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Satisfiability problem (SAT) is a cornerstone of computational complexity with broad industrial applications, and it remains challenging to optimize modern SAT solvers in real-world settings due to their intricate architectures. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yiwen Sun , Furong Ye , Zhihan Chen , Ke Wei , Shaowei Cai

Satisfiability solvers are increasingly playing a key role in software verification, with particularly effective use in the analysis of security vulnerabilities. String processing is a key part of many software applications, such as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-03-17 Susmit Jha , Sanjit A. Seshia , Rhishikesh Limaye

Testability is the probability whether tests will detect a fault, given that a fault in the program exists. How efficiently the faults will be uncovered depends upon the testability of the software. Various researchers have proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Sujata Khatri , R. S. Chhillar , V. B. Singh

Despite the extent of recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Neural Networks, providing formal guarantees on the behavior of these systems is still an open problem, and a crucial requirement for their adoption in regulated or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Matteo Francobaldi , Michele Lombardi

There is increasing interest in applying verification tools to programs that have bitvector operations. SMT solvers, which serve as a foundation for these tools, have thus increased support for bitvector reasoning through bit-blasting and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Yuandong Cyrus Liu , Ton-Chanh Le , Eric Koskinen

Library migration is a challenging problem, where most existing approaches rely on prior knowledge. This can be, for example, information derived from changelogs or statistical models of API usage. This paper addresses a different API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Bruce Collie , Philip Ginsbach , Jackson Woodruff , Ajitha Rajan , Michael O'Boyle

Software verification is a complex problem, and verification tools need significant tuning to achieve high performance. Due to this, many verifiers choose to specialize on reachability properties, or invest the time to implement known…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Dirk Beyer , Marek Jankola , Marian Lingsch-Rosenfeld , Tian Xia , Xiyue Zheng

Metamorphic testing (MT) is a simple yet effective technique to alleviate the oracle problem in software testing. The underlying idea of MT is to test a software system by checking whether metamorphic relations (MRs) hold among multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 An Fu , Chang-ai Sun , Jiaming Zhang , Huai Liu

Large language models for code generation increasingly rely on synthetic data, where both problem solutions and verification tests are generated by models. While this enables scalable data creation, it introduces a previously unexplored…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Srishti Gureja , Elena Tommasone , Jingyi He , Sara Hooker , Matthias Gallé , Marzieh Fadaee

We consider the problem of verification modulo tested library contracts as a step towards automating the verification of client programs that use complex libraries. We formulate this problem as the synthesis of modular contracts for the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abhishek Uppar , Omar Muhammad , Sumanth Prabhu , Deepak D'Souza , Madhusudan P , Adithya Murali

SMLP: Symbolic Machine Learning Prover an open source tool for exploration and optimization of systems represented by machine learning models. SMLP uses symbolic reasoning for ML model exploration and optimization under verification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Franz Brauße , Zurab Khasidashvili , Konstantin Korovin

In the last decade we have witnessed an impressive progress in the expressiveness and efficiency of Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solving techniques. This has brought previously-intractable problems at the reach of state-of-the-art…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Roberto Sebastiani , Patrick Trentin

Even the fastest SMT solvers have performance problems with regular expressions from real programs. Because these performance issues often arise from the problem representation (e.g. non-deterministic finite automata get determinized and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Arlen Cox , Jason Leasure

Identifying the cause of a proof failure during deductive verification of programs is hard: it may be due to an incorrectness in the program, an incompleteness in the program annotations, or an incompleteness of the prover. The changes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Benedikt Becker , Cláudio Belo Lourenço , Claude Marché

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have improved their performance on coding benchmarks. However, improvement is plateauing due to the exhaustion of readily available high-quality data. Prior work has shown the potential of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zi Lin , Sheng Shen , Ilia Kulikov , Jingbo Shang , Jason Weston , Yixin Nie

Feature attribution methods are popular for explaining neural network predictions, and they are often evaluated on metrics such as comprehensiveness and sufficiency. In this paper, we highlight an intriguing property of these metrics: their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Yilun Zhou , Julie Shah

Classes on compiler technology are commonly found in Computer Science curricula, covering aspects of parsing, semantic analysis, intermediate transformations and target code generation. This paper reports on introducing certified…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Per Lindgren , Marcus Lindner , Nils Fitinghoff

Efficient solutions for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) are integral in industrial applications such as hardware verification and design automation. Existing approaches are predominantly based on conflict-driven clause learning, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yunuo Cen , Daniel Ebler , Xuanyao Fong

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are integral to program analysis techniques like concolic and symbolic execution, where they help assess the satisfiability of logical formulae to explore execution paths of the program under…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rustam Sadykov , Azat Abdullin , Marat Akhin

This report presents VLSAT-3 (an acronym for "Very Large Boolean SATisfiability problems"),the third part of a benchmark suite to be used in scientific experimentsand software competitions addressing SAT and SMT (Satisfiability Modulo…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Pierre Bouvier