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This paper introduces CoBRA, a novel toolkit for systematically specifying agent behavior in LLM-based social simulation. We found that conventional approaches that specify agent behavior through implicit natural-language descriptions often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xuan Liu , Haoyang Shang , Haojian Jin

Interactive proof assistants make it possible for ordinary mathematicians to write definitions and theorems in a formal proof language, like a programming language, so that a computer can parse them and check them against the rules of a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Jeremy Avigad , Johan Commelin , Heather Macbeth , Adam Topaz

OnlineProver is an interactive proof assistant tailored for the educational setting. Its main features include a user-friendly interface for editing and checking proofs. The user interface provides feedback directly within the derivation,…

We report about significant enhancements of the complex algebraic geometry theorem proving subsystem in GeoGebra for automated proofs in Euclidean geometry, concerning the extension of numerous GeoGebra tools with proof capabilities. As a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Zoltán Kovács , Csilla Sólyom-Gecse

LLM-generated explanations can make technical content more accessible, but there is a ceiling on what they can support interactively. Because LLM outputs are static text, they cannot be executed or stepped through. We argue that grounding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hita Kambhamettu , Will Crichton , Sean Welleck , Harrison Goldstein , Andrew Head

A new method for combining several initial estimators of the regression function is introduced. Instead of building a linear or convex optimized combination over a collection of basic estimators $r_1,\dots,r_M$, we use them as a collective…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Gérard Biau , Aurélie Fischer , Benjamin Guedj , James Malley

Theorem provers are important tools for people working in formal verification. There are a myriad of interactive systems available today, with varying features and approaches motivating their development. These design choices impact their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Harrison Oates , Hyeonggeun Yun , Nikhila Gurusinghe

Quantum information and computation provide a fascinating twist on the notion of proofs in computational complexity theory. For instance, one may consider a quantum computational analogue of the complexity class \class{NP}, known as QMA, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Thomas Vidick , John Watrous

We describe a general method for verifying inequalities between real-valued expressions, especially the kinds of straightforward inferences that arise in interactive theorem proving. In contrast to approaches that aim to be complete with…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Jeremy Avigad , Robert Y. Lewis , Cody Roux

We introduce Prove-It, a Python-based general-purpose interactive theorem-proving assistant designed with the goal of making formal theorem proving as easy and natural as informal theorem proving (with moderate training). Prove-It uses a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Wayne M. Witzel , Warren D. Craft , Robert D. Carr , Joaquín E. Madrid Larrañaga

Recently, researchers have been working toward the development of practical general-purpose protocols for verifiable computation. These protocols enable a computationally weak verifier to offload computations to a powerful but untrusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Justin Thaler

We consider the problem of how a trusted, but computationally bounded agent (a 'verifier') can learn to interact with one or more powerful but untrusted agents ('provers') in order to solve a given task. More specifically, we study the case…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lewis Hammond , Sam Adam-Day

Recent work by Clark et al. (2020) shows that transformers can act as 'soft theorem provers' by answering questions over explicitly provided knowledge in natural language. In our work, we take a step closer to emulating formal theorem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Swarnadeep Saha , Sayan Ghosh , Shashank Srivastava , Mohit Bansal

How difficult are interactive theorem provers to use? We respond by reviewing the formalization of Hilbert's tenth problem in Isabelle/HOL carried out by an undergraduate research group at Jacobs University Bremen. We argue that, as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Jonas Bayer , Marco David , Abhik Pal , Benedikt Stock

When mathematicians present proofs they usually adapt their explanations to their didactic goals and to the (assumed) knowledge of their addressees. Modern automated theorem provers, in contrast, present proofs usually at a fixed level of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Marvin Schiller , Christoph Benzmueller

Among formal methods, the deductive verification approach allows establishing the strongest possible formal guarantees on critical software. The downside is the cost in terms of human effort required to design adequate formal specifications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sylvain Dailler , Claude Marché , Yannick Moy

This paper describes SEPIA, a tool for automated proof generation in Coq. SEPIA combines model inference with interactive theorem proving. Existing proof corpora are modelled using state-based models inferred from tactic sequences. These…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Thomas Gransden , Neil Walkinshaw , Rajeev Raman

Interactive theorem provers have developed dramatically over the past four decades, from primitive beginnings to today's powerful systems. Here, we focus on Isabelle/HOL and its distinctive strengths. They include automatic proof search,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Lawrence C. Paulson , Tobias Nipkow , Makarius Wenzel

We propose a simple, yet expressive proof representation from which proofs for different proof assistants can easily be generated. The representation uses only a few inference rules and is based on a frag- ment of first-order logic called…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Sana Stojanovic , Julien Narboux , Marc Bezem , Predrag Janicic

Undergraduate students of artificial intelligence often struggle with representing knowledge as logical sentences. This is a skill that seems to require extensive practice to obtain, suggesting a teaching strategy that involves the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Angelo Kyrilov , David Noelle