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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 application domains that store data in a tabular format, a common task is to fill the values of some cells using values stored in other cells. For instance, such data completion tasks arise in the context of missing value imputation in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Xinyu Wang , Isil Dillig , Rishabh Singh

Weighted automata (WA) are an important formalism to describe quantitative properties. Obtaining equivalent deterministic machines is a longstanding research problem. In this paper we consider WA with a set semantics, meaning that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Laure Daviaud , Ismael Jecker , Pierre-Alain Reynier , Didier Villevalois

We introduce a technique for synthesis of control and communication strategies for a team of agents from a global task specification given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties that can be satisfied by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Yushan Chen , Xu Chu Ding , Calin Belta

In synthesis, assumptions are constraints on the environment that rule out certain environment behaviors. A key observation here is that even if we consider systems with LTLf goals on finite traces, environment assumptions need to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Shufang Zhu , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Geguang Pu , Moshe Vardi

Multi-task learning (MTL) seeks to improve the generalized performance of learning specific tasks, exploiting useful information incorporated in related tasks. As a promising area, this paper studies an MTL-based control approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Andres Arias , Chuangchuang Sun

In expressive and controllable Text-to-Speech (TTS), explicit prosodic features significantly improve the naturalness and controllability of synthesised speech. However, manual prosody annotation is labor-intensive and inconsistent. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Jinzuomu Zhong , Yang Li , Hui Huang , Korin Richmond , Jie Liu , Zhiba Su , Jing Guo , Benlai Tang , Fengjie Zhu

Asynchronous automata are a model of distributed finite state processes synchronising on shared actions. A celebrated result by Zielonka shows how a deterministic asynchronous automaton (AA) can be synthesised, starting from two inputs: a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Béatrice Bérard , Benjamin Monmege , B Srivathsan , Arnab Sur

Some applications of linear temporal logic (LTL) require to translate formulae of the logic to deterministic omega-automata. There are currently two translators producing deterministic automata: ltl2dstar working for the whole LTL and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Tomáš Babiak , František Blahoudek , Mojmír Křetínský , Jan Strejček

We propose deterministic timed automata (DTA) as a model-independent language for specifying performance and dependability measures over continuous-time stochastic processes. Technically, these measures are defined as limit frequencies of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Tomáš Brázdil , Jan Krčál , Jan Křetínský , Antonín Kučera , Vojtěch Řehák

Automating string transformations has been one of the killer applications of program synthesis. Existing synthesizers that solve this problem produce programs in domain-specific languages (DSL) that are engineered to help the synthesizer,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Anvay Grover , Ruediger Ehlers , Loris D'Antoni

Hybrid probabilistic logic programs can represent several scenarios thanks to the expressivity of Logic Programming extended with facts representing discrete and continuous distributions. The semantics for this type of programs is crucial…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Damiano Azzolini , Fabrizio Riguzzi

In this paper, we present an automated technique SWATI: Synthesizing Wordlengths Automatically Using Testing and Induction, which uses a combination of Nelder-Mead optimization based testing, and induction from examples to automatically…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Susmit Jha , Sanjit A. Seshia

Many safety-critical systems must achieve high-level task specifications with guaranteed safety and correctness. Much recent progress towards this goal has been made through controller synthesis from temporal logic specifications. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Rafael Rodrigues da Silva , Vince Kurtz , Hai Lin

Developing complex software systems is costly, time-consuming and error-prone. Model- driven development (MDD) promises to improve software productivity, timeliness, quality and cost through the transformation of abstract application models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Hamid Bagheri

We present a novel and efficient method for synthesis of parameterized distributed protocols by sketching. Our method is both syntax-guided and counterexample-guided, and utilizes a fast equivalence reduction technique that enables…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Derek Egolf , William Schultz , Stavros Tripakis

In this paper, we explore multi-task learning (MTL) as a second pretraining step to learn enhanced universal language representation for transformer language models. We use the MTL enhanced representation across several natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Haytham ElFadeel , Stan Peshterliev

Semantic role labeling (SRL) aims to identify the predicate-argument structure of a sentence. Inspired by the strong correlation between syntax and semantics, previous works pay much attention to improve SRL performance on exploiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Qingrong Xia , Zhenghua Li , Min Zhang

Families of deterministic finite automata (FDFA) represent regular $\omega$-languages through their ultimately periodic words (UP-words). An FDFA accepts pairs of words, where the first component corresponds to a prefix of the UP-word, and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 León Bohn , Yong Li , Christof Löding , Sven Schewe

Temporal logics are widely used by the Formal Methods and AI communities. Linear Temporal Logic is a popular temporal logic and is valued for its ease of use as well as its balance between expressiveness and complexity. LTL is equivalent in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Kevin W. Smith , Moshe Y. Vardi