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Constant-rate multi-mode systems (MMS) are hybrid systems with finitely many modes and real-valued variables that evolve over continuous time according to mode-specific constant rates. We introduce a variant of linear temporal logic (LTL)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Michael Blondin , Philip Offtermatt , Alex Sansfaçon-Buchanan

Model-checking techniques have been extended to analyze quantum programs and communication protocols represented as quantum Markov chains, an extension of classical Markov chains. To specify qualitative temporal properties, a subspace-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Ji Guan , Yuan Feng , Andrea Turrini , Mingsheng Ying

Learning formulas in Linear Temporal Logic (LTLf) from finite traces is a fundamental research problem which has found applications in artificial intelligence, software engineering, programming languages, formal methods, control of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriel Bathie , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Théo Matricon , Baptiste Mouillon , Pierre Vandenhove

The control design tools for linear systems typically involves pole placement and computing Lyapunov functions which are useful for ensuring stability. But given higher requirements on control design, a designer is expected to satisfy other…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Manish Goyal , David Bergman , Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

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

The state explosion problem and the exponentially computational complexity restrict the further applications of LTL model checking. To this end, this study tries to seek an acceptable approximate solution for LTL model checking by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Weijun Zhu , Jianwei Wang , Yongwen Fan

Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems are ubiquitous in control applications. Unbounded-time reachability analysis that can cope with industrial-scale models with thousands of variables is needed. To tackle this problem, we use abstract…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Dario Cattaruzza , Alessandro Abate , Peter Schrammel , Daniel Kroening

Verification of PCTL properties of MDPs with convex uncertainties has been investigated recently by Puggelli et al. However, model checking algorithms typically suffer from state space explosion. In this paper, we address probabilistic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Vahid Hashemi , Hassan Hatefi , Jan Krčál

This paper introduces the abstraction of max-plus linear (MPL) systems via predicates. Predicates are automatically selected from system matrix, as well as from the specifications under consideration. We focus on verifying time-difference…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Muhammad Syifa'ul Mufid , Dieky Adzkiya , Alessandro Abate

Bounded model checking is among the most efficient techniques for the automatic verification of concurrent programs. However, encoding all possible interleavings often requires a huge and complex formula, which significantly limits the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Liangze Yin , Wei Dong , Wanwei Liu , Ji Wang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of Model Predictive Control (MPC) of dynamic systems for high-level specifications described by Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulae. Recent works show that MPC has the great potential in handling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Xinyi Yu , Chuwei Wang , Dingran Yuan , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

The problem of checking a logged event trace against a temporal logic specification arises in many practical cases. Unfortunately, known algorithms for an expressive logic like MTL (Metric Temporal Logic) do not scale with respect to two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Marcello M. Bersani , Domenico Bianculli , Carlo Ghezzi , Srdan Krstic , Pierluigi San Pietro

Time series analysis provides essential insights for real-world system dynamics and informs downstream decision-making, yet most existing methods often overlook the rich contextual signals present in auxiliary modalities. To bridge this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yushan Jiang , Wenchao Yu , Geon Lee , Dongjin Song , Kijung Shin , Wei Cheng , Yanchi Liu , Haifeng Chen

Linear Temporal Logic over finite traces ($\text{LTL}_f$) is a widely used formalism with applications in AI, process mining, model checking, and more. The primary reasoning task for $\text{LTL}_f$ is satisfiability checking; yet, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Antonio Ielo , Giuseppe Mazzotta , Rafael Peñaloza , Francesco Ricca

A new logic for verification of security policies is proposed. The logic, HyperLTL, extends linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with connectives for explicit and simultaneous quantification over multiple execution paths, thereby enabling…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Masoud Koleini , Michael R. Clarkson , Kristopher K. Micinski

Recently, techniques such as explicit structured reasoning have demonstrated strong test-time scaling behavior by enforcing a separation between the model's internal "thinking" process and the final response. A key factor influencing answer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Roy Eisenstadt , Itamar Zimerman , Lior Wolf

Model checking is a powerful technique for software verification. However, the approach notably suffers from the infamous state space explosion problem. To tackle this, in this paper, we introduce a novel symbolic method for encoding Petri…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Damien Morard , Lucas Donati , Didier Buchs

Inference scaling helps LLMs solve complex reasoning problems through extended runtime computation. On top of long chain-of-thought (long-CoT) models, purely inference-time techniques such as best-of-N (BoN) sampling, majority voting, or…

Hyperproperties generalize trace properties by expressing relations between multiple computations. Hyperpropertes include policies from information-flow security, like observational determinism or non-interference, and many other system…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bernd Finkbeiner

Linear temporal logic (LTL) has recently been adopted as a powerful formalism for specifying complex, temporally extended tasks in multi-task reinforcement learning (RL). However, learning policies that efficiently satisfy arbitrary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Mathias Jackermeier , Alessandro Abate