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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
Exploring VASS Parameterised by Geometric Dimension

Authors: Wojciech Czerwiński, Roland Guttenberg, Łukasz Orlikowski, Henry Sinclair-Banks, and Yangluo Zheng

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 374, 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)


Abstract
The geometric dimension g of a Vector Addition System with States (VASS) is the dimension of the vector space generated by cycles in the VASS; this parameter refines the standard dimension d, the number of counters. Recently, it was discovered that the fastest-known algorithm for solving the reachability problem for VASS has the same complexity in terms of g as in terms of d. This suggests that the geometric dimension may in fact be a more adequate parameter for measuring the complexity of VASS reachability problems. We initiate a more systematic study of the geometric dimension. We discuss differences between two parameters: the geometric dimension and the SCC dimension. Our main technical result states that classical results about the coverability and boundedness problems can be improved from dimension d to geometric dimension g. Namely, coverability is witnessed by runs of length n^{2^𝒪(g)} instead of n^{2^𝒪(d)}, and unboundedness can be witnessed by runs of length n^{2^𝒪(g log g)} instead of n^{2^𝒪(d log d)}, where n is the size of the instance. We also study integer reachability and simultaneous unboundedness in VASS parameterised by the geometric dimension.

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Wojciech Czerwiński, Roland Guttenberg, Łukasz Orlikowski, Henry Sinclair-Banks, and Yangluo Zheng. Exploring VASS Parameterised by Geometric Dimension. In 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 374, pp. 177:1-177:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{czerwinski_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.177,
  author =	{Czerwi\'{n}ski, Wojciech and Guttenberg, Roland and Orlikowski, {\L}ukasz and Sinclair-Banks, Henry and Zheng, Yangluo},
  title =	{{Exploring VASS Parameterised by Geometric Dimension}},
  booktitle =	{53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)},
  pages =	{177:1--177:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-428-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{374},
  editor =	{Bhattacharya, Sayan and Nanongkai, Danupon and Benedikt, Michael and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.177},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-265655},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.177},
  annote =	{Keywords: vector addition systems, Petri nets, geometric dimensions, coverability problem, integer reachability problem, simultaneous unboundedness, reachability problem}
}
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Reachability in Vector Addition System with States Parameterized by Geometric Dimension

Authors: Yangluo Zheng

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


Abstract
The geometric dimension of a vector addition system with states (VASS), emerged in Leroux and Schmitz (2019) and formalized by Fu, Yang, and Zheng (2024), quantifies the dimension of the vector space spanned by cycle effects in the system. This paper examines the VASS reachability problem through the lens of geometric dimension, revealing key differences from the traditional dimensional parameterization. Notably, we establish that the reachability problem for both geometrically 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional VASS is PSPACE-complete, achieved by extending the pumping technique initially proposed by Czerwiński et al. (2019).

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Yangluo Zheng. Reachability in Vector Addition System with States Parameterized by Geometric Dimension. In 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 348, pp. 38:1-38:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{zheng:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.38,
  author =	{Zheng, Yangluo},
  title =	{{Reachability in Vector Addition System with States Parameterized by Geometric Dimension}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025)},
  pages =	{38:1--38:18},
  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.2025.38},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239888},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.38},
  annote =	{Keywords: Petri net, vector addition system, reachability, geometric dimension, pumping}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
Improved Algorithm for Reachability in d-VASS

Authors: Yuxi Fu, Qizhe Yang, and Yangluo Zheng

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
An 𝖥_{d} upper bound for the reachability problem in vector addition systems with states (VASS) in fixed dimension is given, where 𝖥_d is the d-th level of the Grzegorczyk hierarchy of complexity classes. The new algorithm combines the idea of the linear path scheme characterization of the reachability in the 2-dimension VASSes with the general decomposition algorithm by Mayr, Kosaraju and Lambert. The result improves the 𝖥_{d + 4} upper bound due to Leroux and Schmitz (LICS 2019).

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Yuxi Fu, Qizhe Yang, and Yangluo Zheng. Improved Algorithm for Reachability in d-VASS. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 136:1-136:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{fu_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.136,
  author =	{Fu, Yuxi and Yang, Qizhe and Zheng, Yangluo},
  title =	{{Improved Algorithm for Reachability in d-VASS}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{136:1--136:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.136},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202799},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.136},
  annote =	{Keywords: Petri net, vector addition system, reachability}
}
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