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Designing algorithms with provable guarantees that also work well in practice remains difficult, requiring both mathematical reasoning and careful implementation. Existing approaches that bridge worst-case theory and empirical performance,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Janardhan Kulkarni

For the formal verification of a network security policy, it is crucial to express the verification goals. These formal goals, called security invariants, should be easy to express for the end user. Focusing on access control and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Cornelius Diekmann , Stephan-A. Posselt , Heiko Niedermayer , Holger Kinkelin , Oliver Hanka , Georg Carle

This paper presents a novel approach to premise selection, a crucial reasoning task in automated theorem proving. Traditionally, symbolic methods that rely on extensive domain knowledge and engineering effort are applied to this task. In…

Training models through self-play alone (without any human data) has been a longstanding goal in AI, but its effectiveness for training large language models remains unclear, particularly in code generation where rewards based on unit tests…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Alex Wilf , Pranjal Aggarwal , Bryan Parno , Daniel Fried , Louis-Philippe Morency , Paul Pu Liang , Sean Welleck

Noisy data, non-convex objectives, model misspecification, and numerical instability can all cause undesired behaviors in machine learning systems. As a result, detecting actual implementation errors can be extremely difficult. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Daniel Selsam , Percy Liang , David L. Dill

A fundamental challenge in formal theorem proving by LLMs is the lack of high-quality training data. Although reinforcement learning or expert iteration partially mitigates this issue by alternating between LLM generating proofs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Kefan Dong , Tengyu Ma

Compilers are a prime target for formal verification, since compiler bugs invalidate higher-level correctness guarantees, but compiler changes may become more labor-intensive to implement, if they must come with proof patches. One appealing…

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Although there are several systems that successfully generate construction steps for ruler and compass construction problems, none of them provides readable synthetic correctness proofs for generated constructions. In the present work, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Vesna Marinković , Tijana Šukilović , Filip Marić

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However, existing methods rely solely on outcome rewards, without explicitly optimizing verification or leveraging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yiyang Jin , Kunzhao Xu , Hang Li , Xueting Han , Yanmin Zhou , Cheng Li , Jing Bai

We introduce our implementation in HOL Light of the metatheory for G\"odel-L\"ob provability logic (GL), covering soundness and completeness w.r.t. possible world semantics and featuring a prototype of a theorem prover for GL itself. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Marco Maggesi , Cosimo Perini Brogi

Verification problems of programs written in various paradigms (such as imperative, logic, concurrent, functional, and object-oriented ones) can be reduced to problems of solving Horn clause constraints on predicate variables that represent…

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We present a formalization of modern SAT solvers and their properties in a form of abstract state transition systems. SAT solving procedures are described as transition relations over states that represent the values of the solver's global…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Filip Maric , Predrag Janicic

We present a method to estimate the provability of a mathematical formula. We adapt the tactical theorem prover TacticToe to factor in these estimations. Experiments over the HOL4 library show an increase in the number of theorems re-proven…

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Combining a standard proof search method, such as resolution or tableaux, and rewriting is a powerful way to cut off search space in automated theorem proving, but proving the completeness of such combined methods may be challenging. It may…

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Autoformalization is the process of automatically translating from natural language mathematics to formal specifications and proofs. A successful autoformalization system could advance the fields of formal verification, program synthesis,…

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Many real-world applications are increasingly incorporating automated decision-making, driven by the widespread adoption of ML/AI inference for planning and guidance. This study examines the growing need for verifiable computing in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Michele Dallachiesa , Antonio Pitasi , David Pinger , Josh Goodbody , Luis Vaello

We describe SeCaV, a sequent calculus verifier for first-order logic in Isabelle/HOL, and the SeCaV Unshortener, an online tool that expands succinct derivations into the full SeCaV syntax. We leverage the power of Isabelle/HOL as a proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Asta Halkjær From , Frederik Krogsdal Jacobsen , Jørgen Villadsen

Using Isabelle/HOL, we verify the state-of-the-art decision procedure for multi-level syllogistic with singleton (MLSS for short), which is a quantifier-free fragment of set theory. We formalise its syntax and semantics as well as a sound…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Lukas Stevens

We consider the task of automated theorem proving, a key AI task. Deep learning has shown promise for training theorem provers, but there are limited human-written theorems and proofs available for supervised learning. To address this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Mingzhe Wang , Jia Deng

In mathematics, it is common practice to have several constructions for the same objects. Mathematicians will identify them modulo isomorphism and will not worry later on which construction they use, as theorems proved for one construction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Théo Zimmermann , Hugo Herbelin