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Production deployment of AI coding agents requires fast, reproducible evaluation signals. Existing industrial practices trade off speed and fidelity: online A/B testing takes weeks and risks user experience, shadow deployment yields signals…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Smriti Jha , Matteo Paltenghi , Chandra Maddila , Vijayaraghavan Murali , Shubham Ugare , Satish Chandra

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…

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We present a new approach for performing predicate abstraction based on symbolic decision procedures. Intuitively, a symbolic decision procedure for a theory takes a set of predicates in the theory and symbolically executes a decision…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Shuvendu K. Lahiri , Thomas Ball , Byron Cook

Recently deep reinforcement learning has achieved tremendous success in wide ranges of applications. However, it notoriously lacks data-efficiency and interpretability. Data-efficiency is important as interacting with the environment is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Duo Xu , Faramarz Fekri

Training on verifiable symbolic data is a promising way to expand the reasoning frontier of language models beyond what standard pre-training corpora provide. Yet existing procedural generators often rely on fixed puzzles or templates and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Valentin Lacombe , Valentin Quesnel , Damien Sileo

Automated testing tools typically create test cases that are different from what human testers create. This often makes the tools less effective, the created tests harder to understand, and thus results in tools providing less support to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Eduard Enoiu , Robert Feldt

We have developed a symbolic algebra approach to automatically produce, verify, and optimize computer code for the Fast Multipole Method (FMM) operators. This approach allows for flexibility in choosing a basis set and kernel, and can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Jonathan P. Coles , Rebekka Bieri

Incorrectness Separation Logic (ISL) is a proof system that is tailored specifically to resolve problems of under-approximation in programs that manipulate heaps, and it primarily focuses on bug detection. This approach is different from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yeonseok Lee , Koji Nakazawa

We introduce a new method for integrating neural networks with logic programming in Neural-Symbolic AI (NeSy), aimed at learning with distant supervision, in which direct labels are unavailable. Unlike prior methods, our approach does not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Akihiro Takemura , Katsumi Inoue

The automated generation of exercises may substantially reduce the time educators devote to manual exercise design. A major obstacle to the integration of such automation into teaching practice, however, lies in the ability to control the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 João Mendes , João Marcos , Patrick Terrematte

Symbolic computation is an important approach in automated program analysis. Most state-of-the-art tools perform symbolic computation as interpreters and directly maintain symbolic data. In this paper, we show that it is feasible, and in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Henrich Lauko , Petr Ročkai , Jiří Barnat

As software systems increase in size and complexity dramatically, ensuring their correctness, security, and reliability becomes an increasingly formidable challenge. Despite significant advancements in verification techniques and tools,…

We present lightweight and generic symbolic methods to improve the precison of numerical static analyses based on Abstract Interpretation. The main idea is to simplify numerical expressions before they are fed to abstract transfer…

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Scarcity of labeled data is a bottleneck for supervised learning models. A paradigm that has evolved for dealing with this problem is data programming. An existing data programming paradigm allows human supervision to be provided as a set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Oishik Chatterjee , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Sunita Sarawagi

Significant research has been conducted in recent years to extend Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) methods to induce Answer Set Programs (ASP). These methods perform an exhaustive search for the correct hypothesis by encoding an ILP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Farhad Shakerin , Gopal Gupta

We present Lilac, a separation logic for reasoning about probabilistic programs where separating conjunction captures probabilistic independence. Inspired by an analogy with mutable state where sampling corresponds to dynamic allocation, we…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-29 John M. Li , Amal Ahmed , Steven Holtzen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise as robotic planners but often struggle with long-horizon and complex tasks, especially in specialized environments requiring external knowledge. While hierarchical planning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Cristina Cornelio , Flavio Petruzzellis , Pietro Lio

Basis path testing is a cornerstone of structural testing, yet traditional automated methods, relying on greedy graph-traversal algorithms (e.g., DFS/BFS), often generate sub-optimal paths. This structural inferiority is not a trivial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chao Wei , Xinyi Peng , Yawen Yan , Mao Luo , Ting Cai

Current LLM-based coding agents follow a serial execution paradigm: the model first generates the complete code, then invokes an interpreter to execute it. This sequential workflow leaves the executor idle during generation and the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zhensu Sun , Zhihao Lin , Zhi Chen , Chengran Yang , Mingyi Zhou , Li Li , David Lo