The Vampire Diary
Logic in Computer Science
2025-08-21 v3
Abstract
During the past decade of continuous development, the theorem prover Vampire has become an automated solver for the combined theories of commonly-used data structures. Vampire now supports arithmetic, induction, and higher-order logic. These advances have been made to meet the demands of software verification, enabling Vampire to effectively complement SAT/SMT solvers and aid proof assistants. We explain how best to use Vampire in practice and review the main changes Vampire has undergone since its last tool presentation, focusing on the engineering principles and design choices we made during this process.
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@article{arxiv.2506.03030,
title = {The Vampire Diary},
author = {Filip Bártek and Ahmed Bhayat and Robin Coutelier and Márton Hajdu and Matthias Hetzenberger and Petra Hozzová and Laura Kovács and Jakob Rath and Michael Rawson and Giles Reger and Martin Suda and Johannes Schoisswohl and Andrei Voronkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.03030},
year = {2025}
}
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This is the accepted version of the paper published at CAV 2025 (with corrected ORCIDs compared to v2)