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We present an adequacy theorem for a concurrent extension of probabilistic GCL. The underlying denotational semantics is based on the so-called mixed powerdomains, which combine non-determinism with probabilistic behaviour. The theorem…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Renato Neves

Term rewriting has a significant presence in various areas, not least in automated theorem proving where it is used as a proof technique. Many theorem provers employ specialised proof tactics for rewriting. This results in an interleaving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Issam Maamria , Michael Butler

We present an adequacy theorem for a concurrent extension of probabilistic GCL. The underlying denotational semantics is based on the so-called mixed powerdomains, which combine non-determinism with probabilistic behaviour. The theorem…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Renato Neves

In theorem proving, the task of selecting useful premises from a large library to unlock the proof of a given conjecture is crucially important. This presents a challenge for all theorem provers, especially the ones based on language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Albert Q. Jiang , Wenda Li , Szymon Tworkowski , Konrad Czechowski , Tomasz Odrzygóźdź , Piotr Miłoś , Yuhuai Wu , Mateja Jamnik

Benchmarking heuristic algorithms is vital to understand under which conditions and on what kind of problems certain algorithms perform well. In most current research into heuristic optimization algorithms, only a very limited number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Niki van Stein , Diederick Vermetten , Anna V. Kononova , Thomas Bäck

$\alpha$Check is a light-weight property-based testing tool built on top of $\alpha$Prolog, a logic programming language based on nominal logic. $\alpha$Prolog is particularly suited to the validation of the meta-theory of formal systems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-02 James Cheney , Alberto Momigliano , Matteo Pessina

Lambda lifting is a well-known transformation, traditionally employed for compiling functional programs to supercombinators. However, more recent abstract machines for functional languages like OCaml and Haskell tend to do closure…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Sebastian Graf , Simon Peyton Jones

Large language models (LLMs) have shown increasing competence in solving mathematical reasoning problems. However, many open-source LLMs still struggle with errors in calculation and semantic understanding during intermediate reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Vernon Y. H. Toh , Deepanway Ghosal , Soujanya Poria

We present a prototypical linear algebra compiler that automatically exploits domain-specific knowledge to generate high-performance algorithms. The input to the compiler is a target equation together with knowledge of both the structure of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-05-29 Diego Fabregat-Traver , Paolo Bientinesi

We address the challenges of scaling verification efforts to match the increasing complexity and size of systems. We propose a research agenda aimed at building a performant proof engine by studying the asymptotic performance of proof…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jason Gross , Andres Erbsen , Jade Philipoom , Rajashree Agrawal , Adam Chlipala

A compiler processes the code written in a high level language and produces machine executable code. The compiler writers often face the challenge of keeping the compilation times reasonable. That is because aggressive optimization passes…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Sanket Tavarageri

Algebraic effects and handlers are a powerful abstraction to build non-local control-flow mechanisms such as resumable exceptions, lightweight threads, co-routines, generators, and asynchronous I/O. All of such features have very evolved…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Tiago Soares , Mário Pereira

Obtaining good performance when programming heterogeneous computing platforms poses significant challenges. We present a program transformation environment, implemented in Haskell, where architecture-agnostic scientific C code with semantic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Salvador Tamarit , Julio Mariño , Guillermo Vigueras , Manuel Carro

Good tools can bring mechanical verification to programs written in mainstream functional languages. We use hs-to-coq to translate significant portions of Haskell's containers library into Coq, and verify it against specifications that we…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Joachim Breitner , Antal Spector-Zabusky , Yao Li , Christine Rizkallah , John Wiegley , Stephanie Weirich

In this paper we outline how a simple compiler can be completely specified using higher order rewriting in all stages: parsing, analysis/optimization, and code emission, specifically using the crsx.sf.net system for a small declarative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-02-21 Kristoffer H. Rose

Theorem provers are important tools for people working in formal verification. There are a myriad of interactive systems available today, with varying features and approaches motivating their development. These design choices impact their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Harrison Oates , Hyeonggeun Yun , Nikhila Gurusinghe

Vampire has been for a long time the strongest first-order automatic theorem prover, widely used for hammer-style proof automation in ITPs such as Mizar, Isabelle, HOL, and Coq. In this work, we considerably improve the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Martin Suda

Compositional verification algorithms are well-studied in the context of model checking. Properly selecting components for verification is important for efficiency, yet has received comparatively less attention. In this paper, we address…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Ian Dardik , April Porter , Eunsuk Kang

Commonsense reasoning in natural language is a desired ability of artificial intelligent systems. For solving complex commonsense reasoning tasks, a typical solution is to enhance pre-trained language models~(PTMs) with a knowledge-aware…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jinhao Jiang , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

One of the main challenges in distributed computing is building interfaces and APIs that allow programmers with limited background in distributed systems to write scalable, performant, and fault-tolerant applications on large clusters. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yuxi Long , Shiyou Wu , Yingjie Xu