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Static cache analysis characterizes a program's cache behavior by determining in a sound but approximate manner which memory accesses result in cache hits and which result in cache misses. Such information is valuable in optimizing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Valentin Touzeau , Claire Maïza , David Monniaux , Jan Reineke

interpretation is a general methodology for building static analyses of programs. It was introduced by P. and R. Cousot in \cite{cc}. We present, in this paper, an application of a generic abstract interpretation to domain of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-12 Kaninda Musumbu

Convolutional neural networks have gained vast popularity due to their excellent performance in the fields of computer vision, image processing, and others. Unfortunately, it is now well known that convolutional networks often produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Matan Ostrovsky , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

Essential tasks for the verification of probabilistic programs include bounding expected outcomes and proving termination in finite expected runtime. We contribute a simple yet effective inductive synthesis approach for proving such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Kevin Batz , Mingshuai Chen , Sebastian Junges , Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Christoph Matheja

Automatic software verification is a valuable means for software quality assurance. However, automatic verification and in particular software model checking can be time-consuming, which hinders their practical applicability e.g., the use…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Max Barth , Marie-Christine Jakobs

Auto-active verifiers provide a level of automation intermediate between fully automatic and interactive: users supply code with annotations as input while benefiting from a high level of automation in the back-end. This paper presents…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Julian Tschannen , Carlo A. Furia , Martin Nordio , Nadia Polikarpova

Gradual verification, which supports explicitly partial specifications and verifies them with a combination of static and dynamic checks, makes verification more incremental and provides earlier feedback to developers. While an abstract,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Conrad Zimmerman , Jenna DiVincenzo , Jonathan Aldrich

Abstract interpretation techniques can be made more precise by distinguishing paths inside loops, at the expense of possibly exponential complexity. SMT-solving techniques and sparse representations of paths and sets of paths avoid this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Julien Henry , David Monniaux , Matthieu Moy

The formal analysis of automated systems is an important and growing industry. This activity routinely requires new verification frameworks to be developed to tackle new programming features, or new considerations (bugs of interest). Often,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paul Brunet

Practical adoption of static analysis often requires trading precision for performance. This paper focuses on improving the memory efficiency of abstract interpretation without sacrificing precision or time efficiency. Computationally,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Sung Kook Kim , Arnaud J. Venet , Aditya V. Thakur

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have demonstrated remarkable utility in various challenging machine learning applications. While formally verified properties of their behaviors are highly desired, they have proven notoriously difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Xuankang Lin , He Zhu , Roopsha Samanta , Suresh Jagannathan

Information flow security ensures that the secret data manipulated by a program does not influence its observable output. Proving information flow security is especially challenging for concurrent programs, where operations on secret data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Marco Eilers , Thibault Dardinier , Peter Müller

Explainable machine learning and artificial intelligence models have been used to justify a model's decision-making process. This added transparency aims to help improve user performance and understanding of the underlying model. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Mahsan Nourani , Chiradeep Roy , Tahrima Rahman , Eric D. Ragan , Nicholas Ruozzi , Vibhav Gogate

We introduce a new method, combination of random testing and abstract interpretation, for the analysis of programs featuring both probabilistic and non-probabilistic nondeterminism. After introducing "ordinary" testing, we show how to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Monniaux

Neural network controllers are currently being proposed for use in many safety-critical tasks. Most analysis methods for neural network control systems assume a fixed control period. In control theory, higher frequency usually improves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-29 Ali ArjomandBigdeli , Andrew Mata , Stanley Bak

We study induction on the program structure as a proof method for bisimulation-based compiler correctness. We consider a first-order language with mutually recursive function definitions, system calls, and an environment semantics. The…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Sigurd Schneider , Gert Smolka , Sebastian Hack

We present OpenComputer, a verifier-grounded framework for constructing verifiable software worlds for computer-use agents. OpenComputer integrates four components: (1) app-specific state verifiers that expose structured inspection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jinbiao Wei , Qianran Ma , Yilun Zhao , Xiao Zhou , Kangqi Ni , Guo Gan , Arman Cohan

Verification proofs encode complete program behavior, yet we discard them after checking correctness. We present compiling by proving, a paradigm that transforms these proofs into optimized execution rules. By constructing All-Path…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jianhong Zhao , Everett Hildenbrandt , Juan Conejero , Yongwang Zhao

Verifying properties and interpreting the behaviour of deep neural networks (DNN) is an important task given their ubiquitous use in applications, including safety-critical ones, and their black-box nature. We propose an automata-theoric…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Marco Sälzer , Eric Alsmann , Florian Bruse , Martin Lange

A belief base revision is developed. The belief base is represented using Unified Answer Set Programs which is capable of representing imprecise and uncertain information and perform nonomonotonic reasoning with them. The base revision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kumar Sankar Ray , Sandip Paul , Diganta Saha