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Education in the practical applications of logic and proving such as the formal specification and verification of computer programs is substantially hampered by the fact that most time and effort that is invested in proving is actually…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Wolfgang Schreiner , Alexander Brunhuemer , Christoph Fürst

In this work, we investigate whether improving task clarity can enhance reasoning ability of large language models, focusing on theorem proving in Coq. We introduce a concept-level metric to evaluate task clarity and show that adding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yanzhen Lu , Hanbin Yang , Xiaodie Wang , Ge Zhang , Biao Li , Chenxu Fu , Chao Li , Yang Yuan , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

In formal proof checking environments such as Mizar it is not merely the validity of mathematical formulas that is evaluated in the process of adoption to the body of accepted formalizations, but also the readability of the proofs that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Karol Pąk

In this paper, we present the Logically submissions to De-Factify 2 challenge (DE-FACTIFY 2023) on the task 1 of Multi-Modal Fact Checking. We describes our submissions to this challenge including explored evidence retrieval and selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Pim Jordi Verschuuren , Jie Gao , Adelize van Eeden , Stylianos Oikonomou , Anil Bandhakavi

This paper presents incremental verification-validation, a novel approach for checking rich data structure invariants expressed as separation logic assertions. Incremental verification-validation combines static verification of separation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Yi-Fan Tsai , Devin Coughlin , Bor-Yuh Evan Chang , Xavier Rival

Interactive proof assistants are computer programs carefully constructed to check a human-designed proof of a mathematical claim with high confidence in the implementation. However, this only validates truth of a formal claim, which may…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Colin S. Gordon , Sergey Matskevich

This paper develops an algorithmic-based approach for proving inductive properties of propositional sequent systems such as admissibility, invertibility, cut-elimination, and identity expansion. Although undecidable in general, these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Carlos Olarte , Elaine Pimentel , Camilo Rocha

The research in AI-based formal mathematical reasoning has shown an unstoppable growth trend. These studies have excelled in mathematical competitions like IMO and have made significant progress. This paper focuses on formal verification,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jialun Cao , Yaojie Lu , Meiziniu Li , Haoyang Ma , Haokun Li , Mengda He , Cheng Wen , Le Sun , Hongyu Zhang , Shengchao Qin , Shing-Chi Cheung , Cong Tian

Over the past few decades, combinatorial solvers have seen remarkable performance improvements, enabling their practical use in real-world applications. In some of these applications, ensuring the correctness of the solver's output is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dieter Vandesande , Jordi Coll , Bart Bogaerts

We introduce an evaluation framework of 500 C verification tasks across five property types (memory safety, overflow, termination, reachability, data races) built on SV-COMP 2025, and evaluate 14 models across six families. We find that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jonas Bayer , Stefan Zetzsche , Olivier Bouissou , Remi Delmas , Michael Tautschnig , Soonho Kong

This paper describes a formalization of discrete real closed fields in the Coq proof assistant. This abstract structure captures for instance the theory of real algebraic numbers, a decidable subset of real numbers with good algorithmic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Assia Mahboubi , Cyril Cohen

We present an approach to unsolvability certification of temporal planning. Our approach is based on encoding the planning problem into a network of timed automata, and then using an efficient model checker on the network followed by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-21 David Wang , Mohammad Abdulaziz

Bidirectional typechecking, in which terms either synthesize a type or are checked against a known type, has become popular for its applicability to a variety of type systems, its error reporting, and its ease of implementation. Following…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jana Dunfield , Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami

While the use of formal verification techniques is well established in the development of mission-critical software, it is still rare in the production of most other kinds of software. We share our experience that a formal verification tool…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Dimitur Nikolaev Krustev

The problem of mechanically formalizing and proving metatheoretic properties of programming language calculi, type systems, operational semantics, and related formal systems has received considerable attention recently. However, the dual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-29 James Cheney , Alberto Momigliano

Reasoning about real number expressions in a proof assistant is challenging. Several problems in theorem proving can be solved by using exact real number computation. I have implemented a library for reasoning and computing with complete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-04 Russell O'Connor

The key limitation of the verification performance lies in the ability of error detection. With this intuition we designed several variants of pessimistic verification, which are simple workflows that could significantly improve the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yanxing Huang , Zihan Tang , Zejin Lin , Peng Li , Yang Liu

Verifying whether a procedure is observationally pure is useful in many software engineering scenarios. An observationally pure procedure always returns the same value for the same argument, and thus mimics a mathematical function. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Himanshu Arora , Raghavan Komondoor , G. Ramalingam

Verification of higher-order probabilistic programs is a challenging problem. We present a verification method that supports several quantitative properties of higher-order probabilistic programs. Usually, extending verification methods to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Satoshi Kura , Hiroshi Unno

We show that time complexity analysis of higher-order functional programs can be effectively reduced to an arguably simpler (although computationally equivalent) verification problem, namely checking first-order inequalities for validity.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Ugo Dal Lago , Barbara Petit