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Symbolic execution helps check programs by exploring different paths based on symbolic inputs. Tools like KLEE are commonly used because they can automatically detect bugs and create test cases. But one of KLEE's biggest issues is how slow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rong Feng , Vanisha Gupta , Vivek Patel , Viroopaksh Reddy Ernampati , Suman Saha

This paper presents a novel approach to the design verification of Software Product Lines(SPL). The proposed approach assumes that the requirements and designs are modeled as finite state machines with variability information. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-12-19 Jean-Vivien Millo , S. Ramesh , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Ganesh Khandu Narwane

The Julia programming language was designed to fill the needs of scientific computing by combining the benefits of productivity and performance languages. Julia allows users to write untyped scripts easily without needing to worry about…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Benjamin Chung

We present Grammar-Based Grounded Lexicon Learning (G2L2), a lexicalist approach toward learning a compositional and grounded meaning representation of language from grounded data, such as paired images and texts. At the core of G2L2 is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Jiayuan Mao , Haoyue Shi , Jiajun Wu , Roger P. Levy , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Compositional generalization is a basic and essential intellective capability of human beings, which allows us to recombine known parts readily. However, existing neural network based models have been proven to be extremely deficient in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Qian Liu , Shengnan An , Jian-Guang Lou , Bei Chen , Zeqi Lin , Yan Gao , Bin Zhou , Nanning Zheng , Dongmei Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional static program analysis methods, such as symbolic execution, offering the ability to reason over code directly without relying on theorem provers or SMT…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yihe Li , Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck

While recent research increasingly emphasizes the value of human-LLM collaboration in competitive programming and proposes numerous empirical methods, a comprehensive understanding remains elusive due to the fragmented nature of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xinwei Yang , Zhaofeng Liu , Chen Huang , Jiashuai Zhang , Tong Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Wenqiang Lei

Software testing is one of the most popular validation techniques in the software industry. Surprisingly, we can only find a few approaches to testing in the context of logic programming. In this paper, we introduce a systematic approach…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Fred Mesnard , Étienne Payet , Germán Vidal

Functional programming offers the perfect ground for building correct-by-construction software. Languages of such paradigm normally feature state-of-the-art type systems, good abstraction mechanisms, and well-defined execution models. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Daniel Castanho , Mário Pereira

Verification of microkernels, device drivers, and crypto routines requires analyses at the binary level. In order to automate these analyses, in the last years several binary analysis platforms have been introduced. These platforms share a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Andreas Lindner , Roberto Guanciale , Roberto Metere

Empirical research on code review processes is increasingly central to understanding software quality and collaboration. However, collecting and analyzing review data remains a time-consuming and technically intensive task. Most researchers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Samah Kansab , Francis Bordeleau , Ali Tizghadam

Symbolic execution has always been plagued by the inability to handle programs that require highly structured inputs. Most often, the symbolic execution engine gets overwhelmed by the sheer number of infeasible paths and fails to explore…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Anay Mehrotra , Ayush Bansal , Awanish Pandey , Subhajit Roy

We introduce a composition-weighted symbolic regression framework for interpretable prediction of materials properties directly from chemical composition. The method jointly learns analytical functional forms and task-dependent elemental…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Yang Huang , Jingrun Chen

The paper presents a software tool for analysis and interactive engagement in various logical reasoning tasks. A first feature of the program consists in providing an interface for working with logic-specific repositories of formal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Ştefan Minică

We introduce SymbolicAI, a versatile and modular framework employing a logic-based approach to concept learning and flow management in generative processes. SymbolicAI enables the seamless integration of generative models with a diverse…

Code analysis is fundamental in Software Engineering, supporting debugging, optimization, and security assessment. Human developers approach it through syntax parsing, static semantics inference, and dynamic reasoning. Traditional tools are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wei Ma , Zhihao Lin , Shangqing Liu , Qiang Hu , Ye Liu , Wenhan Wang , Cen Zhang , Liming Nie , Li Li , Yang Liu , Lingxiao Jiang

This Survey provides an overview of techniques in termination analysis for programs with numerical variables and transitions defined by linear constraints. This subarea of program analysis is challenging due to the existence of undecidable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Amir M. Ben-Amram , Samir Genaim , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

Symbolic execution is a powerful technique for bug finding and program testing. It is successful in finding bugs in real-world code. The core reasoning techniques use constraint solving, path exploration, and search, which are also the same…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Sahil Verma , Roland H. C. Yap

Symbolic execution is an SMT-based software verification and testing technique. Symbolic execution requires tracking performed computations during software simulation to reason about branches in the software under test. The prevailing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Sören Tempel , Tobias Brandt , Christoph Lüth , Christian Dietrich , Rolf Drechsler

Stepwise refinement of algebraic specifications is a well known formal methodology for program development. However, traditional notions of refinement based on signature morphisms are often too rigid to capture a number of relevant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Manuel A. Martins , Alexandre Madeira , Luis S. Barbosa