Compositional policy learning in stochastic control systems with formal guarantees

Đ Žikelić, M Lechner, A Verma… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Reinforcement learning has shown promising results in learning neural network policies for
complicated control tasks. However, the lack of formal guarantees about the behavior of …

Asparagus: Automated synthesis of parametric gas upper-bounds for smart contracts

Z Cai, S Farokhnia, AK Goharshady… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Modern programmable blockchains have built-in support for smart contracts, ie ‍programs
that are stored on the blockchain and whose state is subject to consensus. After a smart …

Learning control policies for stochastic systems with reach-avoid guarantees

Đ Žikelić, M Lechner, TA Henzinger… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
We study the problem of learning controllers for discrete-time non-linear stochastic
dynamical systems with formal reach-avoid guarantees. This work presents the first method …

[PDF][PDF] A new proof rule for almost-sure termination

A McIver, C Morgan, BL Kaminski… - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We present a new proof rule for proving almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs,
including those that contain demonic non-determinism. An important question for a …

Sound and complete certificates for quantitative termination analysis of probabilistic programs

K Chatterjee, AK Goharshady, T Meggendorfer… - … on Computer Aided …, 2022 - Springer
We consider the quantitative problem of obtaining lower-bounds on the probability of
termination of a given non-deterministic probabilistic program. Specifically, given a non …

Lexicographic ranking supermartingales: an efficient approach to termination of probabilistic programs

S Agrawal, K Chatterjee, P Novotný - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Probabilistic programs extend classical imperative programs with real-valued random
variables and random branching. The most basic liveness property for such programs is the …

Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time

P Wang, H Fu, K Chatterjee, Y Deng, M Xu - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The notion of program sensitivity (aka Lipschitz continuity) specifies that changes in the
program input result in proportional changes to the program output. For probabilistic …

Probabilistic program verification via inductive synthesis of inductive invariants

K Batz, M Chen, S Junges, BL Kaminski… - … Conference on Tools …, 2023 - Springer
Essential tasks for the verification of probabilistic programs include bounding expected
outcomes and proving termination in finite expected runtime. We contribute a simple yet …

Advanced weakest precondition calculi for probabilistic programs

BL Kaminski - 2019 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Wir studieren die quantitative Analyse probabilistischer Programme. Dabei untersuchen wir
vornehmlich zwei Aspekte: Die Analysetechniken selbst, sowie die komplexitäts-bzw …

Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs

P Wang, H Fu, AK Goharshady, K Chatterjee… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of expected cost analysis over nondeterministic probabilistic
programs, which aims at automated methods for analyzing the resource-usage of such …