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Humans prove theorems by relying on substantial high-level reasoning and problem-specific insights. Proof assistants offer a formalism that resembles human mathematical reasoning, representing theorems in higher-order logic and proofs as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Kaiyu Yang , Jia Deng

In this work, we conduct an experiment using state-of-the-art LLMs to translate MiniF2F into Rocq. The translation task focuses on generating a Rocq theorem based on three sources: a natural language description, the Lean formalization, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jules Viennot , Guillaume Baudart , Emilio Jesùs Gallego Arias , Marc Lelarge

Contemporary proof assistants such as Coq require that recursive functions be terminating and corecursive functions be productive to maintain logical consistency of their type theories, and some ensure these properties using syntactic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Jonathan Chan , Yufeng Li , William J. Bowman

Whereas proof assistants based on Higher-Order Logic benefit from external solvers' automation, those based on Type Theory resist automation and thus require more expertise. Indeed, the latter use a more expressive logic which is further…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Valentin Blot , Louise Dubois de Prisque , Chantal Keller , Pierre Vial

A successful automated program proof is, in software verification, the ultimate triumph. In practice, however, the road to such success is paved with many failed proof attempts. Unlike a failed test, which provides concrete evidence of an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Li Huang , Bertrand Meyer

Coding agents have received significant adoption in software development recently. Unlike traditional LLM-based code completion tools, coding agents work with autonomy (e.g., invoking external tools) and leave visible traces in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Andre Hora , Romain Robbes

Proust is a small Racket program offering rudimentary interactive assistance in the development of verified proofs for propositional and predicate logic. It is constructed in stages, some of which are done by students before using it to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Prabhakar Ragde

We present CoqPilot, a VS Code extension designed to help automate writing of Coq proofs. The plugin collects the parts of proofs marked with the admit tactic in a Coq file, i.e., proof holes, and combines LLMs along with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Andrei Kozyrev , Gleb Solovev , Nikita Khramov , Anton Podkopaev

We present Tactician, a tactic learner and prover for the Coq Proof Assistant. Tactician helps users make tactical proof decisions while they retain control over the general proof strategy. To this end, Tactician learns from previously…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Lasse Blaauwbroek , Josef Urban , Herman Geuvers

This paper presents a coverage-guided grammar-based fuzzing technique for automatically generating a corpus of concise test inputs for programs such as compilers. We walk-through a case study of a compiler designed for education and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Vasudev Vikram , Rohan Padhye , Koushik Sen

Quantum error correction (QEC) is fundamental for suppressing noise in quantum hardware and enabling fault-tolerant quantum computation. In this paper, we propose an efficient verification framework for QEC programs. We define an assertion…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Qifan Huang , Li Zhou , Wang Fang , Mengyu Zhao , Mingsheng Ying

Modern Just-in-Time compilers (or JITs) typically interleave several mechanisms to execute a program. For faster startup times and to observe the initial behavior of an execution, interpretation can be initially used. But after a while,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Aurèle Barrière , Sandrine Blazy , David Pichardie

The current hardware landscape and application scale is driving performance engineers towards writing bespoke optimizations. Verifying such optimizations, and generating minimal failing cases, is important for robustness in the face of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Philipp Schaad , Timo Schneider , Tal Ben-Nun , Alexandru Calotoiu , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Torsten Hoefler

We introduce Bug-Injector, a system that automatically creates benchmarks for customized evaluation of static analysis tools. We share a benchmark generated using Bug-Injector and illustrate its efficacy by using it to evaluate the recall…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Vineeth Kashyap , Jason Ruchti , Lucja Kot , Emma Turetsky , Rebecca Swords , Shih An Pan , Julien Henry , David Melski , Eric Schulte

AI agents have shown initial promise in automating mathematical theorem proving in proof assistants such as Lean. The same proof assistants can be used to verify the correctness of code by pairing code with specifications and proofs that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Evan Lohn , Sean Welleck

The potential of quantum computers to outperform classical ones in practically useful tasks remains challenging in the near term due to scaling limitations and high error rates of current quantum hardware. While quantum error correction…

We present CertiQ, a verification framework for writing and verifying compiler passes of Qiskit, the most widely-used quantum compiler. To our knowledge, CertiQ is the first effort enabling the verification of real-world quantum compiler…

With the rapid development of internet Router, the complexity of its mainboard has been growing dramatically. The high reliability requirement renders the number of testing cases increasing exponentially, which becomes the bottleneck that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Hanxiao Zhang , Shouzhou Liu , Yan-Fu Li

In mathematics, it is common practice to have several constructions for the same objects. Mathematicians will identify them modulo isomorphism and will not worry later on which construction they use, as theorems proved for one construction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Théo Zimmermann , Hugo Herbelin

Existing AI agents typically execute multi-step tasks autonomously and only allow user confirmation at the end. During execution, users have little control, making the confirm-at-end approach brittle: a single error can cascade and force a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jieyu Zhou , Aryan Roy , Sneh Gupta , Daniel Weitekamp , Christopher J. MacLellan