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Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on various reasoning tasks. To further improve the performance, we propose MultiTool-CoT, a novel framework that leverages chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to incorporate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tatsuro Inaba , Hirokazu Kiyomaru , Fei Cheng , Sadao Kurohashi

Interrupt Timed Automata (ITA) form a subclass of stopwatch automata where reachability and some variants of timed model checking are decidable even in presence of parameters. They are well suited to model and analyze real-time operating…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Béatrice Bérard , Serge Haddad , Claudine Picaronny , Mohab Safey El Din , Mathieu Sassolas

Numerous applications of large language models (LLMs) rely on their ability to perform step-by-step reasoning. However, the reasoning behavior of LLMs remains poorly understood, posing challenges to research, development, and safety. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhanke Zhou , Zhaocheng Zhu , Xuan Li , Mikhail Galkin , Xiao Feng , Sanmi Koyejo , Jian Tang , Bo Han

We provide an overall description of the Ciao multiparadigm programming system emphasizing some of the novel aspects and motivations behind its design and implementation. An important aspect of Ciao is that, in addition to supporting logic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-03-01 M. V. Hermenegildo , F. Bueno , M. Carro , P. López-García , E. Mera , J. F. Morales , G. Puebla

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have accelerated AI-assisted software development, yet practical deployment remains constrained by incomplete implementations, weak modularization, and inconsistent security practices. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yen-Ku Liu , Yun-Cheng Tsai

Multi-step reasoning is essential for large language models (LLMs), yet multilingual performance remains challenging. While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting improves reasoning, it struggles with non-English languages due to the entanglement…

Optimization Modulo Theories (OMT) is an extension of SMT that allows for finding models that optimize objective functions. In this paper we aim at bridging the gap between Constraint Programming (CP) and OMT, in both directions. First, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Francesco Contaldo , Patrick Trentin , Roberto Sebastiani

The recent development of chain-of-thought (CoT) decoding has enabled large language models (LLMs) to generate explicit logical reasoning paths for complex problem-solving. However, research indicates that these paths are not always…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Xuan Zhang , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Qian Liu , Wei Gao , Min Lin

Oz is a multiparadigm language that supports logic programming as one of its major paradigms. A multiparadigm language is designed to support different programming paradigms (logic, functional, constraint, object-oriented, sequential,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Peter Van Roy , Per Brand , Denys Duchier , Seif Haridi , Martin Henz , Christian Schulte

We introduce the Contour Analysis Tool (CAT), a Python toolkit aimed at identifying and analyzing structural elements in density maps. CAT employs various contouring techniques, including the lowest-closed contour (LCC), linear and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Mark A. Hutchison , Christine M. Koepferl

Propositional bounded model checking has been applied successfully to verify embedded software but is limited by the increasing propositional formula size and the loss of structure during the translation. These limitations can be reduced by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-07-14 Lucas Cordeiro , Bernd Fischer , Joao Marques-Silva

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is a critical technique in enhancing the reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs), and latent reasoning methods have been proposed to accelerate the inefficient token-level reasoning chain. We notice that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Fangwei Zhu , Zhifang Sui

Proust is a small Racket program offering rudimentary interactive assistance in the development of verified proofs for propositional and predicate logic. It is constructed in stages, some of which are done by students before using it to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Prabhakar Ragde

We present the new version of the Loop Acceleration Tool (LoAT), a powerful tool for proving non-termination and worst-case lower bounds for programs operating on integers. It is based on a novel calculus for loop acceleration, i.e.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl

Video understanding requires not only recognizing visual content but also performing temporally grounded, multi-step reasoning over long and noisy observations. We propose Process-of-Thought (PoT) Reasoning for Videos, a framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jusheng Zhang , Kaitong Cai , Jian Wang , Yongsen Zheng , Kwok-Yan Lam , Keze Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on complex tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, conventional CoT relies on explicitly verbalized intermediate steps, which constrains its broader…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xinghao Chen , Anhao Zhao , Heming Xia , Xuan Lu , Hanlin Wang , Yanjun Chen , Wei Zhang , Jian Wang , Wenjie Li , Xiaoyu Shen

State-of-the-art answer set programming (ASP) solvers rely on a program called a grounder to convert non-ground programs containing variables into variable-free, propositional programs. The size of this grounding depends heavily on the size…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Manuel Bichler , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

DHOL is an extensional, classical logic that equips the well-known higher-order logic (HOL) with dependent types. This allows for concise encodings of important domains like size-bounded data structures, category theory, or proof theory.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Rhea Ranalter , Florian Rabe , Cezary Kaliszyk

In this paper, we introduce the Tree-of-Thought (ToT) framework, a novel approach aimed at improving the problem-solving capabilities of auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). The ToT technique is inspired by the human mind's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jieyi Long

We present mstlo (mistletoe), a Rust library for high-performance online monitoring of signal temporal logic (STL), with Python bindings. The library provides: (i) a unified interface for multiple STL semantics, including Robust…