Multi-objective ω-regular reinforcement learning

EM Hahn, M Perez, S Schewe, F Somenzi… - Formal Aspects of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The expanding role of reinforcement learning (RL) in safety-critical system design has
promoted ω-automata as a way to express learning requirements—often non-Markovian …

Multi-agent verification and control with probabilistic model checking

D Parker - International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of …, 2023 - Springer
Probabilistic model checking is a technique for formal automated reasoning about software
or hardware systems that operate in the context of uncertainty or stochasticity. It builds upon …

Symbolic verification and strategy synthesis for turn-based stochastic games

M Kwiatkowska, G Norman, D Parker… - Principles of Systems …, 2022 - Springer
Stochastic games are a convenient formalism for modelling systems that comprise rational
agents competing or collaborating within uncertain environments. Probabilistic model …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of algorithms for simple stochastic games

J Křetínský, E Ramneantu, A Slivinskiy… - Information and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Simple stochastic games are turn-based 2½-player zero-sum graph games with a
reachability objective. The problem is to compute the winning probabilities as well as the …

Arena-independent finite-memory determinacy in stochastic games

P Bouyer, Y Oualhadj, M Randour… - Logical Methods in …, 2023 - lmcs.episciences.org
We study stochastic zero-sum games on graphs, which are prevalent tools to model decision-
making in presence of an antagonistic opponent in a random environment. In this setting, an …

Stochastic games with lexicographic objectives

K Chatterjee, JP Katoen, S Mohr, M Weininger… - Formal Methods in …, 2023 - Springer
We study turn-based stochastic zero-sum games with lexicographic preferences over
objectives. Stochastic games are standard models in control, verification, and synthesis of …

Automata-based controller synthesis for stochastic systems: A game framework via approximate probabilistic relations

B Zhong, A Lavaei, M Zamani, M Caccamo - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose an abstraction and refinement methodology for the controller
synthesis of discrete-time stochastic systems to enforce complex logical properties …

Model-free learning of safe yet effective controllers

AK Bozkurt, Y Wang, M Pajic - 2021 60th IEEE Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of learning safe control policies that are also effective; ie, maximizing
the probability of satisfying a linear temporal logic (LTL) specification of a task, and the …

Multi-weighted reachability games

T Brihaye, A Goeminne - International Conference on Reachability …, 2023 - Springer
We study two-player multi-weighted reachability games played on a finite directed graph,
where an agent, called P 1, has several quantitative reachability objectives that he wants to …

Tools at the Frontiers of Quantitative Verification

R Andriushchenko, A Bork, CE Budde, M Češka… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The analysis of formal models that include quantitative aspects such as timing or
probabilistic choices is performed by quantitative verification tools. Broad and mature tool …