, whereby the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Christoph Gugg , Matthew Harker , Paul O'Leary , Gerhard Rath

Automatic verification of array manipulating programs is a challenging problem because it often amounts to the inference of in ductive quantified loop invariants which, in some cases, may not even be firstorder expressible. In this paper,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Oren Ish Shalom , Shachar Itzhaky , Noam Rinetzky , Sharon Shoham

We consider the problem of computing numerical invariants of programs, for instance bounds on the values of numerical program variables. More specifically, we study the problem of performing static analysis by abstract interpretation using…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Martin Gawlitza , David Monniaux

Despite the crucial need for formal safety and security verification of programs, discovering loop invariants remains a significant challenge. Static analysis is a primary technique for inferring loop invariants but often relies on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ashish Kumar , Jilaun Zhang , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Gang Tan

Among the various critical systems that worth to be formally analyzed, a wide set consists of controllers for dynamical systems. Those programs typically execute an infinite loop in which simple com putations update internal states and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Assalé Adje , Pierre-Loïc Garoche

Control invariant sets play an important role in safety-critical control and find broad application in numerous fields such as obstacle avoidance for mobile robots. However, finding valid control invariant sets of dynamical systems under…

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