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In this paper, we propose the use of a modeling methodology based on the notion of thing, with a focus on the current stage of research being on the analysis phase of software system modeling. The object-oriented approach, which takes the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

The paper describes a mechanism for indirect object representation and access (ORA) in programming languages. The mechanism is based on using a new programming construct which is referred to as concept. Concept consists of one object class…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-01-03 Alexandr Savinov

Most ATP benchmarks embed the final answer within the formal statement -- a convention we call "Easy Mode" -- a design that simplifies the task relative to what human competitors face and may lead to optimistic estimates of model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chengwu Liu , Yichun Yin , Ye Yuan , Jiaxuan Xie , Botao Li , Siqi Li , Jianhao Shen , Yan Xu , Lifeng Shang , Ming Zhang

A major challenge in applying machine learning to automated theorem proving is the scarcity of training data, which is a key ingredient in training successful deep learning models. To tackle this problem, we propose an approach that relies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Vlad Firoiu , Eser Aygun , Ankit Anand , Zafarali Ahmed , Xavier Glorot , Laurent Orseau , Lei Zhang , Doina Precup , Shibl Mourad

Automated theorem provers and formal proof assistants are general reasoning systems that are in theory capable of proving arbitrarily hard theorems, thus solving arbitrary problems reducible to mathematics and logical reasoning. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Lasse Blaauwbroek , David Cerna , Thibault Gauthier , Jan Jakubův , Cezary Kaliszyk , Martin Suda , Josef Urban

In a case study we investigate whether off the shelf higher-order theorem provers and model generators can be employed to automate reasoning in and about quantified multimodal logics. In our experiments we exploit the new TPTP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-28 Christoph Benzmueller

Generalization has been one of the major challenges for learning dynamics models in model-based reinforcement learning. However, previous work on action-conditioned dynamics prediction focuses on learning the pixel-level motion and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Guangxiang Zhu , Zhiao Huang , Chongjie Zhang

Proof automation is crucial to large-scale formal mathematics and software/hardware verification projects in ITPs. Sophisticated tools called hammers have been developed to provide general-purpose proof automation in ITPs such as Coq and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yicheng Qian , Joshua Clune , Clark Barrett , Jeremy Avigad

This book can be seen either as a text on theorem proving that uses techniques from general algebra, or else as a text on general algebra illustrated and made concrete by practical exercises in theorem proving. The book considers several…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Joseph A. Goguen

To support reasoning about properties of programs operating with boolean values one needs theorem provers to be able to natively deal with the boolean sort. This way, program properties can be translated to first-order logic and theorem…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Evgenii Kotelnikov , Laura Kovács , Andrei Voronkov

Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) in formal languages is a foundational challenge for AI. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven remarkable progress, a significant gap remains between their powerful informal reasoning capabilities and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zhenwen Liang , Linfeng Song , Yang Li , Tao Yang , Feng Zhang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

This paper reports our initial experiments with using external ATP on some corpora built with the ACL2 system. This is intended to provide the first estimate about the usefulness of such external reasoning and AI systems for solving ACL2…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Sebastiaan Joosten , Cezary Kaliszyk , Josef Urban

Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) represents a core research direction in artificial intelligence for achieving formal reasoning and verification, playing a significant role in advancing machine intelligence. However, current large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sirui Li , Wangyue Lu , Xiaorui Shi , Ke Weng , Haozhe Sun , Minghe Yu , Tiancheng Zhang , Ge Yu , Hengyu Liu , Lun Du

For the past several decades, programmers have been modeling things in the world with trees using hierarchies of classes and object-oriented programming (OOP) languages. In this paper, we describe a novel approach to programming, called…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Alexandr Savinov

A type system is introduced for a generic Object Oriented programming language in order to infer resource upper bounds. A sound andcomplete characterization of the set of polynomial time computable functions is obtained. As a consequence,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux

Human cognition can leverage fundamental conceptual knowledge, like geometric and kinematic ones, to appropriately perceive, comprehend and interact with novel objects. Motivated by this finding, we aim to endow machine intelligence with an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jianhua Sun , Yuxuan Li , Longfei Xu , Jiude Wei , Liang Chai , Cewu Lu

We propose a novel approach to interactive theorem-proving (ITP) using deep reinforcement learning. The proposed framework is able to learn proof search strategies as well as tactic and arguments prediction in an end-to-end manner. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Minchao Wu , Michael Norrish , Christian Walder , Amir Dezfouli

We present Proof-of-Perception (PoP), a tool-using framework that casts multimodal reasoning as an executable graph with explicit reliability guarantees. Each perception or logic node outputs a conformal set, yielding calibrated, stepwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Arya Fayyazi , Haleh Akrami

This paper describes a system, called PLP, for compiling ordered logic programs into standard logic programs under the answer set semantics. In an ordered logic program, rules are named by unique terms, and preferences among rules are given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 James P. Delgrande , Torsten Schaub , Hans Tompits

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