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There is a growing body of research indicating the potential of machine learning to tackle complex software testing challenges. One such challenge pertains to continuous integration testing, which is highly time-constrained, and generates a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Dusica Marijan

Program synthesis is challenging largely because of the difficulty of search in a large space of programs. Human programmers routinely tackle the task of writing complex programs by writing sub-programs and then analyzing their intermediate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Augustus Odena , Kensen Shi , David Bieber , Rishabh Singh , Charles Sutton , Hanjun Dai

DatalogMTL is an extension of Datalog with metric temporal operators that has found an increasing number of applications in recent years. Reasoning in DatalogMTL is, however, of high computational complexity, which makes reasoning in modern…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Dingmin Wang , Przemysław A. Wałęga , Pan Hu , Bernardo Cuenca Grau

Code completion is a prominent application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering. Due to the near real-time response requirements of this task, base models with small to medium-sized parameters are typically employed,…

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This work is the first exploration of proof-theoretic semantics for a substructural logic. It focuses on the base-extension semantics (B-eS) for intuitionistic multiplicative linear logic (IMLL). The starting point is a review of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , Tao Gu , David J. Pym

We introduce a modified version of the well-known dependency pair framework that is suitable for the termination analysis of rewriting under forbidden pattern restrictions. By attaching contexts to dependency pairs that represent the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Bernhard Gramlich , Felix Schernhammer

We are sometimes forced to use the Interrupted Time Series (ITS) design as an identification strategy for potential policy change, such as when we only have a single treated unit and no comparable controls. For example, with recent county-…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-17 Luke Miratrix

We present an SMT-based symbolic model checking algorithm for safety verification of recursive programs. The algorithm is modular and analyzes procedures individually. Unlike other SMT-based approaches, it maintains both "over-" and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Anvesh Komuravelli , Arie Gurfinkel , Sagar Chaki

We study the classical problem of verifying programs with respect to formal specifications given in the linear temporal logic (LTL). We first present novel sound and complete witnesses for LTL verification over imperative programs. Our…

Nonlinear interpolants have been shown useful for the verification of programs and hybrid systems in contexts of theorem proving, model checking, abstract interpretation, etc. The underlying synthesis problem, however, is challenging and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Mingshuai Chen , Jian Wang , Jie An , Bohua Zhan , Deepak Kapur , Naijun Zhan

In runtime verification, manually formalizing a specification for monitoring system executions is a tedious and error-prone process. To address this issue, we consider the problem of automatically synthesizing formal specifications from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanael Fijalkow , Daniel Neider , Guillermo A. Perez

Verification of microkernels, device drivers, and crypto routines requires analyses at the binary level. In order to automate these analyses, in the last years several binary analysis platforms have been introduced. These platforms share a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Andreas Lindner , Roberto Guanciale , Roberto Metere

Accurate structural relaxation is critical for advanced materials design. Traditional approaches built on physics-derived first-principles calculations are computationally expensive, motivating the creation of machine-learning interatomic…

We present a novel algorithm that synthesizes imperative programs for introductory programming courses. Given a set of input-output examples and a partial program, our algorithm generates a complete program that is consistent with every…

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Proof search has been used to specify a wide range of computation systems. In order to build a framework for reasoning about such specifications, we make use of a sequent calculus involving induction and co-induction. These proof principles…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Alwen Tiu , Alberto Momigliano

Program synthesis is the generation of a program from a specification. Correct synthesis is difficult, and methods that provide formal guarantees suffer from scalability issues. On the other hand, neural networks are able to generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Elizabeth Polgreen , Ralph Abboud , Daniel Kroening

Binary code clone analysis is an important technique which has a wide range of applications in software engineering (e.g., plagiarism detection, bug detection). The main challenge of the topic lies in the semantics-equivalent code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yikun Hu , Yuanyuan Zhang , Juanru Li , Hui Wang , Bodong Li , Dawu Gu

Recent advancements in Chain-of-Thoughts (CoT) and Program-of-Thoughts (PoT) methods have greatly enhanced language models' mathematical reasoning capabilities, facilitating their integration into instruction tuning datasets with LLMs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Bo-Wen Zhang , Yan Yan , Lin Li , Guang Liu

Most algorithms for the synthesis of reactive systems focus on the construction of finite-state machines rather than actual programs. This often leads to badly structured, unreadable code. In this paper, we present a bounded synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Carsten Gerstacker , Felix Klein , Bernd Finkbeiner

We present exact mixed-integer linear programming formulations for verifying the performance of first-order methods for parametric quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mixed-integer linear program where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Vinit Ranjan , Jisun Park , Stefano Gualandi , Andrea Lodi , Bartolomeo Stellato