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Large Language Model (LLM)-based search agents trained with reinforcement learning (RL) have significantly improved the performance of knowledge-intensive tasks. However, existing methods encounter critical challenges in long-horizon credit…

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Recently, Xu and Zhou [2023] introduced a constructive approach for exploring computational hardness, proving that SAT requires exhaustive search. In light of certain misinterpretations concerning the contributions and proofs in that paper,…

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We study the learnability of symbolic finite state automata (SFA), a model shown useful in many applications in software verification. The state-of-the-art literature on this topic follows the query learning paradigm, and so far all…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Dana Fisman , Hadar Frenkel , Sandra Zilles

We consider the problem of state-space reduction for nondeterministic weakly-hierarchical visibly pushdown automata (VPA). VPA recognize a robust and algorithmically tractable fragment of context-free languages that is natural for modeling…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Matthias Heizmann , Christian Schilling , Daniel Tischner

The rapid growth of symbolic data in areas like internet, biological, and financial data has increased the demand for efficient pattern matching and regular expression processing. Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) are used for these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ryan Karbowniczak Rasha Karakchi

The Satisfiability (SAT) problem is a core challenge with significant applications in software engineering, including automated testing, configuration management, and program verification. This paper presents SolSearch, a novel framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Junjie Sheng , Yanqiu Lin , Jiehao Wu , Yanhong Huang , Jianqi Shi , Min Zhang , Xiangfeng Wang

Prompt optimization has become a practical way to improve the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) without retraining. However, most existing frameworks treat evaluation as a black box, relying solely on outcome scores without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wonduk Seo , Juhyeon Lee , Junseo Koh , Wonseok Choi , Hyunjin An , Jian Park , Seunghyun lee , Haihua Chen , Yi Bu

Static analysis is the analysis of a program without executing it, usually carried out by an automated tool. Symbolic execution is a popular static analysis technique used both in program verification and in bug detection software. It works…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gabor Horvath , Reka Kovacs , Zoltan Porkolab

Recent methods for embodied instruction following are typically trained end-to-end using imitation learning. This often requires the use of expert trajectories and low-level language instructions. Such approaches assume that neural states…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 So Yeon Min , Devendra Singh Chaplot , Pradeep Ravikumar , Yonatan Bisk , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

SafePILCO is a software tool for safe and data-efficient policy search with reinforcement learning. It extends the known PILCO algorithm, originally written in MATLAB, to support safe learning. We provide a Python implementation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Kyriakos Polymenakos , Nikitas Rontsis , Alessandro Abate , Stephen Roberts

Large language models have advanced software engineering automation, yet resolving real-world software issues remains difficult because it requires repository-level reasoning, accurate diagnostics, and strong verification signals. Existing…

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We present a new approach to automated reasoning about higher-order programs by extending symbolic execution to use behavioral contracts as symbolic values, enabling symbolic approximation of higher-order behavior. Our approach is based on…

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The widespread adoption of the "Games as a Service" model necessitates frequent content updates, placing immense pressure on quality assurance. In response, automated game testing has been viewed as a promising solution to cope with this…

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Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, prevailing RLVR methods exhibit a systematic bias toward exploitation over exploration, as evidenced by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ruotian Peng , Yi Ren , Zhouliang Yu , Weiyang Liu , Yandong Wen

In this paper, we compare two alternative mechanisms for deciding the validity of first-order formulas over finite domains supported by the mathematical model checker RISCAL: first, the original approach of semantic evaluation (based on an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Wolfgang Schreiner , Franz-Xaver Reichl

Custom policy-learning pipelines in Spark fail for two coupled systems reasons: rowwise Python execution makes inference impractical, and driver-side candidate materialization makes split search fragile at feature scale. We present Spark…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zeyu Bai

Binary decision diagrams can compactly represent vast sets of states, mitigating the state space explosion problem in model checking. Probabilistic systems, however, require multi-terminal diagrams storing rational numbers. They are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ernst Moritz Hahn , Arnd Hartmanns

This report describes an extension of the distributed job scheduling and SAT solving platform Mallob by incremental SAT solving, embedded in a case study on SAT-based hierarchical planning. We introduce a low-latency interface for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dominik Schreiber

Traditional program analysis analyses a program language, that is, all programs that can be written in the language. There is a difference, however, between all possible programs that can be written and the corpus of actual programs written…

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