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We present Isabellm, an LLM-powered theorem prover for Isabelle/HOL that performs fully automatic proof synthesis. Isabellm works with any local LLM on Ollama and APIs such as Gemini CLI, and it is designed to run on consumer grade…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhe Hou

We present a trustworthy connection between the Leon verification system and the Isabelle proof assistant. Leon is a system for verifying functional Scala programs. It uses a variety of automated theorem provers (ATPs) to check verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Lars Hupel , Viktor Kuncak

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

Consensus protocols are crucial for a blockchain system as they are what allow agreement between the system's nodes in a potentially adversarial environment. For this reason, it is paramount to ensure their correct design and implementation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Elliot Jones , William Knottenbelt

The synergy between deep learning models and traditional automation tools, such as built-in tactics of the proof assistant and off-the-shelf automated theorem provers, plays a crucial role in developing robust and efficient neural theorem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haoxiong Liu , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Andrew C Yao

The refinement calculus provides a methodology for transforming an abstract specification into a concrete implementation, by following a succession of refinement rules. These rules have been mechanized in theorem-provers, thus providing a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-12-02 Andreas Griesmayer , Zhiming Liu , Charles Morisset , Shuling Wang

Mechanized theorem proving is becoming the basis of reliable systems programming and rigorous mathematics. Despite decades of progress in proof automation, writing mechanized proofs still requires engineers' expertise and remains labor…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yutaka Nagashima

Formally verifying properties of software code has been a highly desirable task, especially with the emergence of LLM-generated code. In the same vein, they provide an interesting avenue for the exploration of formal verification and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Balaji Rao , William Eiers , Carlo Lipizzi

In Isabelle/HOL, declarative proofs written in the Isar language are widely appreciated for their readability and robustness. However, some users may prefer writing procedural "apply-style" proof scripts since they enable rapid exploration…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sage Binder , Hanna Lachnitt , Katherine Kosaian

In this paper we report the experience of using AutoProof to statically verify a small object oriented program. We identified the problems that emerged by this activity and we classified them according to their nature. In particular, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Mansur Khazeev , Victor Rivera , Manuel Mazzara , Leonard Johard

Common programming tools, like compilers, debuggers, and IDEs, crucially rely on the ability to analyse program code to reason about its behaviour and properties. There has been a great deal of work on verifying compilers and static…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Jan Stolarek , James Cheney

We extend a semantic verification framework for hybrid systems with the Isabelle/HOL proof assistant by an algebraic model for hybrid program stores, a shallow expression model for hybrid programs and their correctness specifications, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Simon Foster , Jonathan Julián Huerta y Munive , Mario Gleirscher , Georg Struth

We present a verifier of quantum programs called AutoQ 2.0. Quantum programs extend quantum circuits (the domain of AutoQ 1.0) by classical control flow constructs, which enable users to describe advanced quantum algorithms in a formal and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yu-Fang Chen , Kai-Min Chung , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Wei-Jia Huang , Ondřej Lengál , Jyun-Ao Lin , Wei-Lun Tsai

Modern separation logics allow one to prove rich properties of intricate code, e.g. functional correctness and linearizability of non-blocking concurrent code. However, this expressiveness leads to a complexity that makes these logics…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Felix A. Wolf , Malte Schwerhoff , Peter Müller

In this paper, we propose the use of interactive theorem proving for explainable machine learning. After presenting our proposition, we illustrate it on the dedicated application of explaining security attacks using the Isabelle…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Florian Kammüller

Automated software verification is a very active field of research which has made enormous progress both in theoretical and practical aspects. Recently, an important amount of research effort has been put into applying these techniques on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-11-16 Guido de Caso , Diego Garbervetsky , Daniel Gorín

Formal verification via interactive theorem proving is increasingly used to ensure the correctness of critical systems, yet constructing large proof scripts remains highly manual and limits scalability. Advances in large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Baoding He , Zenan Li , Wei Sun , Yuan Yao , Taolue Chen , Xiaoxing Ma , Zhendong Su

To guarantee that machine learning models yield outputs that are not only accurate, but also robust, recent works propose formally verifying robustness properties of machine learning models. To be applicable to realistic safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 John Törnblom , Simin Nadjm-Tehrani

MapReduce frameworks are widely used for the implementation of distributed algorithms. However, translating imperative algorithms into these frameworks requires significant structural changes to the algorithm. As the costs of running faulty…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Bernhard Beckert , Timo Bingmann , Moritz Kiefer , Peter Sanders , Mattias Ulbrich , Alexander Weigl

Scalable and automatic formal verification for concurrent systems is always demanding. In this paper, we propose a verification framework to support automated compositional reasoning for concurrent programs with shared variables. Our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fuyuan Zhang , Yongwang Zhao , David Sanan , Yang Liu , Alwen Tiu , Shang-Wei Lin , Jun Sun