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We introduce a new application for inductive logic programming: learning the semantics of programming languages from example evaluations. In this short paper, we explored a simplified task in this domain using the Metagol meta-interpretive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Sándor Bartha , James Cheney

Linguine is a natural-language-inspired programming language that enables users to write programs in a fluent, controlled subset of English while preserving formal semantics. The language introduces anaphoric constructs, such as pronoun…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Lifan Hu

Autoformalization aims to convert informal mathematical proofs into machine-verifiable formats, bridging the gap between natural and formal languages. However, ensuring semantic alignment between the informal and formalized statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jianqiao Lu , Yingjia Wan , Yinya Huang , Jing Xiong , Zhengying Liu , Zhijiang Guo

Symbolic execution (SE) tools often rely on intermediate languages (ILs) to support multiple programming languages, promising reusability and efficiency. In practice, this approach introduces trade-offs between performance, accuracy, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sacha-Élie Ayoun , Opale Sjöstedt , Azalea Raad

We introduce a novel technique for finding real errors in programs. The technique is based on a synergy of three well-known methods: metacompilation, slicing, and symbolic execution. More precisely, we instrument a given program with a code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Jiří Slabý , Jan Strejček , Marek Trtík

Lighthouse projects such as CompCert, seL4, IronFleet, and DeepSpec have demonstrated that full verification of entire systems is feasible by establishing a refinement relation between an abstract system specification and an executable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Christoph Sprenger , Tobias Klenze , Marco Eilers , Felix A. Wolf , Peter Müller , Martin Clochard , David Basin

ECLAIR is a Prolog-based prototype system aiming to provide a functionally complete environment for the study, development and evaluation of programming language analysis and implementation tools. In this paper, we sketch the overall…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-11-06 Roberto Bagnara , Patricia Hill , Enea Zaffanella

We consider the efficient estimation of total causal effects in the presence of unmeasured confounding using conditional instrumental sets. Specifically, we consider the two-stage least squares estimator in the setting of a linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Leonard Henckel , Martin Buttenschön , Marloes H. Maathuis

While large language models (LLMs) now excel at code generation, a key aspect of software development is the art of refactoring: consolidating code into libraries of reusable and readable programs. In this paper, we introduce LILO, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Gabriel Grand , Lionel Wong , Maddy Bowers , Theo X. Olausson , Muxin Liu , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jacob Andreas

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…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Julian Erhard , Simmo Saan , Sarah Tilscher , Michael Schwarz , Karoliine Holter , Vesal Vojdani , Helmut Seidl

Determining whether perceptual properties are processed independently is an important goal in perceptual science, and tools to test independence should be widely available to experimental researchers. The best analytical tools to test for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-12 Fabian A. Soto , Emily Zheng , Johnny Fonseca , F. Greg Ashby

The traditional abstract domain framework for imperative programs suffers from several shortcomings; in particular it does not allow precise symbolic abstractions. To solve these problems, we propose a new abstract interpretation framework,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Matthieu Lemerre , Sébastien Bardin

Symbolic execution detects vulnerabilities with precision, but applying it to large codebases requires harnesses that set up symbolic state, model dependencies, and specify assertions. Writing these harnesses has traditionally been a manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Md Shafiuzzaman , Achintya Desai , Wenbo Guo , Tevfik Bultan

The verification of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) poses a significant challenge. Various approaches and methodologies exist to address this challenge; however, tools that support them are not always readily available. Even when such tools are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Angelo Ferrando , Vadim Malvone

In some contexts, well-formed natural language cannot be expected as input to information or communication systems. In these contexts, the use of grammar-independent input (sequences of uninflected semantic units like e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pascal Vaillant

We present an algorithm for tests generation tools based on symbolic execution. The algorithm is supposed to help in situations, when a tool is repeatedly failing to cover some code by tests. The algorithm then provides the tool a necessary…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Marek Trtík

Despite significant progress in the development of neural-symbolic frameworks, the question of how to integrate a neural and a symbolic system in a \emph{compositional} manner remains open. Our work seeks to fill this gap by treating these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Efthymia Tsamoura , Loizos Michael

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in solving natural language-described planning tasks, but their direct use often leads to inconsistent reasoning and hallucination. While hybrid LLM-symbolic planning pipelines have emerged as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Sukai Huang , Nir Lipovetzky , Trevor Cohn

Automatic security protocol analysis is currently feasible only for small protocols. Since larger protocols quite often are composed of many small protocols, compositional analysis is an attractive, but non-trivial approach. We have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Suzana Andova , Cas Cremers , Kristian Gjosteen , Sjouke Mauw , Stig F. Mjolsnes , Sasa Radomirovic

We introduce a machine-learning framework based on symbolic regression to extract the full symbol alphabet of multi-loop Feynman integrals. By targeting the analytic structure rather than reduction, the method is broadly applicable and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-28 Yuanche Liu , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang