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Automatic synthesis from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications is widely used in robotic motion planning, control of autonomous systems, and load distribution in power networks. A common specification pattern in such applications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

Reactive synthesis is the process of using temporal logic specifications in LTL to generate correct controllers, but its use has been restricted to Boolean specifications. Recently, a Boolean abstraction technique allows to translate LTL T…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Andoni Rodríguez , Cesar Sanchez

Temporal synthesis is the automated design of a system that interacts with an environment, using the declarative specification of the system's behavior. A popular language for providing such a specification is Linear Temporal Logic, or LTL.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shufang Zhu , Lucas M. Tabajara , Jianwen Li , Geguang Pu , Moshe Y. Vardi

Smart contracts are small but highly error-prone programs that implement agreements between multiple parties. We present a reactive synthesis approach for the automatic construction of smart contract state machines. Towards this end, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Bernd Finkbeiner , Jana Hofmann , Florian Kohn , Noemi Passing

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

In runtime verification, manually formalizing a specification for monitoring system executions is a tedious and error-prone process. To address this issue, we consider the problem of automatically synthesizing formal specifications from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanael Fijalkow , Daniel Neider , Guillermo A. Perez

Recently, program synthesis driven by large language models (LLMs) has become increasingly popular. However, program synthesis for machine learning (ML) tasks still poses significant challenges. This paper explores a novel form of program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jinglue Xu , Jialong Li , Zhen Liu , Nagar Anthel Venkatesh Suryanarayanan , Guoyuan Zhou , Jia Guo , Hitoshi Iba , Kenji Tei

We train hierarchical Transformers on the task of synthesizing hardware circuits directly out of high-level logical specifications in linear-time temporal logic (LTL). The LTL synthesis problem is a well-known algorithmic challenge with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Frederik Schmitt , Christopher Hahn , Markus N. Rabe , Bernd Finkbeiner

How do LLMs compare with symbolic tools on program synthesis tasks? We investigate this question on several synthesis domains: LTL reactive synthesis, syntax-guided synthesis, distributed protocol synthesis, and recursive function…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Derek Egolf , Yuhao Zhou , Stavros Tripakis

DatalogMTL is an extension of Datalog with operators from metric temporal logic which has received significant attention in recent years. It is a highly expressive knowledge representation language that is well-suited for applications in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Dingmin Wang , Pan Hu , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga , Bernardo Cuenca Grau

In recent years, Machine Learning (ML) models have achieved remarkable success in various domains. However, these models also tend to demonstrate unsafe behaviors, precluding their deployment in safety-critical systems. To cope with this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Andoni Rodriguez , Guy Amir , Davide Corsi , Cesar Sanchez , Guy Katz

Temporal synthesis attempts to construct reactive programs that satisfy a given declarative (LTL) formula. Practitioners have found it challenging to work exclusively with declarative specifications, and have found languages that combine…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Shaun Azzopardi , Nir Piterman , Gerardo Schneider

We reduce synthesis for CTL* properties to synthesis for LTL. In the context of model checking this is impossible - CTL* is more expressive than LTL. Yet, in synthesis we have knowledge of the system structure and we can add new outputs.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Roderick Bloem , Sven Schewe , Ayrat Khalimov

This paper studies the online control synthesis problem for uncertain discrete-time systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Different from existing techniques, this work proposes an approach based on STL, reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Pian Yu , Yulong Gao , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, a method for learning a recurrent neural network (RNN) controller that maximizes the robustness of signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is presented. In contrast to previous methods, we consider synthesizing the RNN…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Wataru Hashimoto , Kazumune Hashimoto , Shigemasa Takai

The idea of automatic synthesis of reactive programs starting from temporal logic (LTL) specifications is quite old, but was commonly thought to be infeasible due to the known double exponential complexity of the problem. However, new ideas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Andreas Morgenstern , Klaus Schneider

We introduce a metric that can quantify the temporal relaxation of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications and facilitate resilient control synthesis in the face of infeasibilities. The proposed metric quantifies a cumulative notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is the standard specification language for reactive systems and is successfully applied in industrial settings. However, many shortcomings of LTL have been identified in the literature, among them the limited…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Daniel Neider , Alexander Weinert , Martin Zimmermann

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing strategies for linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications that are interpreted over finite traces -- a problem that is central to the automated construction of controllers, robot…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Alberto Camacho , Meghyn Bienvenu , Sheila A. McIlraith

Two-player games are a fruitful way to represent and reason about several important synthesis tasks. These tasks include controller synthesis (where one asks for a controller for a given plant such that the controlled plant satisfies a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Stanly Samuel , Deepak D'Souza , Raghavan Komondoor