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DTW calculates the similarity or alignment between two signals, subject to temporal warping. However, its computational complexity grows exponentially with the number of time-series. Although there have been algorithms developed that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Soheil Khorram , Melvin G McInnis , Emily Mower Provost

Soft dynamic time warping (SDTW) is a differentiable loss function that allows for training neural networks from weakly aligned data. Typically, SDTW is used to iteratively compute and refine soft alignments that compensate for temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Johannes Zeitler , Simon Deniffel , Michael Krause , Meinard Müller

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a widely used specification framework for linear time properties of systems. The standard approach for verifying such properties is by transforming LTL formulae to suitable $\omega$-automata and then applying…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Martin Sulzmann , Peter Thiemann

In this paper we present a satisfiability-preserving reduction from MITL interpreted over finitely-variable continuous behaviors to Constraint LTL over clocks, a variant of CLTL that is decidable, and for which an SMT-based bounded…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Marcello Maria Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

To maximize the information gained from a single execution when verifying a concurrent system, one can derive all concurrency-aware equivalent executions and check them against linear specifications. This paper offers an alternative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Martin Leucker

The important feature of temporal model checking is the generation of counterexamples. In the report, the requirements for generation of counterexample (called critical tree) in model checking of CSM systems are described. The output of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Wiktor B. Daszczuk

We introduce a novel event-trigger threshold (ETT) regulation mechanism based on the quantitative semantics of propositional logic (PL). We exploit the expressiveness of the PL vocabulary to deliver a precise and flexible specification of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Valdemar Tang , Claudio Gomes , Daniel Lucani

The safety of our day-to-day life depends crucially on the correct functioning of embedded software systems which control the functioning of more and more technical devices. Many of these software systems are time-critical. Hence,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Adrian Prantl , Jens Knoop , Markus Schordan , Markus Triska

Temporal difference (TD) learning is a foundational algorithm in reinforcement learning (RL). For nearly forty years, TD learning has served as a workhorse for applied RL as well as a building block for more complex and specialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hwanwoo Kim , Panos Toulis , Eric Laber

We introduce AegisLLM, a cooperative multi-agent defense against adversarial attacks and information leakage. In AegisLLM, a structured workflow of autonomous agents - orchestrator, deflector, responder, and evaluator - collaborate to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zikui Cai , Shayan Shabihi , Bang An , Zora Che , Brian R. Bartoldson , Bhavya Kailkhura , Tom Goldstein , Furong Huang

After major disturbances, power system behavior is governed by the dynamic characteristics of its assets and protection schemes. Therefore, modeling protection devices is essential for performing accurate stability studies. Modeling all the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Ramin Vakili , Mojdeh Khorsand , Vijay Vittal , Bill Robertson , Philip Augustin

This paper introduces PRIMETIME, a synthetic generator that supports both benchmarking and fine-tuning of two primitive operations underlying temporal reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs): parsing and arithmetic on datetimes. Existing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Edward Gaere , Florian Wangenheim

An optimization model has been formulated and solved to determine on-condition failure thresholds and inspection intervals for multi-component systems with each component experiencing multiple failure processes due to simultaneous exposure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Sanling Song , Nooshin Yousefi , David W. Coit , Qianmei Feng

AI algorithms are being used with increased frequency in SE research and practice. Such algorithms are usually commissioned and certified using data from outside the SE domain. Can we assume that such algorithms can be used…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Kewen Peng , Tim Menzies

Providing compact and understandable counterexamples for violated system properties is an essential task in model checking. Existing works on counterexamples for probabilistic systems so far computed either a large set of system runs or a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Ralf Wimmer , Nils Jansen , Erika Ábrahám , Joost-Pieter Katoen

We study challenges using reinforcement learning in controlling energy systems, where apart from performance requirements, one has additional safety requirements such as avoiding blackouts. We detail how these safety requirements in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Chih-Hong Cheng , Venkatesh Prasad Venkataramanan , Pragya Kirti Gupta , Yun-Fei Hsu , Simon Burton

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed code auto-completion by generating context-aware suggestions. Yet, deciding when to present these suggestions remains underexplored, often leading to interruptions or wasted inference calls. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mohammad Nour Al Awad , Sergey Ivanov , Olga Tikhonova

The Logical Execution Time (LET) model has deterministic properties which dramatically reduce the complexity of analyzing temporal requirements of multi-rate cause-effect chains. The configuration (length and position) of task's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Luiz Maia , Gerhard Fohler

Contrastive Decoding (CD) enhances the generation quality of large language models (LLMs) but incurs significant additional computational overhead due to the need for an auxiliary model. Existing internal self-contrastive decoding methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Hong-Kai Zheng , Piji Li

Modeling and analysis of timing constraints is crucial in cyber-physical systems (CPS). EAST-ADL is an architectural language dedicated to safety-critical embedded system design. SIMULINK/STATEFLOW (S/S) is a widely used industrial tool for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Li Huang , Eun-Young Kang