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In this paper we show that reversible analysis of logic languages by abstract interpretation can be performed without loss of precision by systematically refining abstract domains. The idea is to include semantic structures into abstract…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 R. Giacobazzi , F. Ranzato , F. Scozzari

Static analysis techniques enhance the security, performance, and reliability of programs by analyzing and portraiting program behaviors without the need for actual execution. In essence, static analysis takes the Intermediate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Bowen Zhang , Wei Chen , Hung-Chun Chiu , Charles Zhang

We present a new approach to automated reasoning about higher-order programs by extending symbolic execution to use behavioral contracts as symbolic values, enabling symbolic approximation of higher-order behavior. Our approach is based on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , David Van Horn

Abstracting Gradual Typing (AGT) is a systematic approach to designing gradually-typed languages. Languages developed using AGT automatically satisfy the formal semantic criteria for gradual languages identified by Siek et al. [2015].…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Felipe Bañados Schwerter , Alison M. Clark , Khurram A. Jafery , Ronald Garcia

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in the hierarchical decomposition of complex tasks through semantic reasoning. However, their application in embodied systems faces challenges in ensuring reliable execution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mingcong Lei , Ge Wang , Yiming Zhao , Zhixin Mai , Qing Zhao , Yao Guo , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui , Yatong Han , Jinke Ren

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a powerful framework for machine learning interpretability, enabling the unsupervised decomposition of model representations into a dictionary of abstract, human-interpretable concepts. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Thomas Fel , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Jacob S. Prince , Matthew Kowal , Victor Boutin , Isabel Papadimitriou , Binxu Wang , Martin Wattenberg , Demba Ba , Talia Konkle

AI systems are becoming active participants in organizational and knowledge work. They increasingly interact with humans, coordinate workflows, and operate in multi-agent arrangements. Understanding their effects therefore requires more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yingjie Zhang , Chun Feng , Weizhang Zhu , Tianshu Sun

Recent automatic lyrics transcription (ALT) approaches focus on building stronger acoustic models or in-domain language models, while the pronunciation aspect is seldom touched upon. This paper applies a novel computational analysis on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Emir Demirel , Sven Ahlback , Simon Dixon

Static analysis is sound in theory, but an implementation may unsoundly fail to analyze all of a program's code. Any such omission is a serious threat to the validity of the tool's output. Our work is the first to measure the prevalence of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jordan Samhi , René Just , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Michael D. Ernst , Jacques Klein

Previous approaches of analyzing spontaneously spoken language often have been based on encoding syntactic and semantic knowledge manually and symbolically. While there has been some progress using statistical or connectionist language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 S. Wermter , V. Weber

Static analysis by abstract interpretation aims at automatically proving properties of computer programs. To do this, an over-approximation of program semantics, defined as the least fixpoint of a system of semantic equations, must be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Olivier Bouissou , Yassamine Seladji , Alexandre Chapoutot

Large language models trained on code have shown great potential to increase productivity of software developers. Several execution-based benchmarks have been proposed to evaluate functional correctness of model-generated code on simple…

Dynamic behaviors are becoming prevalent in tensor applications, like machine learning, where many widely used models contain data-dependent tensor shapes and control flow. However, the limited expressiveness of prior programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Gina Sohn , Genghan Zhang , Konstantin Hossfeld , Jungwoo Kim , Nathan Sobotka , Nathan Zhang , Olivia Hsu , Kunle Olukotun

A \emph{data automaton} is a finite automaton equipped with variables (counters or registers) ranging over infinite data domains. A trace of a data automaton is an alternating sequence of alphabet symbols and values taken by the counters…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Radu Iosif , Adam Rogalewicz , Tomas Vojnar

Static program analysis plays an essential role in program optimization, bug detection, and debugging. However, reliance on compilation and limited customization hinder its adoption in the real world. This paper presents a compositional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chengpeng Wang , Yifei Gao , Wuqi Zhang , Xuwei Liu , Jinyao Guo , Mingwei Zheng , Qingkai Shi , Xiangyu Zhang

We propose a method for automatically generating abstract transformers for static analysis by abstract interpretation. The method focuses on linear constraints on programs operating on rational, real or floating-point variables and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-07-28 David Monniaux

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable potential in various complex tasks requiring multi-step reasoning methods like tree search to explore diverse reasoning paths. However, existing methods often suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sungjae Lee , Hyejin Park , Jaechang Kim , Jungseul Ok

Algorithms which learn environments represented by automata in the past have had complexity scaling with the number of states in the automaton, which can be exponentially large even for automata recognizing regular expressions with a small…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ali Cataltepe , Vanessa Kosoy

Textual noise, such as typos or abbreviations, is a well-known issue that penalizes vanilla Transformers for most downstream tasks. We show that this is also the case for sentence similarity, a fundamental task in multiple domains, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Mario Almagro , Emilio Almazán , Diego Ortego , David Jiménez

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to extract sparse, interpretable latents from transformer activations. We test whether commonly used SAE quality metrics and automatic explanation pipelines can distinguish trained transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Thomas Heap , Tim Lawson , Lucy Farnik , Laurence Aitchison