Simple and precise widenings for H-polyhedra

  • Authors:
  • Axel Simon;Liqian Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Informatik 2, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany;National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, Changsha, China

  • Venue:
  • APLAS'10 Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Programming languages and systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

While the definition of the revised widening for polyhedra is defined in terms of inequalities, most implementations use the double description method as a means to an efficient implementation. We show how standard widening can be implemented in a simple and efficient way using a normalized H-representation (constraint-only) which has become popular in recent approximations to polyhedral analysis. We then detail a novel heuristic for this representation that is tuned to capture linear transformations of the state space while ensuring quick convergence for non-linear transformations for which no precise linear invariants exist.