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Language model reasoning traces are rarely all-or-nothing; they frequently contain valid intermediate steps before a critical error occurs. Existing uncertainty quantification methods typically certify final answers or entire responses,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Matt Y. Cheung , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Hanjie Chen , Guha Balakrishnan

Foundational verification allows programmers to build software which has been empirically shown to have high levels of assurance in a variety of important domains. However, the cost of producing foundationally verified software remains…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Alex Sanchez-Stern , Yousef Alhessi , Lawrence Saul , Sorin Lerner

VeriFast is a powerful tool for verification of various correctness properties of C programs using symbolic execution. However, VeriFast itself has not been verified. We present a proof-of-concept extension which generates a correctness…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Stefan Wils , Bart Jacobs

Artificial intelligence assisted mathematical proof has become a highly focused area nowadays. One key problem in this field is to generate formal mathematical proofs from natural language proofs. Due to historical reasons, the formal proof…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Lihan Xie , Zhicheng Hui , Qinxiang Cao

Current approaches for formal verification of algorithms face important limitations. For specification, they cannot express algorithms naturally and concisely, especially for algorithms with states and flexible control flow. For…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Chengxi Yang , Shushu Wu , Qinxiang Cao

In this paper we present a new "external checker" for the Lean theorem prover, written in Lean itself. This is the first complete typechecker for Lean 4 other than the reference implementation in C++ used by Lean itself, and our new checker…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mario Carneiro

It is well known that the resolution method (for propositional logic) is complete. However, completeness proofs found in the literature use an argument by contradiction showing that if a set of clauses is unsatisfiable, then it must have a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Jean Gallier

We introduce FRAT, a new proof format for unsatisfiable SAT problems, and its associated toolchain. Compared to DRAT, the FRAT format allows solvers to include more information in proofs to reduce the computational cost of subsequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Seulkee Baek , Mario Carneiro , Marijn J. H. Heule

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for testing copositivity of homogeneous polynomials over the positive semidefinite cone. The algorithm is based on a novel matrix optimization reformulation and requires solving a hierarchy of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Lei Huang , Lingling Xie

Despite the vast body of research literature proposing algorithms with formal guarantees, the amount of verifiable code in today's systems remains minimal. This discrepancy stems from the inherent difficulty of verifying code, particularly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Marco Chiesa

As the usage of theorem prover technology expands, so too does the reliance on correctness of the tools. Metamath Zero is a verification system that aims for simplicity of logic and implementation, without compromising on efficiency of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mario Carneiro

We describe a new approach to automatically repairing broken proofs in the Coq proof assistant in response to changes in types. Our approach combines a configurable proof term transformation with a decompiler from proof terms to tactic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Talia Ringer , RanDair Porter , Nathaniel Yazdani , John Leo , Dan Grossman

Formal verification of complex algorithms is challenging. Verifying their implementations goes beyond the state of the art of current automatic verification tools and usually involves intricate mathematical theorems. Certifying algorithms…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Eyad Alkassar , Sascha Böhme , Kurt Mehlhorn , Christine Rizkallah

With the growing complexity of fact verification tasks, the concern with "thoughtful" reasoning capabilities is increasing. However, recent fact verification benchmarks mainly focus on checking a narrow scope of semantic factoids within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jiasheng Si , Yibo Zhao , Yingjie Zhu , Haiyang Zhu , Wenpeng Lu , Deyu Zhou

This paper introduces a propositional encoding for lexicographic path orders in connection with dependency pairs. This facilitates the application of SAT solvers for termination analysis of term rewrite systems based on the dependency pair…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael Codish , Peter Schneider-Kamp , Vitaly Lagoon , René Thiemann , Jürgen Giesl

Matching logic is a formalism for specifying, and reasoning about, mathematical structures, using patterns and pattern matching. Growing in popularity, it has been used to define many logical systems such as separation logic with recursive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Péter Bereczky , Xiaohong Chen , Dániel Horpácsi , Lucas Peña , Jan Tušil

Mechanized verification of liveness properties for infinite programs with effects and nondeterminism is challenging. Existing temporal reasoning frameworks operate at the level of models such as traces and automata. Reasoning happens at a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Eleftherios Ioannidis , Yannick Zakowski , Steve Zdancewic , Sebastian Angel

Formally verifying software properties is a highly desirable but labor-intensive task. Recent work has developed methods to automate formal verification using proof assistants, such as Coq and Isabelle/HOL, e.g., by training a model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Emily First , Markus N. Rabe , Talia Ringer , Yuriy Brun

Existing verifiable e-sortition systems are impractical due to computationally expensive verification (linear to the duration of the registration phase, T) or the ease of being denial of service. Based on the advance in verifiable delay…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Hsun Lee , Hsu-Chun Hsiao

We describe a method for building composable and extensible verification procedures within the Coq proof assistant. Unlike traditional methods that rely on run-time generation and checking of proofs, we use verified-correct procedures with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-05-29 Gregory Malecha , Adam Chlipala , Thomas Braibant , Patrick Hulin , Edward Z. Yang