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This work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Project 864228 (AdjustNet), 2020-2025, the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), and the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant 470029389 (FlexNets), 2021-2024.","year":"2024","volume":989,"date_created":"2024-01-16T13:40:41Z","date_updated":"2024-01-17T09:23:03Z","author":[{"full_name":"Schmid, Stefan","last_name":"Schmid","first_name":"Stefan"},{"full_name":"Svoboda, Jakub","last_name":"Svoboda","first_name":"Jakub","orcid":"0000-0002-1419-3267","id":"130759D2-D7DD-11E9-87D2-DE0DE6697425"},{"last_name":"Yeo","first_name":"Michelle X","id":"2D82B818-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Yeo, Michelle X"}],"keyword":["General Computer Science","Theoretical Computer Science"],"article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","day":"11","article_type":"original","citation":{"short":"S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, M.X. 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Given (u, v) and a packet of weight x going from u to v, node u can either accept or reject the packet. If u accepts the packet, the capacity on link (u, v) decreases by x. Correspondingly, v's capacity on \r\n increases by x. If a node rejects the packet, this will entail a cost affinely linear in the weight of the packet. A link is “rechargeable” in the sense that the total capacity of the link has to remain constant, but the allocation of capacity at the ends of the link can depend arbitrarily on the nodes' decisions. The goal is to minimise the sum of the capacity injected into the link and the cost of rejecting packets. We show that the problem is NP-hard, but can be approximated efficiently with a ratio of (1+E) . 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The very logic of reciprocity, however, seems to require that individuals are symmetric, and that everyone has the same means to influence each others’ payoffs. Yet in many applications, individuals are asymmetric. Herein, we study the effect of asymmetry in linear public good games. Individuals may differ in their endowments (their ability to contribute to a public good) and in their productivities (how effective their contributions are). Given the individuals’ productivities, we ask which allocation of endowments is optimal for cooperation. To this end, we consider two notions of optimality. The first notion focuses on the resilience of cooperation. The respective endowment distribution ensures that full cooperation is feasible even under the most adverse conditions. The second notion focuses on efficiency. The corresponding endowment distribution maximizes group welfare. Using analytical methods, we fully characterize these two endowment distributions. This analysis reveals that both optimality notions favor some endowment inequality: More productive players ought to get higher endowments. Yet the two notions disagree on how unequal endowments are supposed to be. A focus on resilience results in less inequality. With additional simulations, we show that the optimal endowment allocation needs to account for both the resilience and the efficiency of cooperation."}],"intvolume":" 121","ddc":["000"],"status":"public","title":"Efficiency and resilience of cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","_id":"15083","oa_version":"Published Version","file":[{"file_id":"15109","relation":"main_file","success":1,"checksum":"068520e3efd4d008bb9177e8aedb7d22","date_created":"2024-03-12T13:12:22Z","date_updated":"2024-03-12T13:12:22Z","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2024_PNAS_Huebner.pdf","creator":"dernst","file_size":2203220,"content_type":"application/pdf"}]},{"date_published":"2024-02-09T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.10639167","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://10.5281/zenodo.10639167"}],"citation":{"ista":"Hübner V, Kleshnina M. 2024. 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Chatterjee, T. Meggendorfer, R.J. Saona Urmeneta, J. Svoboda, in:, Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2023, pp. 4590–4605.","chicago":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Tobias Meggendorfer, Raimundo J Saona Urmeneta, and Jakub Svoboda. “Faster Algorithm for Turn-Based Stochastic Games with Bounded Treewidth.” In Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 4590–4605. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611977554.ch173.","ama":"Chatterjee K, Meggendorfer T, Saona Urmeneta RJ, Svoboda J. Faster algorithm for turn-based stochastic games with bounded treewidth. In: Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; 2023:4590-4605. doi:10.1137/1.9781611977554.ch173","ista":"Chatterjee K, Meggendorfer T, Saona Urmeneta RJ, Svoboda J. 2023. 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These games lie in NP ∩ coNP and are among the rare combinatorial problems that belong to this complexity class for which the existence of polynomial-time algorithm is a major open question. While randomized sub-exponential time algorithm exists, all known deterministic algorithms require exponential time in the worst-case. An important open question has been whether faster algorithms can be obtained parametrized by the treewidth of the game graph. Even deterministic sub-exponential time algorithm for constant treewidth turn-based stochastic games has remain elusive. In this work our main result is a deterministic algorithm to solve turn-based stochastic games that, given a game with n states, treewidth at most t, and the bit-complexity of the probabilistic transition function log D, has running time O ((tn2 log D)t log n). 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A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems . TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 13993, 3–25.","short":"K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, in:, Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems , Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 3–25.","mla":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “A Learner-Verifier Framework for Neural Network Controllers and Certificates of Stochastic Systems.” Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems , vol. 13993, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 3–25, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1.","chicago":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, Mathias Lechner, and Dorde Zikelic. “A Learner-Verifier Framework for Neural Network Controllers and Certificates of Stochastic Systems.” In Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems , 13993:3–25. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1."},"publication":"Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems ","date_published":"2023-04-22T00:00:00Z","scopus_import":"1","has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","day":"22","intvolume":" 13993","status":"public","ddc":["000"],"title":"A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","_id":"13142","oa_version":"Published Version","file":[{"content_type":"application/pdf","file_size":528455,"creator":"dernst","file_name":"2023_LNCS_Chatterjee.pdf","access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2023-06-19T08:29:30Z","date_created":"2023-06-19T08:29:30Z","checksum":"3d8a8bb24d211bc83360dfc2fd744307","success":1,"relation":"main_file","file_id":"13150"}],"alternative_title":["LNCS"],"type":"conference","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Reinforcement learning has received much attention for learning controllers of deterministic systems. We consider a learner-verifier framework for stochastic control systems and survey recent methods that formally guarantee a conjunction of reachability and safety properties. Given a property and a lower bound on the probability of the property being satisfied, our framework jointly learns a control policy and a formal certificate to ensure the satisfaction of the property with a desired probability threshold. Both the control policy and the formal certificate are continuous functions from states to reals, which are learned as parameterized neural networks. While in the deterministic case, the certificates are invariant and barrier functions for safety, or Lyapunov and ranking functions for liveness, in the stochastic case the certificates are supermartingales. For certificate verification, we use interval arithmetic abstract interpretation to bound the expected values of neural network functions."}],"project":[{"name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","call_identifier":"H2020","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","grant_number":"863818"},{"_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"665385","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"International IST Doctoral Program"}],"quality_controlled":"1","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"oa":1,"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1","conference":{"name":"TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems","end_date":"2023-04-27","start_date":"2023-04-22","location":"Paris, France"},"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1611-3349"],"isbn":["9783031308222"],"issn":["0302-9743"]},"month":"04","publisher":"Springer Nature","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"},{"_id":"ToHe"}],"publication_status":"published","year":"2023","acknowledgement":"This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093, ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385.","volume":13993,"date_created":"2023-06-18T22:00:47Z","date_updated":"2023-06-19T08:30:54Z","author":[{"full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","first_name":"Krishnendu","last_name":"Chatterjee"},{"id":"40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-2985-7724","first_name":"Thomas A","last_name":"Henzinger","full_name":"Henzinger, Thomas A"},{"full_name":"Lechner, Mathias","last_name":"Lechner","first_name":"Mathias","id":"3DC22916-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"full_name":"Zikelic, Dorde","last_name":"Zikelic","first_name":"Dorde","id":"294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"ec_funded":1,"file_date_updated":"2023-06-19T08:29:30Z"},{"doi":"10.1098/rspa.2022.0685","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa":1,"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"external_id":{"isi":["000957125500002"]},"isi":1,"quality_controlled":"1","project":[{"name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"863818","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E"}],"month":"03","publication_identifier":{"issn":["1364-5021"],"eissn":["1471-2946"]},"author":[{"full_name":"Svoboda, Jakub","id":"130759D2-D7DD-11E9-87D2-DE0DE6697425","first_name":"Jakub","last_name":"Svoboda"},{"id":"3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-1097-9684","first_name":"Josef","last_name":"Tkadlec","full_name":"Tkadlec, Josef"},{"full_name":"Kaveh, Kamran","last_name":"Kaveh","first_name":"Kamran"},{"full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","last_name":"Chatterjee","first_name":"Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"related_material":{"link":[{"relation":"research_data","url":"https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21261771.v1"}]},"date_created":"2023-04-02T22:01:09Z","date_updated":"2023-08-01T13:58:34Z","volume":479,"acknowledgement":"J.S. and K.C. acknowledge support from the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt)","year":"2023","publication_status":"published","publisher":"The Royal Society","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"file_date_updated":"2023-04-03T06:25:29Z","ec_funded":1,"article_number":"20220685","date_published":"2023-03-29T00:00:00Z","publication":"Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences","citation":{"ama":"Svoboda J, Tkadlec J, Kaveh K, Chatterjee K. Coexistence times in the Moran process with environmental heterogeneity. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2023;479(2271). doi:10.1098/rspa.2022.0685","apa":"Svoboda, J., Tkadlec, J., Kaveh, K., & Chatterjee, K. (2023). Coexistence times in the Moran process with environmental heterogeneity. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0685","ieee":"J. Svoboda, J. Tkadlec, K. Kaveh, and K. Chatterjee, “Coexistence times in the Moran process with environmental heterogeneity,” Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 479, no. 2271. The Royal Society, 2023.","ista":"Svoboda J, Tkadlec J, Kaveh K, Chatterjee K. 2023. Coexistence times in the Moran process with environmental heterogeneity. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 479(2271), 20220685.","short":"J. Svoboda, J. Tkadlec, K. Kaveh, K. Chatterjee, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 479 (2023).","mla":"Svoboda, Jakub, et al. “Coexistence Times in the Moran Process with Environmental Heterogeneity.” Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 479, no. 2271, 20220685, The Royal Society, 2023, doi:10.1098/rspa.2022.0685.","chicago":"Svoboda, Jakub, Josef Tkadlec, Kamran Kaveh, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Coexistence Times in the Moran Process with Environmental Heterogeneity.” Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 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Here, we study the Moran birth–death process with two types of individuals in a population stretched across two patches of size N, each patch favouring one of the two types. We show that the long-term fate of such populations crucially depends on the migration rate μ\r\n between the patches. To classify the possible fates, we use the distinction between polynomial (short) and exponential (long) timescales. We show that when μ is high then one of the two types fixates on the whole population after a number of steps that is only polynomial in N. By contrast, when μ is low then each type holds majority in the patch where it is favoured for a number of steps that is at least exponential in N. Moreover, we precisely identify the threshold migration rate μ⋆ that separates those two scenarios, thereby exactly delineating the situations that support long-term coexistence of the two types. We also discuss the case of various cycle graphs and we present computer simulations that perfectly match our analytical results.","lang":"eng"}],"issue":"2271","type":"journal_article"},{"status":"public","title":"Quantitative assessment can stabilize indirect reciprocity under imperfect information","ddc":["000"],"intvolume":" 14","_id":"12861","user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","file":[{"success":1,"checksum":"a4b3b7b36fbef068cabf4fb99501fef6","date_created":"2023-04-25T09:13:53Z","date_updated":"2023-04-25T09:13:53Z","file_id":"12868","relation":"main_file","creator":"dernst","file_size":1786475,"content_type":"application/pdf","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2023_NatureComm_Schmid.pdf"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"text":"The field of indirect reciprocity investigates how social norms can foster cooperation when individuals continuously monitor and assess each other’s social interactions. By adhering to certain social norms, cooperating individuals can improve their reputation and, in turn, receive benefits from others. Eight social norms, known as the “leading eight,\" have been shown to effectively promote the evolution of cooperation as long as information is public and reliable. These norms categorize group members as either ’good’ or ’bad’. In this study, we examine a scenario where individuals instead assign nuanced reputation scores to each other, and only cooperate with those whose reputation exceeds a certain threshold. We find both analytically and through simulations that such quantitative assessments are error-correcting, thus facilitating cooperation in situations where information is private and unreliable. Moreover, our results identify four specific norms that are robust to such conditions, and may be relevant for helping to sustain cooperation in natural populations.","lang":"eng"}],"article_type":"original","publication":"Nature Communications","citation":{"ama":"Schmid L, Ekbatani F, Hilbe C, Chatterjee K. Quantitative assessment can stabilize indirect reciprocity under imperfect information. Nature Communications. 2023;14. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37817-x","apa":"Schmid, L., Ekbatani, F., Hilbe, C., & Chatterjee, K. (2023). Quantitative assessment can stabilize indirect reciprocity under imperfect information. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37817-x","ieee":"L. Schmid, F. Ekbatani, C. Hilbe, and K. Chatterjee, “Quantitative assessment can stabilize indirect reciprocity under imperfect information,” Nature Communications, vol. 14. Springer Nature, 2023.","ista":"Schmid L, Ekbatani F, Hilbe C, Chatterjee K. 2023. Quantitative assessment can stabilize indirect reciprocity under imperfect information. Nature Communications. 14, 2086.","short":"L. Schmid, F. Ekbatani, C. Hilbe, K. Chatterjee, Nature Communications 14 (2023).","mla":"Schmid, Laura, et al. “Quantitative Assessment Can Stabilize Indirect Reciprocity under Imperfect Information.” Nature Communications, vol. 14, 2086, Springer Nature, 2023, doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37817-x.","chicago":"Schmid, Laura, Farbod Ekbatani, Christian Hilbe, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Quantitative Assessment Can Stabilize Indirect Reciprocity under Imperfect Information.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37817-x."},"date_published":"2023-04-12T00:00:00Z","scopus_import":"1","day":"12","has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"publisher":"Springer Nature","acknowledgement":"This work was supported by the European Research Council CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) (to K.C.) and the European Research Council Starting Grant 850529: E-DIRECT (to C.H.). L.S. received additional partial support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award), and also thanks the support by the Stochastic Analysis and Application Research Center (SAARC) under National Research Foundation of Korea grant NRF-2019R1A5A1028324. The authors additionally thank Stefan Schmid for providing access to his lab infrastructure at the University of Vienna for the purpose of collecting simulation data.","year":"2023","pmid":1,"date_updated":"2023-08-01T14:15:57Z","date_created":"2023-04-23T22:01:03Z","volume":14,"author":[{"orcid":"0000-0002-6978-7329","id":"38B437DE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Schmid","first_name":"Laura","full_name":"Schmid, Laura"},{"full_name":"Ekbatani, Farbod","last_name":"Ekbatani","first_name":"Farbod"},{"full_name":"Hilbe, Christian","orcid":"0000-0001-5116-955X","id":"2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Hilbe","first_name":"Christian"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Chatterjee","first_name":"Krishnendu","full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu"}],"article_number":"2086","file_date_updated":"2023-04-25T09:13:53Z","ec_funded":1,"isi":1,"quality_controlled":"1","project":[{"grant_number":"863818","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications"},{"name":"The Wittgenstein Prize","call_identifier":"FWF","_id":"25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"Z211"}],"external_id":{"isi":["001003644100020"],"pmid":["37045828"]},"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"oa":1,"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1038/s41467-023-37817-x","month":"04","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2041-1723"]}},{"acknowledgement":"This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093, ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. Research was sponsored by the United\r\nStates Air Force Research Laboratory and the United States Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator and was accomplished under Cooperative Agreement Number FA8750-19-2-\r\n1000. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied,\r\nof the United States Air Force or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright\r\nnotation herein. The research was also funded in part by the AI2050 program at Schmidt Futures (Grant G-22-63172) and Capgemini SE.","year":"2023","department":[{"_id":"ToHe"},{"_id":"KrCh"}],"publisher":"Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence","publication_status":"published","author":[{"id":"3DC22916-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Mathias","last_name":"Lechner","full_name":"Lechner, Mathias"},{"full_name":"Zikelic, Dorde","id":"294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-4681-1699","first_name":"Dorde","last_name":"Zikelic"},{"last_name":"Chatterjee","first_name":"Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu"},{"full_name":"Henzinger, Thomas A","orcid":"0000-0002-2985-7724","id":"40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Henzinger","first_name":"Thomas A"},{"full_name":"Rus, Daniela","first_name":"Daniela","last_name":"Rus"}],"volume":37,"date_updated":"2023-09-05T07:06:14Z","date_created":"2023-08-27T22:01:17Z","ec_funded":1,"external_id":{"arxiv":["2211.16187"]},"oa":1,"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.16187"}],"project":[{"name":"Vigilant Algorithmic Monitoring of Software","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"101020093","_id":"62781420-2b32-11ec-9570-8d9b63373d4d"},{"grant_number":"863818","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","call_identifier":"H2020"},{"grant_number":"665385","_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"International IST Doctoral Program"}],"quality_controlled":"1","doi":"10.1609/aaai.v37i12.26747","conference":{"name":"AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence","end_date":"2023-02-14","start_date":"2023-02-07","location":"Washington, DC, United States"},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9781577358800"]},"month":"06","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","_id":"14242","intvolume":" 37","status":"public","title":"Quantization-aware interval bound propagation for training certifiably robust quantized neural networks","oa_version":"Preprint","type":"conference","issue":"12","abstract":[{"text":"We study the problem of training and certifying adversarially robust quantized neural networks (QNNs). Quantization is a technique for making neural networks more efficient by running them using low-bit integer arithmetic and is therefore commonly adopted in industry. Recent work has shown that floating-point neural networks that have been verified to be robust can become vulnerable to adversarial attacks after quantization, and certification of the quantized representation is necessary to guarantee robustness. In this work, we present quantization-aware interval bound propagation (QA-IBP), a novel method for training robust QNNs. Inspired by advances in robust learning of non-quantized networks, our training algorithm computes the gradient of an abstract representation of the actual network. Unlike existing approaches, our method can handle the discrete semantics of QNNs. Based on QA-IBP, we also develop a complete verification procedure for verifying the adversarial robustness of QNNs, which is guaranteed to terminate and produce a correct answer. Compared to existing approaches, the key advantage of our verification procedure is that it runs entirely on GPU or other accelerator devices. We demonstrate experimentally that our approach significantly outperforms existing methods and establish the new state-of-the-art for training and certifying the robustness of QNNs.","lang":"eng"}],"citation":{"mla":"Lechner, Mathias, et al. “Quantization-Aware Interval Bound Propagation for Training Certifiably Robust Quantized Neural Networks.” Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 37, no. 12, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2023, pp. 14964–73, doi:10.1609/aaai.v37i12.26747.","short":"M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, D. Rus, in:, Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2023, pp. 14964–14973.","chicago":"Lechner, Mathias, Dorde Zikelic, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A Henzinger, and Daniela Rus. “Quantization-Aware Interval Bound Propagation for Training Certifiably Robust Quantized Neural Networks.” In Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37:14964–73. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i12.26747.","ama":"Lechner M, Zikelic D, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Rus D. Quantization-aware interval bound propagation for training certifiably robust quantized neural networks. In: Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol 37. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence; 2023:14964-14973. doi:10.1609/aaai.v37i12.26747","ista":"Lechner M, Zikelic D, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Rus D. 2023. Quantization-aware interval bound propagation for training certifiably robust quantized neural networks. Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence vol. 37, 14964–14973.","apa":"Lechner, M., Zikelic, D., Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Rus, D. (2023). Quantization-aware interval bound propagation for training certifiably robust quantized neural networks. In Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 37, pp. 14964–14973). Washington, DC, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i12.26747","ieee":"M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and D. Rus, “Quantization-aware interval bound propagation for training certifiably robust quantized neural networks,” in Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, United States, 2023, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 14964–14973."},"publication":"Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence","page":"14964-14973","date_published":"2023-06-26T00:00:00Z","scopus_import":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","day":"26"},{"date_updated":"2023-09-05T08:37:00Z","date_created":"2023-08-27T22:01:18Z","volume":37,"author":[{"full_name":"Avni, Guy","id":"463C8BC2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5588-8287","first_name":"Guy","last_name":"Avni"},{"full_name":"Jecker, Ismael R","last_name":"Jecker","first_name":"Ismael R","id":"85D7C63E-7D5D-11E9-9C0F-98C4E5697425"},{"last_name":"Zikelic","first_name":"Dorde","orcid":"0000-0002-4681-1699","id":"294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Zikelic, Dorde"}],"publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"ToHe"},{"_id":"KrCh"}],"acknowledgement":"This research was supported in part by ISF grant no.1679/21, by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385.","year":"2023","ec_funded":1,"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"conference":{"location":"Washington, DC, United States","start_date":"2023-02-07","end_date":"2023-02-14","name":"AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence"},"doi":"10.1609/aaai.v37i5.25679","quality_controlled":"1","project":[{"call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","grant_number":"863818"},{"_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"665385","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"International IST Doctoral Program"}],"oa":1,"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i5.25679"}],"external_id":{"arxiv":["2211.13626"]},"month":"06","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9781577358800"]},"oa_version":"Published Version","status":"public","title":"Bidding graph games with partially-observable budgets","intvolume":" 37","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","_id":"14243","abstract":[{"text":"Two-player zero-sum \"graph games\" are central in logic, verification, and multi-agent systems. The game proceeds by placing a token on a vertex of a graph, and allowing the players to move it to produce an infinite path, which determines the winner or payoff of the game. Traditionally, the players alternate turns in moving the token. In \"bidding games\", however, the players have budgets and in each turn, an auction (bidding) determines which player moves the token. So far, bidding games have only been studied as full-information games. In this work we initiate the study of partial-information bidding games: we study bidding games in which a player's initial budget is drawn from a known probability distribution. We show that while for some bidding mechanisms and objectives, it is straightforward to adapt the results from the full-information setting to the partial-information setting, for others, the analysis is significantly more challenging, requires new techniques, and gives rise to interesting results. Specifically, we study games with \"mean-payoff\" objectives in combination with \"poorman\" bidding. We construct optimal strategies for a partially-informed player who plays against a fully-informed adversary. We show that, somewhat surprisingly, the \"value\" under pure strategies does not necessarily exist in such games.","lang":"eng"}],"issue":"5","type":"conference","date_published":"2023-06-27T00:00:00Z","page":"5464-5471","publication":"Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence","citation":{"ieee":"G. Avni, I. R. Jecker, and D. Zikelic, “Bidding graph games with partially-observable budgets,” in Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, United States, 2023, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 5464–5471.","apa":"Avni, G., Jecker, I. R., & Zikelic, D. (2023). Bidding graph games with partially-observable budgets. In Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 37, pp. 5464–5471). 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A cheaply obtained guess can be useful in several applications. Not only can the guessed strategy be applied as best-effort in cases where the game’s huge size prohibits rigorous approaches, but it can also increase the scalability of rigorous LTL synthesis in several ways. Firstly, checking whether a guessed strategy is winning is easier than constructing one. Secondly, even if the guess is wrong in some places, it can be fixed by strategy iteration faster than constructing one from scratch. Thirdly, the guess can be used in on-the-fly approaches to prioritize exploration in the most fruitful directions.\r\nIn contrast to previous works, we (i) reflect the highly structured logical information in game’s states, the so-called semantic labelling, coming from the recent LTL-to-automata translations, and (ii) learn to reflect it properly by learning from previously solved games, bringing the solving process closer to human-like reasoning.","lang":"eng"}],"alternative_title":["LNCS"],"type":"conference","file":[{"date_updated":"2023-09-06T08:25:50Z","date_created":"2023-09-06T08:25:50Z","checksum":"ed66278b61bb869e1baba3d9b9081271","success":1,"relation":"main_file","file_id":"14276","content_type":"application/pdf","file_size":428354,"creator":"dernst","file_name":"2023_LNCS_CAV_Kretinsky.pdf","access_level":"open_access"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","ddc":["000"],"status":"public","title":"Guessing winning policies in LTL synthesis by semantic learning","intvolume":" 13964","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","_id":"14259","day":"17","has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","scopus_import":"1","date_published":"2023-07-17T00:00:00Z","page":"390-414","publication":"35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification ","citation":{"mla":"Kretinsky, Jan, et al. “Guessing Winning Policies in LTL Synthesis by Semantic Learning.” 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification , vol. 13964, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 390–414, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-37706-8_20.","short":"J. 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CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 13964, 390–414.","apa":"Kretinsky, J., Meggendorfer, T., Prokop, M., & Rieder, S. (2023). Guessing winning policies in LTL synthesis by semantic learning. In 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (Vol. 13964, pp. 390–414). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37706-8_20","ieee":"J. Kretinsky, T. Meggendorfer, M. Prokop, and S. Rieder, “Guessing winning policies in LTL synthesis by semantic learning,” in 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification , Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13964, pp. 390–414."}},{"file_date_updated":"2023-09-20T08:24:47Z","ec_funded":1,"year":"2023","acknowledgement":"We thank Prof. Bican Xia for valuable information on the exponential theory of reals. The work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) with Grant No. 62172271, ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), the Hong Kong Research Grants Council ECS Project Number 26208122, the HKUST-Kaisa Joint Research Institute Project Grant HKJRI3A-055 and the HKUST Startup Grant R9272.","publication_status":"published","publisher":"Springer Nature","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"author":[{"first_name":"Yican","last_name":"Sun","full_name":"Sun, Yican"},{"first_name":"Hongfei","last_name":"Fu","full_name":"Fu, Hongfei"},{"full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Chatterjee","first_name":"Krishnendu"},{"last_name":"Goharshady","first_name":"Amir Kafshdar","orcid":"0000-0003-1702-6584","id":"391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar"}],"related_material":{"link":[{"relation":"software","url":"https://github.com/boyvolcano/PRR"}]},"date_created":"2023-09-10T22:01:12Z","date_updated":"2023-09-20T08:25:57Z","volume":13966,"month":"07","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9783031377082"],"eissn":["1611-3349"],"issn":["0302-9743"]},"oa":1,"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"quality_controlled":"1","project":[{"call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","grant_number":"863818","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E"}],"conference":{"name":"CAV: Computer Aided Verification","start_date":"2023-07-17","location":"Paris, France","end_date":"2023-07-22"},"doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_2","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"type":"conference","alternative_title":["LNCS"],"abstract":[{"text":"Probabilistic recurrence relations (PRRs) are a standard formalism for describing the runtime of a randomized algorithm. Given a PRR and a time limit κ, we consider the tail probability Pr[T≥κ], i.e., the probability that the randomized runtime T of the PRR exceeds κ. Our focus is the formal analysis of tail bounds that aims at finding a tight asymptotic upper bound u≥Pr[T≥κ]. To address this problem, the classical and most well-known approach is the cookbook method by Karp (JACM 1994), while other approaches are mostly limited to deriving tail bounds of specific PRRs via involved custom analysis.\r\nIn this work, we propose a novel approach for deriving the common exponentially-decreasing tail bounds for PRRs whose preprocessing time and random passed sizes observe discrete or (piecewise) uniform distribution and whose recursive call is either a single procedure call or a divide-and-conquer. We first establish a theoretical approach via Markov’s inequality, and then instantiate the theoretical approach with a template-based algorithmic approach via a refined treatment of exponentiation. Experimental evaluation shows that our algorithmic approach is capable of deriving tail bounds that are (i) asymptotically tighter than Karp’s method, (ii) match the best-known manually-derived asymptotic tail bound for QuickSelect, and (iii) is only slightly worse (with a loglogn factor) than the manually-proven optimal asymptotic tail bound for QuickSort. Moreover, our algorithmic approach handles all examples (including realistic PRRs such as QuickSort, QuickSelect, DiameterComputation, etc.) in less than 0.1 s, showing that our approach is efficient in practice.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"14318","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","title":"Automated tail bound analysis for probabilistic recurrence relations","ddc":["000"],"status":"public","intvolume":" 13966","oa_version":"Published Version","file":[{"access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2023_LNCS_Sun.pdf","creator":"dernst","content_type":"application/pdf","file_size":624647,"file_id":"14348","relation":"main_file","success":1,"checksum":"42917e086f8c7699f3bccf84f74fe000","date_updated":"2023-09-20T08:24:47Z","date_created":"2023-09-20T08:24:47Z"}],"scopus_import":"1","day":"17","has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","publication":"Computer Aided Verification","citation":{"ieee":"Y. Sun, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, and A. K. 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While this view is useful from a practical standpoint to reason about trajectories of distributions, basic reachability and safety problems are known to be computationally intractable (i.e., Skolem-hard) to solve in such models. Further, we show that even for simple examples of MDPs, strategies for safety objectives over distributions can require infinite memory and randomization.\r\nIn light of this, we present a novel overapproximation approach to synthesize strategies in an MDP, such that a safety objective over the distributions is met. More precisely, we develop a new framework for template-based synthesis of certificates as affine distributional and inductive invariants for safety objectives in MDPs. We provide two algorithms within this framework. One can only synthesize memoryless strategies, but has relative completeness guarantees, while the other can synthesize general strategies. The runtime complexity of both algorithms is in PSPACE. We implement these algorithms and show that they can solve several non-trivial examples.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"14317","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","ddc":["000"],"title":"MDPs as distribution transformers: Affine invariant synthesis for safety objectives","status":"public","intvolume":" 13966","file":[{"access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2023_LNCS_Akshay.pdf","file_size":531745,"content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","relation":"main_file","file_id":"14349","checksum":"f143c8eedf609f20f2aad2eeb496d53f","success":1,"date_created":"2023-09-20T08:46:43Z","date_updated":"2023-09-20T08:46:43Z"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","scopus_import":"1","day":"17","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","has_accepted_license":"1","publication":"International Conference on Computer Aided Verification","citation":{"chicago":"Akshay, S., Krishnendu Chatterjee, Tobias Meggendorfer, and Dorde Zikelic. “MDPs as Distribution Transformers: Affine Invariant Synthesis for Safety Objectives.” In International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, 13966:86–112. 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Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37709-9_5","ista":"Akshay S, Chatterjee K, Meggendorfer T, Zikelic D. 2023. MDPs as distribution transformers: Affine invariant synthesis for safety objectives. International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 13966, 86–112.","ama":"Akshay S, Chatterjee K, Meggendorfer T, Zikelic D. MDPs as distribution transformers: Affine invariant synthesis for safety objectives. In: International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. Vol 13966. 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Krishnendu Chatterjee is supported by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) Project ICT15-003. Maximilian Weininger is supported by the DFG projects 383882557 Statistical Unbounded Verification (SUV) and 427755713 Group-By Objectives in Probabilistic Verification (GOPro). Stefanie Mohr is supported by the DFG RTG 2428 CONVEY. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.","year":"2023","ec_funded":1,"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00411-4","project":[{"_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","grant_number":"863818","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","call_identifier":"H2020"},{"name":"Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification","_id":"25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"ICT15-003"}],"isi":1,"quality_controlled":"1","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00411-4","open_access":"1"}],"external_id":{"isi":["000946174300001"]},"oa":1,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1572-8102"]},"month":"03","oa_version":"Published Version","ddc":["000"],"title":"Stochastic games with lexicographic objectives","status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","_id":"12738","abstract":[{"text":"We study turn-based stochastic zero-sum games with lexicographic preferences over objectives. Stochastic games are standard models in control, verification, and synthesis of stochastic reactive systems that exhibit both randomness as well as controllable and adversarial non-determinism. Lexicographic order allows one to consider multiple objectives with a strict preference order. To the best of our knowledge, stochastic games with lexicographic objectives have not been studied before. For a mixture of reachability and safety objectives, we show that deterministic lexicographically optimal strategies exist and memory is only required to remember the already satisfied and violated objectives. For a constant number of objectives, we show that the relevant decision problem is in NP∩coNP, matching the current known bound for single objectives; and in general the decision problem is PSPACE-hard and can be solved in NEXPTIME∩coNEXPTIME. We present an algorithm that computes the lexicographically optimal strategies via a reduction to the computation of optimal strategies in a sequence of single-objectives games. For omega-regular objectives, we restrict our analysis to one-player games, also known as Markov decision processes. We show that lexicographically optimal strategies exist and need either randomization or finite memory. We present an algorithm that solves the relevant decision problem in polynomial time. We have implemented our algorithms and report experimental results on various case studies.","lang":"eng"}],"type":"journal_article","date_published":"2023-03-08T00:00:00Z","article_type":"original","citation":{"ieee":"K. Chatterjee, J. P. Katoen, S. Mohr, M. Weininger, and T. Winkler, “Stochastic games with lexicographic objectives,” Formal Methods in System Design. Springer Nature, 2023.","apa":"Chatterjee, K., Katoen, J. P., Mohr, S., Weininger, M., & Winkler, T. (2023). Stochastic games with lexicographic objectives. Formal Methods in System Design. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00411-4","ista":"Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Mohr S, Weininger M, Winkler T. 2023. Stochastic games with lexicographic objectives. Formal Methods in System Design.","ama":"Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Mohr S, Weininger M, Winkler T. Stochastic games with lexicographic objectives. Formal Methods in System Design. 2023. doi:10.1007/s10703-023-00411-4","chicago":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Joost P Katoen, Stefanie Mohr, Maximilian Weininger, and Tobias Winkler. “Stochastic Games with Lexicographic Objectives.” Formal Methods in System Design. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00411-4.","short":"K. Chatterjee, J.P. Katoen, S. Mohr, M. Weininger, T. Winkler, Formal Methods in System Design (2023).","mla":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Stochastic Games with Lexicographic Objectives.” Formal Methods in System Design, Springer Nature, 2023, doi:10.1007/s10703-023-00411-4."},"publication":"Formal Methods in System Design","article_processing_charge":"No","day":"08","scopus_import":"1"},{"title":"Where do mistakes lead? A survey of games with incompetent players","ddc":["000"],"status":"public","intvolume":" 13","_id":"10770","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","oa_version":"Published Version","file":[{"relation":"main_file","file_id":"10781","date_updated":"2022-02-21T08:54:17Z","date_created":"2022-02-21T08:54:17Z","checksum":"cd53b07e96f9030ddb348f305e5b58c7","success":1,"file_name":"2022_DynamicGamesApplic_Graham.pdf","access_level":"open_access","content_type":"application/pdf","file_size":1890512,"creator":"dernst"}],"type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Mathematical models often aim to describe a complicated mechanism in a cohesive and simple manner. However, reaching perfect balance between being simple enough or overly simplistic is a challenging task. Frequently, game-theoretic models have an underlying assumption that players, whenever they choose to execute a specific action, do so perfectly. In fact, it is rare that action execution perfectly coincides with intentions of individuals, giving rise to behavioural mistakes. The concept of incompetence of players was suggested to address this issue in game-theoretic settings. Under the assumption of incompetence, players have non-zero probabilities of executing a different strategy from the one they chose, leading to stochastic outcomes of the interactions. In this article, we survey results related to the concept of incompetence in classic as well as evolutionary game theory and provide several new results. We also suggest future extensions of the model and argue why it is important to take into account behavioural mistakes when analysing interactions among players in both economic and biological settings."}],"article_type":"original","page":"231-264","publication":"Dynamic Games and Applications","citation":{"ista":"Graham T, Kleshnina M, Filar JA. 2023. Where do mistakes lead? A survey of games with incompetent players. Dynamic Games and Applications. 13, 231–264.","ieee":"T. Graham, M. Kleshnina, and J. A. Filar, “Where do mistakes lead? A survey of games with incompetent players,” Dynamic Games and Applications, vol. 13. Springer Nature, pp. 231–264, 2023.","apa":"Graham, T., Kleshnina, M., & Filar, J. A. (2023). Where do mistakes lead? A survey of games with incompetent players. Dynamic Games and Applications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13235-022-00425-3","ama":"Graham T, Kleshnina M, Filar JA. Where do mistakes lead? A survey of games with incompetent players. Dynamic Games and Applications. 2023;13:231-264. doi:10.1007/s13235-022-00425-3","chicago":"Graham, Thomas, Maria Kleshnina, and Jerzy A. Filar. “Where Do Mistakes Lead? A Survey of Games with Incompetent Players.” Dynamic Games and Applications. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13235-022-00425-3.","mla":"Graham, Thomas, et al. “Where Do Mistakes Lead? A Survey of Games with Incompetent Players.” Dynamic Games and Applications, vol. 13, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 231–64, doi:10.1007/s13235-022-00425-3.","short":"T. Graham, M. Kleshnina, J.A. Filar, Dynamic Games and Applications 13 (2023) 231–264."},"date_published":"2023-03-01T00:00:00Z","scopus_import":"1","day":"01","article_processing_charge":"No","has_accepted_license":"1","publication_status":"published","publisher":"Springer Nature","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"acknowledgement":"The authors would like to acknowledge stimulating email discussions with Dr Wayne Lobb of W.A. Lobb LLC on the topic of evolutionary games. We also thank Dr Thomas Taimre for his input to the material in Sect. 3.\r\nThe authors would like to acknowledge partial support from the Australian Research Council under the Discovery grant DP180101602 and support by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement #754411.","year":"2023","date_updated":"2023-10-04T09:24:30Z","date_created":"2022-02-20T23:01:32Z","volume":13,"author":[{"first_name":"Thomas","last_name":"Graham","full_name":"Graham, Thomas"},{"full_name":"Kleshnina, Maria","first_name":"Maria","last_name":"Kleshnina","id":"4E21749C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"full_name":"Filar, Jerzy A.","first_name":"Jerzy A.","last_name":"Filar"}],"file_date_updated":"2022-02-21T08:54:17Z","ec_funded":1,"isi":1,"quality_controlled":"1","project":[{"call_identifier":"H2020","name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships","grant_number":"754411","_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"}],"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"oa":1,"external_id":{"isi":["000753777100001"]},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1007/s13235-022-00425-3","month":"03","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2153-0793"],"issn":["2153-0785"]}},{"has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"Yes","day":"21","scopus_import":"1","date_published":"2023-08-21T00:00:00Z","citation":{"chicago":"Baier, Christel, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Tobias Meggendorfer, and Jakob Piribauer. “Entropic Risk for Turn-Based Stochastic Games.” In 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 272. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15.","short":"C. Baier, K. Chatterjee, T. Meggendorfer, J. Piribauer, in:, 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023.","mla":"Baier, Christel, et al. “Entropic Risk for Turn-Based Stochastic Games.” 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 272, 15, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15.","ieee":"C. Baier, K. Chatterjee, T. Meggendorfer, and J. Piribauer, “Entropic risk for turn-based stochastic games,” in 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Bordeaux, France, 2023, vol. 272.","apa":"Baier, C., Chatterjee, K., Meggendorfer, T., & Piribauer, J. (2023). Entropic risk for turn-based stochastic games. In 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (Vol. 272). Bordeaux, France: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15","ista":"Baier C, Chatterjee K, Meggendorfer T, Piribauer J. 2023. Entropic risk for turn-based stochastic games. 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. MFCS: Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 272, 15.","ama":"Baier C, Chatterjee K, Meggendorfer T, Piribauer J. Entropic risk for turn-based stochastic games. In: 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. Vol 272. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2023. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15"},"publication":"48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Entropic risk (ERisk) is an established risk measure in finance, quantifying risk by an exponential re-weighting of rewards. We study ERisk for the first time in the context of turn-based stochastic games with the total reward objective. This gives rise to an objective function that demands the control of systems in a risk-averse manner. We show that the resulting games are determined and, in particular, admit optimal memoryless deterministic strategies. This contrasts risk measures that previously have been considered in the special case of Markov decision processes and that require randomization and/or memory. We provide several results on the decidability and the computational complexity of the threshold problem, i.e. whether the optimal value of ERisk exceeds a given threshold. In the most general case, the problem is decidable subject to Shanuel’s conjecture. If all inputs are rational, the resulting threshold problem can be solved using algebraic numbers, leading to decidability via a polynomial-time reduction to the existential theory of the reals. Further restrictions on the encoding of the input allow the solution of the threshold problem in NP∩coNP. Finally, an approximation algorithm for the optimal value of ERisk is provided."}],"alternative_title":["LIPIcs"],"type":"conference","oa_version":"Published Version","file":[{"checksum":"402281b17ed669bbf149d0fdf68ac201","success":1,"date_updated":"2023-10-09T09:19:11Z","date_created":"2023-10-09T09:19:11Z","relation":"main_file","file_id":"14418","content_type":"application/pdf","file_size":826843,"creator":"dernst","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2023_LIPIcsMFCS_Baier.pdf"}],"intvolume":" 272","status":"public","title":"Entropic risk for turn-based stochastic games","ddc":["000"],"_id":"14417","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1868-8969"],"isbn":["9783959772921"]},"month":"08","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.15","conference":{"name":"MFCS: Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science","end_date":"2023-09-01","start_date":"2023-08-28","location":"Bordeaux, France"},"project":[{"grant_number":"863818","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications"}],"quality_controlled":"1","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"external_id":{"arxiv":["2307.06611"]},"oa":1,"ec_funded":1,"file_date_updated":"2023-10-09T09:19:11Z","article_number":"15","volume":272,"date_updated":"2023-10-09T09:22:37Z","date_created":"2023-10-09T09:21:05Z","author":[{"last_name":"Baier","first_name":"Christel","full_name":"Baier, Christel"},{"full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","last_name":"Chatterjee","first_name":"Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"last_name":"Meggendorfer","first_name":"Tobias","orcid":"0000-0002-1712-2165","id":"b21b0c15-30a2-11eb-80dc-f13ca25802e1","full_name":"Meggendorfer, Tobias"},{"full_name":"Piribauer, Jakob","first_name":"Jakob","last_name":"Piribauer"}],"publisher":"Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"publication_status":"published","year":"2023","acknowledgement":"This work was partly funded by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), the DFG Grant\r\n389792660 as part of TRR 248 (Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems), the Cluster of\r\nExcellence EXC 2050/1 (CeTI, project ID 390696704, as part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy), and the DFG projects BA-1679/11-1 and BA-1679/12-1."},{"doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0279838","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"external_id":{"isi":["000996122900022"],"pmid":["36848357"]},"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"oa":1,"isi":1,"quality_controlled":"1","month":"02","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1932-6203"]},"author":[{"full_name":"Mckerral, Jody C.","last_name":"Mckerral","first_name":"Jody C."},{"last_name":"Kleshnina","first_name":"Maria","id":"4E21749C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Kleshnina, Maria"},{"first_name":"Vladimir","last_name":"Ejov","full_name":"Ejov, Vladimir"},{"full_name":"Bartle, Louise","last_name":"Bartle","first_name":"Louise"},{"last_name":"Mitchell","first_name":"James G.","full_name":"Mitchell, James G."},{"full_name":"Filar, Jerzy A.","first_name":"Jerzy A.","last_name":"Filar"}],"date_updated":"2023-10-17T12:53:30Z","date_created":"2023-03-05T23:01:05Z","volume":18,"year":"2023","acknowledgement":"This research was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program\r\n(RTP) Scholarship to JCM (https://www.dese.gov.au), and LB is supported by the Centre de\r\nrecherche sur le vieillissement Fellowship Program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.","pmid":1,"publication_status":"published","publisher":"Public Library of Science","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"file_date_updated":"2023-03-07T10:26:45Z","date_published":"2023-02-27T00:00:00Z","publication":"PLoS One","citation":{"ama":"Mckerral JC, Kleshnina M, Ejov V, Bartle L, Mitchell JG, Filar JA. Empirical parameterisation and dynamical analysis of the allometric Rosenzweig-MacArthur equations. PLoS One. 2023;18(2):e0279838. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0279838","ieee":"J. C. Mckerral, M. Kleshnina, V. Ejov, L. Bartle, J. G. Mitchell, and J. A. Filar, “Empirical parameterisation and dynamical analysis of the allometric Rosenzweig-MacArthur equations,” PLoS One, vol. 18, no. 2. Public Library of Science, p. e0279838, 2023.","apa":"Mckerral, J. C., Kleshnina, M., Ejov, V., Bartle, L., Mitchell, J. G., & Filar, J. A. (2023). Empirical parameterisation and dynamical analysis of the allometric Rosenzweig-MacArthur equations. PLoS One. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279838","ista":"Mckerral JC, Kleshnina M, Ejov V, Bartle L, Mitchell JG, Filar JA. 2023. Empirical parameterisation and dynamical analysis of the allometric Rosenzweig-MacArthur equations. PLoS One. 18(2), e0279838.","short":"J.C. Mckerral, M. Kleshnina, V. Ejov, L. Bartle, J.G. Mitchell, J.A. Filar, PLoS One 18 (2023) e0279838.","mla":"Mckerral, Jody C., et al. “Empirical Parameterisation and Dynamical Analysis of the Allometric Rosenzweig-MacArthur Equations.” PLoS One, vol. 18, no. 2, Public Library of Science, 2023, p. e0279838, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0279838.","chicago":"Mckerral, Jody C., Maria Kleshnina, Vladimir Ejov, Louise Bartle, James G. Mitchell, and Jerzy A. Filar. “Empirical Parameterisation and Dynamical Analysis of the Allometric Rosenzweig-MacArthur Equations.” PLoS One. 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Here, we parameterise the size-scaled Rosenzweig-MacArthur differential equations to eliminate prey-mass dependency, facilitating an in depth analytic study of the equations which incorporates scaling parameters’ contributions to coexistence. We define the functional response term to match empirical findings, and examine situations where metabolic theory derivations and observation diverge. The dynamical properties of the Rosenzweig-MacArthur system, encompassing the distribution of size-abundance equilibria, the scaling of period and amplitude of population cycling, and relationships between predator and prey abundances, are consistent with empirical observation. Our parameterisation is an accurate minimal model across 15+ orders of mass magnitude."}],"issue":"2","type":"journal_article"},{"volume":372,"date_updated":"2023-11-13T10:18:45Z","date_created":"2023-11-12T23:00:56Z","author":[{"orcid":"0000-0001-5588-8287","id":"463C8BC2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Avni","first_name":"Guy","full_name":"Avni, Guy"},{"first_name":"Tobias","last_name":"Meggendorfer","id":"b21b0c15-30a2-11eb-80dc-f13ca25802e1","orcid":"0000-0002-1712-2165","full_name":"Meggendorfer, Tobias"},{"full_name":"Sadhukhan, Suman","last_name":"Sadhukhan","first_name":"Suman"},{"last_name":"Tkadlec","first_name":"Josef","orcid":"0000-0002-1097-9684","id":"3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Tkadlec, Josef"},{"full_name":"Zikelic, Dorde","orcid":"0000-0002-4681-1699","id":"294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Zikelic","first_name":"Dorde"}],"department":[{"_id":"ToHe"},{"_id":"KrCh"}],"publisher":"IOS Press","publication_status":"published","acknowledgement":"This research was supported in part by ISF grant no. 1679/21, ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie SkłodowskaCurie Grant Agreement No. 665385.","year":"2023","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/","ec_funded":1,"file_date_updated":"2023-11-13T10:16:10Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.3233/FAIA230264","conference":{"location":"Krakow, Poland","start_date":"2023-09-30","end_date":"2023-10-04","name":"ECAI: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence"},"project":[{"_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"665385","name":"International IST Doctoral Program","call_identifier":"H2020"},{"name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"863818","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E"}],"quality_controlled":"1","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by_nc.png","short":"CC BY-NC (4.0)"},"oa":1,"external_id":{"arxiv":["2307.15218"]},"publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9781643684369"],"issn":["0922-6389"]},"month":"09","oa_version":"Published Version","file":[{"creator":"dernst","content_type":"application/pdf","file_size":501011,"access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2023_FAIA_Avni.pdf","success":1,"checksum":"1390ca38480fa4cf286b0f1a42e8c12f","date_created":"2023-11-13T10:16:10Z","date_updated":"2023-11-13T10:16:10Z","file_id":"14529","relation":"main_file"}],"intvolume":" 372","ddc":["000"],"status":"public","title":"Reachability poorman discrete-bidding games","_id":"14518","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","abstract":[{"text":"We consider bidding games, a class of two-player zero-sum graph games. The game proceeds as follows. Both players have bounded budgets. A token is placed on a vertex of a graph, in each turn the players simultaneously submit bids, and the higher bidder moves the token, where we break bidding ties in favor of Player 1. Player 1 wins the game iff the token visits a designated target vertex. We consider, for the first time, poorman discrete-bidding in which the granularity of the bids is restricted and the higher bid is paid to the bank. Previous work either did not impose granularity restrictions or considered Richman bidding (bids are paid to the opponent). While the latter mechanisms are technically more accessible, the former is more appealing from a practical standpoint. Our study focuses on threshold budgets, which is the necessary and sufficient initial budget required for Player 1 to ensure winning against a given Player 2 budget. We first show existence of thresholds. In DAGs, we show that threshold budgets can be approximated with error bounds by thresholds under continuous-bidding and that they exhibit a periodic behavior. We identify closed-form solutions in special cases. We implement and experiment with an algorithm to find threshold budgets.","lang":"eng"}],"type":"conference","date_published":"2023-09-28T00:00:00Z","page":"141-148","citation":{"short":"G. Avni, T. Meggendorfer, S. Sadhukhan, J. Tkadlec, D. Zikelic, in:, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2023, pp. 141–148.","mla":"Avni, Guy, et al. “Reachability Poorman Discrete-Bidding Games.” Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 372, IOS Press, 2023, pp. 141–48, doi:10.3233/FAIA230264.","chicago":"Avni, Guy, Tobias Meggendorfer, Suman Sadhukhan, Josef Tkadlec, and Dorde Zikelic. “Reachability Poorman Discrete-Bidding Games.” In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 372:141–48. 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We present a learning procedure that learns a control policy together with an sRSM that formally certifies probability 1 stability, both learned as neural networks. We show that this procedure can also be adapted to formally verifying that, under a given Lipschitz continuous control policy, the stochastic system stabilizes within some stabilizing region with probability 1. Our experimental evaluation shows that our learning procedure can successfully learn provably stabilizing policies in practice.","lang":"eng"}]},{"oa_version":"Preprint","intvolume":" 13892","status":"public","title":"Weighted packet selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation","_id":"13238","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"We consider a natural problem dealing with weighted packet selection across a rechargeable link, which e.g., finds applications in cryptocurrency networks. The capacity of a link (u, v) is determined by how much nodes u and v allocate for this link. Specifically, the input is a finite ordered sequence of packets that arrive in both directions along a link. Given (u, v) and a packet of weight x going from u to v, node u can either accept or reject the packet. If u accepts the packet, the capacity on link (u, v) decreases by x. Correspondingly, v’s capacity on (u, v) increases by x. If a node rejects the packet, this will entail a cost affinely linear in the weight of the packet. A link is “rechargeable” in the sense that the total capacity of the link has to remain constant, but the allocation of capacity at the ends of the link can depend arbitrarily on the nodes’ decisions. The goal is to minimise the sum of the capacity injected into the link and the cost of rejecting packets. We show that the problem is NP-hard, but can be approximated efficiently with a ratio of (1+ε)⋅(1+3–√) for some arbitrary ε>0.\r\n."}],"alternative_title":["LNCS"],"type":"conference","date_published":"2023-05-25T00:00:00Z","page":"576-594","citation":{"chicago":"Schmid, Stefan, Jakub Svoboda, and Michelle X Yeo. “Weighted Packet Selection for Rechargeable Links in Cryptocurrency Networks: Complexity and Approximation.” In SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity , 13892:576–94. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26.","mla":"Schmid, Stefan, et al. “Weighted Packet Selection for Rechargeable Links in Cryptocurrency Networks: Complexity and Approximation.” SIROCCO 2023: Structural Information and Communication Complexity , vol. 13892, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 576–94, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26.","short":"S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, M.X. 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This work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Project 864228 (AdjustNet), 2020-2025, the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), and the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant 470029389 (FlexNets), 2021–2024.","year":"2023","ec_funded":1,"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26","conference":{"name":"SIROCCO: Structural Information and Communication Complexity","location":"Alcala de Henares, Spain","start_date":"2023-06-06","end_date":"2023-06-09"},"project":[{"name":"Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"863818","_id":"0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E"}],"quality_controlled":"1","oa":1,"external_id":{"arxiv":["2204.13459"]},"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.13459","open_access":"1"}],"publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9783031327322"],"eissn":["1611-3349"],"issn":["0302-9743"]},"month":"05"}]