Lower Bounds for Possibly Divergent Probabilistic Programs
Proc ACM Program Lang(2023)
Abstract
We present a new proof rule for verifying lower bounds on quantities of probabilistic programs. Our proof rule is not confined to almost-surely terminating programs -- as is the case for existing rules -- and can be used to establish non-trivial lower bounds on, e.g., termination probabilities and expected values, for possibly divergent probabilistic loops, e.g., the well-known three-dimensional random walk on a lattice.
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possibly divergent probabilistic programs,lower bounds
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