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Wrap TGBA/BA/Monitor post-processing algorithms in an easy interface. More...

#include <spot/twaalgos/postproc.hh>

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Public Types

enum  output_type {
  TGBA = 0 , GeneralizedBuchi = 0 , BA = 1 , Monitor = 2 ,
  Generic = 3 , Parity = 4 , ParityMin = Parity | 8 , ParityMax = Parity | 16 ,
  ParityOdd = Parity | 32 , ParityEven = Parity | 64 , ParityMinOdd = ParityMin | ParityOdd , ParityMaxOdd = ParityMax | ParityOdd ,
  ParityMinEven = ParityMin | ParityEven , ParityMaxEven = ParityMax | ParityEven , CoBuchi = 128 , Buchi = 256
}
 
enum  {
  Any = 0 , Small = 1 , Deterministic = 2 , Complete = 4 ,
  SBAcc = 8 , Unambiguous = 16 , Colored = 32
}
 
enum  optimization_level { Low , Medium , High }
 
typedef int output_pref
 

Public Member Functions

 postprocessor (const option_map *opt=nullptr)
 Construct a postprocessor. More...
 
void set_type (output_type type)
 Select the desired output type. More...
 
void set_pref (output_pref pref)
 Select the desired characteristics of the output automaton. More...
 
void set_level (optimization_level level)
 Set the optimization level. More...
 
twa_graph_ptr run (twa_graph_ptr input, formula f=nullptr)
 Optimize an automaton. More...
 

Protected Member Functions

twa_graph_ptr do_simul (const twa_graph_ptr &input, int opt) const
 
twa_graph_ptr do_sba_simul (const twa_graph_ptr &input, int opt) const
 
twa_graph_ptr choose_degen (const twa_graph_ptr &input) const
 
twa_graph_ptr do_degen (const twa_graph_ptr &input) const
 
twa_graph_ptr do_degen_tba (const twa_graph_ptr &input) const
 
twa_graph_ptr do_scc_filter (const twa_graph_ptr &a, bool arg) const
 
twa_graph_ptr do_scc_filter (const twa_graph_ptr &a) const
 
twa_graph_ptr finalize (twa_graph_ptr tmp) const
 

Protected Attributes

output_type type_ = TGBA
 
int pref_ = Small
 
optimization_level level_ = High
 
bool degen_reset_ = true
 
bool degen_order_ = false
 
int degen_cache_ = 1
 
bool degen_lskip_ = true
 
bool degen_lowinit_ = false
 
bool degen_remscc_ = true
 
bool det_scc_ = true
 
int det_simul_ = -1
 
bool det_stutter_ = true
 
int det_max_states_ = -1
 
int det_max_edges_ = -1
 
int simul_ = -1
 
int simul_method_ = -1
 
int simul_trans_pruning_ = 512
 
int dpa_simul_ = -1
 
int dba_simul_ = -1
 
int scc_filter_ = -1
 
int ba_simul_ = -1
 
bool tba_determinisation_ = false
 
int sat_minimize_ = 0
 
int sat_incr_steps_ = 0
 
bool sat_langmap_ = false
 
int sat_acc_ = 0
 
int sat_states_ = 0
 
int gen_reduce_parity_ = 1
 
bool state_based_ = false
 
int wdba_minimize_ = -1
 
int simul_max_ = 4096
 
int merge_states_min_ = 128
 
int wdba_det_max_ = 4096
 
bool acd_ = false
 
bool acd_was_used_
 

Detailed Description

Wrap TGBA/BA/Monitor post-processing algorithms in an easy interface.

This class is a shell around scc_filter(), minimize_obligation(), simulation(), iterated_simulations(), degeneralize(), to_generalized_buchi(), tgba_determinize(), and other algorithms. These different algorithms will be combined depending on the various options set with set_type(), set_pref(), and set_level().

This helps hiding some of the logic required to combine these simplifications efficiently (e.g., there is no point calling degeneralize() or any simulation when minimize_obligation() succeeded.)

Use set_type() to select desired output type.

Use the set_pref() method to specify whether you favor deterministic automata or small automata. If you don't care, less post processing will be done.

The set_level() method lets you set the optimization level. A higher level enables more costly post-processings. For instance pref=Small,level=High will try two different post-processings (one with minimize_obligation(), and one with iterated_simulations()) an keep the smallest result. pref=Small,level=Medium will only try the iterated_simulations() when minimized_obligation failed to produce an automaton smaller than its input. pref=Small,level=Low will only run simulation().

The handling of alternating automata should change in the future, but currently Generic, Low, Any is the only configuration where alternation is preserved. In any other configuration, remove_alternation() will be called.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ postprocessor()

spot::postprocessor::postprocessor ( const option_map opt = nullptr)

Construct a postprocessor.

The opt argument can be used to pass extra fine-tuning options used for debugging or benchmarking.

Member Function Documentation

◆ run()

twa_graph_ptr spot::postprocessor::run ( twa_graph_ptr  input,
formula  f = nullptr 
)

Optimize an automaton.

The returned automaton might be a new automaton, or an in-place modification of the input automaton.

◆ set_level()

void spot::postprocessor::set_level ( optimization_level  level)
inline

Set the optimization level.

At Low level, very few simplifications are performed on the automaton. Use this level if you need a result that matches the other constraints, but want it fast.

At High level, several simplifications are chained, but also the result of different algorithms may be compared to pick the best result. This might be slow.

At Medium level, several simplifications are chained, but only one such "pipeline" is used.

If set_level() is not called, the default output_type is High.

◆ set_pref()

void spot::postprocessor::set_pref ( output_pref  pref)
inline

Select the desired characteristics of the output automaton.

Use Any if you do not care about any feature of the output automaton: less processing will be done.

Small and Deterministic are exclusive choices and indicate whether a smaller non-deterministic automaton should be preferred over a deterministic automaton. These are preferences. The Small option does not guarantee that the resulting automaton will be minimal. The Deterministic option may not manage to produce a deterministic automaton if the target acceptance set with set_type() is TGBA or BA (and even if such automaton exists).

Use

set_type(postprocessor::Generic);
set_pref(postprocessor::Deterministic);
void set_pref(output_pref pref)
Select the desired characteristics of the output automaton.
Definition: postproc.hh:197
void set_type(output_type type)
Select the desired output type.
Definition: postproc.hh:139

if you absolutely want a deterministic automaton. The resulting deterministic automaton may have generalized Büchi acceptance or parity acceptance.

The above options can be combined with Complete and SBAcc, to request a complete automaton, and an automaton with state-based acceptance. Automata with parity acceptance may also be required to be Colored, ensuring that each transition (or state) belong to exactly one acceptance set.

Note 1: the Unambiguous option is not actually supported by spot::postprocessor; it is only honored by spot::translator.

Note 2: for historical reasons, option SBAcc is implied when the output type is set to BA.

Note 3: while setting the output type to Monitor requests automata with t as acceptance condition, combining Monitor with Complete may produce Büchi automata in case a sink state (which should be rejecting) is added.

If set_pref() is not called, the default output_type is Small.

◆ set_type()

void spot::postprocessor::set_type ( output_type  type)
inline

Select the desired output type.

GeneralizedBuchi requires generalized Büchi acceptance while Buchi requests Büchi acceptance. In both cases, automata with more complex acceptance conditions will be converted into these simpler acceptance. For references about the algorithms used behind these options, see section 5 of "LTL translation improvements in Spot 1.0" (Alexandre Duret-Lutz. Int. J. on Critical Computer-Based Systems, 5(1/2), pp. 31–54, March 2014).

Monitor requests an automaton where all paths are accepting: this is less expressive than Büchi automata, and may output automata that recognize a larger language than the input (the output recognizes the smallest safety property containing the input). The algorithm used to obtain monitors comes from "Efficient monitoring of ω-languages" (Marcelo d’Amorim and Grigoire Roşu, Proceedings of CAV’05, LNCS 3576) but is better described in "Optimized Temporal Monitors for SystemC" (Deian Tabakov and Moshe Y. Vardi, Proceedings of RV’10, LNCS 6418).

Generic removes all constraints about the acceptance condition. Using Generic (or Parity below) can be needed to force the determinization of some automata (e.g., not all TGBA can be degeneralized, using Generic will allow parity acceptance to be used instead).

Parity and its variants request the acceptance condition to be of some parity type. Note that the determinization algorithm used by Spot produces "parity min odd" acceptance, but other parity types can be obtained from there by minor adjustments.

CoBuchi requests a Co-Büchi automaton equivalent to the input, when possible, or a Co-Büchi automaton that recognize a larger language otherwise.

BA is a historical type that means Buchi and additionally set state-based acceptance (this should normally be set with set_pref(SBAcc)).

If set_type() is not called, the default output_type is GeneralizedBuchi.


The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

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