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Formally verifying properties of software code has been a highly desirable task, especially with the emergence of LLM-generated code. In the same vein, they provide an interesting avenue for the exploration of formal verification and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Balaji Rao , William Eiers , Carlo Lipizzi

We present formalisations of the correctness of executable algorithms to solve minimum-cost flow problems in Isabelle/HOL. Two of the algorithms are based on the technique of scaling, most notably Orlin's algorithm, which has the fastest…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mohammad Abdulaziz , Thomas Ammer

A semantical embedding of input/output logic in classical higher-order logic is presented. This embedding enables the mechanisation and automation of reasoning tasks in input/output logic with off-the-shelf higher-order theorem provers and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Christoph Benzmüller , Xavier Parent

In this paper we construct a semi-device-independent protocol able to certify the presence of the generalized measurements. We show robustness of the protocol and conclude that it allows for experimental realisations using current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Piotr Mironowicz , Marcin Pawłowski

Quantifier elimination (QE) and Craig interpolation (CI) are central to various state-of-the-art automated approaches to hardware and software verification. They are rooted in the Boolean setting and are successful for, e.g., first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kevin Batz , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Nora Orhan

We present a novel approach for teaching logic and the metatheory of logic to students who have some experience with functional programming. We define concepts in logic as a series of functional programs in the language of the proof…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Frederik Krogsdal Jacobsen , Jørgen Villadsen

Control systems are an integral part of almost every engineering and physical system and thus their accurate analysis is of utmost importance. Traditionally, control systems are analyzed using paper-and-pencil proof and computer simulation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Adnan Rashid , Osman Hasan

Separation logic is successful for software verification in both theory and practice. Decision procedure for symbolic heaps is one of the key issues. This paper proposes a cyclic proof system for symbolic heaps with general form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Makoto Tatsuta , Koji Nakazawa , Daisuke Kimura

In problems such as variable selection and graph estimation, models are characterized by Boolean logical structure such as presence or absence of a variable or an edge. Consequently, false positive error or false negative error can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-15 Armeen Taeb , Peter Bühlmann , Venkat Chandrasekaran

We present a new software tool for teaching logic based on natural deduction. Its proof system is formalized in the proof assistant Isabelle such that its definition is very precise. Soundness of the formalization has been proved in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Jørgen Villadsen , Alexander Birch Jensen , Anders Schlichtkrull

Verifying whether a procedure is observationally pure is useful in many software engineering scenarios. An observationally pure procedure always returns the same value for the same argument, and thus mimics a mathematical function. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Himanshu Arora , Raghavan Komondoor , G. Ramalingam

Control flow in unstructured programs can be complex and dynamic, which makes static analysis difficult. Yet, automated reasoning about unstructured control flow is important when certifying properties of binary (machine) code in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Andreas Lindner , Karl Palmskog , Scott Constable , Mads Dam , Roberto Guanciale , Hamed Nemati

Automated theorem provers are now commonly used within interactive theorem provers to discharge an increasingly large number of proof obligations. To maintain the trustworthiness of a proof, the automatically found proof must be verified…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Mathias Fleury , Hans-Jörg Schurr

We introduce a new theorem prover for classical higher-order logic named auto2. The prover is designed to make use of human-specified heuristics when searching for proofs. The core algorithm is a best-first search through the space of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Bohua Zhan

The seL4 microkernel is currently the only kernel that has been fully formally verified. In general, the increased interest in ensuring the security of a kernel's code results from its important role in the entire operating system. One of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Adriana Nicolae , Paul Irofti , Ioana Leustean

We present an efficiently executable, formally verified implementation of interval iteration for MDPs. Our correctness proofs span the entire development from the high-level abstract semantics of MDPs to a low-level implementation in LLVM…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bram Kohlen , Maximilian Schäffeler , Mohammad Abdulaziz , Arnd Hartmanns , Peter Lammich

We report on work in progress on automatic procedures for proving properties of programs written in higher-order functional languages. Our approach encodes higher-order programs directly as first-order SMT problems over Horn clauses. It is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Nikolaj Bjorner , Ken McMillan , Andrey Rybalchenko

This paper presents a framework to derive instantiation-based decision procedures for satisfiability of quantified formulas in first-order theories, including its correctness, implementation, and evaluation. Using this framework we derive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Andrew Reynolds , Tim King , Viktor Kuncak

In classical physics, events follow a definite causal order: the past influences the future, but not the reverse. Quantum theory, however, permits superpositions of causal orders -- so-called indefinite causal orders -- which can provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Carla M. D. Richter , Michael Antesberger , Huan Cao , Philip Walther , Lee A. Rozema

Our objective is to formally verify the correctness of the hundreds of expression optimization rules used within the GraalVM compiler. When defining the semantics of a programming language, expressions naturally form abstract syntax trees,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Brae J. Webb , Ian J. Hayes , Mark Utting