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Verifying multi-threaded programs is becoming more and more important, because of the strong trend to increase the number of processing units per CPU socket. We introduce a new configurable program analysis for verifying multi-threaded…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Dirk Beyer , Karlheinz Friedberger

We revisit Christol's theorem on algebraic power series in positive characteristic and propose yet another proof for it. This new proof combines several ingredients and advantages of existing proofs, which make it very well-suited for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Alin Bostan , Xavier Caruso , Gilles Christol , Philippe Dumas

Formally verifying the correctness of mathematical proofs is more accessible than ever, however, the learning curve remains steep for many of the state-of-the-art interactive theorem provers (ITP). Deriving the most appropriate subsequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Liao Zhang , David M. Cerna , Cezary Kaliszyk

Correctness proofs for floating point programs are difficult to verify. To simplify the task, a similar, but less complex system, known as logarithmic arithmetic can be used. The Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover, NQTHM, mechanically verified the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Mark G. Arnold , Thomas A. Bailey , John R. Cowles

Parameterized complexity theory was developed in the 1990s to enrich the complexity-theoretic analysis of problems that depend on a range of parameters. In this paper we establish a quantum equivalent of classical parameterized complexity…

A new viewpoint of the G\"odel's incompleteness theorem be given in this article which reveals the deep relationship between the logic and computation. Upon the results of these studies, an algorithm be given which shows how to search a…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Tianheng Tsui

Machine learning (ML) applications have been thriving recently, largely attributed to the increasing availability of data. However, inconsistency and incomplete information are ubiquitous in real-world datasets, and their impact on ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Bojan Karlaš , Peng Li , Renzhi Wu , Nezihe Merve Gürel , Xu Chu , Wentao Wu , Ce Zhang

Verifying software correctness has always been an important and complicated task. Recently, formal proofs of critical properties of algorithms and even implementations are becoming practical. Currently, the most powerful automated proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Michael Raskin , Christoph Welzel

Argumentation problems are concerned with determining the acceptability of a set of arguments from their relational structure. When the available information is uncertain, probabilistic argumentation frameworks provide modelling tools to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Pietro Totis , Angelika Kimmig , Luc De Raedt

The POPLMARK Challenge comprises a set of problems intended to measure the strength of reasoning systems in the realm of mechanizing programming language meta-theory at the time the challenge was enunciated. Included in the collection is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Gopalan Nadathur

In order to deal with the systematic verification with uncertain infromation in possibility theory, Li and Li \cite{li12} introduced model checking of linear-time properties in which the uncertainty is modeled by possibility measures. Xue,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Yongming Li , Yali Li , Zhanyou Ma

We consider the verification of parameterized networks of replicated processes whose architecture is described by hyperedge-replacement graph grammars. Due to the undecidability of verification problems such as reachability or coverability…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Marius Bozga , Radu Iosif , Arnaud Sangnier , Neven Villani

The past few years have seen a surge of interest in the field of probabilistic logic learning and statistical relational learning. In this endeavor, many probabilistic logics have been developed. ProbLog is a recent probabilistic extension…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-03-04 Angelika Kimmig , Bart Demoen , Luc De Raedt , Vítor Santos Costa , Ricardo Rocha

The paper presents the main characteristics and a preliminary implementation of a novel computational framework named CompLog. Inspired by probabilistic programming systems like ProbLog, CompLog builds upon the inferential mechanisms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Giovanni Sileno , Jean-Louis Dessalles

The parameterized model-checking problem for a class of first-order sentences (queries) asks to decide whether a given sentence from the class holds true in a given relational structure (database); the parameter is the length of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yijia Chen , Michael Elberfeld , Moritz Müller

We recently described a formalism for reasoning with if-then rules that re expressed with different levels of firmness [18]. The formalism interprets these rules as extreme conditional probability statements, specifying orders of magnitude…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Moises Goldszmidt , Judea Pearl

The success of Deep Learning and its potential use in many safety-critical applications has motivated research on formal verification of Neural Network (NN) models. Despite the reputation of learned NN models to behave as black boxes and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Rudy Bunel , Ilker Turkaslan , Philip H. S. Torr , Pushmeet Kohli , M. Pawan Kumar

We carry out a systematic study of a natural covering problem, used for identification across several areas, in the realm of parameterized complexity. In the {\sc Test Cover} problem we are given a set $[n]=\{1,...,n\}$ of items together…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-04 R. Crowston , G. Gutin , M. Jones , S. Saurabh , A. Yeo

We propose an approach to Longobardi's parametric comparison method (PCM) via the theory of error-correcting codes. One associates to a collection of languages to be analyzed with the PCM a binary (or ternary) code with one code words for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Matilde Marcolli

In this set of three companion manuscripts/articles, we unveil our new results on primality testing and reveal new primality testing algorithms enabled by those results. The results have been classified (and referred to) as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Dhananjay Phatak , Alan T. Sherman , Steven D. Houston , Andrew Henry