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Advanced test-time computing strategies are essential for scaling reasoning models, but their effectiveness is capped by the models' poor self-evaluation. We propose a pairwise Explanatory Verifier, trained via reinforcement learning…

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Assertion-based verification (ABV) is a key approach to checking whether a logic design complies with its architectural specifications. Existing assertion generation methods based on design specifications typically produce only top-level…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Hongqin Lyu , Yonghao Wang , Jiaxin Zhou , Zhiteng Chao , Tiancheng Wang , Huawei Li

There is an increasing need for domain-specific reasoning in modern compilers. This has fueled the use of tailored intermediate representations (IRs) based on static single assignment (SSA), like in the MLIR compiler framework. Interactive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Siddharth Bhat , Alex Keizer , Chris Hughes , Andrés Goens , Tobias Grosser

By exploiting the correlation between the structure and the solution of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP), Machine Learning (ML) has become a promising method for solving large-scale MILP problems. Existing ML-based MILP solvers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixuan Li , Can Chen , Jiajun Li , Jiahui Duan , Xiongwei Han , Tao Zhong , Vincent Chau , Weiwei Wu , Wanyuan Wang

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers incorporate decision procedures for theories of data types that commonly occur in software. This makes them important tools for automating verification problems. A limitation frequently…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Kshitij Bansal , Andrew Reynolds , Tim King , Clark Barrett , Thomas Wies

Cycle-accurate software simulation of multicores with complex microarchitectures is often excruciatingly slow. People use simplified core models to gain simulation speed. However, a persistent question is to what extent the results derived…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Sizhuo Zhang , Andrew Wright , Daniel Sanchez , Arvind

The current verification flow of complex systems uses different engines synergistically: virtual prototyping, formal verification, simulation, emulation and FPGA prototyping. However, none is able to verify a complete architecture.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Tomas Grimm , Djones Lettnin , Michael Hübner

Numerous real-world decision-making problems can be formulated and solved using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models. However, the transformation of these problems into MILP models heavily relies on expertise in operations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Qingyang Li , Lele Zhang , Vicky Mak-Hau

This short study presents an opportunistic approach to a (more) reliable validation method for prediction uncertainty average calibration. Considering that variance-based calibration metrics (ZMS, NLL, RCE...) are quite sensitive to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-27 Pascal Pernot

We present a proof system for establishing the correctness of results produced by optimization algorithms, with a focus on mixed-integer programming (MIP). Our system generalizes the seminal work of Bogaerts, Gocht, McCreesh, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Jasper van Doornmalen , Leon Eifler , Ambros Gleixner , Christopher Hojny

We present exact mixed-integer linear programming formulations for verifying the performance of first-order methods for parametric quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mixed-integer linear program where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Vinit Ranjan , Jisun Park , Stefano Gualandi , Andrea Lodi , Bartolomeo Stellato

Satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solvers have throughout the years been able to cope with increasingly expressive formulas, from ground logics to full first-order logic modulo theories. Nevertheless, higher-order logic within SMT is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Haniel Barbosa , Jasmin Christian Blanchette , Simon Cruanes , Daniel El Ouraoui , Pascal Fontaine

Program verification tools are often implemented as front-end translations of an input program into an intermediate verification language (IVL) such as Boogie, GIL, Viper, or Why3. The resulting IVL program is then verified using an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Thibault Dardinier , Michael Sammler , Gaurav Parthasarathy , Alexander J. Summers , Peter Müller

There has been growing interest in implementing massive MIMO systems by one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), which have the benefit of reducing the power consumption and hardware complexity. One-bit MIMO detection arises in such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Cheng-Yang Yu , Mingjie Shao , Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Wing-Kin Ma

We consider the problem of verification modulo tested library contracts as a step towards automating the verification of client programs that use complex libraries. We formulate this problem as the synthesis of modular contracts for the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abhishek Uppar , Omar Muhammad , Sumanth Prabhu , Deepak D'Souza , Madhusudan P , Adithya Murali

Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) is a powerful tool for planning and control problems because of its modeling capability and the availability of good solvers. However, for large models, MILP methods suffer computationally. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Matthew Earl , Raffaello D'Andrea

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) plays a crucial role in artificial intelligence, biochemistry, finance, cryptography, etc. Notwithstanding popular for decades, the researches of MILP solvers are still limited by the resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Hao Wang , Yu Pan , Wei Cui

The success of Deep Learning and its potential use in many safety-critical applications has motivated research on formal verification of Neural Network (NN) models. Despite the reputation of learned NN models to behave as black boxes and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Rudy Bunel , Ilker Turkaslan , Philip H. S. Torr , Pushmeet Kohli , M. Pawan Kumar

Legal properties involve reasoning about data values and time. Metric first-order temporal logic (MFOTL) provides a rich formalism for specifying legal properties. While MFOTL has been successfully used for verifying legal properties over…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Nick Feng , Lina Marsso , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Marsha Chechik

In deductive verification and software model checking, dealing with certain specification language constructs can be problematic when the back-end solver is not sufficiently powerful or lacks the required theories. One way to deal with this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jesper Amilon , Zafer Esen , Dilian Gurov , Christian Lidström , Philipp Rümmer , Marten Voorberg