Establish injectivity of a log-derived observation channel

Determine whether any channel derived from an event log is injective on distributions over labelled partial-order process variants, so that distinct process models can always be distinguished from the resulting observations.

Background

Trace-level event logs discard the partial-order information that distinguishes concurrency from balanced sequential interleavings, and the paper proves that every trace-observable comparison inherits this non-identifiability in the relevant setting. The authors leave unresolved whether some alternative channel derived from logged information could be injective outright. This question is explicitly relative to the scheduling law: under a tilted scheduling law, the relative frequencies of interleavings may carry additional identifying information.

References

Whether some invariant of the order alone decides equality of stochastic languages is open, as is whether any log-derived channel is injective outright.

— Resolution limits for process comparison from event data  (2609.20489 - Lee et al., 17 Sep 2026) in Section 7, Discussion and conclusions, final discussion paragraph