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Financial documents like earning reports or balance sheets often involve long tables and multi-page reports. Large language models have become a new tool to help numerical reasoning and understanding these documents. However, prompt quality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yaoning Yu , Kai-Min Chang , Ye Yu , Kai Wei , Haojing Luo , Haohan Wang

Context: Conflicts between software requirements bring uncertainties to product development. Some great approaches have been proposed to identify these conflicts. However, they usually require the software requirements represented with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Weize Guo , Li Zhang , Xiaoli Lian

We present a language to specify syntax guided synthesis (SyGuS) problems. Syntax guidance is a prominent theme in contemporary program synthesis approaches, and SyGuS was first described in [1]. This paper describes concretely the input…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Mukund Raghothaman , Abhishek Udupa

This paper deals with the automated synthesis of implementations of knowledge-based programs with respect to two synchronous semantics (clock and synchronous perfect recall). An approach to the synthesis problem based on the use of symbolic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 X. Huang , R. van der Meyden

The determination of block-entropies is a well established method for the investigation of discrete data, also called symbols (7). There is a large variety of such symbolic sequences, ranging from texts written in natural languages,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel Angel Jimenez-Montano , Werner Ebeling , Thorsten Poeschel

Previous approaches of analyzing spontaneously spoken language often have been based on encoding syntactic and semantic knowledge manually and symbolically. While there has been some progress using statistical or connectionist language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 S. Wermter , V. Weber

Program synthesis from incomplete specifications (e.g. input-output examples) has gained popularity and found real-world applications, primarily due to its ease-of-use. Since this technology is often used in an interactive setting,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Vu Le , Daniel Perelman , Oleksandr Polozov , Mohammad Raza , Abhishek Udupa , Sumit Gulwani

Formal verification provides a rigorous and systematic approach to ensure the correctness and reliability of software systems. Yet, constructing specifications for the full proof relies on domain expertise and non-trivial manpower. In view…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Cheng Wen , Jialun Cao , Jie Su , Zhiwu Xu , Shengchao Qin , Mengda He , Haokun Li , Shing-Chi Cheung , Cong Tian

Beginning programmers struggle with the complex grammar of modern programming languages like Java, and make lot of syntax errors. The diagnostic syntax error messages from compilers and IDEs are sometimes useful, but often the messages are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Toufique Ahmed , Noah Rose Ledesma , Premkumar Devanbu

The synthesis problem asks to automatically generate, if it exists, an algorithm from a specification of correct input-output pairs. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of computable functions of infinite words, for a classical Turing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Emmanuel Filiot , Sarah Winter

A key challenge in example-based program synthesis is the gigantic search space of programs. To address this challenge, various work proposed to use abstract interpretation to prune the search space. However, most of existing approaches…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yongho Yoon , Woosuk Lee , Kwangkeun Yi

In this paper, we describe a so-called screening approach for learning robust processing of spontaneously spoken language. A screening approach is a flat analysis which uses shallow sequences of category representations for analyzing an…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Stefan Wermter , Volker Weber

We address the problem of verifying that the functions of a program meet their contracts, specified by pre/postconditions. We follow an approach based on constrained Horn clauses (CHCs) by which the verification problem is reduced to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Emanuele De Angelis , Fabio Fioravanti , Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti

Formal verification of memory-manipulating programs critically depends on precise function specifications that capture memory states written by experts. This requirement has become a major bottleneck as large language models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Liao Zhang , Tong Chen , Xiwei Wu , Qi Liu , Xiyu Zhai , Xinqi Wang , Qinxiang Cao

Programs that manipulate tree-shaped data structures often require complex, specialized proofs that are difficult to generalize and automate. This paper introduces a unified, foundational approach to verifying such programs. Central to our…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Marco Faella , Gennaro Parlato

Rule-based systems remain central in safety-critical domains but often struggle with scalability, brittleness, and goal misspecification. These limitations can lead to reward hacking and failures in formal verification, as AI systems tend…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zainab Rehan , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Sona Ghahremani , Holger Giese

We present a new approach to HPSG processing: compiling HPSG grammars expressed as type constraints into definite clause programs. This provides a clear and computationally useful correspondence between linguistic theories and their…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Thilo Goetz , Walt Detmar Meurers

Software verification of evolving systems is challenging mainstream methodologies and tools. Formal verification techniques often conflict with the time constraints imposed by change management practices for evolving systems. Since changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Domenico Bianculli , Antonio Filieri , Carlo Ghezzi , Dino Mandrioli

This paper proposes a framework for automatic formal controller synthesis for general hybrid systems with a subset of safety and reachability specifications. The framework uses genetic programming to automatically co-synthesize controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Cees F. Verdier , Manuel Mazo

Specification synthesis, the task of automatically inferring formal specifications from program implementations and natural language, is important for refactoring, transpilation, optimization, and verification, yet remains an open challenge…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tarun Suresh , David Korczynski , Julien Vanegue