Model and Objective Separation with Conditional Lower Bounds: Disjunction is Harder than Conjunction

Model and Objective Separation with Conditional Lower Bounds: Disjunction is Harder than Conjunction

Abstract

Given a model of a system and an objective, the model-checking question asks whether the model satisfies the objective. We study polynomial-time problems in two classical models, graphs and Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), with respect to several fundamental ω-regular objectives, e.g., Rabin and Streett objectives. For many of these problems the best-known upper bounds are quadratic or cubic, yet no super-linear lower bounds are known. In this work our contributions are two-fold: First, we present several improved algorithms, and second, we present the first conditional super-linear lower bounds based on widely believed assumptions about the complexity of CNF-SAT and combinatorial Boolean matrix multiplication. A separation result for two models with respect to an objective means a conditional lower bound for one model that is strictly higher than the existing upper bound for the other model, and similarly for two objectives with respect to a model. Our results establish the following separation results: (1) A separation of models (graphs and MDPs) for disjunctive queries of reachability and Büchi objectives. (2) Two kinds of separations of objectives, both for graphs and MDPs, namely, (2a) the separation of dual objectives such as Streett/Rabin objectives, and (2b) the separation of conjunction and disjunction of multiple objectives of the same type such as safety, Büchi, and coBüchi. In summary, our results establish the first model and objective separation results for graphs and MDPs for various classical ω-regular objectives. Quite strikingly, we establish conditional lower bounds for the disjunction of objectives that are strictly higher than the existing upper bounds for the conjunction of the same objectives.

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Authors
  • Chatterjee, Krishnendu
  • Dvořák, Wolfgang
  • Henzinger, Monika
  • Loitzenbauer, Veronika
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Category
Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Full Paper in Proceedings)
Event Title
Thirty-First Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
Divisions
Theory and Applications of Algorithms
Subjects
Theoretische Informatik
Event Location
New York City, USA
Event Type
Conference
Event Dates
July 5-8, 2016
Series Name
Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS '16, New York, NY, USA, July 5-8, 2016
ISSN/ISBN
978-1-4503-4391-6
Page Range
197 -206
Date
July 2016
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