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Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE) suffers from the path explosion problem when the target program has many conditional branches. The classical approach for managing the path explosion problem is dynamic state merging. Dynamic state merging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Charitha Saumya , Muhammad Hassan , Rohan Gangaraju , Milind Kulkarni , Kirshanthan Sundararajah

Symbolic execution is a powerful technique for program analysis. However, it has many limitations in practical applicability: the path explosion problem encumbers scalability, the need for language-specific implementation, the inability to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Shiqi Shen , Soundarya Ramesh , Shweta Shinde , Abhik Roychoudhury , Prateek Saxena

In the realm of quantum information processing, the efficient characterization of entangled states poses an overwhelming challenge, rendering the traditional methods including quantum tomography unfeasible and impractical. To tackle this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ye-Chao Liu , Jiangwei Shang

State-space exploration is an essential step in many modeling and analysis problems. Its goal is to find the states reachable from the initial state of a discrete-state model described. The state space can used to answer important…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-16 Gianfranco Ciardo , Yang Zhao , Xiaoqing Jin

In semi-symbolic (control-explicit data-symbolic) model checking the state-space explosion problem is fought by representing sets of states by first-order formulas over the bit-vector theory. In this model checking approach, most of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Jan Mrázek , Martin Jonáš , Jiří Barnat

Symbolic execution is a successful and very popular technique used in software verification and testing. A key limitation of symbolic execution is in dealing with code containing loops. The problem is that even a single loop can generate a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-07-08 Jan Obdrzalek , Marek Trtik

Symbolic execution is a powerful systematic software analysis technique, but suffers from the high cost of constraint solving, which is the key supporting technology that affects the effectiveness of symbolic execution. Techniques like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Junye Wen , Mujahid Khan , Meiru Che , Yan Yan , Guowei Yang

Tabular reinforcement learning methods cannot operate directly on continuous state spaces. One solution for this problem is to partition the state space. A good partitioning enables generalization during learning and more efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Mohsen Ghaffari , Mahsa Varshosaz , Einar Broch Johnsen , Andrzej Wąsowski

Case split is a core proof rule in current decision procedures for the theory of string constraints. Its use is the primary cause of the state space explosion in string constraint solving, since it is the only rule that creates branches in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yu-Fang Chen , Vojtěch Havlena , Ondřej Lengál , Andrea Turrini

With advances in quantum computing, researchers can now write and run many quantum programs. However, there is still a lack of effective methods for debugging quantum programs. In this paper, quantum symbolic execution (QSE) is proposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Jiang Nan , Wang Zichen , Wang Jian

In this paper we study the notion of synchronization from the point of view of combinatorics. As a first step, we address the quantitative problem of counting the number of executions of simple processes interacting with synchronization…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Olivier Bodini , Matthieu Dien , Antoine Genitrini , Frédéric Peschanski

Symbolic execution is a powerful program analysis technique that allows for the systematic exploration of all program paths. Path explosion, where the number of states to track becomes unwieldy, is one of the biggest challenges hindering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Joshua Bailey , Charles Nicholas

Understanding the resource consumption in distributed scenarios is one of the main goals of quantum information theory. A prominent example for such a scenario is the task of quantum state merging where two parties aim to merge their parts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 A. Streltsov , E. Chitambar , S. Rana , M. N. Bera , A. Winter , M. Lewenstein

We present an algorithm for tests generation tools based on symbolic execution. The algorithm is supposed to help in situations, when a tool is repeatedly failing to cover some code by tests. The algorithm then provides the tool a necessary…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Marek Trtík

We present a method of automatically synthesizing steps to solve search problems. Given a specification of a search problem, our approach uses symbolic execution to analyze the specification in order to extract a set of constraints which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Mara Downing , Abtin Molavi , Lucas Bang

Quantum entanglement between particles is expected to allow one to perform tasks that would otherwise be impossible. In quantum sensing and metrology, entanglement is often claimed to enable a precision that cannot be attained with the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Liam P. McGuinness

In permission logics such as separation logic, the iterated separating conjunction is a quantifier denoting access permission to an unbounded set of heap locations. In contrast to recursive predicates, iterated separating conjunctions do…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Peter Müller , Malte Schwerhoff , Alexander J. Summers

We define QSE, a symbolic execution framework for quantum programs by integrating symbolic variables into quantum states and the outcomes of quantum measurements. The soundness of QSE is established through a theorem that ensures the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying

Building neural networks to query a knowledge base (a table) with natural language is an emerging research topic in deep learning. An executor for table querying typically requires multiple steps of execution because queries may have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Lili Mou , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Zhi Jin

Symbolic execution is an effective path oriented and constraint based program analysis technique. Recently, there is a significant development in the research and application of symbolic execution. However, symbolic execution still suffers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Yufeng Zhang , Zhenbang Chen , Ji Wang
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