Reducing CTL-live Model Checking to First-Order Logic Validity Checking
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Abstract
Temporal logic model checking of infinite state systems without the use of iteration or abstraction is usually considered beyond the realm of first-order logic (FOL) reasoners because of the need for a fixpoint computation. In this paper, we show that it is possible to reduce model checking of a finite or infinite Kripke structure that is expressed in FOL to a validity problem in FOL for a fragment of computational tree logic (CTL), which we call CTL-live. CTL-live includes the CTL connectives that are traditionally used to express liveness properties. Our reduction can form the basis for methods that use FOL reasoning techniques directly to accomplish model checking of CTL-live properties without the need for fixpoint operators, transitive closure, abstraction, or induction.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.019 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it