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Formal verification of floating-point arithmetic remains challenging due to non-linear arithmetic behavior and the tight coupling between control and datapath logic. Existing approaches often rely on high-level C models for equivalence…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hansa Mohanty , Vaisakh Naduvodi Viswambharan , Deepak Narayan Gadde

The connection method has earned good reputation in the area of automated theorem proving, due to its simplicity, efficiency and rational use of memory. This method has been applied recently in automatic provers that reason over ontologies…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Eunice Palmeira , Fred Freitas , Jens Otten

We develop new conformal inference methods for obtaining validity guarantees on the output of large language models (LLMs). Prior work in conformal language modeling identifies a subset of the text that satisfies a high-probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-01 John J. Cherian , Isaac Gibbs , Emmanuel J. Candès

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

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) and SAT solvers are critical components in many formal software tools, primarily due to the fact that they are able to easily solve logical problem instances with millions of variables and clauses. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Gereon Kremer , Erika Abraham , Vijay Ganesh

Building mathematical optimization models is critical in operations research (OR), while it requires substantial human expertise. Recent advancements have utilized large language models (LLMs) to automate this modeling process. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haoyang Liu , Jie Wang , Boxuan Niu , Xiongwei Han , Yian Xu , Mingxuan Ye , Zijie Geng , Fangzhou Zhu , Tao Zhong , Mingxuan Yuan , Jianye Hao

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) offer promising potential for automating formal methods. However, applying them to formal verification remains challenging due to the complexity of specification languages, the risk of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinyue Zuo , Yifan Zhang , Hongshu Wang , Yufan Cai , Zhe Hou , Jing Sun , Jin Song Dong

Translating software written in C to Rust has significant benefits in improving memory safety. However, manual translation is cumbersome, error-prone, and often produces unidiomatic code. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Tianyang Zhou , Ziyi Zhang , Haowen Lin , Somesh Jha , Mihai Christodorescu , Kirill Levchenko , Varun Chandrasekaran

Fact-checking real-world claims, particularly numerical claims, is inherently complex that require multistep reasoning and numerical reasoning for verifying diverse aspects of the claim. Although large language models (LLMs) including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Primakov Chungkham , V Venktesh , Vinay Setty , Avishek Anand

And-Inverter Graphs (AIGs) are a popular way to represent Boolean functions (like circuits). AIG simplification algorithms can dramatically reduce an AIG, and play an important role in modern hardware verification tools like equivalence…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Jared Davis , Sol Swords

Automatic fact-checking aims to support professional fact-checkers by offering tools that can help speed up manual fact-checking. Yet, existing frameworks fail to address the key step of producing output suitable for broader dissemination…

The companion paper introduced a four-level verification lattice on agent-skill manifests (unverified, declared, tested, formal) and left the top level aspirational. This paper closes that gap. We give a precise semantics for skill…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Alfredo Metere

Clarification questions help conversational search systems resolve ambiguous or underspecified user queries. While prior work has focused on fluency and alignment with user intent, especially through facet extraction, much less attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ahmed Rayane Kebir , Vincent Guigue , Lynda Said Lhadj , Laure Soulier

Recent work on activation and latent steering has demonstrated that modifying internal representations can effectively guide large language models (LLMs) toward improved reasoning and efficiency without additional training. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tuc Nguyen , Thai Le

The article "Interpolation and SAT-Based Model Checking" (McMillan, 2003) describes a formal-verification algorithm, which was originally devised to verify safety properties of finite-state transition systems. It derives interpolants from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Dirk Beyer , Nian-Ze Lee , Philipp Wendler

Smart contracts are tools with self-execution capabilities that provide enhanced security compared to traditional contracts; however, their immutability makes post-deployment fault correction extremely complex, highlighting the need for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Murilo de Souza Neves , Adilson Luiz Bonifacio

This paper presents our system for Task 3 of the CLEF 2025 CheckThat! Lab, which focuses on verifying numerical and temporal claims using retrieved evidence. We explore two complementary approaches: zero-shot prompting with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Anirban Saha Anik , Md Fahimul Kabir Chowdhury , Andrew Wyckoff , Sagnik Ray Choudhury

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

Chain-of-Thought reasoning has emerged as a powerful approach for solving complex mathematical and logical problems. However, it can often veer off track through incorrect or unsubstantiated inferences. Formal mathematical reasoning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Zhiyuan Li , Dravyansh Sharma

Formal specifications, such as pre- and post-conditions provide a solid basis for performing thorough program verification. However, developers rarely provide such formal specifications, hence if AI could help in constructing them, it would…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 I. S. W. B. Prasetya , Fitsum Kifetew , Davide Prandi