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We discuss the problem of learning a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) from a confidence oracle. That is, we are given access to an oracle $Q$ with incomplete knowledge of some target language $L$ over an alphabet $\Sigma$; the oracle…

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Temporal logic has been widely used to express complex task specifications for cyber-physical systems (CPSs). One way to synthesize a controller for CPS under temporal logic constraints is to first abstract the CPS as a discrete transition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark

We present a logic named L_{LF} whose intended use is to formalize properties of specifications developed in the dependently typed lambda calculus LF. The logic is parameterized by the LF signature that constitutes the specification. Atomic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Gopalan Nadathur , Mary Southern

Large language models (LLMs) continue to struggle with mathematical reasoning, and common post-training pipelines often reduce each generated solution to a binary outcome: correct or incorrect. This perspective is limiting in practice, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haocheng Lu , Minjun Zhu , Henry Yu

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is used in system verification to write formal specifications for reactive systems. However, some relevant properties, e.g. non-inference in information flow security, cannot be expressed in LTL. A class of such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Juha Kontinen , Max Sandström , Jonni Virtema

Although it is widely accepted that every system should be robust, in the sense that "small" violations of environment assumptions should lead to "small" violations of system guarantees, it is less clear how to make this intuitive notion of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Paulo Tabuada , Daniel Neider

This paper tackles the problem of synthesizing specifications for nondeterministic programs. For such programs, useful specifications can capture demonic properties, which hold for every nondeterministic execution, but also angelic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Kanghee Park , Xuanyu Peng , Loris D'Antoni

We introduce a new translation from linear temporal logic (LTL) to deterministic Emerson-Lei automata, which are omega-automata with a Muller acceptance condition symbolically expressed as a Boolean formula. The richer acceptance condition…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 David Müller , Salomon Sickert

Hyperproperties lift conventional trace properties from a set of execution traces to a set of sets of execution traces. Hyperproperties have been shown to be a powerful formalism for expressing and reasoning about information-flow security…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sarai Sheinvald

In this paper we introduce a class of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications for which the problem of synthesizing controllers can be solved in polynomial time. The new class of specifications is an LTL fragment that we term Mode-Target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Ayca Balkan , Moshe Vardi , Paulo Tabuada

We introduce weighted finite finance automata (WFFA), a formal framework for modeling and analyzing quantitative properties of financial systems driven by uncertain economic variables such as stock prices, interest rates, and exchange…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Manfred Droste , Vitaly Nürnberg

Extensions of {\omega}-automata to infinite alphabets typically rely on symbolic guards to keep the transition relation finite, and on registers or memory cells to preserve information from past symbols. Symbolic transitions alone are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Luca Di Stefano

Large language models (LLMs) often benefit from verbalized reasoning at inference time, but it remains unclear which aspects of task difficulty these extra reasoning tokens address. To investigate this question, we formalize a framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Celine Lee , Alexander M. Rush , Keyon Vafa

We propose a control synthesis framework for a heterogeneous multi-robot system to satisfy collaborative tasks, where actions may take varying duration of time to complete. We encode tasks using the discrete logic LTL^\psi, which uses the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Amy Fang , Tenny Yin , Jiawei Lin , Hadas Kress-Gazit

The verification of systems combining hard timing constraints with concurrency is challenging. This challenge becomes even harder when some timing constants are missing or unknown. Parametric timed formalisms, such as parametric timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Mathias Ramparison

In temporal-probabilistic (TP) databases, the combination of the temporal and the probabilistic dimension adds significant overhead to the computation of set operations. Although set queries are guaranteed to yield linearly sized output…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Katerina Papaioannou , Martin Theobald , Michael H. Böhlen

While most of the current synthesis algorithms only focus on correctness-by-construction, ensuring robustness has remained a challenge. Hence, in this paper, we address the robust-by-construction synthesis problem by considering the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Satya Prakash Nayak , Daniel Neider , Martin Zimmermann

We study the expressivity and complexity of model checking linear temporal logic with team semantics (TeamLTL). TeamLTL, despite being a purely modal logic, is capable of defining hyperproperties, i.e., properties which relate multiple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jonni Virtema , Jana Hofmann , Bernd Finkbeiner , Juha Kontinen , Fan Yang

A specification given as a formula in linear temporal logic (LTL) defines a system by its set of traces. However, certain features such as information flow security constraints are rather modeled as so-called hyperproperties, which are sets…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Martin Lück

A linear pseudo-Boolean constraint (LPB) is an expression of the form $a_1 \cdot \ell_1 + \dots + a_m \cdot \ell_m \geq d$, where each $\ell_i$ is a literal (it assumes the value 1 or 0 depending on whether a propositional variable $x_i$ is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Jan-Georg Smaus , Christian Schilling , Fabian Wenzelmann