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We present a production-optimized multi-agent system designed to translate natural language queries into executable Python code for structured data analytics. Unlike systems that rely on expensive frontier models, our approach achieves high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Harmohit Singh

Linear constraints are the linear counterpart of Haskell's class constraints. Linearly typed parameters allow the programmer to control resources such as file handles and manually managed memory as linear arguments. Indeed, a linear type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Arnaud Spiwack , Csongor Kiss , Jean-Philippe Bernardy , Nicolas Wu , Richard A. Eisenberg

Stochastic embedding transitions introduce a probabilistic mechanism for adjusting token representations dynamically during inference, mitigating the constraints imposed through static or deterministic embeddings. A transition framework was…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Stefan Whitaker , Colin Sisate , Marcel Windsor , Nikolai Fairweather , Tarquin Goldborough , Oskar Lindenfeld

Dynamically typed object-oriented languages enable programmers to write elegant, reusable and extensible programs. However, with the current methodology for program verification, the absence of static type information creates significant…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Björn Engelmann , Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog , Nils Erik Flick

Large, pretrained language models infer powerful representations that encode rich semantic and syntactic content, albeit implicitly. In this work we introduce a novel neural language model that enforces, via inductive biases, explicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ramsés J. Sánchez , Lukas Conrads , Pascal Welke , Kostadin Cvejoski , César Ojeda

This paper develops semantic typing in a smart-contract setting to ensure type safety of code that uses statically untypable language constructs, such as the fallback function. The idea is that the creator of a contract on the blockchain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Stian Lybech , Daniele Gorla , Luca Aceto

Type-preserving translations are effective rigorous tools in the study of core programming calculi. In this paper, we develop a new typed translation that connects sequential and concurrent calculi; it is governed by type systems that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Joseph W. N. Paulus , Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho , Jorge A. Pérez

Modeling interoperability between programs in different languages is a key problem when modeling verified and secure compilation, which has been successfully addressed using multi-language semantics. Unfortunately, existing models of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-25 William J. Bowman

Automated agentic workflow design currently relies on per-task iterative search, which is computationally prohibitive and fails to reuse structural knowledge across tasks. We observe that optimized workflows converge to a small family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shiyi Du , Jiayuan Liu , Weihua Du , Yue Huang , Jiayi Li , Yingtao Luo , Xiangliang Zhang , Vincent Conitzer , Carl Kingsford

In this position paper, we propose a reasoning framework that can model the reasoning process underlying natural language inferences. The framework is based on the semantic tableau method, a well-studied proof system in formal logic. Like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Lasha Abzianidze

Python is one of the most commonly used programming languages in industry and education. Its English keywords and built-in functions/modules allow it to come close to pseudo-code in terms of its readability and ease of writing. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Joshua Otten , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Kevin Moran

Traversals are commonly seen in tree data structures, and performance-enhancing transformations between tree traversals are critical for many applications. Existing approaches to reasoning about tree traversals and their transformations are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Yanjun Wang , Jinwei Liu , Dalin Zhang , Xiaokang Qiu

Sized types are a modular and theoretically well-understood tool for checking termination of recursive and productivity of corecursive definitions. The essential idea is to track structural descent and guardedness in the type system to make…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Andreas Abel

Most ML-like functional languages provide records and overloading as unrelated features. Records not only represent data structures, but are also used to implement dictionary passing, whereas overloading produces type constraints that are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Alvise Spanò

Token-level adaptive computation seeks to reduce inference cost by allocating more computation to harder tokens and less to easier ones. However, prior work is primarily evaluated on natural-language benchmarks using task-level metrics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ibraheem Muhammad Moosa , Suhas Lohit , Ye Wang , Moitreya Chatterjee , Wenpeng Yin

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in tools that establish \emph{incorrectness} rather than correctness of program properties. In this work we build on this approach by developing a novel methodology to prove…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Kelvin Qian , Scott Smith , Brandon Stride , Shiwei Weng , Ke Wu

Refinement types -- types qualified with logical predicates -- have proven effective for lightweight verification in languages like Liquid Haskell, F*, and Dafny. However, in these systems refinements are either written in a separate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Matt Bovel , Viktor Kunčak , Martin Odersky

Context: Many systems require receiving data from multiple information sources, which act as distributed network devices that asynchronously send the latest data at their own pace to generalize various kinds of devices and connections,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Tetsuo Kamina , Tomoyuki Aotani , Hidehiko Masuhara

Predictive models are fundamental to engineering reliable software systems. However, designing conservative, computable approximations for the behavior of programs (static analyses) remains a difficult and error-prone process for modern…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-05-10 David Van Horn , Matthew Might

Pre-trained language models have been successful on text classification tasks, but are prone to learning spurious correlations from biased datasets, and are thus vulnerable when making inferences in a new domain. Prior work reveals such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Huihan Yao , Ying Chen , Qinyuan Ye , Xisen Jin , Xiang Ren