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Explainability is a Game for Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distances

Authors: Emily Vlasman, Anto Nanah Ji, James Worrell, and Franck van Breugel

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 348, 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025)


Abstract
We revisit a game from the literature that characterizes the probabilistic bisimilarity distances of a labelled Markov chain. We illustrate how an optimal policy of the game can explain these distances. Like the games that characterize bisimilarity and probabilistic bisimilarity, the game is played on pairs of states and matches transitions of those states. To obtain more convincing and interpretable explanations than those provided by generic optimal policies, we restrict to optimal policies that delay reaching observably inequivalent state pairs for as long as possible (called 1-maximal) while quickly reaching equivalent ones (called 0-minimal). We present iterative algorithms that compute 1-maximal and 0-minimal policies and prove an exponential lower bound for the number of iterations of the algorithm that computes 1-maximal policies.

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Emily Vlasman, Anto Nanah Ji, James Worrell, and Franck van Breugel. Explainability is a Game for Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distances. In 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 348, pp. 36:1-36:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{vlasman_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.36,
  author =	{Vlasman, Emily and Nanah Ji, Anto and Worrell, James and van Breugel, Franck},
  title =	{{Explainability is a Game for Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distances}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025)},
  pages =	{36:1--36:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-389-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{348},
  editor =	{Bouyer, Patricia and van de Pol, Jaco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.36},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239861},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.36},
  annote =	{Keywords: probabilistic bisimilarity distance, labelled Markov chain, game, policy, explainability}
}
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Composition of Stochastic Transition Systems Based on Spans and Couplings

Authors: Daniel Gburek, Christel Baier, and Sascha Klüppelholz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 55, 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016)


Abstract
Conventional approaches for parallel composition of stochastic systems relate probability measures of the individual components in terms of product measures. Such approaches rely on the assumption that components interact stochastically independent, which might be too rigid for modeling real world systems. In this paper, we introduce a parallel-composition operator for stochastic transition systems that is based on couplings of probability measures and does not impose any stochastic assumptions. When composing systems within our framework, the intended dependencies between components can be determined by providing so-called spans and span couplings. We present a congruence result for our operator with respect to a standard notion of bisimilarity and develop a general theory for spans, exploiting deep results from descriptive set theory. As an application of our general approach, we propose a model for stochastic hybrid systems called stochastic hybrid motion automata.

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Daniel Gburek, Christel Baier, and Sascha Klüppelholz. Composition of Stochastic Transition Systems Based on Spans and Couplings. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 102:1-102:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{gburek_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.102,
  author =	{Gburek, Daniel and Baier, Christel and Kl\"{u}ppelholz, Sascha},
  title =	{{Composition of Stochastic Transition Systems Based on Spans and Couplings}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016)},
  pages =	{102:1--102:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-013-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{55},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Mitzenmacher, Michael and Rabani, Yuval and Sangiorgi, Davide},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.102},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-62379},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.102},
  annote =	{Keywords: Stochastic Transition System, Composition, Stochastic Hybrid Motion Automata, Stochastically Independent, Coupling, Span, Bisimulation, Congruence, Po}
}
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