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In permission logics such as separation logic, the iterated separating conjunction is a quantifier denoting access permission to an unbounded set of heap locations. In contrast to recursive predicates, iterated separating conjunctions do…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Peter Müller , Malte Schwerhoff , Alexander J. Summers

We propose a general framework for modelling and solving deductive games, where one player selects a secret code and the other player strives to discover this code using a minimal number of allowed experiments that reveal some partial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Miroslav Klimos , Antonin Kucera

Dynamic symbolic execution (DSE) is an effective method for automated program testing and bug detection. It is increasing the code coverage by the complex branches exploration during hybrid fuzzing. DSE tools invert the branches along some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Darya Parygina , Alexey Vishnyakov , Andrey Fedotov

Discrete variables are common in many applications, such as probabilistic reasoning, planning and explainable AI. When symbolic reasoning techniques are brought in to bear on these applications, a standard technique for handling discrete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yaofang Zhang , Ken Zhou , Adnan Darwiche

Symbolic execution is a software verification technique symbolically running programs and thereby checking for bugs. Ranged symbolic execution performs symbolic execution on program parts, so called path ranges, in parallel. Due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jan Haltermanna , Marie-Christine Jakobs , Cedric Richter , Heike Wehrheim

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been pivotal in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but it often suffers from limited exploration and entropy collapse, where models exploit a narrow set of solutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shijia Kang , Muhan Zhang

Building neural networks to query a knowledge base (a table) with natural language is an emerging research topic in deep learning. An executor for table querying typically requires multiple steps of execution because queries may have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Lili Mou , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Zhi Jin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable potential across a wide array of reasoning tasks, including logical reasoning. Although massive efforts have been made to empower the logical reasoning ability of LLMs via external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Qingchuan Li , Jiatong Li , Tongxuan Liu , Yuting Zeng , Mingyue Cheng , Weizhe Huang , Qi Liu

This work introduces efficient symbolic algorithms for quantitative reactive synthesis. We consider resource-constrained robotic manipulators that need to interact with a human to achieve a complex task expressed in linear temporal logic.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Karan Muvvala , Morteza Lahijanian

Infinite-state games provide a framework for the synthesis of reactive systems with unbounded data domains. Solving such games typically relies on computing symbolic fixpoints, particularly symbolic attractors. However, these computations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

This study investigates the use of symbolic computation in Matrix Structural Analysis (MSA) for continuous beams, leveraging the MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox. By employing symbolic MSA, analytical expressions for displacements, support…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Vagelis Plevris , Afaq Ahmad

Existing large language models (LLMs) driven search agents typically rely on prompt engineering to decouple the user queries into search plans, limiting their effectiveness in complex scenarios requiring reasoning. Furthermore, they suffer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jinzheng Li , Sibo Ju , Yanzhou Su , Hongguang Li , Yiqing Shen

Given a relation and a ranking of its tuples, but no information about the ranking function, we are interested in synthesizing simple scoring functions that reproduce the ranking. Our system RankHow identifies linear scoring functions that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zixuan Chen , Panagiotis Manolios , Mirek Riedewald

Large language model (LLM)-based search agents have proven promising for addressing knowledge-intensive problems by incorporating information retrieval capabilities. Existing works largely focus on optimizing the reasoning paradigms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tongyu Wen , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving MAX2SAT problems based on combining search methods with semidefinite programming approaches. Semidefinite programming techniques are well-known as a theoretical tool for approximating maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter

As increasingly complex AI systems are introduced into our daily lives, it becomes important for such systems to be capable of explaining the rationale for their decisions and allowing users to contest these decisions. A significant hurdle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Sarath Sreedharan , Utkarsh Soni , Mudit Verma , Siddharth Srivastava , Subbarao Kambhampati

This paper introduces a propositional encoding for lexicographic path orders in connection with dependency pairs. This facilitates the application of SAT solvers for termination analysis of term rewrite systems based on the dependency pair…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael Codish , Peter Schneider-Kamp , Vitaly Lagoon , René Thiemann , Jürgen Giesl

Symbolic execution is a powerful verification tool for hardware designs, but suffers from the path explosion problem. We introduce a new approach, piecewise composition, which leverages the modular structure of hardware to transfer the work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Kaki Ryan , Cynthia Sturton

An effective way to maximize code coverage in software tests is through dynamic symbolic execution$-$a technique that uses constraint solving to systematically explore a program's state space. We introduce an open-source dynamic symbolic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Mark Mossberg , Felipe Manzano , Eric Hennenfent , Alex Groce , Gustavo Grieco , Josselin Feist , Trent Brunson , Artem Dinaburg

This paper introduces Seeker, a system that allows users to interactively refine search rankings in real time, through feedback in the form of likes and dislikes. When searching online, users may not know how to accurately describe their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ari Biswas , Thai T Pham , Michael Vogelsong , Benjamin Snyder , Houssam Nassif