BRÁZDIL, Tomáš, Krishnendu CHATTERJEE, Martin CHMELÍK, Andreas FELLNER and Jan KŘETÍNSKÝ. Counterexample Explanation by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes. In Daniel Kroening, Corina Pasareanu. Computer Aided Verification: 27th International Conference, CAV 2015. Cham: Springer, 2015, p. 158-177. ISBN 978-3-319-21689-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21690-4_10.
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Original name Counterexample Explanation by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes
Authors BRÁZDIL, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Krishnendu CHATTERJEE (356 India), Martin CHMELÍK (203 Czech Republic), Andreas FELLNER (40 Austria) and Jan KŘETÍNSKÝ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Cham, Computer Aided Verification: 27th International Conference, CAV 2015, p. 158-177, 20 pp. 2015.
Publisher Springer
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
Impact factor Impact factor: 0.402 in 2005
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14330/15:00080918
Organization unit Faculty of Informatics
ISBN 978-3-319-21689-8
ISSN 0302-9743
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21690-4_10
UT WoS 000364182900010
Keywords in English stochastic systems; verification; machine learning; decision tree
Tags core_A, firank_1, formela-conference
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
For deterministic systems, a counterexample to a property can simply be an error trace, whereas counterexamples in probabilistic systems are necessarily more complex. For instance, a set of erroneous traces with a sufficient cumulative probability mass can be used. Since these are too large objects to understand and manipulate, compact representations such as subchains have been considered. In the case of probabilistic systems with non-determinism, the situation is even more complex. While a subchain for a given strategy (or scheduler, resolving non-determinism) is a straightforward choice, we take a different approach. Instead, we focus on the strategy itself, and extract the most important decisions it makes, and present its succinct representation. The key tools we employ to achieve this are (1) introducing a concept of importance of a state w.r.t. the strategy, and (2) learning using decision trees. There are three main consequent advantages of our approach. Firstly, it exploits the quantitative information on states, stressing the more important decisions. Secondly, it leads to a greater variability and degree of freedom in representing the strategies. Thirdly, the representation uses a self-explanatory data structure. In summary, our approach produces more succinct and more explainable strategies, as opposed to e.g. binary decision diagrams. Finally, our experimental results show that we can extract several rules describing the strategy even for very large systems that do not fit in memory, and based on the rules explain the erroneous behaviour.
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GBP202/12/G061, research and development projectName: Centrum excelence - Institut teoretické informatiky (CE-ITI) (Acronym: CE-ITI)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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