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Record W4414783286 · doi:10.1145/3769868

The Complexity of Linear Temporal Verification for Continuous Counter Systems

2025· article· en· W4414783286 on OpenAlexaff
Michael Blondin, Philip Offtermatt, Alex Sansfaçon-Buchanan

Bibliographic record

VenueACM Transactions on Computational Logic · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicFormal Methods in Verification
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinear temporal logicTemporal logicFragment (logic)Constant (computer programming)Computational complexity theoryTime complexityHybrid systemLinear logic

Abstract

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Constant-rate multi-mode systems (MMSs) are hybrid systems with finitely many modes and real-valued variables that evolve over continuous time according to mode-specific constant rates. Equivalently, they correspond to continuous vector addition systems (VASs), where counters may become negative. We introduce a variant of linear temporal logic (LTL) for MMS, and we investigate the complexity of the model-checking problem for syntactic fragments of LTL. We obtain a complexity trichotomy: Each fragment is either P-complete, NP-complete, or undecidable. Since our logic can constrain the counters to remain non-negative, it further applies to continuous VAS. Thus, our results yield a framework for MMS and continuous VAS that generalizes and unify several existing results.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.037
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.037
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0060.012
Open science0.0040.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.084
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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