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We introduce ClaimCheck, an LLM-guided automatic fact-checking system designed to verify real-world claims using live Web evidence and small language models. Unlike prior systems that rely on large, closed-source models and static knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Akshith Reddy Putta , Jacob Devasier , Chengkai Li

One of the most attractive features of untyped languages is the flexibility in term creation and manipulation. However, with such power comes the responsibility of ensuring the correctness of these operations. A solution is adding run-time…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Nataliia Stulova , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Machine-assisted theorem proving refers to the process of conducting structured reasoning to automatically generate proofs for mathematical theorems. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using machine learning models in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Leni Aniva , Chuyue Sun , Brando Miranda , Clark Barrett , Sanmi Koyejo

A recent case study from AWS by Chong et al. proposes an effective methodology for Bounded Model Checking in industry. In this paper, we report on a follow up case study that explores the methodology from the perspective of three research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Siddharth Priya , Xiang Zhou , Yusen Su , Yakir Vizel , Yuyan Bao , Arie Gurfinkel

We present the PML 2 language, which provides a uniform environment for programming, and for proving properties of programs in an ML-like setting. The language is Curry-style and call-by-value, it provides a control operator (interpreted in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Rodolphe Lepigre

Testing has become an indispensable activity of software development, yet writing good and relevant tests remains a quite challenging task. One well-known problem is that it often is impossible or unrealistic to test for every outcome, as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Dimitri Racordon , Didier Buchs

The Lean mathematical library mathlib is developed by a community of users with very different backgrounds and levels of experience. To lower the barrier of entry for contributors and to lessen the burden of reviewing contributions, we have…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Floris van Doorn , Gabriel Ebner , Robert Y. Lewis

Machine Learning (ML) has become an integral part of our society, commonly used in critical domains such as finance, healthcare, and transportation. Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate not only whether ML models make correct predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Steven Cho , Seaton Cousins-Baxter , Stefano Ruberto , Valerio Terragni

Reliable verification of proofs remains a bottleneck for training and evaluating AI systems on hard mathematical reasoning. Fully formal proofs, in languages like Lean, are easy to verify because they are unambiguous and modular. Most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Slim Barkallah , Luke Bailey , Kaiyue Wen , Mohammed Abouzaid , Tengyu Ma

When writing programs involving matrices or tensors in general, it is desirable to rule out the inconsistency of tensor shapes (i.e., the generalization of matrix sizes) before actual computation. For this purpose, some languages provide…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Takashi Suwa , Atsushi Igarashi

Reliable autoformalization remains challenging even in the era of large language models (LLMs). The scarcity of high-quality training data is a major bottleneck. Expert annotation requires substantial time and deep expertise in both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Param Biyani , Shashank Kirtania , Yasharth Bajpai , Sumit Gulwani , Ashish Tiwari

In this project, we explore the concept of invertibility applied to serialisation and lexing frameworks. Recall that, on one hand, serialisation is the process of taking a data structure and writing it to a bit array while parsing is the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Samuel Chassot , Viktor Kunčak

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive mathematical reasoning abilities, but their solutions frequently contain errors that cannot be automatically checked. Formal theorem proving systems such as Lean 4 offer automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sumanth Varambally , Thomas Voice , Yanchao Sun , Zhifeng Chen , Rose Yu , Ke Ye

This study aims to observe if the theorem prover Lean positively influences students' understanding of mathematical proving. To this end, we perform a pilot study concerning freshmen students at the University of Zurich (UZH). While doing…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Mattia Luciano Bottoni , Alberto S. Cattaneo , Elif Sacikara

Verifiers play a crucial role in large language model (LLM) reasoning, needed by post-training techniques such as reinforcement learning. However, reliable verifiers are hard to get for difficult coding problems, because a well-disguised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zhongmou He , Yee Man Choi , Kexun Zhang , Jiabao Ji , Junting Zhou , Dejia Xu , Ivan Bercovich , Aidan Zhang , Lei Li

Fact-checking is an essential task in NLP that is commonly utilized for validating the factual accuracy of claims. Prior work has mainly focused on fine-tuning pre-trained languages models on specific datasets, which can be computationally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Miaoran Li , Baolin Peng , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Zhu Zhang

Neural theorem proving has advanced rapidly in the past year, reaching IMO gold-medalist capabilities and producing formal proofs that span thousands of lines. Although such proofs are mechanically verified by formal systems like Lean,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Alex Gu , Bartosz Piotrowski , Fabian Gloeckle , Kaiyu Yang , Aram H. Markosyan

This paper describes mathlib, a community-driven effort to build a unified library of mathematics formalized in the Lean proof assistant. Among proof assistant libraries, it is distinguished by its dependently typed foundations, focus on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-28 The mathlib Community

The continuous functional calculus is perhaps the most fundamental construction in the theory of operator algebras, especially $C^{*}$-algebras. Here we document our formalization of the continuous functional calculus in Lean, which…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Anatole Dedecker , Jireh Loreaux

There has been considerable divergence of opinion on the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). While the initial optimism that reasoning might emerge automatically with scale has been tempered thanks to a slew of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Kaya Stechly , Karthik Valmeekam , Subbarao Kambhampati