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Static program analysis is a valuable tool for any programming language that people write programs in. The prevalence of scripting languages in the world suggests programming language interpreters are relatively easy to write. Users of…

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We propose a method for automatically generating abstract transformers for static analysis by abstract interpretation. The method focuses on linear constraints on programs operating on rational, real or floating-point variables and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-11-04 David Monniaux

Abstract interpretation is a method to automatically find invariants of programs or pieces of code whose semantics is given via least fixed-points. Up-to techniques have been introduced as enhancements of coinduction, an abstract principle…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Filippo Bonchi , Pierre Ganty , Roberto Giacobazzi , Dusko Pavlovic

In this paper, our aim is to propose a model for code abstraction, based on abstract interpretation, allowing us to improve the precision of a recently proposed static analysis by abstract interpretation of dynamic languages. The problem we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Isabella Mastroeni , Vincenzo Arceri

The inference and the verification of numerical relationships among variables of a program is one of the main goals of static analysis. In this paper, we propose an Abstract Interpretation framework based on higher-dimensional ellipsoids to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Mendes Oulamara , Arnaud Venet

We present a new idea to adapt relational abstract domains to the analysis of IEEE 754-compliant floating-point numbers in order to statically detect, through abstract Interpretation-based static analyses, potential floating-point run-time…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Antoine Miné

In the present paper we formally define the notion of abstract program slicing, a general form of program slicing where properties of data are considered instead of their exact value. This approach is applied to a language with numeric and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Isabella Mastroeni , Damiano Zanardini

Type analyses of logic programs which aim at inferring the types of the program being analyzed are presented in a unified abstract interpretation-based framework. This covers most classical abstract interpretation-based type analyzers for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Claudio Vaucheret , Francisco Bueno

This article presents a new numerical abstract domain for static analysis by abstract interpretation. It extends a former numerical abstract domain based on Difference-Bound Matrices and allows us to represent invariants of the form…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Antoine Miné

Recent e-graph applications have typically considered concrete semantics of expressions, where the notion of equivalence stems from concrete interpretation of expressions. However, equivalences that hold over one interpretation may not hold…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Samuel Coward , George A. Constantinides , Theo Drane

The Smatch metric is a popular method for evaluating graph distances, as is necessary, for instance, to assess the performance of semantic graph parsing systems. However, we observe some issues in the metric that jeopardize meaningful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Juri Opitz

We propose a methodology for the automatic verification of safety properties of controllers based on dynamical systems, such as those typically used in avionics. In particular, our focus is on proving stability properties of software…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-09-11 Fernando Alegre , Eric Feron , Santosh Pande

There is a vast gap in the quality of IDE tooling between static languages like Java and dynamic languages like Python or JavaScript. Modern frameworks and libraries in these languages heavily use their dynamic capabilities to achieve the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Franciszek Piszcz

LLMs show strong performance in code generation, but their outputs lack correctness guarantees. Sample-based uncertainty estimators address this by generating multiple candidate programs and measuring their disagreement. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weilin He , Arindam Sharma , Cristina David

This article presents an overview of applications of logic programming, classifying them based on the abstractions and implementations of logic languages that support the applications. The three key abstractions are join, recursion, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yanhong A. Liu

We propose a method for automatically generating abstract transformers for static analysis by abstract interpretation. The method focuses on linear constraints on programs operating on rational, real or floating-point variables and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 David Monniaux

In this paper we consider the problem of configuring partial predicate abstraction that combines two techniques that have been effective in analyzing infinite-state systems: predicate abstraction and fixpoint approximations. A fundamental…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Tuba Yavuz , Chelsea Metcalf

To put static program analysis at the fingertips of the software developer, we propose a framework for interactive abstract interpretation. While providing sound analysis results, abstract interpretation in general can be quite costly. To…

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The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) poses a significant challenge to artificial intelligence, demanding broad generalization and few-shot learning capabilities that remain elusive for current deep learning methods, including large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Kartik Singhal , Gautam Shroff

Logic programming is sometimes described as relational programming: a paradigm in which the programmer specifies and composes n-ary relations using systems of constraints. An advanced logic programming environment will provide tools that…

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