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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Graphs and games on graphs are fundamental models for the analysis of reactive
systems, in particular, for model-checking and the synthesis of reactive systems.
The class of ω-regular languages provides a robust specification formalism for
the desired properties of reactive systems. In the classical infinitary formulation
of the liveness part of an ω-regular specification, a "good" event must happen
eventually without any bound between the good events. A stronger notion of liveness
is bounded liveness, which requires that good events happen within d transitions.
Given a graph or a game graph with n vertices, m edges, and a bounded liveness
objective, the previous best-known algorithmic bounds are as follows: (i) O(dm)
for graphs, which in the worst-case is O(n³); and (ii) O(n² d²) for games on graphs.
Our main contributions improve these long-standing algorithmic bounds. For graphs
we present: (i) a randomized algorithm with one-sided error with running time
O(n^{2.5} log n) for the bounded liveness objectives; and (ii) a deterministic
linear-time algorithm for the complement of bounded liveness objectives. For games
on graphs, we present an O(n² d) time algorithm for the bounded liveness objectives.'
acknowledgement: 'Krishnendu Chatterjee: Supported by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt).
Monika Henzinger: Supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and netIDEE SCIENCE
project P 33775-N. Sagar Sudhir Kale: Partially supported by the Vienna Science
and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003. Alexander Svozil: Fully supported
by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003.'
alternative_title:
- LIPIcs
article_number: '124'
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Monika H
full_name: Henzinger, Monika H
id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630
last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530
- first_name: Sagar Sudhir
full_name: Kale, Sagar Sudhir
last_name: Kale
- first_name: Alexander
full_name: Svozil, Alexander
last_name: Svozil
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Kale SS, Svozil A. Faster algorithms for bounded
liveness in graphs and game graphs. In: 48th International Colloquium on Automata,
Languages, and Programming. Vol 198. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für
Informatik; 2021. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.124'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, M. H., Kale, S. S., & Svozil, A. (2021). Faster
algorithms for bounded liveness in graphs and game graphs. In 48th International
Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (Vol. 198). Glasgow, Scotland:
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.124'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Monika H Henzinger, Sagar Sudhir Kale, and Alexander
Svozil. “Faster Algorithms for Bounded Liveness in Graphs and Game Graphs.” In
48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming,
Vol. 198. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.124.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, M. H. Henzinger, S. S. Kale, and A. Svozil, “Faster algorithms
for bounded liveness in graphs and game graphs,” in 48th International Colloquium
on Automata, Languages, and Programming, Glasgow, Scotland, 2021, vol. 198.
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Kale SS, Svozil A. 2021. Faster algorithms for
bounded liveness in graphs and game graphs. 48th International Colloquium on Automata,
Languages, and Programming. ICALP: International Colloquium on Automata, Languages,
and Programming, LIPIcs, vol. 198, 124.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Faster Algorithms for Bounded Liveness in Graphs
and Game Graphs.” 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and
Programming, vol. 198, 124, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik,
2021, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.124.
short: K. Chatterjee, M.H. Henzinger, S.S. Kale, A. Svozil, in:, 48th International
Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz
Zentrum für Informatik, 2021.
conference:
end_date: 2021-07-16
location: Glasgow, Scotland
name: 'ICALP: International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming'
start_date: 2021-07-12
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date_published: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-14T09:10:08Z
day: '02'
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---
_id: '10055'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "Repeated idempotent elements are commonly used to characterise iterable behaviours
in abstract models of computation. Therefore, given a monoid M, it is natural
to ask how long a sequence of elements of M needs to be to ensure the presence
of consecutive idempotent factors. This question is formalised through the notion
of the Ramsey function R_M associated to M, obtained by mapping every k ∈ ℕ to
the minimal integer R_M(k) such that every word u ∈ M^* of length R_M(k) contains
k consecutive non-empty factors that correspond to the same idempotent element
of M. In this work, we study the behaviour of the Ramsey function R_M by investigating
the regular \U0001D49F-length of M, defined as the largest size L(M) of a submonoid
of M isomorphic to the set of natural numbers {1,2, …, L(M)} equipped with the
max operation. We show that the regular \U0001D49F-length of M determines the
degree of R_M, by proving that k^L(M) ≤ R_M(k) ≤ (k|M|⁴)^L(M). To allow applications
of this result, we provide the value of the regular \U0001D49F-length of diverse
monoids. In particular, we prove that the full monoid of n × n Boolean matrices,
which is used to express transition monoids of non-deterministic automata, has
a regular \U0001D49F-length of (n²+n+2)/2."
acknowledgement: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement
No. 754411. I wish to thank Michaël Cadilhac, Emmanuel Filiot and Charles Paperman
for their valuable insights concerning Green’s relations.
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article_number: '44'
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author:
- first_name: Ismael R
full_name: Jecker, Ismael R
id: 85D7C63E-7D5D-11E9-9C0F-98C4E5697425
last_name: Jecker
citation:
ama: 'Jecker IR. A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids. In: 38th International
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Vol 187. Schloss Dagstuhl
- Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik; 2021. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44'
apa: 'Jecker, I. R. (2021). A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids. In 38th International
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (Vol. 187). Saarbrücken,
Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44'
chicago: Jecker, Ismael R. “A Ramsey Theorem for Finite Monoids.” In 38th International
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Vol. 187. Schloss Dagstuhl
- Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44.
ieee: I. R. Jecker, “A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids,” in 38th International
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany,
2021, vol. 187.
ista: 'Jecker IR. 2021. A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids. 38th International
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. STACS: Symposium on Theoretical
Aspects of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 187, 44.'
mla: Jecker, Ismael R. “A Ramsey Theorem for Finite Monoids.” 38th International
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, vol. 187, 44, Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44.
short: I.R. Jecker, in:, 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of
Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021.
conference:
end_date: 2021-03-19
location: Saarbrücken, Germany
name: 'STACS: Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science'
start_date: 2021-03-16
date_created: 2021-09-27T14:33:15Z
date_published: 2021-03-10T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-14T07:03:23Z
day: '10'
ddc:
- '000'
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- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44
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_id: '10075'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We study the expressiveness and succinctness of good-for-games pushdown automata
(GFG-PDA) over finite words, that is, pushdown automata whose nondeterminism can
be resolved based on the run constructed so far, but independently of the remainder
of the input word. We prove that GFG-PDA recognise more languages than deterministic
PDA (DPDA) but not all context-free languages (CFL). This class is orthogonal
to unambiguous CFL. We further show that GFG-PDA can be exponentially more succinct
than DPDA, while PDA can be double-exponentially more succinct than GFG-PDA. We
also study GFGness in visibly pushdown automata (VPA), which enjoy better closure
properties than PDA, and for which we show GFGness to be ExpTime-complete. GFG-VPA
can be exponentially more succinct than deterministic VPA, while VPA can be exponentially
more succinct than GFG-VPA. Both of these lower bounds are tight. Finally, we
study the complexity of resolving nondeterminism in GFG-PDA. Every GFG-PDA has
a positional resolver, a function that resolves nondeterminism and that is only
dependant on the current configuration. Pushdown transducers are sufficient to
implement the resolvers of GFG-VPA, but not those of GFG-PDA. GFG-PDA with finite-state
resolvers are determinisable.
acknowledgement: 'Ismaël Jecker: Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 754411.
Karoliina Lehtinen: Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 892704.'
alternative_title:
- LIPIcs
article_number: '53'
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Shibashis
full_name: Guha, Shibashis
last_name: Guha
- first_name: Ismael R
full_name: Jecker, Ismael R
id: 85D7C63E-7D5D-11E9-9C0F-98C4E5697425
last_name: Jecker
- first_name: Karoliina
full_name: Lehtinen, Karoliina
last_name: Lehtinen
- first_name: Martin
full_name: Zimmermann, Martin
last_name: Zimmermann
citation:
ama: 'Guha S, Jecker IR, Lehtinen K, Zimmermann M. A bit of nondeterminism makes
pushdown automata expressive and succinct. In: 46th International Symposium
on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. Vol 202. Schloss Dagstuhl
- Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik; 2021. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53'
apa: 'Guha, S., Jecker, I. R., Lehtinen, K., & Zimmermann, M. (2021). A bit
of nondeterminism makes pushdown automata expressive and succinct. In 46th
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (Vol.
202). Tallinn, Estonia: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53'
chicago: Guha, Shibashis, Ismael R Jecker, Karoliina Lehtinen, and Martin Zimmermann.
“A Bit of Nondeterminism Makes Pushdown Automata Expressive and Succinct.” In
46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science,
Vol. 202. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53.
ieee: S. Guha, I. R. Jecker, K. Lehtinen, and M. Zimmermann, “A bit of nondeterminism
makes pushdown automata expressive and succinct,” in 46th International Symposium
on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Tallinn, Estonia, 2021, vol.
202.
ista: 'Guha S, Jecker IR, Lehtinen K, Zimmermann M. 2021. A bit of nondeterminism
makes pushdown automata expressive and succinct. 46th International Symposium
on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. MFCS: Mathematical Foundations
of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 202, 53.'
mla: Guha, Shibashis, et al. “A Bit of Nondeterminism Makes Pushdown Automata Expressive
and Succinct.” 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of
Computer Science, vol. 202, 53, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik,
2021, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53.
short: S. Guha, I.R. Jecker, K. Lehtinen, M. Zimmermann, in:, 46th International
Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl -
Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021.
conference:
end_date: 2021-08-27
location: Tallinn, Estonia
name: 'MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science'
start_date: 2021-08-23
date_created: 2021-10-03T22:01:23Z
date_published: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-05-13T08:21:56Z
day: '18'
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2105.02611'
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Science
publication_identifier:
isbn:
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---
_id: '10191'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "In this work we solve the algorithmic problem of consistency verification
for the TSO and PSO memory models given a reads-from map, denoted VTSO-rf and
VPSO-rf, respectively. For an execution of n events over k threads and d variables,
we establish novel bounds that scale as nk+1 for TSO and as nk+1· min(nk2, 2k·
d) for PSO. Moreover, based on our solution to these problems, we develop an SMC
algorithm under TSO and PSO that uses the RF equivalence. The algorithm is exploration-optimal,
in the sense that it is guaranteed to explore each class of the RF partitioning
exactly once, and spends polynomial time per class when k is bounded. Finally,
we implement all our algorithms in the SMC tool Nidhugg, and perform a large number
of experiments over benchmarks from existing literature. Our experimental results
show that our algorithms for VTSO-rf and VPSO-rf provide significant scalability
improvements over standard alternatives. Moreover, when used for SMC, the RF partitioning
is often much coarser than the standard Shasha-Snir partitioning for TSO/PSO,
which yields a significant speedup in the model checking task.\r\n\r\n"
acknowledgement: "The research was partially funded by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt)
and the Vienna Science\r\nand Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003."
article_number: '164'
article_processing_charge: No
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arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Truc Lam
full_name: Bui, Truc Lam
last_name: Bui
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Tushar
full_name: Gautam, Tushar
last_name: Gautam
- first_name: Andreas
full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas
id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Pavlogiannis
orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722
- first_name: Viktor
full_name: Toman, Viktor
id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Toman
orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X
citation:
ama: Bui TL, Chatterjee K, Gautam T, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. The reads-from equivalence
for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.
2021;5(OOPSLA). doi:10.1145/3485541
apa: Bui, T. L., Chatterjee, K., Gautam, T., Pavlogiannis, A., & Toman, V. (2021).
The reads-from equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of
the ACM on Programming Languages. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485541
chicago: Bui, Truc Lam, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Tushar Gautam, Andreas Pavlogiannis,
and Viktor Toman. “The Reads-from Equivalence for the TSO and PSO Memory Models.”
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. Association for Computing
Machinery, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485541.
ieee: T. L. Bui, K. Chatterjee, T. Gautam, A. Pavlogiannis, and V. Toman, “The reads-from
equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models,” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming
Languages, vol. 5, no. OOPSLA. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021.
ista: Bui TL, Chatterjee K, Gautam T, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. 2021. The reads-from
equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming
Languages. 5(OOPSLA), 164.
mla: Bui, Truc Lam, et al. “The Reads-from Equivalence for the TSO and PSO Memory
Models.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 5, no. OOPSLA,
164, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, doi:10.1145/3485541.
short: T.L. Bui, K. Chatterjee, T. Gautam, A. Pavlogiannis, V. Toman, Proceedings
of the ACM on Programming Languages 5 (2021).
date_created: 2021-10-27T15:05:34Z
date_published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-14T09:10:16Z
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doi: 10.1145/3485541
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
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keyword:
- safety
- risk
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- software
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_id: '10199'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The design and verification of concurrent systems remains an open challenge
due to the non-determinism that arises from the inter-process communication. In
particular, concurrent programs are notoriously difficult both to be written correctly
and to be analyzed formally, as complex thread interaction has to be accounted
for. The difficulties are further exacerbated when concurrent programs get executed
on modern-day hardware, which contains various buffering and caching mechanisms
for efficiency reasons. This causes further subtle non-determinism, which can
often produce very unintuitive behavior of the concurrent programs. Model checking
is at the forefront of tackling the verification problem, where the task is to
decide, given as input a concurrent system and a desired property, whether the
system satisfies the property. The inherent state-space explosion problem in model
checking of concurrent systems causes naïve explicit methods not to scale, thus
more inventive methods are required. One such method is stateless model checking
(SMC), which explores in memory-efficient manner the program executions rather
than the states of the program. State-of-the-art SMC is typically coupled with
partial order reduction (POR) techniques, which argue that certain executions
provably produce identical system behavior, thus limiting the amount of executions
one needs to explore in order to cover all possible behaviors. Another method
to tackle the state-space explosion is symbolic model checking, where the considered
techniques operate on a succinct implicit representation of the input system rather
than explicitly accessing the system. In this thesis we present new techniques
for verification of concurrent systems. We present several novel POR methods for
SMC of concurrent programs under various models of semantics, some of which account
for write-buffering mechanisms. Additionally, we present novel algorithms for
symbolic model checking of finite-state concurrent systems, where the desired
property of the systems is to ensure a formally defined notion of fairness.
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apa: Toman, V. (2021). Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10199
chicago: Toman, Viktor. “Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems.”
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10199.
ieee: V. Toman, “Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems,” Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 2021.
ista: Toman V. 2021. Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems. Institute
of Science and Technology Austria.
mla: Toman, Viktor. Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021, doi:10.15479/at:ista:10199.
short: V. Toman, Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems, Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 2021.
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text: "Indirect reciprocity in evolutionary game theory is a prominent mechanism
for explaining the evolution of cooperation among unrelated individuals. In contrast
to direct reciprocity, which is based on individuals meeting repeatedly, and conditionally
cooperating by using their own experiences, indirect reciprocity is based on individuals’
reputations. If a player helps another, this increases the helper’s public standing,
benefitting them in the future. This lets cooperation in the population emerge
without individuals having to meet more than once. While the two modes of reciprocity
are intertwined, they are difficult to compare. Thus, they are usually studied
in isolation. Direct reciprocity can maintain cooperation with simple strategies,
and is robust against noise even when players do not remember more\r\nthan their
partner’s last action. Meanwhile, indirect reciprocity requires its successful
strategies, or social norms, to be more complex. Exhaustive search previously
identified eight such norms, called the “leading eight”, which excel at maintaining
cooperation. However, as the first result of this thesis, we show that the leading
eight break down once we remove the fundamental assumption that information is
synchronized and public, such that everyone agrees on reputations. Once we consider
a more realistic scenario of imperfect information, where reputations are private,
and individuals occasionally misinterpret or miss observations, the leading eight
do not promote cooperation anymore. Instead, minor initial disagreements can proliferate,
fragmenting populations into subgroups. In a next step, we consider ways to mitigate
this issue. We first explore whether introducing “generosity” can stabilize cooperation
when players use the leading eight strategies in noisy environments. This approach
of modifying strategies to include probabilistic elements for coping with errors
is known to work well in direct reciprocity. However, as we show here, it fails
for the more complex norms of indirect reciprocity. Imperfect information still
prevents cooperation from evolving. On the other hand, we succeeded to show in
this thesis that modifying the leading eight to use “quantitative assessment”,
i.e. tracking reputation scores on a scale beyond good and bad, and making overall
judgments of others based on a threshold, is highly successful, even when noise
increases in the environment. Cooperation can flourish when reputations\r\nare
more nuanced, and players have a broader understanding what it means to be “good.”
Finally, we present a single theoretical framework that unites the two modes of
reciprocity despite their differences. Within this framework, we identify a novel
simple and successful strategy for indirect reciprocity, which can cope with noisy
environments and has an analogue in direct reciprocity. We can also analyze decision
making when different sources of information are available. Our results help highlight
that for sustaining cooperation, already the most simple rules of reciprocity
can be sufficient."
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information. 2021. doi:10.15479/at:ista:10293
apa: Schmid, L. (2021). Evolution of cooperation via (in)direct reciprocity under
imperfect information. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10293
chicago: Schmid, Laura. “Evolution of Cooperation via (in)Direct Reciprocity under
Imperfect Information.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10293.
ieee: L. Schmid, “Evolution of cooperation via (in)direct reciprocity under imperfect
information,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021.
ista: Schmid L. 2021. Evolution of cooperation via (in)direct reciprocity under
imperfect information. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
mla: Schmid, Laura. Evolution of Cooperation via (in)Direct Reciprocity under
Imperfect Information. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021,
doi:10.15479/at:ista:10293.
short: L. Schmid, Evolution of Cooperation via (in)Direct Reciprocity under Imperfect
Information, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021.
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abstract:
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text: 'We consider the almost-sure (a.s.) termination problem for probabilistic
programs, which are a stochastic extension of classical imperative programs. 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 LexRSM not
existing even for simple terminating programs. Our contributions are twofold:
First, we introduce a generalization of LexRSMs which 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.'
acknowledgement: This research was partially supported by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt),
the Czech Science Foundation grant No. GJ19-15134Y, and the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement
No. 665385.
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- first_name: Ehsan Kafshdar
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ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady EK, Novotný P, Zárevúcky J, Zikelic D. On lexicographic
proof rules for probabilistic termination. In: 24th International Symposium
on Formal Methods. Vol 13047. Springer Nature; 2021:619-639. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, E. K., Novotný, P., Zárevúcky, J., & Zikelic,
D. (2021). On lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination. In 24th
International Symposium on Formal Methods (Vol. 13047, pp. 619–639). Virtual:
Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady, Petr Novotný, Jiří Zárevúcky,
and Dorde Zikelic. “On Lexicographic Proof Rules for Probabilistic Termination.”
In 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, 13047:619–39. Springer
Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, E. K. Goharshady, P. Novotný, J. Zárevúcky, and D. Zikelic,
“On lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination,” in 24th International
Symposium on Formal Methods, Virtual, 2021, vol. 13047, pp. 619–639.
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady EK, Novotný P, Zárevúcky J, Zikelic D. 2021. On
lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination. 24th International Symposium
on Formal Methods. FM: Formal Methods, LNCS, vol. 13047, 619–639.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “On Lexicographic Proof Rules for Probabilistic
Termination.” 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, vol. 13047,
Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 619–39, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33.
short: K. Chatterjee, E.K. Goharshady, P. Novotný, J. Zárevúcky, D. Zikelic, in:,
24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 619–639.
conference:
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abstract:
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text: "Product graphs arise naturally in formal verification and program analysis.
For example, the analysis of two concurrent threads requires the product of two
component control-flow graphs, and for language inclusion of deterministic automata
the product of two automata is constructed. In many cases, the component graphs
have constant treewidth, e.g., when the input contains control-flow graphs of
programs. We consider the algorithmic analysis of products of two constant-treewidth
graphs with respect to three classic specification languages, namely, (a) algebraic
properties, (b) mean-payoff properties, and (c) initial credit for energy properties.\r\nOur
main contributions are as follows. Consider a graph G that is the product of two
constant-treewidth graphs of size n each. First, given an idempotent semiring,
we present an algorithm that computes the semiring transitive closure of G in
time Õ(n⁴). Since the output has size Θ(n⁴), our algorithm is optimal (up to
polylog factors). Second, given a mean-payoff objective, we present an O(n³)-time
algorithm for deciding whether the value of a starting state is non-negative,
improving the previously known O(n⁴) bound. Third, given an initial credit for
energy objective, we present an O(n⁵)-time algorithm for computing the minimum
initial credit for all nodes of G, improving the previously known O(n⁸) bound.
At the heart of our approach lies an algorithm for the efficient construction
of strongly-balanced tree decompositions of constant-treewidth graphs. Given a
constant-treewidth graph G' of n nodes and a positive integer λ, our algorithm
constructs a binary tree decomposition of G' of width O(λ) with the property that
the size of each subtree decreases geometrically with rate (1/2 + 2^{-λ})."
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last_name: Pavlogiannis
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ama: 'Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. Quantitative verification on
product graphs of small treewidth. In: 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations
of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. Vol 213. Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2021. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.42'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2021). Quantitative
verification on product graphs of small treewidth. In 41st IARCS Annual Conference
on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (Vol.
213). Virtual: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.42'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Andreas Pavlogiannis.
“Quantitative Verification on Product Graphs of Small Treewidth.” In 41st IARCS
Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer
Science, Vol. 213. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.42.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and A. Pavlogiannis, “Quantitative verification
on product graphs of small treewidth,” in 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations
of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Virtual, 2021, vol.
213.
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. 2021. Quantitative verification
on product graphs of small treewidth. 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations
of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. FSTTCS: Foundations of
Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 213, 42.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Quantitative Verification on Product Graphs
of Small Treewidth.” 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software
Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 213, 42, Schloss Dagstuhl
- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.42.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. Pavlogiannis, in:, 41st IARCS Annual Conference
on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021.
conference:
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location: Virtual
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ddc:
- '000'
department:
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abstract:
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text: In the Intersection Non-emptiness problem, we are given a list of finite automata
A_1, A_2,… , A_m over a common alphabet Σ as input, and the goal is to determine
whether some string w ∈ Σ^* lies in the intersection of the languages accepted
by the automata in the list. We analyze the complexity of the Intersection Non-emptiness
problem under the promise that all input automata accept a language in some level
of the dot-depth hierarchy, or some level of the Straubing-Thérien hierarchy.
Automata accepting languages from the lowest levels of these hierarchies arise
naturally in the context of model checking. We identify a dichotomy in the dot-depth
hierarchy by showing that the problem is already NP-complete when all input automata
accept languages of the levels B_0 or B_{1/2} and already PSPACE-hard when all
automata accept a language from the level B_1. Conversely, we identify a tetrachotomy
in the Straubing-Thérien hierarchy. More precisely, we show that the problem is
in AC^0 when restricted to level L_0; complete for L or NL, depending on the input
representation, when restricted to languages in the level L_{1/2}; NP-complete
when the input is given as DFAs accepting a language in L_1 or L_{3/2}; and finally,
PSPACE-complete when the input automata accept languages in level L_2 or higher.
Moreover, we show that the proof technique used to show containment in NP for
DFAs accepting languages in L_1 or L_{3/2} does not generalize to the context
of NFAs. To prove this, we identify a family of languages that provide an exponential
separation between the state complexity of general NFAs and that of partially
ordered NFAs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first superpolynomial
separation between these two models of computation.
acknowledgement: "We like to thank Lukas Fleischer and Michael Wehar for our discussions.
This work started at the Schloss Dagstuhl Event 20483 Moderne Aspekte der Komplexitätstheorie
in der Automatentheorie https://www.dagstuhl.de/20483.\r\n"
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- LIPIcs
article_number: '34'
article_processing_charge: No
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author:
- first_name: Emmanuel
full_name: Arrighi, Emmanuel
last_name: Arrighi
- first_name: Henning
full_name: Fernau, Henning
last_name: Fernau
- first_name: Stefan
full_name: Hoffmann, Stefan
last_name: Hoffmann
- first_name: Markus
full_name: Holzer, Markus
last_name: Holzer
- first_name: Ismael R
full_name: Jecker, Ismael R
id: 85D7C63E-7D5D-11E9-9C0F-98C4E5697425
last_name: Jecker
- first_name: Mateus
full_name: De Oliveira Oliveira, Mateus
last_name: De Oliveira Oliveira
- first_name: Petra
full_name: Wolf, Petra
last_name: Wolf
citation:
ama: 'Arrighi E, Fernau H, Hoffmann S, et al. On the complexity of intersection
non-emptiness for star-free language classes. In: 41st IARCS Annual Conference
on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. Vol
213. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik; 2021. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.34'
apa: 'Arrighi, E., Fernau, H., Hoffmann, S., Holzer, M., Jecker, I. R., De Oliveira
Oliveira, M., & Wolf, P. (2021). On the complexity of intersection non-emptiness
for star-free language classes. In 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations
of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (Vol. 213). Virtual:
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.34'
chicago: Arrighi, Emmanuel, Henning Fernau, Stefan Hoffmann, Markus Holzer, Ismael
R Jecker, Mateus De Oliveira Oliveira, and Petra Wolf. “On the Complexity of Intersection
Non-Emptiness for Star-Free Language Classes.” In 41st IARCS Annual Conference
on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol.
213. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.34.
ieee: E. Arrighi et al., “On the complexity of intersection non-emptiness
for star-free language classes,” in 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations
of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Virtual, 2021, vol.
213.
ista: 'Arrighi E, Fernau H, Hoffmann S, Holzer M, Jecker IR, De Oliveira Oliveira
M, Wolf P. 2021. On the complexity of intersection non-emptiness for star-free
language classes. 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology
and Theoretical Computer Science. FSTTCS: Foundations of Software Technology and
Theoretical Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 213, 34.'
mla: Arrighi, Emmanuel, et al. “On the Complexity of Intersection Non-Emptiness
for Star-Free Language Classes.” 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations
of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 213, 34, Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.34.
short: E. Arrighi, H. Fernau, S. Hoffmann, M. Holzer, I.R. Jecker, M. De Oliveira
Oliveira, P. Wolf, in:, 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software
Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum
für Informatik, 2021.
conference:
end_date: 2021-12-17
location: Virtual
name: 'FSTTCS: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science'
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date_created: 2022-01-16T23:01:29Z
date_published: 2021-11-29T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-01-17T10:56:19Z
day: '29'
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.34
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2110.01279'
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Theoretical Computer Science
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abstract:
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text: Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) place distributions over the weights of a
neural network to model uncertainty in the data and the network's prediction.
We consider the problem of verifying safety when running a Bayesian neural network
policy in a feedback loop with infinite time horizon systems. Compared to the
existing sampling-based approaches, which are inapplicable to the infinite time
horizon setting, we train a separate deterministic neural network that serves
as an infinite time horizon safety certificate. In particular, we show that the
certificate network guarantees the safety of the system over a subset of the BNN
weight posterior's support. Our method first computes a safe weight set and then
alters the BNN's weight posterior to reject samples outside this set. Moreover,
we show how to extend our approach to a safe-exploration reinforcement learning
setting, in order to avoid unsafe trajectories during the training of the policy.
We evaluate our approach on a series of reinforcement learning benchmarks, including
non-Lyapunovian safety specifications.
acknowledgement: This research was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund
(FWF) under grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award), 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.
alternative_title:
- ' Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems'
article_processing_charge: No
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author:
- first_name: Mathias
full_name: Lechner, Mathias
id: 3DC22916-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Lechner
- first_name: Ðorđe
full_name: Žikelić, Ðorđe
last_name: Žikelić
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
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full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724
citation:
ama: 'Lechner M, Žikelić Ð, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA. Infinite time horizon safety
of Bayesian neural networks. In: 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing
Systems. ; 2021. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165'
apa: Lechner, M., Žikelić, Ð., Chatterjee, K., & Henzinger, T. A. (2021). Infinite
time horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks. In 35th Conference on Neural
Information Processing Systems. Virtual. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165
chicago: Lechner, Mathias, Ðorđe Žikelić, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Thomas A Henzinger.
“Infinite Time Horizon Safety of Bayesian Neural Networks.” In 35th Conference
on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165.
ieee: M. Lechner, Ð. Žikelić, K. Chatterjee, and T. A. Henzinger, “Infinite time
horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks,” in 35th Conference on Neural Information
Processing Systems, Virtual, 2021.
ista: 'Lechner M, Žikelić Ð, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA. 2021. Infinite time horizon
safety of Bayesian neural networks. 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing
Systems. NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems, .'
mla: Lechner, Mathias, et al. “Infinite Time Horizon Safety of Bayesian Neural Networks.”
35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165.
short: M. Lechner, Ð. Žikelić, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 35th Conference
on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
conference:
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location: Virtual
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start_date: 2021-12-06
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abstract:
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text: 'In a two-player zero-sum graph game the players move a token throughout a
graph to produce an infinite path, which determines the winner or payoff of the
game. Traditionally, the players alternate turns in moving the token. In bidding
games, however, the players have budgets, and in each turn, we hold an “auction”
(bidding) to determine which player moves the token: both players simultaneously
submit bids and the higher bidder moves the token. The bidding mechanisms differ
in their payment schemes. Bidding games were largely studied with variants of
first-price bidding in which only the higher bidder pays his bid. We focus on
all-pay bidding, where both players pay their bids. Finite-duration all-pay bidding
games were studied and shown to be technically more challenging than their first-price
counterparts. We study for the first time, infinite-duration all-pay bidding games.
Our most interesting results are for mean-payoff objectives: we portray a complete
picture for games played on strongly-connected graphs. We study both pure (deterministic)
and mixed (probabilistic) strategies and completely characterize the optimal and
almost-sure (with probability 1) payoffs the players can respectively guarantee.
We show that mean-payoff games under all-pay bidding exhibit the intriguing mathematical
properties of their first-price counterparts; namely, an equivalence with random-turn
games in which in each turn, the player who moves is selected according to a (biased)
coin toss. The equivalences for all-pay bidding are more intricate and unexpected
than for first-price bidding.'
acknowledgement: This research was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund
(FWF) under grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award), ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt), and
by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385.
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ama: 'Avni G, Jecker IR, Zikelic D. Infinite-duration all-pay bidding games. In:
Marx D, ed. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; 2021:617-636. doi:10.1137/1.9781611976465.38'
apa: 'Avni, G., Jecker, I. R., & Zikelic, D. (2021). Infinite-duration all-pay
bidding games. In D. Marx (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium
on Discrete Algorithms (pp. 617–636). Virtual: Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611976465.38'
chicago: Avni, Guy, Ismael R Jecker, and Dorde Zikelic. “Infinite-Duration All-Pay
Bidding Games.” In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms,
edited by Dániel Marx, 617–36. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
2021. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611976465.38.
ieee: G. Avni, I. R. Jecker, and D. Zikelic, “Infinite-duration all-pay bidding
games,” in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms,
Virtual, 2021, pp. 617–636.
ista: 'Avni G, Jecker IR, Zikelic D. 2021. Infinite-duration all-pay bidding games.
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. SODA: Symposium
on Discrete Algorithms, 617–636.'
mla: Avni, Guy, et al. “Infinite-Duration All-Pay Bidding Games.” Proceedings
of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, edited by Dániel Marx,
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2021, pp. 617–36, doi:10.1137/1.9781611976465.38.
short: G. Avni, I.R. Jecker, D. Zikelic, in:, D. Marx (Ed.), Proceedings of the
2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics, 2021, pp. 617–636.
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end_date: 2021-01-13
location: Virtual
name: 'SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms'
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day: '01'
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- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.1137/1.9781611976465.38
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full_name: Marx, Dániel
last_name: Marx
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---
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abstract:
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text: 'Selection and random drift determine the probability that novel mutations
fixate in a population. Population structure is known to affect the dynamics of
the evolutionary process. Amplifiers of selection are population structures that
increase the fixation probability of beneficial mutants compared to well-mixed
populations. Over the past 15 years, extensive research has produced remarkable
structures called strong amplifiers which guarantee that every beneficial mutation
fixates with high probability. But strong amplification has come at the cost of
considerably delaying the fixation event, which can slow down the overall rate
of evolution. However, the precise relationship between fixation probability and
time has remained elusive. Here we characterize the slowdown effect of strong
amplification. First, we prove that all strong amplifiers must delay the fixation
event at least to some extent. Second, we construct strong amplifiers that delay
the fixation event only marginally as compared to the well-mixed populations.
Our results thus establish a tight relationship between fixation probability and
time: Strong amplification always comes at a cost of a slowdown, but more than
a marginal slowdown is not needed.'
acknowledgement: 'K.C. acknowledges support from ERC Start grant no. (279307: Graph
Games), ERC Consolidator grant no. (863818: ForM-SMart), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
grant no. P23499-N23 and S11407-N23 (RiSE). M.A.N. acknowledges support from Office
of Naval Research grant N00014-16-1-2914 and from the John Templeton Foundation.'
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id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Pavlogiannis
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full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
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full_name: Nowak, Martin A.
last_name: Nowak
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ama: Tkadlec J, Pavlogiannis A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Fast and strong amplifiers
of natural selection. Nature Communications. 2021;12(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w
apa: Tkadlec, J., Pavlogiannis, A., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. A. (2021). Fast
and strong amplifiers of natural selection. Nature Communications. Springer
Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w
chicago: Tkadlec, Josef, Andreas Pavlogiannis, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin
A. Nowak. “Fast and Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection.” Nature Communications.
Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w.
ieee: J. Tkadlec, A. Pavlogiannis, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “Fast and strong
amplifiers of natural selection,” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1.
Springer Nature, 2021.
ista: Tkadlec J, Pavlogiannis A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2021. Fast and strong amplifiers
of natural selection. Nature Communications. 12(1), 4009.
mla: Tkadlec, Josef, et al. “Fast and Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection.” Nature
Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 4009, Springer Nature, 2021, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w.
short: J. Tkadlec, A. Pavlogiannis, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, Nature Communications
12 (2021).
date_created: 2021-07-11T22:01:15Z
date_published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-14T09:10:05Z
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abstract:
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text: 'We present a new approach to proving non-termination of non-deterministic
integer programs. Our technique is rather simple but efficient. It relies on a
purely syntactic reversal of the program''s transition system followed by a constraint-based
invariant synthesis with constraints coming from both the original and the reversed
transition system. The latter task is performed by a simple call to an off-the-shelf
SMT-solver, which allows us to leverage the latest advances in SMT-solving. Moreover,
our method offers a combination of features not present (as a whole) in previous
approaches: it handles programs with non-determinism, provides relative completeness
guarantees and supports programs with polynomial arithmetic. The experiments performed
with our prototype tool RevTerm show that our approach, despite its simplicity
and stronger theoretical guarantees, is at least on par with the state-of-the-art
tools, often achieving a non-trivial improvement under a proper configuration
of its parameters.'
acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This
research was partially supported by the ERCCoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) and the Czech
Science Foundation grant No. GJ19-15134Y.
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- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Ehsan Kafshdar
full_name: Goharshady, Ehsan Kafshdar
last_name: Goharshady
- first_name: Petr
full_name: Novotný, Petr
id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Novotný
- first_name: Dorde
full_name: Zikelic, Dorde
id: 294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Zikelic
orcid: 0000-0002-4681-1699
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady EK, Novotný P, Zikelic D. Proving non-termination
by program reversal. In: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Association
for Computing Machinery; 2021:1033-1048. doi:10.1145/3453483.3454093'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, E. K., Novotný, P., & Zikelic, D. (2021).
Proving non-termination by program reversal. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM
SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
(pp. 1033–1048). Online: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454093'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady, Petr Novotný, and Dorde
Zikelic. “Proving Non-Termination by Program Reversal.” In Proceedings of the
42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation,
1033–48. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454093.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, E. K. Goharshady, P. Novotný, and D. Zikelic, “Proving non-termination
by program reversal,” in Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Online, 2021,
pp. 1033–1048.
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady EK, Novotný P, Zikelic D. 2021. Proving non-termination
by program reversal. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference
on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI: Programming Language
Design and Implementation, 1033–1048.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Proving Non-Termination by Program Reversal.”
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021,
pp. 1033–48, doi:10.1145/3453483.3454093.
short: K. Chatterjee, E.K. Goharshady, P. Novotný, D. Zikelic, in:, Proceedings
of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 1033–1048.
conference:
end_date: 2021-06-26
location: Online
name: 'PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation'
start_date: 2021-06-20
date_created: 2021-07-11T22:01:17Z
date_published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-14T09:10:06Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.1145/3453483.3454093
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2104.01189'
isi:
- '000723661700067'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01189
month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 1033-1048
project:
- _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E
call_identifier: H2020
grant_number: '863818'
name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications'
publication: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation
publication_identifier:
isbn:
- '9781450383912'
publication_status: published
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
quality_controlled: '1'
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title: Proving non-termination by program reversal
type: conference
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year: '2021'
...
---
_id: '9645'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "We consider the fundamental problem of reachability analysis over imperative
programs with real variables. Previous works that tackle reachability are either
unable to handle programs consisting of general loops (e.g. symbolic execution),
or lack completeness guarantees (e.g. abstract interpretation), or are not automated
(e.g. incorrectness logic). In contrast, we propose a novel approach for reachability
analysis that can handle general and complex loops, is complete, and can be entirely
automated for a wide family of programs. Through the notion of Inductive Reachability
Witnesses (IRWs), our approach extends ideas from both invariant generation and
termination to reachability analysis.\r\n\r\nWe first show that our IRW-based
approach is sound and complete for reachability analysis of imperative programs.
Then, we focus on linear and polynomial programs and develop automated methods
for synthesizing linear and polynomial IRWs. In the linear case, we follow the
well-known approaches using Farkas' Lemma. Our main contribution is in the polynomial
case, where we present a push-button semi-complete algorithm. We achieve this
using a novel combination of classical theorems in real algebraic geometry, such
as Putinar's Positivstellensatz and Hilbert's Strong Nullstellensatz. Finally,
our experimental results show we can prove complex reachability objectives over
various benchmarks that were beyond the reach of previous methods."
acknowledgement: This research was partially supported by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt),
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grant No. 61802254, the
Huawei Innovation Research Program, the Facebook PhD Fellowship Program, and DOC
Fellowship No. 24956 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Ali
full_name: Asadi, Ali
last_name: Asadi
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Hongfei
full_name: Fu, Hongfei
id: 3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Fu
- first_name: Amir Kafshdar
full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar
id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Goharshady
orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584
- first_name: Mohammad
full_name: Mahdavi, Mohammad
last_name: Mahdavi
citation:
ama: 'Asadi A, Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Mahdavi M. Polynomial reachability
witnesses via Stellensätze. In: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Association
for Computing Machinery; 2021:772-787. doi:10.1145/3453483.3454076'
apa: 'Asadi, A., Chatterjee, K., Fu, H., Goharshady, A. K., & Mahdavi, M. (2021).
Polynomial reachability witnesses via Stellensätze. In Proceedings of the 42nd
ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
(pp. 772–787). Online: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454076'
chicago: Asadi, Ali, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady,
and Mohammad Mahdavi. “Polynomial Reachability Witnesses via Stellensätze.” In
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation, 772–87. Association for Computing Machinery,
2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454076.
ieee: A. Asadi, K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A. K. Goharshady, and M. Mahdavi, “Polynomial
reachability witnesses via Stellensätze,” in Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN
International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation,
Online, 2021, pp. 772–787.
ista: 'Asadi A, Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Mahdavi M. 2021. Polynomial reachability
witnesses via Stellensätze. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI: Programming
Language Design and Implementation, 772–787.'
mla: Asadi, Ali, et al. “Polynomial Reachability Witnesses via Stellensätze.” Proceedings
of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 772–87,
doi:10.1145/3453483.3454076.
short: A. Asadi, K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A.K. Goharshady, M. Mahdavi, in:, Proceedings
of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 772–787.
conference:
end_date: 2021-06-26
location: Online
name: ' PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation'
start_date: 2021-06-20
date_created: 2021-07-11T22:01:17Z
date_published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-14T09:10:06Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.1145/3453483.3454076
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
isi:
- '000723661700050'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03183862/
month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Submitted Version
page: 772-787
project:
- _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E
call_identifier: H2020
grant_number: '863818'
name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications'
- _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies
publication: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation
publication_identifier:
isbn:
- '9781450383912'
publication_status: published
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Polynomial reachability witnesses via Stellensätze
type: conference
user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8
year: '2021'
...
---
_id: '9646'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We consider the fundamental problem of deriving quantitative bounds on the
probability that a given assertion is violated in a probabilistic program. We
provide automated algorithms that obtain both lower and upper bounds on the assertion
violation probability. The main novelty of our approach is that we prove new and
dedicated fixed-point theorems which serve as the theoretical basis of our algorithms
and enable us to reason about assertion violation bounds in terms of pre and post
fixed-point functions. To synthesize such fixed-points, we devise algorithms that
utilize a wide range of mathematical tools, including repulsing ranking supermartingales,
Hoeffding's lemma, Minkowski decompositions, Jensen's inequality, and convex optimization.
On the theoretical side, we provide (i) the first automated algorithm for lower-bounds
on assertion violation probabilities, (ii) the first complete algorithm for upper-bounds
of exponential form in affine programs, and (iii) provably and significantly tighter
upper-bounds than the previous approaches. On the practical side, we show our
algorithms can handle a wide variety of programs from the literature and synthesize
bounds that are remarkably tighter than previous results, in some cases by thousands
of orders of magnitude.
acknowledgement: 'We are very thankful to the anonymous reviewers for the helpful
and valuable comments. The work was partially supported by the National Natural
Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grant No. 61802254, the Huawei Innovation Research
Program, the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), the Facebook PhD Fellowship Program and
DOC Fellowship #24956 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).'
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Jinyi
full_name: Wang, Jinyi
last_name: Wang
- first_name: Yican
full_name: Sun, Yican
last_name: Sun
- first_name: Hongfei
full_name: Fu, Hongfei
id: 3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Fu
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Amir Kafshdar
full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar
id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Goharshady
orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584
citation:
ama: 'Wang J, Sun Y, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. Quantitative analysis of
assertion violations in probabilistic programs. In: Proceedings of the 42nd
ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.
Association for Computing Machinery; 2021:1171-1186. doi:10.1145/3453483.3454102'
apa: 'Wang, J., Sun, Y., Fu, H., Chatterjee, K., & Goharshady, A. K. (2021).
Quantitative analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs. In Proceedings
of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation (pp. 1171–1186). Online: Association for Computing Machinery.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454102'
chicago: Wang, Jinyi, Yican Sun, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Amir Kafshdar
Goharshady. “Quantitative Analysis of Assertion Violations in Probabilistic Programs.”
In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation, 1171–86. Association for Computing Machinery,
2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454102.
ieee: J. Wang, Y. Sun, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, and A. K. Goharshady, “Quantitative
analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs,” in Proceedings
of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation, Online, 2021, pp. 1171–1186.
ista: 'Wang J, Sun Y, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. 2021. Quantitative analysis
of assertion violations in probabilistic programs. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM
SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.
PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation, 1171–1186.'
mla: Wang, Jinyi, et al. “Quantitative Analysis of Assertion Violations in Probabilistic
Programs.” Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on
Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing
Machinery, 2021, pp. 1171–86, doi:10.1145/3453483.3454102.
short: J. Wang, Y. Sun, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, in:, Proceedings
of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 1171–1186.
conference:
end_date: 2021-06-26
location: Online
name: 'PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation'
start_date: 2021-06-20
date_created: 2021-07-11T22:01:18Z
date_published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-14T09:10:06Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.1145/3453483.3454102
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2011.14617'
isi:
- '000723661700076'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
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url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14617
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oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
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project:
- _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E
call_identifier: H2020
grant_number: '863818'
name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications'
- _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies
publication: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation
publication_identifier:
isbn:
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publication_status: published
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
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title: Quantitative analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs
type: conference
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year: '2021'
...
---
_id: '9987'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Stateless model checking (SMC) is one of the standard approaches to the verification
of concurrent programs. As scheduling non-determinism creates exponentially large
spaces of thread interleavings, SMC attempts to partition this space into equivalence
classes and explore only a few representatives from each class. The efficiency
of this approach depends on two factors: (a) the coarseness of the partitioning,
and (b) the time to generate representatives in each class. For this reason, the
search for coarse partitionings that are efficiently explorable is an active research
challenge. In this work we present RVF-SMC , a new SMC algorithm that uses a
novel reads-value-from (RVF) partitioning. Intuitively, two interleavings are
deemed equivalent if they agree on the value obtained in each read event, and
read events induce consistent causal orderings between them. The RVF partitioning
is provably coarser than recent approaches based on Mazurkiewicz and “reads-from”
partitionings. Our experimental evaluation reveals that RVF is quite often a very
effective equivalence, as the underlying partitioning is exponentially coarser
than other approaches. Moreover, RVF-SMC generates representatives very efficiently,
as the reduction in the partitioning is often met with significant speed-ups in
the model checking task.'
acknowledgement: The research was partially funded by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt)
and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: Yes
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Pratyush
full_name: Agarwal, Pratyush
last_name: Agarwal
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Shreya
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last_name: Pathak
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full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas
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last_name: Pavlogiannis
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full_name: Toman, Viktor
id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Toman
orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X
citation:
ama: 'Agarwal P, Chatterjee K, Pathak S, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. Stateless model
checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. In: 33rd International Conference
on Computer-Aided Verification . Vol 12759. Springer Nature; 2021:341-366.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16'
apa: 'Agarwal, P., Chatterjee, K., Pathak, S., Pavlogiannis, A., & Toman, V.
(2021). Stateless model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. In 33rd
International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (Vol. 12759, pp.
341–366). Virtual: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16'
chicago: Agarwal, Pratyush, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Shreya Pathak, Andreas Pavlogiannis,
and Viktor Toman. “Stateless Model Checking under a Reads-Value-from Equivalence.”
In 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , 12759:341–66.
Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16.
ieee: P. Agarwal, K. Chatterjee, S. Pathak, A. Pavlogiannis, and V. Toman, “Stateless
model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence,” in 33rd International
Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , Virtual, 2021, vol. 12759, pp.
341–366.
ista: 'Agarwal P, Chatterjee K, Pathak S, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. 2021. Stateless
model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. 33rd International Conference
on Computer-Aided Verification . CAV: Computer Aided Verification , LNCS, vol.
12759, 341–366.'
mla: Agarwal, Pratyush, et al. “Stateless Model Checking under a Reads-Value-from
Equivalence.” 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification
, vol. 12759, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 341–66, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16.
short: P. Agarwal, K. Chatterjee, S. Pathak, A. Pavlogiannis, V. Toman, in:, 33rd
International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , Springer Nature, 2021,
pp. 341–366.
conference:
end_date: 2021-07-23
location: Virtual
name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification '
start_date: 2021-07-20
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doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16
ec_funded: 1
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---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Indirect reciprocity is a mechanism for the evolution of cooperation based
on social norms. This mechanism requires that individuals in a population observe
and judge each other’s behaviors. Individuals with a good reputation are more
likely to receive help from others. Previous work suggests that indirect reciprocity
is only effective when all relevant information is reliable and publicly available.
Otherwise, individuals may disagree on how to assess others, even if they all
apply the same social norm. Such disagreements can lead to a breakdown of cooperation.
Here we explore whether the predominantly studied ‘leading eight’ social norms
of indirect reciprocity can be made more robust by equipping them with an element
of generosity. To this end, we distinguish between two kinds of generosity. According
to assessment generosity, individuals occasionally assign a good reputation to
group members who would usually be regarded as bad. According to action generosity,
individuals occasionally cooperate with group members with whom they would usually
defect. Using individual-based simulations, we show that the two kinds of generosity
have a very different effect on the resulting reputation dynamics. Assessment
generosity tends to add to the overall noise and allows defectors to invade. In
contrast, a limited amount of action generosity can be beneficial in a few cases.
However, even when action generosity is beneficial, the respective simulations
do not result in full cooperation. Our results suggest that while generosity can
favor cooperation when individuals use the most simple strategies of reciprocity,
it is disadvantageous when individuals use more complex social norms.
acknowledgement: 'This work was supported by the European Research Council CoG 863818
(ForM-SMArt) (to K.C.) and the European Research Council Starting Grant 850529:
E-DIRECT (to C.H.). L.S. received additional partial support by the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF) under Grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award).'
article_number: '17443'
article_processing_charge: Yes
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Laura
full_name: Schmid, Laura
id: 38B437DE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Schmid
orcid: 0000-0002-6978-7329
- first_name: Pouya
full_name: Shati, Pouya
last_name: Shati
- first_name: Christian
full_name: Hilbe, Christian
last_name: Hilbe
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
citation:
ama: Schmid L, Shati P, Hilbe C, Chatterjee K. The evolution of indirect reciprocity
under action and assessment generosity. Scientific Reports. 2021;11(1).
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1
apa: Schmid, L., Shati, P., Hilbe, C., & Chatterjee, K. (2021). The evolution
of indirect reciprocity under action and assessment generosity. Scientific
Reports. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1
chicago: Schmid, Laura, Pouya Shati, Christian Hilbe, and Krishnendu Chatterjee.
“The Evolution of Indirect Reciprocity under Action and Assessment Generosity.”
Scientific Reports. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1.
ieee: L. Schmid, P. Shati, C. Hilbe, and K. Chatterjee, “The evolution of indirect
reciprocity under action and assessment generosity,” Scientific Reports,
vol. 11, no. 1. Springer Nature, 2021.
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reciprocity under action and assessment generosity. Scientific Reports. 11(1),
17443.
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Assessment Generosity.” Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 17443, Springer
Nature, 2021, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1.
short: L. Schmid, P. Shati, C. Hilbe, K. Chatterjee, Scientific Reports 11 (2021).
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text: 'We study the two-player zero-sum extension of the partially observable stochastic
shortest-path problem where one agent has only partial information about the environment.
We formulate this problem as a partially observable stochastic game (POSG): given
a set of target states and negative rewards for each transition, the player with
imperfect information maximizes the expected undiscounted total reward until a
target state is reached. The second player with the perfect information aims for
the opposite. We base our formalism on POSGs with one-sided observability (OS-POSGs)
and give the following contributions: (1) we introduce a novel heuristic search
value iteration algorithm that iteratively solves depth-limited variants of the
game, (2) we derive the bound on the depth guaranteeing an arbitrary precision,
(3) we propose a novel upper-bound estimation that allows early terminations,
and (4) we experimentally evaluate the algorithm on a pursuit-evasion game.'
acknowledgement: "This research was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (no.
19-24384Y), by the OP VVV MEYS funded project CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16 019/0000765
“Research Center for Informatics”, by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), and by the
Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory and was accomplished
under Cooperative\r\nAgreement Number W911NF-13-2-0045 (ARL Cyber Security CRA).
The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and
should not be interpreted as\r\nrepresenting the official policies, either expressed
or implied, of the Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory
or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute
reprints for Government purposes not withstanding any copyright notation here on. "
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ama: 'Tomášek P, Horák K, Aradhye A, Bošanský B, Chatterjee K. Solving partially
observable stochastic shortest-path games. In: 30th International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence. International Joint Conferences on Artificial
Intelligence; 2021:4182-4189. doi:10.24963/ijcai.2021/575'
apa: 'Tomášek, P., Horák, K., Aradhye, A., Bošanský, B., & Chatterjee, K. (2021).
Solving partially observable stochastic shortest-path games. In 30th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 4182–4189). Virtual, Online:
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/575'
chicago: Tomášek, Petr, Karel Horák, Aditya Aradhye, Branislav Bošanský, and Krishnendu
Chatterjee. “Solving Partially Observable Stochastic Shortest-Path Games.” In
30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 4182–89.
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2021. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/575.
ieee: P. Tomášek, K. Horák, A. Aradhye, B. Bošanský, and K. Chatterjee, “Solving
partially observable stochastic shortest-path games,” in 30th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual, Online, 2021, pp. 4182–4189.
ista: 'Tomášek P, Horák K, Aradhye A, Bošanský B, Chatterjee K. 2021. Solving partially
observable stochastic shortest-path games. 30th International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence. IJCAI: International Joint Conferences on Artificial
Intelligence Organization, 4182–4189.'
mla: Tomášek, Petr, et al. “Solving Partially Observable Stochastic Shortest-Path
Games.” 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2021, pp. 4182–89,
doi:10.24963/ijcai.2021/575.
short: P. Tomášek, K. Horák, A. Aradhye, B. Bošanský, K. Chatterjee, in:, 30th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, International Joint Conferences on
Artificial Intelligence, 2021, pp. 4182–4189.
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text: Coinfections with multiple pathogens can result in complex within-host dynamics
affecting virulence and transmission. Whilst multiple infections are intensively
studied in solitary hosts, it is so far unresolved how social host interactions
interfere with pathogen competition, and if this depends on coinfection diversity.
We studied how the collective disease defenses of ants – their social immunity
– influence pathogen competition in coinfections of same or different fungal
pathogen species. Social immunity reduced virulence for all pathogen combinations,
but interfered with spore production only in different-species coinfections. Here,
it decreased overall pathogen sporulation success, whilst simultaneously increasing
co-sporulation on individual cadavers and maintaining a higher pathogen diversity
at the community-level. Mathematical modeling revealed that host sanitary care
alone can modulate competitive outcomes between pathogens, giving advantage to
fast-germinating, thus less grooming-sensitive ones. Host social interactions
can hence modulate infection dynamics in coinfected group members, thereby altering
pathogen communities at the host- and population-level.
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Cremer, S. (2020). Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens.
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Christian Hilbe, and Sylvia Cremer. “Social Immunity Modulates Competition between
Coinfecting Pathogens.” Dryad, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318.
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“Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens.” Dryad,
2020.
ista: Milutinovic B, Stock M, Grasse AV, Naderlinger E, Hilbe C, Cremer S. 2020.
Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens, Dryad, 10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318.
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Coinfecting Pathogens. Dryad, 2020, doi:10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318.
short: B. Milutinovic, M. Stock, A.V. Grasse, E. Naderlinger, C. Hilbe, S. Cremer,
(2020).
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text: We study turn-based stochastic zero-sum games with lexicographic preferences
over reachability and safety objectives. Stochastic games are standard models
in control, verification, and synthesis of stochastic reactive systems that exhibit
both randomness as well as angelic and demonic non-determinism. Lexicographic
order allows to consider multiple objectives with a strict preference order over
the satisfaction of the objectives. To the best of our knowledge, stochastic games
with lexicographic objectives have not been studied before. We establish determinacy
of such games and present strategy and computational complexity results. For strategy
complexity, we show that lexicographically optimal strategies exist that are deterministic
and memory is only required to remember the already satisfied and violated objectives.
For a constant number of objectives, we show that the relevant decision problem
is in NP∩coNP , matching the current known bound for single objectives; and
in general the decision problem is PSPACE -hard and can be solved in NEXPTIME∩coNEXPTIME
. We present an algorithm that computes the lexicographically optimal strategies
via a reduction to computation of optimal strategies in a sequence of single-objectives
games. We have implemented our algorithm and report experimental results on various
case studies.
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reachability-safety objectives. In: International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification. Vol 12225. Springer Nature; 2020:398-420. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_21'
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chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Joost P Katoen, Maximilian Weininger, and Tobias
Winkler. “Stochastic Games with Lexicographic Reachability-Safety Objectives.”
In International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, 12225:398–420.
Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_21.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, J. P. Katoen, M. Weininger, and T. Winkler, “Stochastic games
with lexicographic reachability-safety objectives,” in International Conference
on Computer Aided Verification, 2020, vol. 12225, pp. 398–420.
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Weininger M, Winkler T. 2020. Stochastic games with
lexicographic reachability-safety objectives. International Conference on Computer
Aided Verification. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 12225, 398–420.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Stochastic Games with Lexicographic Reachability-Safety
Objectives.” International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, vol.
12225, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 398–420, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_21.
short: K. Chatterjee, J.P. Katoen, M. Weininger, T. Winkler, in:, International
Conference on Computer Aided Verification, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 398–420.
conference:
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