Compositional Simulation-Based Analysis of AI-Based Autonomous Systems for Markovian Specifications

Beyazit Yalcinkaya, Hazem Torfah, Daniel J. Fremont, Sanjit A. Seshia

Abstract: We present a framework for the compositional simulation-based analysis of AI-based autonomous systems for Markovian safety specifications. Our compositional approach allows us to cut down the cost of executing a large number of long-running simulations, by decomposing a simulation-based analysis task into several shorter and more efficient ones. Results obtained from the individual analyses are then stitched together to generate a result for the overall simulation-based task. Our approach is based on a decomposition of scenarios formalized as concurrent hierarchical probabilistic extended state machines that describe sequential and parallel compositions of scenarios. We present two instantiations of our framework for falsification and statistical verification. Using case studies from the autonomous driving domain, we demonstrate the scalability of our compositional approach in comparison to a monolithic analysis approach.