Randomise alone, reach as a team

Brice LJ, Henzinger TA, Montaseri A, Shafiee A, Thejaswini KS. 2026. Randomise alone, reach as a team. 38th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. CAV: Computer Aided Verification vol. 16682, 215–236.

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Abstract
We study concurrent graph games where n players cooperate against an opponent to reach a set of target states. Unlike traditional settings, we study distributed randomisation: team players do not share a source of randomness, and their private random sources are hidden from the opponent and from each other. We show that memoryless strategies are sufficient for the threshold problem (deciding whether there is a strategy for the team that ensures winning with probability that exceeds a threshold), a result that not only places the problem in the Existential Theory of the Reals (ER) but also enables the construction of value iteration algorithms. We additionally show that the threshold problem is NP-hard. For the almost-sure reachability problem, we prove NP-completeness. We introduce Individually Randomised Alternating-time Temporal Logic (IRATL). This logic extends the standard ATL framework to reason about probability thresholds, with semantics explicitly designed for coalitions that lack a shared source of randomness. On the practical side, we implement and evaluate a solver for the threshold and almost-sure problem based on the algorithms that we develop.
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2026-07-24
Proceedings Title
38th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
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Springer Nature
Acknowledgement
This work is a part of project VAMOS that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement No 101020093. Part of this work was realised when the first author was an FNRS aspirant at Université libre de Bruxelles.
Volume
16682
Page
215-236
Conference
CAV: Computer Aided Verification
Conference Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Conference Date
2026-07-26 – 2026-07-29
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Brice LJ, Henzinger TA, Montaseri A, Shafiee A, Thejaswini KS. Randomise alone, reach as a team. In: 38th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. Vol 16682. Springer Nature; 2026:215-236. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-32519-8_12
Brice, L. J., Henzinger, T. A., Montaseri, A., Shafiee, A., & Thejaswini, K. S. (2026). Randomise alone, reach as a team. In 38th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (Vol. 16682, pp. 215–236). Lisbon, Portugal: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-32519-8_12
Brice, Leonard J, Thomas A Henzinger, Alipasha Montaseri, Ali Shafiee, and K. S. Thejaswini. “Randomise Alone, Reach as a Team.” In 38th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, 16682:215–36. Springer Nature, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-32519-8_12.
L. J. Brice, T. A. Henzinger, A. Montaseri, A. Shafiee, and K. S. Thejaswini, “Randomise alone, reach as a team,” in 38th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, Lisbon, Portugal, 2026, vol. 16682, pp. 215–236.
Brice LJ, Henzinger TA, Montaseri A, Shafiee A, Thejaswini KS. 2026. Randomise alone, reach as a team. 38th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. CAV: Computer Aided Verification vol. 16682, 215–236.
Brice, Leonard J., et al. “Randomise Alone, Reach as a Team.” 38th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, vol. 16682, Springer Nature, 2026, pp. 215–36, doi:10.1007/978-3-032-32519-8_12.
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