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We describe the LoopInvGen tool for generating loop invariants that can provably guarantee correctness of a program with respect to a given specification. LoopInvGen is an efficient implementation of the inference technique originally…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Saswat Padhi , Rahul Sharma , Todd Millstein

This article focuses on automatically generating polynomial equations that are inductive loop invariants of computer programs. We propose a new algorithm for this task, which is based on polynomial interpolation. Though the proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-04-25 Marc Moreno Maza , Rong Xiao

We apply multivariate Lagrange interpolation to synthesize polynomial quantitative loop invariants for probabilistic programs. We reduce the computation of an quantitative loop invariant to solving constraints over program variables and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Yu-Fang Chen , Chih-Duo Hong , Bow-Yaw Wang , Lijun Zhang

When proving invariance properties of a program, we face two problems. The first problem is related to the necessity of proving tautologies of considered assertion language, whereas the second manifests in the need of finding sufficiently…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Steven de Oliveira , Saddek Bensalem , Virgile Prevosto

Loop invariants play a central role in the verification of imperative programs. However, finding these invariants is often a difficult and time-consuming task for the programmer. We have previously shown how program transformation can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-25 G. W. Hamilton

Abstraction is a successful technique in software verification, and interpolation on infeasible error paths is a successful approach to automatically detect the right level of abstraction in counterexample-guided abstraction refinement.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Dirk Beyer , Stefan Löwe , Philipp Wendler

In this paper, we address the problem of giving names to predicates in logic rules using Large Language Models (LLMs). In the context of Inductive Logic Programming, various rule generation methods produce rules containing unnamed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Elisabetta Gentili , Tony Ribeiro , Fabrizio Riguzzi , Katsumi Inoue

Loop invariants play a very important role in proving correctness of programs. In this paper, we address the problem of generating invariants of polynomial loop programs. We present a new approach, for generating polynomial equation…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Bin Wu , Liyong Shen , Min Wu , Zhengfeng Yang , Zhenbing Zeng

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a principled approach for generalizing regularities from data and constructing hypotheses as interpretable logic programs. However, a key limitation is its reliance on expert-crafted language bias - the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yang Yang , Jiemin Wu , Yutao Yue

Loop invariants are software properties that hold before and after every iteration of a loop. As such, invariants provide inductive arguments that are key in automating the verification of program loops. The problem of generating loop…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-25 George Kenison , Laura Kovács , Anton Varonka

Interpolation-based techniques have been widely and successfully applied in the verification of hardware and software, e.g., in bounded-model check- ing, CEGAR, SMT, etc., whose hardest part is how to synthesize interpolants. Various work…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Liyun Dai , Bican Xia , Naijun Zhan

This paper considers the problem of assumptions refinement in the context of unrealizable specifications for reactive systems. We propose a new counterstrategy-guided synthesis approach for GR(1) specifications based on Craig's…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Davide G. Cavezza , Dalal Alrajeh

A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over traditional recommender systems is their ability to elicit user preferences using natural language. Currently, the predominant approach to preference elicitation is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski

We present an approach to automatically synthesise recursive predicates in Separation Logic (SL) from concrete data structure instances using Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) techniques. The main challenges to make such synthesis effective…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ziyi Yang , Ilya Sergey

Counterfactual explanations represent the minimal change to a data sample that alters its predicted classification, typically from an unfavorable initial class to a desired target class. Counterfactuals help answer questions such as "what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Brian Barr , Matthew R. Harrington , Samuel Sharpe , C. Bayan Bruss

This paper presents a new method for automatically generating numerical invariants for imperative programs. Given a program, our procedure computes a binary input/output relation on program states which over-approximates the behaviour of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Azadeh Farzan , Zachary Kincaid

Craig interpolation has emerged as an effective means of generating candidate program invariants. We present interpolation procedures for the theories of Presburger arithmetic combined with (i) uninterpreted predicates (QPA+UP), (ii)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Angelo Brillout , Daniel Kroening , Philipp Ruemmer , Thomas Wahl

In predicate abstraction, exact image computation is problematic, requiring in the worst case an exponential number of calls to a decision procedure. For this reason, software model checkers typically use a weak approximation of the image.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Ranjit Jhala , Kenneth L. McMillan

The ability to extrapolate, i.e., to make predictions on sequences that are longer than those presented as training examples, is a challenging problem for current deep learning models. Recent work shows that this limitation persists in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Mirelle Bueno , Carlos Gemmell , Jeffrey Dalton , Roberto Lotufo , Rodrigo Nogueira

Invariant inference algorithms such as interpolation-based inference and IC3/PDR show that it is feasible, in practice, to find inductive invariants for many interesting systems, but non-trivial upper bounds on the computational complexity…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Sharon Shoham
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