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Multi-agent simulations are versatile tools for exploring interactions among natural and artificial agents, but their development typically demands domain expertise and manual effort. This work introduces the Generative Agents for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Agnieszka Mensfelt , Kostas Stathis , Vince Trencsenyi

ACL2(ml) is an extension for the Emacs interface of ACL2. This tool uses machine-learning to help the ACL2 user during the proof-development. Namely, ACL2(ml) gives hints to the user in the form of families of similar theorems, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Jónathan Heras , Ekaterina Komendantskaya

It has been established in recent work that Large Language Models (LLMs) can be prompted to "self-play" conversational games that probe certain capabilities (general instruction following, strategic goal orientation, language understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Anne Beyer , Kranti Chalamalasetti , Sherzod Hakimov , Brielen Madureira , Philipp Sadler , David Schlangen

Automated theorem proving is essential for the formal verification of safety-critical systems. As the corpus of formal proofs grows, a natural paradigm is to learn from existing proofs. However, current learning-based approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jian Fang , Yixun Yao , Yingfei Xiong

This paper aims to develop a verification method for procedural programs via a transformation into Logically Constrained Term Rewriting Systems (LCTRSs). To this end, we extend transformation methods based on integer TRSs to handle…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Carsten Fuhs , Cynthia Kop , Naoki Nishida

Recent large language models (LLMs) perform strongly on mathematical benchmarks yet often misapply lemmas, importing conclusions without validating assumptions. We formalize lemma$-$judging as a structured prediction task: given a statement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhikun Xu , Xiaodong Yu , Ben Zhou , Jiang Liu , Jialian Wu , Ze Wang , Ximeng Sun , Hao Chen , Zicheng Liu

Frame Semantic Parsing (FSP) entails identifying predicates and labeling their arguments according to Frame Semantics. This paper investigates the use of In-Context Learning (ICL) with Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform FSP without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Diego Garat , Guillermo Moncecchi , Dina Wonsever

Many automatic theorem-provers rely on rewriting. Using theorems as rewrite rules helps to simplify the subgoals that arise during a proof. LCF is an interactive theorem-prover intended for reasoning about computation. Its implementation of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Lawrence C. Paulson

We present a novel and well automatable approach to formal verification of programs with underspecified semantics, i.e., a language semantics that leaves open the order of certain evaluations. First, we reduce this problem to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Eduard Kamburjan , Nathan Wasser

Ensuring the correct functionality of systems software, given its safety-critical and low-level nature, is a primary focus in formal verification research and applications. Despite advances in verification tooling, conventional programmers…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yiyuan Cao , Jiayi Zhuang , Houjin Chen , Jinkai Fan , Wenbo Xu , Zhiyi Wang , Di Wang , Qinxiang Cao , Yingfei Xiong , Haiyan Zhao , Zhenjiang Hu

We consider the problem of automatically verifying programs which manipulate arbitrary data structures. Our specification language is expressive, contains a notion of \emph{separation}, and thus enables a precise specification of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Duc-Hiep Chu , Joxan Jaffar

In this paper we promote introducing software verification and control flow graph similarity measurement in automated evaluation of students' programs. We present a new grading framework that merges results obtained by combination of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Milena Vujosevic-Janicic , Mladen Nikolic , Dusan Tosic , Viktor Kuncak

This paper presents results from the development and evaluation of a deductive verification benchmark consisting of 26 unmodified Linux kernel library functions implementing conventional memory and string operations. The formal contract of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Denis Efremov , Mikhail Mandrykin , Alexey Khoroshilov

We introduce DreamProver, an agentic framework that leverages a "wake-sleep" program induction paradigm to discover reusable lemmas for formal theorem proving. Existing approaches either rely on fixed lemma libraries, which limit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Youyuan Zhang , Jialiang Sun , Hangrui Bi , Chuqin Geng , Wenjie Ma , Zhaoyu Li , Xujie Si

In this paper we consider the problem of certified static checking of module-like constructs of programming languages. We argue that there are algorithms and properties related to modules that can be defined and proven in an abstract way.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Julia Belyakova

We present OSVAuto for automatic proofs about functional specifications that commonly arise when verifying operating system kernels. The algorithm behind OSVAuto is designed to support natively those data types that commonly occur in OS…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yulun Wu , Bican Xia , Jiale Xu , Bohua Zhan , Tianqi Zhao

Modern SoC design relies on the ability to separately verify IP blocks relative to their own specifications. Formal verification (FV) using SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) is an effective method to exhaustively verify blocks at unit-level.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Marcelo Orenes-Vera , Aninda Manocha , David Wentzlaff , Margaret Martonosi

Formal Property Verification (FPV), using SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), is crucial for ensuring the completeness of design with respect to the specification. However, writing SVA is a laborious task and has a steep learning curve. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Behnam Ghavami , Steve Wilton , Lesley Shannon

We propose ProofNet++, a neuro-symbolic framework that enhances automated theorem proving by combining large language models (LLMs) with formal proof verification and self-correction mechanisms. Current LLM-based systems suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Murari Ambati

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have improved their performance on coding benchmarks. However, improvement is plateauing due to the exhaustion of readily available high-quality data. Prior work has shown the potential of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zi Lin , Sheng Shen , Ilia Kulikov , Jingbo Shang , Jason Weston , Yixin Nie