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We present three projects concerned with applications of proof assistants in the area of programming language theory and mathematics. The first project is about a certified compilation technique for a domain-specific programming language…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Danil Annenkov

In the blockchain-based, distributed computing platform Ethereum, programs called smart contracts are compiled to bytecode and executed on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Executing EVM bytecode is subject to monetary fees---a clear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Julian Nagele , Maria A Schett

Exhaustive formal verification for systems of systems (SoS) is impractical and cannot be applied on a large scale. In this paper we propose to use statistical model checking for efficient verification of SoS. We address three relevant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Alessandro Mignogna , Leonardo Mangeruca , Benoît Boyer , Axel Legay , Alexandre Arnold

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have emerged as a promising approach for improving LLM reasoning capabilities by providing process supervision over reasoning traces. However, existing approaches for constructing PRM training data remain costly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ryo Kamoi , Yusen Zhang , Nan Zhang , Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Ranran Haoran Zhang , Wenpeng Yin , Rui Zhang

StocHy is a software tool for the quantitative analysis of discrete-time stochastic hybrid systems (SHS). StocHy accepts a high-level description of stochastic models and constructs an equivalent SHS model. The tool allows to (i) simulate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Nathalie Cauchi , Kurt Degiorgio , Alessandro Abate

Software contracts allow programmers to state rich program properties using the full expressive power of an object language. However, since they are enforced at runtime, monitoring contracts imposes significant overhead and delays error…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Phuc C. Nguyen , Thomas Gilray , Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , David Van Horn

Automated verification of security protocols based on dynamic root of trust, typically relying on protected hardware such as TPM, involves several challenges that we address in this paper. We model the semantics of trusted computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Sergiu Bursuc , Christian Johansen , Shiwei Xu

Callbacks are essential in many programming environments, but drastically complicate program understanding and reasoning because they allow to mutate object's local states by external objects in unexpected fashions, thus breaking…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Shelly Grossman , Ittai Abraham , Guy Golan-Gueta , Yan Michalevsky , Noam Rinetzky , Mooly Sagiv , Yoni Zohar

We present an extension to a certified financial contract management system that allows for templated declarative financial contracts and for integration with financial stochastic models through verified compilation into so-called…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Danil Annenkov , Martin Elsman

Formal verification is a critical process in ensuring the security and correctness of cryptographic protocols, particularly in high-assurance domains. This paper presents a comprehensive formal analysis of the Permission Voucher Protocol, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Khan Reaz , Gerhard Wunder

Formal verification provides the highest assurance of software correctness and security, but its application to large-scale, evolving systems remains a major challenge. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yuwei Liu , Xinyi Wan , Yanhao Wang , Minghua Wang , Lin Huang , Tao Wei

We suggest using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to be used, not only to keep the privacy of information but also, to verify computations with no additional significant overhead, using only part of the variables length for verification.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Shlomi Dolev , Arseni Kalma

In this paper we introduce a technique and a tool for formal verification of various quantum information processing protocols. The tool uses stabilizer formalism and is capable of representing concurrent quantum protocol, thus is more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani , Simon J. Gay , Rajagopal Nagarajan

While Ethereum has successfully achieved dynamic availability together with safety, a fundamental delay remains between transaction execution and immutable finality. In Ethereum's current Gasper protocol, this latency is on the order of 15…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yash Saraswat , Abhimanyu Nag

High-performance computing often relies on parallel programming models such as MPI for distributed-memory systems. While powerful, these models are prone to subtle programming errors, leading to development of multiple correctness checking…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yussur Mustafa Oraji , Christian Bischof

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automatically generate optimized CUDA kernels, substantially improving developer productivity. However, despite rapid generation, these kernels often contain subtle correctness bugs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Bodhisatwa Chatterjee , Drew Zagieboylo , Sana Damani , Siva Hari , Christos Kozyrakis

Cryptographic protocols are hard to design and prove correct, as witnessed by the ever-growing list of attacks even on protocol standards. Symbolic models of cryptography enable automated formal security proofs of such protocols against an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Simon Jeanteur , Laura Kovács , Matteo Maffei , Michael Rawson

Quantum error correction (QEC) is fundamental for suppressing noise in quantum hardware and enabling fault-tolerant quantum computation. In this paper, we propose an efficient verification framework for QEC programs. We define an assertion…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Qifan Huang , Li Zhou , Wang Fang , Mengyu Zhao , Mingsheng Ying

Ethereum is a permissionless blockchain ecosystem that supports execution of smart contracts, the key enablers of decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFT). However, the expressiveness of Ethereum smart contracts is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Nikolay Ivanov , Qiben Yan , Anurag Kompalli

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as autonomous cars, aircraft, and robots are often also safety-critical; thus it is imperative that they operate as intended with a high degree of certainty. Formal verification has been employed to verify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Serra Z. Dane , Jiawei Chen , Marc Pouzet , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin