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Artificial Intelligence for Theorem Proving has given rise to a plethora of benchmarks and methodologies, particularly in Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP). Research in the area is fragmented, with a diverse set of approaches being spread…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sean Lamont , Michael Norrish , Amir Dezfouli , Christian Walder , Paul Montague

We present a reinforcement learning toolkit for experiments with guiding automated theorem proving in the connection calculus. The core of the toolkit is a compact and easy to extend Prolog-based automated theorem prover called plCoP. plCoP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Zsolt Zombori , Josef Urban , Chad E. Brown

This paper explores verification of constituent systems within the context of the Symphony tool platform for Systems of Systems (SoS). Our SoS modelling language, CML, supports various contractual specification elements, such as state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Luis Diogo Couto , Simon Foster , Richard Payne

Abstract interpreters are complex pieces of software: even if the abstract interpretation theory and companion algorithms are well understood, their implementations are subject to bugs, that might question the soundness of their…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Lucas Franceschino , David Pichardie , Jean-Pierre Talpin

In this paper we demonstrate how logic programming systems and Automated first-order logic Theorem Provers (ATPs) can improve the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) for logical reasoning tasks where the baseline performance is given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Lachlan McGinness , Peter Baumgartner

The widely held belief that BQP strictly contains BPP raises fundamental questions: if we cannot efficiently compute predictions for the behavior of quantum systems, how can we test their behavior? In other words, is quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or , Elad Eban , Urmila Mahadev

Automation services for complex business processes usually require a high level of information technology literacy. There is a strong demand for a smartly assisted process automation (IPA: intelligent process automation) service that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Nobuhiro Ito , Yuya Suzuki , Akiko Aizawa

LLMs excel at reasoning, but validating their steps remains challenging. Formal verification offers a solution through mechanically checkable proofs. Interactive theorem provers (ITPs) dominate mathematical reasoning but require detailed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mantas Baksys , Stefan Zetzsche , Olivier Bouissou , Sean B. Holden

The automation offered by modern program proof tools goes hand in hand with the capability to interact with the tool when the verification fails. The SPARK proof tool tries to help the user by providing the right information, so that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Yannick Moy

In deductive verification and software model checking, dealing with certain specification language constructs can be problematic when the back-end solver is not sufficiently powerful or lacks the required theories. One way to deal with this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jesper Amilon , Zafer Esen , Dilian Gurov , Christian Lidström , Philipp Rümmer , Marten Voorberg

We introduce DreamProver, an agentic framework that leverages a "wake-sleep" program induction paradigm to discover reusable lemmas for formal theorem proving. Existing approaches either rely on fixed lemma libraries, which limit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Youyuan Zhang , Jialiang Sun , Hangrui Bi , Chuqin Geng , Wenjie Ma , Zhaoyu Li , Xujie Si

Domain of mathematical logic in computers is dominated by automated theorem provers (ATP) and interactive theorem provers (ITP). Both of these are hard to access by AI from the human-imitation approach: ATPs often use human-unfriendly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Miroslav Olšák

We describe an experiment in large-scale autoformalization of algebraic topology in an Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) environment, where the workload is distributed among multiple LLM-based coding agents. Rather than relying on static…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chad E. Brown , Cezary Kaliszyk , Josef Urban

This paper describes Hipster, a system integrating theory exploration with the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL. Theory exploration is a technique for automatically discovering new interesting lemmas in a given theory development. Hipster can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Moa Johansson , Dan Rosen , Nicholas Smallbone , Koen Claessen

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly excel at mathematical reasoning, but their unreliability limits their utility in mathematics research. A mitigation is using LLMs to generate formal proofs in languages like Lean. We perform the…

Formal, automated theorem proving has long been viewed as a challenge to artificial intelligence. We introduce here a new approach to computer theorem proving, one that employs specialized language models for Lean4 proof generation combined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Kelly J. Davis

The formalization of existing mathematical proofs is a notoriously difficult process. Despite decades of research on automation and proof assistants, writing formal proofs remains arduous and only accessible to a few experts. While previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Albert Q. Jiang , Sean Welleck , Jin Peng Zhou , Wenda Li , Jiacheng Liu , Mateja Jamnik , Timothée Lacroix , Yuhuai Wu , Guillaume Lample

We propose to build a reinforcement learning prover of independent components: a deductive system (an environment), the proof state representation (how an agent sees the environment), and an agent training algorithm. To that purpose, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Boris Shminke

Procedural activity assistants potentially support humans in a variety of settings, from our daily lives, e.g., cooking or assembling flat-pack furniture, to professional situations, e.g., manufacturing or biological experiments. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kimihiro Hasegawa , Wiradee Imrattanatrai , Masaki Asada , Ken Fukuda , Teruko Mitamura

Despite the vast body of research literature proposing algorithms with formal guarantees, the amount of verifiable code in today's systems remains minimal. This discrepancy stems from the inherent difficulty of verifying code, particularly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Marco Chiesa