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Formal verification via interactive theorem proving is increasingly used to ensure the correctness of critical systems, yet constructing large proof scripts remains highly manual and limits scalability. Advances in large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Baoding He , Zenan Li , Wei Sun , Yuan Yao , Taolue Chen , Xiaoxing Ma , Zhendong Su

Proof assistants offer tactics to facilitate inductive proofs. However, it still requires human ingenuity to decide what arguments to pass to those induction tactics. To automate this process, we present smart_induct for Isabelle/HOL. Given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Yutaka Nagashima

We propose an approach for searching for counterexamples of statements about algebraic structures with a medium-sized signature using the Isabelle proof assistant in an efficient, parallel manner. We contribute a Python client Isabelle…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Wesley Fussner , Boris Shminke

Simulink is a de-facto industrial standard for the design of embedded systems. In previous work, we developed a compositional analysis framework for Simulink models in Isabelle -- the Refinement Calculus of Reactive Systems (RCRS), which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Viorel Preoteasa , Iulia Dragomir , Stavros Tripakis

This paper presents a novel approach to premise selection, a crucial reasoning task in automated theorem proving. Traditionally, symbolic methods that rely on extensive domain knowledge and engineering effort are applied to this task. In…

Abella is an interactive system for reasoning about aspects of object languages that have been formally presented through recursive rules based on syntactic structure. Abella utilizes a two-level logic approach to specification and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Andrew Gacek

LF has been designed and successfully used as a meta-logical framework to represent and reason about object logics. Here we design a representation of the Isabelle logical framework in LF using the recently introduced module system for LF.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-09-16 Florian Rabe

Auto2 is a recently introduced prover for the proof assistant Isabelle. It is designed to be both highly customizable from within Isabelle, and also have a powerful proof search mechanism. In this paper, we apply auto2 to the verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Bohua Zhan

This is an overview of the Paral-ITP project, which intents to make the proof assistants Isabelle and Coq fit for the multicore era.

We present a process for the development of safety and security critical components in transportation systems targeting a high-level certification (CENELEC 50126/50128, DO 178, CC ISO/IEC 15408). The process adheres to the objectives of an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Sergio Bezzecchi , Paolo Crisafulli , Charlotte Pichot , Burkhart Wolff

Modern machine learning pipelines are built on numerical algorithms. Reliable numerical methods are thus a prerequisite for trustworthy machine learning and cyber-physical systems. Therefore, we contribute a framework for verified numerical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Dustin Bryant , Jonathan Julian Huerta y Munive , Simon Foster

In this article we present an ongoing effort to formalise quantum algorithms and results in quantum information theory using the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL. Formal methods being critical for the safety and security of algorithms and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Anthony Bordg , Hanna Lachnitt , Yijun He

We contribute a Python client for the Isabelle server, which gives researchers and students using Python as their primary programming language an opportunity to communicate with the Isabelle server through TCP directly from a Python script.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Boris Shminke

The paper collects preparatory work for interdisciplinary collaboration between three partners, between (1) expertise in improving accessibility of studies for impaired individuals, (2) expertise in developing educational mathematics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Klaus Miesenberger , Walther Neuper , Bernhard Stöger , Makarius Wenzel

We present a new software tool for teaching logic based on natural deduction. Its proof system is formalized in the proof assistant Isabelle such that its definition is very precise. Soundness of the formalization has been proved in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Jørgen Villadsen , Alexander Birch Jensen , Anders Schlichtkrull

Nominal Isabelle is a definitional extension of the Isabelle/HOL theorem prover. It provides a proving infrastructure for reasoning about programming language calculi involving named bound variables (as opposed to de-Bruijn indices). In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Christian Urban , Cezary Kaliszyk

We formally verify an algorithm for approximate policy iteration on Factored Markov Decision Processes using the interactive theorem prover Isabelle/HOL. Next, we show how the formalized algorithm can be refined to an executable, verified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Maximilian Schäffeler , Mohammad Abdulaziz

The Isabelle/HOL proof assistant has a powerful library for continuous analysis, which provides the foundation for verification of hybrid systems. However, Isabelle lacks automated proof support for continuous artifacts, which means that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Thomas Hickman , Christian Pardillo Laursen , Simon Foster

Using an interactive theorem prover to reason about programs involves a sequence of interactions where the user challenges the theorem prover with conjectures. Invariably, many of the conjectures posed are in fact false, and users often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-10-24 Harsh Raju Chamarthi , Peter C. Dillinger , Matt Kaufmann , Panagiotis Manolios

Formal theorem proving, a field at the intersection of mathematics and computer science, has seen renewed interest with advancements in large language models (LLMs). This paper introduces SubgoalXL, a novel approach that synergizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Xueliang Zhao , Lin Zheng , Haige Bo , Changran Hu , Urmish Thakker , Lingpeng Kong