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This work investigates the relation between model-based quantifier instantiation (MBQI) and enumerative instantiation (EI) in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). MBQI operates at the semantic level and guarantees to find a counterexample…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Marek Dančo , Petra Hozzová , Mikoláš Janota

Many decision procedures for SMT problems rely more or less implicitly on an instantiation of the axioms of the theories under consideration, and differ by making use of the additional properties of each theory, in order to increase…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-16 Mnacho Echenim , Nicolas Peltier

This report describes several approaches for handling synthesis conjectures within an Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver. We describe approaches that primarily focus on determining the unsatisfiability of the negated form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Andrew Reynolds

SMT-based program analysis and verification often involve reasoning about program features that have been specified using quantifiers; incorporating quantifiers into SMT-based reasoning is, however, known to be challenging. If quantifier…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Rui Ge , Ronald Garcia , Alexander J. Summers

Quantified formulas with Uninterpreted Functions (UFs) over non-linear real arithmetic pose fundamental challenges for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solving. Traditional quantifier instantiation methods struggle because they lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Kunhang Lv , Yuhang Dong , Rui Han , Fuqi Jia , Feifei Ma , Jian Zhang

We present a novel approach for solving quantified bit-vector formulas in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) based on computing symbolic inverses of bit-vector operators. We derive conditions that precisely characterize when bit-vector…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Aina Niemetz , Mathias Preiner , Andrew Reynolds , Clark Barrett , Cesare Tinelli

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

This short paper proposes to learn models of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) formulas during solving. Specifically, we focus on infinite models for problems in the logic of linear arithmetic with uninterpreted functions (UFLIA). The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Mikoláš Janota , Bartosz Piotrowski , Karel Chvalovský

This paper presents a framework to derive instantiation-based decision procedures for satisfiability of quantified formulas in first-order theories, including its correctness, implementation, and evaluation. Using this framework we derive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Andrew Reynolds , Tim King , Viktor Kuncak

In this paper we present an alternative approach to formalize the theory of logic programming. In this formalization we allow existential quantified variables and equations in queries. In opposite to standard approaches the role of answer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ján Komara

We investigate the domain of satisfiable formulas in satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), in particular, automatic generation of a multitude of satisfying assignments to such formulas. Despite the long and successful history of SMT in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Matan Peled , Bat-Chen Rothenberg , Shachar Itzhaky

Many real applications problems can be encoded easily as quantified formulas in SMT. However, this simplicity comes at the cost of difficulty during solving by SMT solvers. Different strategies and quantifier instantiation techniques have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mudathir Mohamed , Nick Feng , Andrew Reynolds , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett , Marsha Chechik

Satisfiability modulo theory (SMT) consists in testing the satisfiability of first-order formulas over linear integer or real arithmetic, or other theories. In this survey, we explain the combination of propositional satisfiability and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-16 David Monniaux

Universal quantifiers occur frequently in proof obligations produced by program verifiers, for instance, to axiomatize uninterpreted functions and to express properties of arrays. SMT-based verifiers typically reason about them via…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Alexandra Bugariu , Arshavir Ter-Gabrielyan , Peter Müller

We present a general simplification of quantified SMT formulas using variable elimination. The simplification is based on an analysis of the ground terms occurring as arguments in function applications. We use this information to generate a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Aboubakr Achraf El Ghazi , Mattias Ulbrich , Mana Taghdiri , Mihai Herda

SMT solvers have been used successfully as reasoning engines for automated verification and other applications based on automated reasoning. Current techniques for dealing with quantified formulas in SMT are generally incomplete, forcing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Andrew Reynolds , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett

Imitation learning methods have demonstrated considerable success in teaching autonomous systems complex tasks through expert demonstrations. However, a limitation of these methods is their lack of interpretability, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Wenliang Liu , Danyang Li , Erfan Aasi , Daniela Rus , Roberto Tron , Calin Belta

Natural-language prompts have recently been used to coax pretrained language models into performing other AI tasks, using a fill-in-the-blank paradigm (Petroni et al., 2019) or a few-shot extrapolation paradigm (Brown et al., 2020). For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Guanghui Qin , Jason Eisner

We introduce MTT, a dependent type theory which supports multiple modalities. MTT is parametrized by a mode theory which specifies a collection of modes, modalities, and transformations between them. We show that different choices of mode…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Daniel Gratzer , G. A. Kavvos , Andreas Nuyts , Lars Birkedal

In this article, we tackle the math word problem, namely, automatically answering a mathematical problem according to its textual description. Although recent methods have demonstrated their promising results, most of these methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Shifeng Huang , Jiawei Wang , Jiao Xu , Da Cao , Ming Yang
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