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arxiv 2112.13020 v2 pith:5EQOPT7U submitted 2021-12-24 cs.LO math.OC

Scenario-Based Verification of Uncertain Parametric MDPs

classification cs.LO math.OC
keywords numberprobabilityboundssamplesdistributionshigh-confidenceobtainparameters
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We consider parametric Markov decision processes (pMDPs) that are augmented with unknown probability distributions over parameter values. The problem is to compute the probability to satisfy a temporal logic specification with any concrete MDP that corresponds to a sample from these distributions. As solving this problem precisely is infeasible, we resort to sampling techniques that exploit the so-called scenario approach. Based on a finite number of samples of the parameters, the proposed method yields high-confidence bounds on the probability of satisfying the specification. The number of samples required to obtain a high confidence on these bounds is independent of the number of states and the number of random parameters. Experiments on a large set of benchmarks show that several thousand samples suffice to obtain tight and high-confidence lower and upper bounds on the satisfaction probability.

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