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In this work, we explore techniques for augmenting interactive agents with information from symbolic modules, much like humans use tools like calculators and GPS systems to assist with arithmetic and navigation. We test our agent's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Ruoyao Wang , Peter Jansen , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu

We evaluate an initial coding-agent system for ARC-AGI-3 in which the agent maintains an executable Python world model, verifies it against previous observations, refactors it toward simpler abstractions as a practical proxy for an MDL-like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Sergey Rodionov

Interactive Fiction (IF) games with real human-written natural language texts provide a new natural evaluation for language understanding techniques. In contrast to previous text games with mostly synthetic texts, IF games pose language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Xiaoxiao Guo , Mo Yu , Yupeng Gao , Chuang Gan , Murray Campbell , Shiyu Chang

Recent work has shown that we can dramatically improve the performance of computer games and simulations through declarative processing: Character AI can be written in an imperative scripting language which is then compiled to relational…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Benjamin Sowell , Alan Demers , Johannes Gehrke , Nitin Gupta , Haoyuan Li , Walker White

Context. Variability-intensive programs (program families) appear in many application areas and for many reasons today. Different family members, called variants, are derived by switching statically configurable options (features) on and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Alexandru Florin Iosif-Lazar , Jean Melo , Aleksandar S. Dimovski , Claus Brabrand , Andrzej Wasowski

We explore an approach to verification of programs via program transformation applied to an interpreter of a programming language. A specialization technique known as Turchin's supercompilation is used to specialize some interpreters with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Alexei P. Lisitsa , Andrei P. Nemytykh

In this position paper, we present a prototype of a visualizer for functional programs. Such programs, whose evaluation model is the reduction of an expression to a value through repeated application of rewriting rules, and which tend to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-04 John Whitington , Tom Ridge

We present a novel and well automatable approach to formal verification of programs with underspecified semantics, i.e., a language semantics that leaves open the order of certain evaluations. First, we reduce this problem to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Eduard Kamburjan , Nathan Wasser

In this paper, we address the problem of creating believable agents (virtual characters) in video games. We consider only one meaning of believability, ``giving the feeling of being controlled by a player'', and outline the problem of its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-09-03 Fabien Tencé , Cédric Buche , Pierre De Loor , Olivier Marc

We describe a novel approach for adapting an existing software model checker to perform precise runtime verification. The software under test is allowed to communicate with the wider environment (including the file system and network). The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Katarína Kejstová , Petr Ročkai , Jiří Barnat

Probabilistic model checking is a technique for formal automated reasoning about software or hardware systems that operate in the context of uncertainty or stochasticity. It builds upon ideas and techniques from a diverse range of fields,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 David Parker

Software testing research has traditionally relied on closed-world assumptions, such as finite state spaces, reproducible executions, and stable test oracles. However, many modern software systems operate under uncertainty, non-determinism,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yusaku Kato , Norihiro Yoshida , Erina Makihara , Katsuro Inoue

Bounded Model Checking is one the most successful techniques for finding bugs in program. However, model checkers are resource hungry and are often unable to verify programs with loops iterating over large arrays.We present a transformation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Anushri Jana , Uday P. Khedker , Advaita Datar , R Venkatesh , C Niyas

We explore an approach to verification of programs via program transformation applied to an interpreter of a programming language. A specialization technique known as Turchin's supercompilation is used to specialize some interpreters with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Alexei P. Lisitsa , Andrei P. Nemytykh

Despite the vast body of research literature proposing algorithms with formal guarantees, the amount of verifiable code in today's systems remains minimal. This discrepancy stems from the inherent difficulty of verifying code, particularly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Marco Chiesa

The problem of mechanically formalizing and proving metatheoretic properties of programming language calculi, type systems, operational semantics, and related formal systems has received considerable attention recently. However, the dual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-29 James Cheney , Alberto Momigliano

Program analysis is on the brink of mainstream in embedded systems development. Formal verification of behavioural requirements, finding runtime errors and automated test case generation are some of the most common applications of automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Peter Schrammel , Daniel Kroening , Martin Brain , Ruben Martins , Tino Teige , Tom Bienmüller

Reasoning is not just about solving problems -- it is also about evaluating which problems are worth solving at all. Evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) systems primarily focused on problem solving, historically by studying how…

In the digital age, ensuring the correctness, safety, and reliability of software through formal verification is paramount, particularly as software increasingly underpins critical infrastructure. Formal verification, split into theorem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhiyong Chen , Jialun Cao , Jiarong Wu , Chang Xu , Shing-Chi Cheung