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Program synthesis aims to automatically construct human-readable programs that satisfy given task specifications, such as input/output pairs or demonstrations. Recent works have demonstrated encouraging results in a variety of domains, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Linghan Zhong , Ryan Lindeborg , Jesse Zhang , Joseph J. Lim , Shao-Hua Sun

This paper presents the design of HELIX, an end-to-end verified code generation system with a focus on the intersection of high-performance and high-assurance numerical computing. The code generation can be fine-tuned to generate efficient…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Vadim Zaliva , Yannick Zakowski , Ilia Zaichuk , Valerii Huhnin , Calvin Beck , Irene Yoon , Steve Zdancewic

Safety is a fundamental requirement for autonomous systems operating in critical domains. Control barrier functions (CBFs) have been used to design safety filters that minimally alter nominal controls for such systems to maintain their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuxuan Yang , Hussein Sibai

In this paper, we propose a general method for testing composite hypotheses. Our idea is to use confidence limits to define stopping and decision rules. The requirements of operating characteristic function can be satisfied by adjusting the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-10 Xinjia Chen

Control barrier functions (CBFs) are widely used in safety-critical controllers. However, constructing a valid CBF is challenging, especially under nonlinear or non-convex constraints and for high relative degree systems. Meanwhile, finding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Bolun Dai , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami

As machine learning gains prominence in various sectors of society for automated decision-making, concerns have risen regarding potential vulnerabilities in machine learning (ML) frameworks. Nevertheless, testing these frameworks is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zhao Liu , Quanchen Zou , Tian Yu , Xuan Wang , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Deyue Zhang

As software systems increase in size and complexity dramatically, ensuring their correctness, security, and reliability becomes an increasingly formidable challenge. Despite significant advancements in verification techniques and tools,…

In this paper, we present a machine learning-based data generator framework tailored to aid researchers who utilize simulations to examine various physical systems or processes. High computational costs and the resulting limited data often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Sabber Ahamed , Md Mesbah Uddin

Even after fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, large language models (LLMs) can be difficult, if not impossible, to control reliably with prompts alone. We propose a new inference-time approach to enforcing syntactic and semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Alexander K. Lew , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Gabriel Grand , Vikash K. Mansinghka

Testing is a vital part of the software development process. Test Case Generation (TCG) is the process of automatically generating a collection of test cases which are applied to a system under test. White-box TCG is usually performed by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa , Elvira Albert , Germán Puebla

Software testing uses wide range of different tools to enhance the complicated process of defining quality of the system under test. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) provides us with algorithms of deriving formal ontology from a set of objects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Fedor Strok

The recent boom in computational chemistry has enabled several projects aimed at discovering useful materials or catalysts. We acknowledge and address two recurring issues in the field of computational catalyst discovery. First, calculating…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Kevin Tran , Willie Neiswanger , Kirby Broderick , Erix Xing , Jeff Schneider , Zachary W. Ulissi

We introduce canonical correlation forests (CCFs), a new decision tree ensemble method for classification and regression. Individual canonical correlation trees are binary decision trees with hyperplane splits based on local canonical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-10 Tom Rainforth , Frank Wood

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are becoming popular tools in guaranteeing safety for nonlinear systems and constraints, and they can reduce a constrained optimal control problem into a sequence of Quadratic Programs (QPs) for affine…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras , Calin A. Belta , Daniela Rus

2LS is a framework for analysis of sequential C programs that can verify and refute program assertions and termination. The 2LS framework is built upon the CPROVER infrastructure and implements template-based synthesis techniques, e.g. to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Viktor Malik , Martin Hruska , Peter Schrammel , Tomas Vojnar

The conditional particle filter (CPF) is a promising algorithm for general hidden Markov model smoothing. Empirical evidence suggests that the variant of CPF with backward sampling (CBPF) performs well even with long time series. Previous…

Computation · Statistics 2019-08-29 Anthony Lee , Sumeetpal S. Singh , Matti Vihola

Among the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak revealed is the problem to reduce the number of tests required for identifying the virus carriers in order to contain the viral spread while preserving the tests reliability. To cope…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Catherine A. Haddad-Zaaknoon

Cogent is a restricted functional language designed to reduce the cost of developing verified systems code. Because of its sometimes-onerous restrictions, such as the lack of support for recursion and its strict uniqueness type system,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Louis Cheung , Liam O'Connor , Christine Rizkallah

Cogent is a restricted functional language designed to reduce the cost of developing verified systems code. Because of its sometimes-onerous restrictions, such as the lack of support for recursion and its strict uniqueness type system,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Louis Cheung , Liam O'Connor , Christine Rizkallah

Safety is a critical property for control systems in medicine, transportation, manufacturing, and other applications, and can be defined as ensuring positive invariance of a predefined safe set. This paper investigates the problems of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Andrew Clark