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preprint2026arXiv

Optimal LTLf Synthesis

Strategy synthesis typically follows an all-or-nothing paradigm, returning unrealisable whenever a specification cannot be guaranteed in an uncertain environment. In this paper, we introduce optimal LTLf synthesis, where the goal is to realise as many objectives as possible from a given specification consisting of multiple objectives, especially for the case that they are not all jointly realisable. We first consider max-guarantee synthesis, which commits to a maximal set of objectives that we can a priori guarantee to realise. We then introduce max-observation synthesis, which maximises a posteriori realised objectives that may be incomparable on different executions. Finally, we present incremental max-observation synthesis, which further improves strategies by exploiting opportunities for stronger guarantees when they arise during an execution. Experimental results show that different variations of optimal synthesis scale broadly equally well, solving a large fraction of the benchmark instances within the given timeout, demonstrating the practical feasibility of the approach.

preprint2026arXiv

The Complexity of Games with Randomised Control

We study the complexity of solving two-player infinite duration games played on a fixed finite graph, where the control of a node is not predetermined but rather assigned randomly. In classic random-turn games, control of each node is assigned randomly every time the node is visited during a play. In this work, we study two natural variants of this where control of each node is assigned only once: (i) control is assigned randomly during a play when a node is visited for the first time and does not change for the rest of the play and (ii) control is assigned a priori before the game starts for every node by independent coin tosses and then the game is played. We investigate the complexity of computing the winning probability with three kinds of objectives-reachability, parity, and energy. We show that the qualitative questions on all variants and all objectives are NL-complete. For the quantitative questions, we show that deciding whether the maximiser can win with probability at least a given threshold for every objective is PSPACE-complete under the first mechanism, and that computing the exact winning probability for every objective is sharp-P-complete under the second. To complement our hardness results for the second mechanism, we propose randomised approximation schemes that efficiently estimate the winning probability for all three objectives, assuming a bounded number of parity colours and unary-encoded weights for energy objectives, and we empirically demonstrate their fast convergence.

preprint2022arXiv

Mimicking Behaviors in Separated Domains

Devising a strategy to make a system mimicking behaviors from another system is a problem that naturally arises in many areas of Computer Science. In this work, we interpret this problem in the context of intelligent agents, from the perspective of LTLf, a formalism commonly used in AI for expressing finite-trace properties. Our model consists of two separated dynamic domains, D_A and D_B, and an LTLf specification that formalizes the notion of mimicking by mapping properties on behaviors (traces) of D_A into properties on behaviors of D_B. The goal is to synthesize a strategy that step-by-step maps every behavior of D_A into a behavior of D_B so that the specification is met. We consider several forms of mapping specifications, ranging from simple ones to full LTLf, and for each we study synthesis algorithms and computational properties.

preprint2020arXiv

A Symbolic Approach to Safety LTL Synthesis

Temporal synthesis is the automated design of a system that interacts with an environment, using the declarative specification of the system's behavior. A popular language for providing such a specification is Linear Temporal Logic, or LTL. LTL synthesis in the general case has remained, however, a hard problem to solve in practice. Because of this, many works have focused on developing synthesis procedures for specific fragments of LTL, with an easier synthesis problem. In this work, we focus on Safety LTL, defined here to be the Until-free fragment of LTL in Negation Normal Form~(NNF), and shown to express a fragment of safe LTL formulas. The intrinsic motivation for this fragment is the observation that in many cases it is not enough to say that something "good" will eventually happen, we need to say by when it will happen. We show here that Safety LTL synthesis is significantly simpler algorithmically than LTL synthesis. We exploit this simplicity in two ways, first by describing an explicit approach based on a reduction to Horn-SAT, which can be solved in linear time in the size of the game graph, and then through an efficient symbolic construction, allowing a BDD-based symbolic approach which significantly outperforms extant LTL-synthesis tools.

preprint2015arXiv

SAT-based Explicit LTL Reasoning

We present here a new explicit reasoning framework for linear temporal logic (LTL), which is built on top of propositional satisfiability (SAT) solving. As a proof-of-concept of this framework, we describe a new LTL satisfiability tool, Aalta\_v2.0, which is built on top of the MiniSAT SAT solver. We test the effectiveness of this approach by demonnstrating that Aalta\_v2.0 significantly outperforms all existing LTL satisfiability solvers. Furthermore, we show that the framework can be extended from propositional LTL to assertional LTL (where we allow theory atoms), by replacing MiniSAT with the Z3 SMT solver, and demonstrating that this can yield an exponential improvement in performance.