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We study a novel language model architecture that is capable of scaling test-time computation by implicitly reasoning in latent space. Our model works by iterating a recurrent block, thereby unrolling to arbitrary depth at test-time. This…

A major part of debugging, testing, and analyzing a complex software system is understanding what is happening within the system at run-time. Some developers advocate running within a debugger to better understand the system at this level.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph R. Kiniry

Stable Logic Programming (SLP) is an emergent, alternative style of logic programming: each solution to a problem is represented by a stable model of a deductive database/function-free logic program encoding the problem itself. Several…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Gianpaolo Brignoli , Stefania Costantini , Ottavio D'Antona , Alessandro Provetti

Slicing is a program analysis technique originally developed for imperative languages. It facilitates understanding of data flow and debugging. This paper discusses slicing of Constraint Logic Programs. Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gyongyi Szilagyi , Tibor Gyimothy , Jan Maluszynski

We have been striving to exceed computational complexity, and in the process, we have come to realize the dilemma of classical computing, and in turn we realize that superpositioner may be a way to solve. A superpositioner is a model formed…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chuyu Xiong

Algorithmic and data refinement are well studied topics that provide a mathematically rigorous approach to gradually introducing details in the implementation of software. Program refinements are performed in the context of some programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Jason Koenig , K. Rustan M. Leino

Current automated program repair (APR) techniques are far from being practical and useful enough to be considered for realistic debugging. They rely on unrealistic assumptions including the requirement of a comprehensive suite of test cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Qi Xin , Haojun Wu , Steven P. Reiss , Jifeng Xuan

We define an extension of lambda-calculus with dependents types that enables us to encode transparent and opaque probabilistic programs and prove a strong normalisation result for it by a reducibility technique. While transparent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Francesco A. Genco

This paper presents a logic based approach to debugging Java programs. In contrast with traditional debugging we propose a debugging methodology for Java programs using logical queries on individual execution states and also over the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hani Girgis , Bharat Jayaraman

Cyclic debugging requires repeatable executions. As non-deterministic or real-time systems typically do not have the potential to provide this, special methods are required. One such method is replay, a process that requires monitoring of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Joel Huselius , Henrik Thane , Daniel Sundmark

A number of automated techniques and tools were proposed in the research literature over the years which aim to support the spreadsheet developer in the process of testing and debugging a faulty spreadsheet. One underlying assumption of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Dietmar Jannach , Thomas Schmitz

We provide a computational definition of the notions of vector space and bilinear functions. We use this result to introduce a minimal language combining higher-order computation and linear algebra. This language extends the Lambda-calculus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Pablo Arrighi , Gilles Dowek

The proposed framework provides a general model of concurrent imperative programming. Programs are modeled as formal languages and concurrency as an interleaving (or shuffle) operator. This yields a simple and elegant algebra of programs.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Stephan van Staden

Informal mathematics has been central to modern large language model (LLM) reasoning, offering flexibility and enabling efficient construction of arguments. However, purely informal reasoning is prone to logical gaps and subtle errors that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Azim Ospanov , Zijin Feng , Jiacheng Sun , Haoli Bai , Xin Shen , Farzan Farnia

The lower and upper bound of any given algorithm is one of the most crucial pieces of information needed when evaluating the computational effectiveness for said algorithm. Here a novel method of Boolean Algebraic Programming for symbolic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Daniel McCormack

Repeated executions of reasoning tasks for varying inputs are necessary in many applicative settings, such as stream reasoning. In this context, we propose an incremental grounding approach for the answer set semantics. We focus on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Francesco Calimeri , Giovambattista Ianni , Francesco Pacenza , Simona Perri , Jessica Zangari

Programs with control are usually modeled using lambda calculus extended with control operators. Instead of modifying lambda calculus, we consider a different model of computation. We introduce continuation calculus, or CC, a deterministic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Bram Geron , Herman Geuvers

Deterministic replay is a method for allowing complex multitasking real-time systems to be debugged using standard interactive debuggers. Even though several replay techniques have been proposed for parallel, multi-tasking and real-time…

Dynamic evaluation is a paradigm in computer algebra which was introduced for computing with algebraic numbers. In linear algebra, for instance, dynamic evaluation can be used to apply programs which have been written for matrices with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Dominique Duval , Burak Ekici , Damien Pous

As the practical use of answer set programming (ASP) has grown with the development of efficient solvers, we expect a growing interest in extensions of ASP as their semantics stabilize and solvers supporting them mature. Epistemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Patrick Thor Kahl , Anthony P. Leclerc , Tran Cao Son