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LS was supported by the Stochastic Analysis and Application Research Center (SAARC) under National Research Foundation of Korea grant NRF-2019R1A5A1028324.","external_id":{"arxiv":["2102.13457"]},"year":"2024","citation":{"mla":"Hirvonen, Juho, et al. “On the Convergence Time in Graphical Games: A Locality-Sensitive Approach.” <i>27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems</i>, vol. 286, 11, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2024, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.11\">10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.11</a>.","short":"J. Hirvonen, L. Schmid, K. Chatterjee, S. Schmid, in:, 27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2024.","ista":"Hirvonen J, Schmid L, Chatterjee K, Schmid S. 2024. On the convergence time in graphical games: A locality-sensitive approach. 27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems. 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Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2024. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.11\">10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.11</a>","chicago":"Hirvonen, Juho, Laura Schmid, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Stefan Schmid. “On the Convergence Time in Graphical Games: A Locality-Sensitive Approach.” In <i>27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems</i>, Vol. 286. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2024. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.11\">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.11</a>.","ieee":"J. Hirvonen, L. Schmid, K. Chatterjee, and S. Schmid, “On the convergence time in graphical games: A locality-sensitive approach,” in <i>27th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems</i>, Tokyo, Japan, 2024, vol. 286."},"date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:10:03Z","abstract":[{"text":"Graphical games are a useful framework for modeling the interactions of (selfish) agents who are connected via an underlying topology and whose behaviors influence each other. They have wide applications ranging from computer science to economics and biology. Yet, even though an agent’s payoff only depends on the actions of their direct neighbors in graphical games, computing the Nash equilibria and making statements about the convergence time of \"natural\" local dynamics in particular can be highly challenging. In this work, we present a novel approach for classifying complexity of Nash equilibria in graphical games by establishing a connection to local graph algorithms, a subfield of distributed computing. In particular, we make the observation that the equilibria of graphical games are equivalent to locally verifiable labelings (LVL) in graphs; vertex labelings which are verifiable with constant-round local algorithms. This connection allows us to derive novel lower bounds on the convergence time to equilibrium of best-response dynamics in graphical games. Since we establish that distributed convergence can sometimes be provably slow, we also introduce and give bounds on an intuitive notion of \"time-constrained\" inefficiency of best responses. We exemplify how our results can be used in the implementation of mechanisms that ensure convergence of best responses to a Nash equilibrium. Our results thus also give insight into the convergence of strategy-proof algorithms for graphical games, which is still not well understood.","lang":"eng"}],"day":"18","doi":"10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2023.11","arxiv":1,"file_date_updated":"2024-02-26T09:04:58Z","quality_controlled":"1","ec_funded":1,"publisher":"Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik","author":[{"full_name":"Hirvonen, Juho","last_name":"Hirvonen","first_name":"Juho"},{"id":"38B437DE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Schmid, Laura","orcid":"0000-0002-6978-7329","last_name":"Schmid","first_name":"Laura"},{"id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","last_name":"Chatterjee","first_name":"Krishnendu"},{"last_name":"Schmid","first_name":"Stefan","full_name":"Schmid, Stefan"}],"scopus_import":"1","_id":"15006","intvolume":"       286","title":"On the convergence time in graphical games: A locality-sensitive approach","alternative_title":["LIPIcs"],"department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","date_created":"2024-02-18T23:01:01Z","publication_status":"published"},{"file":[{"success":1,"relation":"main_file","access_level":"open_access","file_id":"10781","creator":"dernst","date_created":"2022-02-21T08:54:17Z","checksum":"cd53b07e96f9030ddb348f305e5b58c7","file_size":1890512,"date_updated":"2022-02-21T08:54:17Z","file_name":"2022_DynamicGamesApplic_Graham.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","status":"public","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2153-0793"],"issn":["2153-0785"]},"oa":1,"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"date_published":"2023-03-01T00:00:00Z","type":"journal_article","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","project":[{"_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"754411","name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships"}],"month":"03","publication":"Dynamic Games and Applications","has_accepted_license":"1","acknowledgement":"The authors would like to acknowledge stimulating email discussions with Dr Wayne Lobb of W.A. Lobb LLC on the topic of evolutionary games. We also thank Dr Thomas Taimre for his input to the material in Sect. 3.\r\nThe authors would like to acknowledge partial support from the Australian Research Council under the Discovery grant DP180101602 and support by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement #754411.","volume":13,"ddc":["000"],"doi":"10.1007/s13235-022-00425-3","day":"01","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Mathematical models often aim to describe a complicated mechanism in a cohesive and simple manner. However, reaching perfect balance between being simple enough or overly simplistic is a challenging task. Frequently, game-theoretic models have an underlying assumption that players, whenever they choose to execute a specific action, do so perfectly. In fact, it is rare that action execution perfectly coincides with intentions of individuals, giving rise to behavioural mistakes. The concept of incompetence of players was suggested to address this issue in game-theoretic settings. Under the assumption of incompetence, players have non-zero probabilities of executing a different strategy from the one they chose, leading to stochastic outcomes of the interactions. In this article, we survey results related to the concept of incompetence in classic as well as evolutionary game theory and provide several new results. We also suggest future extensions of the model and argue why it is important to take into account behavioural mistakes when analysing interactions among players in both economic and biological settings."}],"date_updated":"2023-10-04T09:24:30Z","citation":{"ama":"Graham T, Kleshnina M, Filar JA. Where do mistakes lead? 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While this view is useful from a practical standpoint to reason about trajectories of distributions, basic reachability and safety problems are known to be computationally intractable (i.e., Skolem-hard) to solve in such models. Further, we show that even for simple examples of MDPs, strategies for safety objectives over distributions can require infinite memory and randomization.\r\nIn light of this, we present a novel overapproximation approach to synthesize strategies in an MDP, such that a safety objective over the distributions is met. More precisely, we develop a new framework for template-based synthesis of certificates as affine distributional and inductive invariants for safety objectives in MDPs. We provide two algorithms within this framework. One can only synthesize memoryless strategies, but has relative completeness guarantees, while the other can synthesize general strategies. The runtime complexity of both algorithms is in PSPACE. We implement these algorithms and show that they can solve several non-trivial examples.","lang":"eng"}],"day":"17","doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_5","citation":{"ieee":"S. Akshay, K. Chatterjee, T. Meggendorfer, and D. Zikelic, “MDPs as distribution transformers: Affine invariant synthesis for safety objectives,” in <i>International Conference on Computer Aided Verification</i>, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13966, pp. 86–112.","chicago":"Akshay, S., Krishnendu Chatterjee, Tobias Meggendorfer, and Dorde Zikelic. “MDPs as Distribution Transformers: Affine Invariant Synthesis for Safety Objectives.” In <i>International Conference on Computer Aided Verification</i>, 13966:86–112. Springer Nature, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_5\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_5</a>.","ama":"Akshay S, Chatterjee K, Meggendorfer T, Zikelic D. MDPs as distribution transformers: Affine invariant synthesis for safety objectives. 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Zikelic, in:, International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 86–112.","mla":"Akshay, S., et al. “MDPs as Distribution Transformers: Affine Invariant Synthesis for Safety Objectives.” <i>International Conference on Computer Aided Verification</i>, vol. 13966, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 86–112, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_5\">10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_5</a>."},"year":"2023","date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:09:56Z","ddc":["000"],"acknowledgement":"This work was supported in part by the ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385 as well as DST/CEFIPRA/INRIA project EQuaVE and SERB Matrices grant MTR/2018/00074.","volume":13966,"intvolume":"     13966","alternative_title":["LNCS"],"title":"MDPs as distribution transformers: Affine invariant synthesis for safety objectives","date_created":"2023-09-10T22:01:12Z","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","publication_status":"published","author":[{"first_name":"S.","last_name":"Akshay","full_name":"Akshay, S."},{"first_name":"Krishnendu","last_name":"Chatterjee","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"first_name":"Tobias","last_name":"Meggendorfer","orcid":"0000-0002-1712-2165","full_name":"Meggendorfer, Tobias","id":"b21b0c15-30a2-11eb-80dc-f13ca25802e1"},{"last_name":"Zikelic","first_name":"Dorde","full_name":"Zikelic, Dorde","orcid":"0000-0002-4681-1699","id":"294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"scopus_import":"1","_id":"14317","publisher":"Springer Nature","file_date_updated":"2023-09-20T08:46:43Z","ec_funded":1,"quality_controlled":"1","page":"86-112"},{"date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:09:57Z","year":"2023","citation":{"apa":"Sun, Y., Fu, H., Chatterjee, K., &#38; Goharshady, A. K. (2023). Automated tail bound analysis for probabilistic recurrence relations. In <i>Computer Aided Verification</i> (Vol. 13966, pp. 16–39). Paris, France: Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2</a>","ama":"Sun Y, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. Automated tail bound analysis for probabilistic recurrence relations. In: <i>Computer Aided Verification</i>. Vol 13966. Springer Nature; 2023:16-39. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2\">10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2</a>","chicago":"Sun, Yican, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady. “Automated Tail Bound Analysis for Probabilistic Recurrence Relations.” In <i>Computer Aided Verification</i>, 13966:16–39. Springer Nature, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2</a>.","ieee":"Y. Sun, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, and A. K. Goharshady, “Automated tail bound analysis for probabilistic recurrence relations,” in <i>Computer Aided Verification</i>, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13966, pp. 16–39.","short":"Y. Sun, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, in:, Computer Aided Verification, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 16–39.","mla":"Sun, Yican, et al. “Automated Tail Bound Analysis for Probabilistic Recurrence Relations.” <i>Computer Aided Verification</i>, vol. 13966, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 16–39, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2\">10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2</a>.","ista":"Sun Y, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. 2023. Automated tail bound analysis for probabilistic recurrence relations. Computer Aided Verification. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 13966, 16–39."},"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Probabilistic recurrence relations (PRRs) are a standard formalism for describing the runtime of a randomized algorithm. Given a PRR and a time limit κ, we consider the tail probability Pr[T≥κ], i.e., the probability that the randomized runtime T of the PRR exceeds κ. Our focus is the formal analysis of tail bounds that aims at finding a tight asymptotic upper bound u≥Pr[T≥κ]. To address this problem, the classical and most well-known approach is the cookbook method by Karp (JACM 1994), while other approaches are mostly limited to deriving tail bounds of specific PRRs via involved custom analysis.\r\nIn this work, we propose a novel approach for deriving the common exponentially-decreasing tail bounds for PRRs whose preprocessing time and random passed sizes observe discrete or (piecewise) uniform distribution and whose recursive call is either a single procedure call or a divide-and-conquer. We first establish a theoretical approach via Markov’s inequality, and then instantiate the theoretical approach with a template-based algorithmic approach via a refined treatment of exponentiation. Experimental evaluation shows that our algorithmic approach is capable of deriving tail bounds that are (i) asymptotically tighter than Karp’s method, (ii) match the best-known manually-derived asymptotic tail bound for QuickSelect, and (iii) is only slightly worse (with a loglogn factor) than the manually-proven optimal asymptotic tail bound for QuickSort. Moreover, our algorithmic approach handles all examples (including realistic PRRs such as QuickSort, QuickSelect, DiameterComputation, etc.) in less than 0.1 s, showing that our approach is efficient in practice."}],"doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2","day":"17","ddc":["000"],"volume":13966,"acknowledgement":"We thank Prof. Bican Xia for valuable information on the exponential theory of reals. The work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) with Grant No. 62172271, ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), the Hong Kong Research Grants Council ECS Project Number 26208122, the HKUST-Kaisa Joint Research Institute Project Grant HKJRI3A-055 and the HKUST Startup Grant R9272.","author":[{"last_name":"Sun","first_name":"Yican","full_name":"Sun, Yican"},{"first_name":"Hongfei","last_name":"Fu","full_name":"Fu, Hongfei"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","first_name":"Krishnendu","last_name":"Chatterjee","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"id":"391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0003-1702-6584","full_name":"Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar","first_name":"Amir Kafshdar","last_name":"Goharshady"}],"_id":"14318","scopus_import":"1","title":"Automated tail bound analysis for probabilistic recurrence relations","alternative_title":["LNCS"],"intvolume":"     13966","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","date_created":"2023-09-10T22:01:12Z","file_date_updated":"2023-09-20T08:24:47Z","page":"16-39","ec_funded":1,"quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"Springer Nature","date_published":"2023-07-17T00:00:00Z","type":"conference","tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"oa":1,"publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9783031377082"],"issn":["0302-9743"],"eissn":["1611-3349"]},"status":"public","related_material":{"link":[{"url":"https://github.com/boyvolcano/PRR","relation":"software"}]},"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","file":[{"creator":"dernst","file_id":"14348","success":1,"relation":"main_file","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2023_LNCS_Sun.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","date_updated":"2023-09-20T08:24:47Z","checksum":"42917e086f8c7699f3bccf84f74fe000","file_size":624647,"date_created":"2023-09-20T08:24:47Z"}],"publication":"Computer Aided Verification","has_accepted_license":"1","month":"07","oa_version":"Published Version","project":[{"grant_number":"863818","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","call_identifier":"H2020"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"conference":{"location":"Paris, France","end_date":"2023-07-22","name":"CAV: Computer Aided Verification","start_date":"2023-07-17"}},{"publisher":"Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik","quality_controlled":"1","ec_funded":1,"file_date_updated":"2023-10-09T09:19:11Z","article_processing_charge":"Yes","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"date_created":"2023-10-09T09:21:05Z","publication_status":"published","intvolume":"       272","alternative_title":["LIPIcs"],"title":"Entropic risk for turn-based stochastic games","scopus_import":"1","_id":"14417","author":[{"last_name":"Baier","first_name":"Christel","full_name":"Baier, Christel"},{"full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","last_name":"Chatterjee","first_name":"Krishnendu","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"last_name":"Meggendorfer","first_name":"Tobias","full_name":"Meggendorfer, Tobias","orcid":"0000-0002-1712-2165","id":"b21b0c15-30a2-11eb-80dc-f13ca25802e1"},{"first_name":"Jakob","last_name":"Piribauer","full_name":"Piribauer, Jakob"}],"volume":272,"acknowledgement":"This work was partly funded by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), the DFG Grant\r\n389792660 as part of TRR 248 (Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems), the Cluster of\r\nExcellence EXC 2050/1 (CeTI, project ID 390696704, as part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy), and the DFG projects BA-1679/11-1 and BA-1679/12-1.","ddc":["000"],"day":"21","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Entropic risk (ERisk) is an established risk measure in finance, quantifying risk by an exponential re-weighting of rewards. We study ERisk for the first time in the context of turn-based stochastic games with the total reward objective. This gives rise to an objective function that demands the control of systems in a risk-averse manner. We show that the resulting games are determined and, in particular, admit optimal memoryless deterministic strategies. This contrasts risk measures that previously have been considered in the special case of Markov decision processes and that require randomization and/or memory. We provide several results on the decidability and the computational complexity of the threshold problem, i.e. whether the optimal value of ERisk exceeds a given threshold. In the most general case, the problem is decidable subject to Shanuel’s conjecture. If all inputs are rational, the resulting threshold problem can be solved using algebraic numbers, leading to decidability via a polynomial-time reduction to the existential theory of the reals. Further restrictions on the encoding of the input allow the solution of the threshold problem in NP∩coNP. Finally, an approximation algorithm for the optimal value of ERisk is provided."}],"citation":{"ieee":"C. Baier, K. Chatterjee, T. Meggendorfer, and J. Piribauer, “Entropic risk for turn-based stochastic games,” in <i>48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science</i>, Bordeaux, France, 2023, vol. 272.","chicago":"Baier, Christel, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Tobias Meggendorfer, and Jakob Piribauer. “Entropic Risk for Turn-Based Stochastic Games.” In <i>48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science</i>, Vol. 272. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15\">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15</a>.","apa":"Baier, C., Chatterjee, K., Meggendorfer, T., &#38; Piribauer, J. (2023). Entropic risk for turn-based stochastic games. 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MFCS: Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 272, 15.","mla":"Baier, Christel, et al. “Entropic Risk for Turn-Based Stochastic Games.” <i>48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science</i>, vol. 272, 15, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15\">10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15</a>.","short":"C. Baier, K. Chatterjee, T. Meggendorfer, J. Piribauer, in:, 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023."},"year":"2023","date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:09:57Z","external_id":{"arxiv":["2307.06611"]},"conference":{"start_date":"2023-08-28","name":"MFCS: Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science","end_date":"2023-09-01","location":"Bordeaux, France"},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"project":[{"_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"863818","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","article_number":"15","month":"08","has_accepted_license":"1","publication":"48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science","file":[{"relation":"main_file","access_level":"open_access","success":1,"file_id":"14418","creator":"dernst","date_created":"2023-10-09T09:19:11Z","checksum":"402281b17ed669bbf149d0fdf68ac201","file_size":826843,"date_updated":"2023-10-09T09:19:11Z","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"2023_LIPIcsMFCS_Baier.pdf"}],"status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9783959772921"],"eissn":["1868-8969"]},"oa":1,"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"type":"conference","date_published":"2023-08-21T00:00:00Z"},{"conference":{"start_date":"2023-09-18","name":"FCT: Fundamentals of Computation Theory","end_date":"2023-09-21","location":"Trier, Germany"},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa_version":"Preprint","month":"09","publication":"24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.10847"}],"related_material":{"link":[{"relation":"erratum","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_31"}]},"status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1611-3349"],"issn":["0302-9743"],"isbn":["9783031435867"]},"oa":1,"type":"conference","date_published":"2023-09-21T00:00:00Z","publisher":"Springer Nature","quality_controlled":"1","page":"333-347","date_created":"2023-10-29T23:01:16Z","article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"publication_status":"published","intvolume":"     14292","title":"Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding","alternative_title":["LNCS"],"scopus_import":"1","_id":"14456","author":[{"full_name":"Křišťan, Jan Matyáš","first_name":"Jan Matyáš","last_name":"Křišťan"},{"id":"130759D2-D7DD-11E9-87D2-DE0DE6697425","orcid":"0000-0002-1419-3267","full_name":"Svoboda, Jakub","first_name":"Jakub","last_name":"Svoboda"}],"volume":14292,"day":"21","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24","abstract":[{"text":"In this paper, we present novel algorithms that efficiently compute a shortest reconfiguration sequence between two given dominating sets in trees and interval graphs under the TOKEN SLIDING model. In this problem, a graph is provided along with its two dominating sets, which can be imagined as tokens placed on vertices. The objective is to find a shortest sequence of dominating sets that transforms one set into the other, with each set in the sequence resulting from sliding a single token in the previous set. While identifying any sequence has been well studied, our work presents the first polynomial algorithms for this optimization variant in the context of dominating sets.","lang":"eng"}],"year":"2023","citation":{"mla":"Křišťan, Jan Matyáš, and Jakub Svoboda. “Shortest Dominating Set Reconfiguration under Token Sliding.” <i>24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory</i>, vol. 14292, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 333–47, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24\">10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24</a>.","short":"J.M. Křišťan, J. Svoboda, in:, 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 333–347.","ista":"Křišťan JM, Svoboda J. 2023. Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding. 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT: Fundamentals of Computation Theory, LNCS, vol. 14292, 333–347.","ama":"Křišťan JM, Svoboda J. Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding. In: <i>24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory</i>. Vol 14292. Springer Nature; 2023:333-347. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24\">10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24</a>","apa":"Křišťan, J. M., &#38; Svoboda, J. (2023). Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding. In <i>24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory</i> (Vol. 14292, pp. 333–347). Trier, Germany: Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24</a>","chicago":"Křišťan, Jan Matyáš, and Jakub Svoboda. “Shortest Dominating Set Reconfiguration under Token Sliding.” In <i>24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory</i>, 14292:333–47. Springer Nature, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24</a>.","ieee":"J. M. Křišťan and J. Svoboda, “Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding,” in <i>24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory</i>, Trier, Germany, 2023, vol. 14292, pp. 333–347."},"date_updated":"2024-01-22T08:10:49Z","external_id":{"arxiv":["2307.10847"]}},{"year":"2023","citation":{"ieee":"G. Avni, T. Meggendorfer, S. Sadhukhan, J. Tkadlec, and D. Zikelic, “Reachability poorman discrete-bidding games,” in <i>Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications</i>, Krakow, Poland, 2023, vol. 372, pp. 141–148.","chicago":"Avni, Guy, Tobias Meggendorfer, Suman Sadhukhan, Josef Tkadlec, and Dorde Zikelic. “Reachability Poorman Discrete-Bidding Games.” In <i>Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications</i>, 372:141–48. IOS Press, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230264\">https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230264</a>.","ama":"Avni G, Meggendorfer T, Sadhukhan S, Tkadlec J, Zikelic D. Reachability poorman discrete-bidding games. In: <i>Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications</i>. Vol 372. IOS Press; 2023:141-148. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230264\">10.3233/FAIA230264</a>","apa":"Avni, G., Meggendorfer, T., Sadhukhan, S., Tkadlec, J., &#38; Zikelic, D. (2023). Reachability poorman discrete-bidding games. In <i>Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications</i> (Vol. 372, pp. 141–148). Krakow, Poland: IOS Press. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230264\">https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230264</a>","ista":"Avni G, Meggendorfer T, Sadhukhan S, Tkadlec J, Zikelic D. 2023. Reachability poorman discrete-bidding games. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. ECAI: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence vol. 372, 141–148.","short":"G. Avni, T. Meggendorfer, S. Sadhukhan, J. Tkadlec, D. Zikelic, in:, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2023, pp. 141–148.","mla":"Avni, Guy, et al. “Reachability Poorman Discrete-Bidding Games.” <i>Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications</i>, vol. 372, IOS Press, 2023, pp. 141–48, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230264\">10.3233/FAIA230264</a>."},"date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:09:57Z","external_id":{"arxiv":["2307.15218"]},"day":"28","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.3233/FAIA230264","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"We consider bidding games, a class of two-player zero-sum graph games. The game proceeds as follows. Both players have bounded budgets. A token is placed on a vertex of a graph, in each turn the players simultaneously submit bids, and the higher bidder moves the token, where we break bidding ties in favor of Player 1. Player 1 wins the game iff the token visits a designated target vertex. We consider, for the first time, poorman discrete-bidding in which the granularity of the bids is restricted and the higher bid is paid to the bank. Previous work either did not impose granularity restrictions or considered Richman bidding (bids are paid to the opponent). While the latter mechanisms are technically more accessible, the former is more appealing from a practical standpoint. Our study focuses on threshold budgets, which is the necessary and sufficient initial budget required for Player 1 to ensure winning against a given Player 2 budget. We first show existence of thresholds. In DAGs, we show that threshold budgets can be approximated with error bounds by thresholds under continuous-bidding and that they exhibit a periodic behavior. We identify closed-form solutions in special cases. We implement and experiment with an algorithm to find threshold budgets."}],"acknowledgement":"This research was supported in part by ISF grant no. 1679/21, ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie SkłodowskaCurie Grant Agreement No. 665385.","volume":372,"ddc":["000"],"scopus_import":"1","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/","_id":"14518","author":[{"last_name":"Avni","first_name":"Guy","full_name":"Avni, Guy","orcid":"0000-0001-5588-8287","id":"463C8BC2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"id":"b21b0c15-30a2-11eb-80dc-f13ca25802e1","last_name":"Meggendorfer","first_name":"Tobias","full_name":"Meggendorfer, Tobias","orcid":"0000-0002-1712-2165"},{"last_name":"Sadhukhan","first_name":"Suman","full_name":"Sadhukhan, Suman"},{"id":"3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-1097-9684","full_name":"Tkadlec, Josef","first_name":"Josef","last_name":"Tkadlec"},{"last_name":"Zikelic","first_name":"Dorde","full_name":"Zikelic, Dorde","orcid":"0000-0002-4681-1699","id":"294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"ToHe"},{"_id":"KrCh"}],"date_created":"2023-11-12T23:00:56Z","publication_status":"published","intvolume":"       372","title":"Reachability poorman discrete-bidding games","quality_controlled":"1","ec_funded":1,"page":"141-148","file_date_updated":"2023-11-13T10:16:10Z","publisher":"IOS Press","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by_nc.png","short":"CC BY-NC (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode"},"type":"conference","date_published":"2023-09-28T00:00:00Z","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9781643684369"],"issn":["0922-6389"]},"oa":1,"file":[{"creator":"dernst","file_id":"14529","success":1,"access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"2023_FAIA_Avni.pdf","date_updated":"2023-11-13T10:16:10Z","file_size":501011,"checksum":"1390ca38480fa4cf286b0f1a42e8c12f","date_created":"2023-11-13T10:16:10Z"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","status":"public","has_accepted_license":"1","publication":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications","project":[{"_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"International IST Doctoral Program","grant_number":"665385"},{"_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","grant_number":"863818"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","month":"09","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"conference":{"location":"Krakow, Poland","end_date":"2023-10-04","start_date":"2023-09-30","name":"ECAI: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence"}},{"abstract":[{"text":"Stochastic systems provide a formal framework for modelling and quantifying uncertainty in systems and have been widely adopted in many application domains. Formal\r\nverification and control of finite state stochastic systems, a subfield of formal methods\r\nalso known as probabilistic model checking, is well studied. In contrast, formal verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems have received comparatively\r\nless attention. However, infinite state stochastic systems commonly arise in practice.\r\nFor instance, probabilistic models that contain continuous probability distributions such\r\nas normal or uniform, or stochastic dynamical systems which are a classical model for\r\ncontrol under uncertainty, both give rise to infinite state systems.\r\nThe goal of this thesis is to contribute to laying theoretical and algorithmic foundations\r\nof fully automated formal verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems,\r\nwith a particular focus on systems that may be executed over a long or infinite time.\r\nWe consider formal verification of infinite state stochastic systems in the setting of\r\nstatic analysis of probabilistic programs and formal control in the setting of controller\r\nsynthesis in stochastic dynamical systems. For both problems, we present some of the\r\nfirst fully automated methods for probabilistic (a.k.a. quantitative) reachability and\r\nsafety analysis applicable to infinite time horizon systems. We also advance the state\r\nof the art of probability 1 (a.k.a. qualitative) reachability analysis for both problems.\r\nFinally, for formal controller synthesis in stochastic dynamical systems, we present a\r\nnovel framework for learning neural network control policies in stochastic dynamical\r\nsystems with formal guarantees on correctness with respect to quantitative reachability,\r\nsafety or reach-avoid specifications.\r\n","lang":"eng"}],"doi":"10.15479/14539","degree_awarded":"PhD","day":"15","date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:10:10Z","year":"2023","citation":{"short":"D. Zikelic, Automated Verification and Control of Infinite State Stochastic Systems, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.","mla":"Zikelic, Dorde. <i>Automated Verification and Control of Infinite State Stochastic Systems</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/14539\">10.15479/14539</a>.","ista":"Zikelic D. 2023. Automated verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.","ama":"Zikelic D. Automated verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems. 2023. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/14539\">10.15479/14539</a>","apa":"Zikelic, D. (2023). <i>Automated verification and control of infinite state stochastic systems</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/14539\">https://doi.org/10.15479/14539</a>","ieee":"D. 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Our approach is based on the novel notion of stabilizing ranking supermartingales (sRSMs) that we introduce in this work. Our sRSMs overcome the limitation of methods proposed in previous works whose applicability is restricted to systems in which the stabilizing region cannot be left once entered under any control policy. We present a learning procedure that learns a control policy together with an sRSM that formally certifies probability 1 stability, both learned as neural networks. We show that this procedure can also be adapted to formally verifying that, under a given Lipschitz continuous control policy, the stochastic system stabilizes within some stabilizing region with probability 1. 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J.T. is supported by Center for Foundations ofModern Computer Science (Charles Univ. project UNCE/SCI/004).","ddc":["000","570"],"doi":"10.1098/rsif.2023.0355","day":"29","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Natural selection is usually studied between mutants that differ in reproductive rate, but are subject to the same population structure. Here we explore how natural selection acts on mutants that have the same reproductive rate, but different population structures. In our framework, population structure is given by a graph that specifies where offspring can disperse. The invading mutant disperses offspring on a different graph than the resident wild-type. We find that more densely connected dispersal graphs tend to increase the invader’s fixation probability, but the exact relationship between structure and fixation probability is subtle. We present three main results. First, we prove that if both invader and resident are on complete dispersal graphs, then removing a single edge in the invader’s dispersal graph reduces its fixation probability. Second, we show that for certain island models higher invader’s connectivity increases its fixation probability, but the magnitude of the effect depends on the exact layout of the connections. Third, we show that for lattices the effect of different connectivity is comparable to that of different fitness: for large population size, the invader’s fixation probability is either constant or exponentially small, depending on whether it is more or less connected than the resident."}],"date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:10:00Z","year":"2023","citation":{"chicago":"Tkadlec, Josef, Kamran Kaveh, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “Evolutionary Dynamics of Mutants That Modify Population Structure.” <i>Journal of the Royal Society, Interface</i>. The Royal Society, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0355\">https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0355</a>.","ieee":"J. Tkadlec, K. Kaveh, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure,” <i>Journal of the Royal Society, Interface</i>, vol. 20, no. 208. The Royal Society, 2023.","apa":"Tkadlec, J., Kaveh, K., Chatterjee, K., &#38; Nowak, M. A. (2023). Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure. <i>Journal of the Royal Society, Interface</i>. The Royal Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0355\">https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0355</a>","ama":"Tkadlec J, Kaveh K, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure. <i>Journal of the Royal Society, Interface</i>. 2023;20(208). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0355\">10.1098/rsif.2023.0355</a>","ista":"Tkadlec J, Kaveh K, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2023. Evolutionary dynamics of mutants that modify population structure. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 20(208), 20230355.","short":"J. Tkadlec, K. Kaveh, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20 (2023).","mla":"Tkadlec, Josef, et al. “Evolutionary Dynamics of Mutants That Modify Population Structure.” <i>Journal of the Royal Society, Interface</i>, vol. 20, no. 208, 20230355, The Royal Society, 2023, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0355\">10.1098/rsif.2023.0355</a>."},"external_id":{"pmid":["38016637"]}},{"acknowledgement":"Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant 16KISK020K (6G-RIC), 2021–2025, and ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt).","volume":13950,"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a promising technology to improve the scalability of cryptocurrencies. PCNs, however, face the challenge that the frequent usage of certain routes may deplete channels in one direction, and hence prevent further transactions. In order to reap the full potential of PCNs, recharging and rebalancing mechanisms are required to provision channels, as well as an admission control logic to decide which transactions to reject in case capacity is insufficient. This paper presents a formal model of this optimisation problem. In particular, we consider an online algorithms perspective, where transactions arrive over time in an unpredictable manner. Our main contributions are competitive online algorithms which come with provable guarantees over time. We empirically evaluate our algorithms on randomly generated transactions to compare the average performance of our algorithms to our theoretical bounds. We also show how this model and approach differs from related problems in classic communication networks."}],"day":"01","doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18","citation":{"short":"M. Bastankhah, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Maddah-Ali, S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, M.X. Yeo, in:, 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 309–325.","mla":"Bastankhah, Mahsa, et al. “R2: Boosting Liquidity in Payment Channel Networks with Online Admission Control.” <i>27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security</i>, vol. 13950, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 309–25, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18\">10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18</a>.","ista":"Bastankhah M, Chatterjee K, Maddah-Ali MA, Schmid S, Svoboda J, Yeo MX. 2023. R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control. 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC: Financial Cryptography and Data Security, LNCS, vol. 13950, 309–325.","apa":"Bastankhah, M., Chatterjee, K., Maddah-Ali, M. A., Schmid, S., Svoboda, J., &#38; Yeo, M. X. (2023). R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control. In <i>27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security</i> (Vol. 13950, pp. 309–325). Bol, Brac, Croatia: Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18</a>","ama":"Bastankhah M, Chatterjee K, Maddah-Ali MA, Schmid S, Svoboda J, Yeo MX. R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control. In: <i>27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security</i>. Vol 13950. Springer Nature; 2023:309-325. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18\">10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18</a>","ieee":"M. Bastankhah, K. Chatterjee, M. A. Maddah-Ali, S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, and M. X. 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Lexicographic ranking functions provide a sound and practical approach for termination of non-probabilistic programs, and their extension to probabilistic programs is achieved via lexicographic ranking supermartingales (LexRSMs). However, LexRSMs introduced in the previous work have a limitation that impedes their automation: all of their components have to be non-negative in all reachable states. This might result in a LexRSM not existing even for simple terminating programs. Our contributions are twofold. First, we introduce a generalization of LexRSMs that allows for some components to be negative. This standard feature of non-probabilistic termination proofs was hitherto not known to be sound in the probabilistic setting, as the soundness proof requires a careful analysis of the underlying stochastic process. Second, we present polynomial-time algorithms using our generalized LexRSMs for proving a.s. termination in broad classes of linear-arithmetic programs.","lang":"eng"}],"day":"23","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.1145/3585391","external_id":{"arxiv":["2108.02188"]},"citation":{"apa":"Chatterjee, K., Kafshdar Goharshady, E., Novotný, P., Zárevúcky, J., &#38; Zikelic, D. (2023). On lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination. <i>Formal Aspects of Computing</i>. Association for Computing Machinery. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3585391\">https://doi.org/10.1145/3585391</a>","ama":"Chatterjee K, Kafshdar Goharshady E, Novotný P, Zárevúcky J, Zikelic D. 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Our RASMs provide reachability and avoidance guarantees by imposing constraints on what can be viewed as a stochastic extension of level sets of Lyapunov functions for deterministic systems. Our approach solves several important problems -- it can be used to learn a control policy from scratch, to verify a reach-avoid specification for a fixed control policy, or to fine-tune a pre-trained policy if it does not satisfy the reach-avoid specification. 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This problem has an equally classical solution based on eigenvectors and linear equation systems. However, this approach does not scale to large instances, and iterative solutions are desirable. It turns out that a naive approach, as used by current model checkers, may yield completely wrong results. We present a new approach, which utilizes recent advances in partial exploration and mean payoff computation to obtain a correct, converging approximation.","lang":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2024-02-27T07:19:33Z","year":"2023","citation":{"ista":"Meggendorfer T. 2023. Correct approximation of stationary distributions. TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 13993, 489–507.","short":"T. 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We consider a learner-verifier framework for stochastic control systems and survey recent methods that formally guarantee a conjunction of reachability and safety properties. Given a property and a lower bound on the probability of the property being satisfied, our framework jointly learns a control policy and a formal certificate to ensure the satisfaction of the property with a desired probability threshold. Both the control policy and the formal certificate are continuous functions from states to reals, which are learned as parameterized neural networks. While in the deterministic case, the certificates are invariant and barrier functions for safety, or Lyapunov and ranking functions for liveness, in the stochastic case the certificates are supermartingales. For certificate verification, we use interval arithmetic abstract interpretation to bound the expected values of neural network functions.","lang":"eng"}],"day":"22","doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1","citation":{"mla":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “A Learner-Verifier Framework for Neural Network Controllers and Certificates of Stochastic Systems.” <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems </i>, vol. 13993, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 3–25, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1\">10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1</a>.","short":"K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, in:, Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems , Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 3–25.","ista":"Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Lechner M, Zikelic D. 2023. A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems . TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 13993, 3–25.","apa":"Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Lechner, M., &#38; Zikelic, D. (2023). A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems. In <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems </i> (Vol. 13993, pp. 3–25). Paris, France: Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1</a>","ama":"Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Lechner M, Zikelic D. A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems. In: <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems </i>. Vol 13993. Springer Nature; 2023:3-25. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1\">10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1</a>","ieee":"K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, and D. Zikelic, “A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems,” in <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems </i>, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13993, pp. 3–25.","chicago":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, Mathias Lechner, and Dorde Zikelic. “A Learner-Verifier Framework for Neural Network Controllers and Certificates of Stochastic Systems.” In <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems </i>, 13993:3–25. Springer Nature, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1</a>."},"year":"2023","date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:09:52Z","ddc":["000"],"acknowledgement":"This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093, ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385.","volume":13993,"month":"04","project":[{"_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"863818","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications"},{"grant_number":"665385","name":"International IST Doctoral Program","call_identifier":"H2020","_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","has_accepted_license":"1","publication":"Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems ","conference":{"name":"TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems","start_date":"2023-04-22","location":"Paris, France","end_date":"2023-04-27"},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa":1,"publication_identifier":{"issn":["0302-9743"],"eissn":["1611-3349"],"isbn":["9783031308222"]},"type":"conference","date_published":"2023-04-22T00:00:00Z","tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","status":"public","file":[{"file_id":"13150","creator":"dernst","success":1,"access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","date_updated":"2023-06-19T08:29:30Z","file_name":"2023_LNCS_Chatterjee.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2023-06-19T08:29:30Z","checksum":"3d8a8bb24d211bc83360dfc2fd744307","file_size":528455}]},{"date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:09:53Z","citation":{"ista":"Schmid S, Svoboda J, Yeo MX. 2023. Weighted packet selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation. SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity . SIROCCO: Structural Information and Communication Complexity, LNCS, vol. 13892, 576–594.","short":"S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, M.X. Yeo, in:, SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity , Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 576–594.","mla":"Schmid, Stefan, et al. “Weighted Packet Selection for Rechargeable Links in Cryptocurrency Networks: Complexity and Approximation.” <i>SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity </i>, vol. 13892, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 576–94, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26\">10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26</a>.","ieee":"S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, and M. X. Yeo, “Weighted packet selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation,” in <i>SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity </i>, Alcala de Henares, Spain, 2023, vol. 13892, pp. 576–594.","chicago":"Schmid, Stefan, Jakub Svoboda, and Michelle X Yeo. “Weighted Packet Selection for Rechargeable Links in Cryptocurrency Networks: Complexity and Approximation.” In <i>SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity </i>, 13892:576–94. Springer Nature, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26</a>.","apa":"Schmid, S., Svoboda, J., &#38; Yeo, M. X. (2023). Weighted packet selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation. In <i>SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity </i> (Vol. 13892, pp. 576–594). Alcala de Henares, Spain: Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26</a>","ama":"Schmid S, Svoboda J, Yeo MX. Weighted packet selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation. In: <i>SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity </i>. Vol 13892. Springer Nature; 2023:576-594. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26\">10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26</a>"},"year":"2023","external_id":{"arxiv":["2204.13459"]},"arxiv":1,"doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26","day":"25","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"We consider a natural problem dealing with weighted packet selection across a rechargeable link, which e.g., finds applications in cryptocurrency networks. The capacity of a link (u, v) is determined by how much nodes u and v allocate for this link. Specifically, the input is a finite ordered sequence of packets that arrive in both directions along a link. Given (u, v) and a packet of weight x going from u to v, node u can either accept or reject the packet. If u accepts the packet, the capacity on link (u, v) decreases by x. Correspondingly, v’s capacity on (u, v) increases by x. If a node rejects the packet, this will entail a cost affinely linear in the weight of the packet. A link is “rechargeable” in the sense that the total capacity of the link has to remain constant, but the allocation of capacity at the ends of the link can depend arbitrarily on the nodes’ decisions. The goal is to minimise the sum of the capacity injected into the link and the cost of rejecting packets. We show that the problem is NP-hard, but can be approximated efficiently with a ratio of (1+ε)⋅(1+3–√) for some arbitrary ε>0.\r\n."}],"acknowledgement":"We thank Mahsa Bastankhah and Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali for fruitful discussions about different variants of the problem. This work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Project 864228 (AdjustNet), 2020-2025, the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), and the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant 470029389 (FlexNets), 2021–2024.","volume":13892,"_id":"13238","scopus_import":"1","author":[{"full_name":"Schmid, Stefan","last_name":"Schmid","first_name":"Stefan"},{"last_name":"Svoboda","first_name":"Jakub","full_name":"Svoboda, Jakub","orcid":"0000-0002-1419-3267","id":"130759D2-D7DD-11E9-87D2-DE0DE6697425"},{"full_name":"Yeo, Michelle X","orcid":"0009-0001-3676-4809","last_name":"Yeo","first_name":"Michelle X","id":"2D82B818-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"publication_status":"published","date_created":"2023-07-16T22:01:12Z","department":[{"_id":"KrPi"},{"_id":"KrCh"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","title":"Weighted packet selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation","alternative_title":["LNCS"],"intvolume":"     13892","page":"576-594","quality_controlled":"1","ec_funded":1,"publisher":"Springer Nature","date_published":"2023-05-25T00:00:00Z","type":"conference","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9783031327322"],"eissn":["1611-3349"],"issn":["0302-9743"]},"oa":1,"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.13459","open_access":"1"}],"related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","id":"14506","relation":"dissertation_contains"}]},"status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication":"SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity ","oa_version":"Preprint","project":[{"name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","grant_number":"863818","call_identifier":"H2020","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E"}],"month":"05","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"conference":{"end_date":"2023-06-09","location":"Alcala de Henares, Spain","name":"SIROCCO: Structural Information and Communication Complexity","start_date":"2023-06-06"}},{"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"date_published":"2023-07-12T00:00:00Z","type":"journal_article","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2041-1723"]},"oa":1,"file":[{"relation":"main_file","access_level":"open_access","success":1,"creator":"dernst","file_id":"13337","checksum":"5aceefdfe76686267b93ae4fe81899f1","file_size":1601682,"date_created":"2023-07-31T11:32:36Z","file_name":"2023_NatureComm_Kleshnina.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","date_updated":"2023-07-31T11:32:36Z"}],"status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","related_material":{"record":[{"id":"13336","relation":"research_data","status":"public"}]},"publication":"Nature Communications","has_accepted_license":"1","oa_version":"Published Version","project":[{"_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"863818","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications"},{"grant_number":"754411","name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships","call_identifier":"H2020","_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"}],"month":"07","article_number":"4153","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2025-07-14T09:09:53Z","year":"2023","citation":{"short":"M. Kleshnina, C. Hilbe, S. Simsa, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, Nature Communications 14 (2023).","mla":"Kleshnina, Maria, et al. “The Effect of Environmental Information on Evolution of Cooperation in Stochastic Games.” <i>Nature Communications</i>, vol. 14, 4153, Springer Nature, 2023, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9\">10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9</a>.","ista":"Kleshnina M, Hilbe C, Simsa S, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2023. The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games. Nature Communications. 14, 4153.","apa":"Kleshnina, M., Hilbe, C., Simsa, S., Chatterjee, K., &#38; Nowak, M. A. (2023). The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games. <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9</a>","ama":"Kleshnina M, Hilbe C, Simsa S, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games. <i>Nature Communications</i>. 2023;14. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9\">10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9</a>","ieee":"M. Kleshnina, C. Hilbe, S. Simsa, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games,” <i>Nature Communications</i>, vol. 14. Springer Nature, 2023.","chicago":"Kleshnina, Maria, Christian Hilbe, Stepan Simsa, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “The Effect of Environmental Information on Evolution of Cooperation in Stochastic Games.” <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9</a>."},"isi":1,"external_id":{"pmid":["37438341"],"isi":["001029450400031"]},"doi":"10.1038/s41467-023-39625-9","day":"12","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Many human interactions feature the characteristics of social dilemmas where individual actions have consequences for the group and the environment. The feedback between behavior and environment can be studied with the framework of stochastic games. In stochastic games, the state of the environment can change, depending on the choices made by group members. Past work suggests that such feedback can reinforce cooperative behaviors. In particular, cooperation can evolve in stochastic games even if it is infeasible in each separate repeated game. In stochastic games, participants have an interest in conditioning their strategies on the state of the environment. Yet in many applications, precise information about the state could be scarce. Here, we study how the availability of information (or lack thereof) shapes evolution of cooperation. Already for simple examples of two state games we find surprising effects. In some cases, cooperation is only possible if there is precise information about the state of the environment. In other cases, cooperation is most abundant when there is no information about the state of the environment. We systematically analyze all stochastic games of a given complexity class, to determine when receiving information about the environment is better, neutral, or worse for evolution of cooperation."}],"acknowledgement":"This work was supported by the European Research Council CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) (to K.C.), the European Research Council Starting Grant 850529: E-DIRECT (to C.H.), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement #754411 and the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (under the Investissement d’Avenir programme, ANR-17-EURE-0010) (to M.K.).","volume":14,"ddc":["000"],"pmid":1,"_id":"13258","scopus_import":"1","author":[{"full_name":"Kleshnina, Maria","last_name":"Kleshnina","first_name":"Maria","id":"4E21749C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"id":"2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5116-955X","full_name":"Hilbe, Christian","first_name":"Christian","last_name":"Hilbe"},{"id":"409d615c-2f95-11ee-b934-90a352102c1e","first_name":"Stepan","last_name":"Simsa","orcid":"0000-0001-6687-1210","full_name":"Simsa, Stepan"},{"full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","last_name":"Chatterjee","first_name":"Krishnendu","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"first_name":"Martin A.","last_name":"Nowak","full_name":"Nowak, Martin A."}],"publication_status":"published","article_processing_charge":"Yes","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"date_created":"2023-07-23T22:01:11Z","title":"The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games","intvolume":"        14","ec_funded":1,"quality_controlled":"1","file_date_updated":"2023-07-31T11:32:36Z","publisher":"Springer Nature","article_type":"original"},{"publisher":"Zenodo","author":[{"full_name":"Kleshnina, Maria","first_name":"Maria","last_name":"Kleshnina","id":"4E21749C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"_id":"13336","month":"06","title":"kleshnina/stochgames_info: The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","date_created":"2023-07-31T11:30:46Z","oa_version":"Published Version","related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","relation":"used_in_publication","id":"13258"}]},"status":"public","ddc":["000"],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8059564","open_access":"1"}],"type":"research_data_reference","date_published":"2023-06-20T00:00:00Z","year":"2023","citation":{"ista":"Kleshnina M. 2023. kleshnina/stochgames_info: The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games, Zenodo, <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8059564\">10.5281/ZENODO.8059564</a>.","mla":"Kleshnina, Maria. <i>Kleshnina/Stochgames_info: The Effect of Environmental Information on Evolution of Cooperation in Stochastic Games</i>. 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