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Symbolic execution helps check programs by exploring different paths based on symbolic inputs. Tools like KLEE are commonly used because they can automatically detect bugs and create test cases. But one of KLEE's biggest issues is how slow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rong Feng , Vanisha Gupta , Vivek Patel , Viroopaksh Reddy Ernampati , Suman Saha

Compositional generalization is crucial for artificial intelligence agents to solve complex vision-language reasoning tasks. Neuro-symbolic approaches have demonstrated promise in capturing compositional structures, but they face critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Danial Kamali , Elham J. Barezi , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Symbolic execution now becomes an indispensable technique for software testing and program analysis. There are several symbolic execution tools available off-the-shelf, and we need a practical benchmark approach to learn their capabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hui Xu , Zirui Zhao , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

Compositional generalization is a key ability of humans that enables us to learn new concepts from only a handful examples. Neural machine learning models, including the now ubiquitous Transformers, struggle to generalize in this way, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Tim Klinger , Luke Liu , Soham Dan , Maxwell Crouse , Parikshit Ram , Alexander Gray

Two modest-sized symbolic corpora of post-tonal and post-metric keyboard music have been constructed, one algorithmic, the other improvised. Deep learning models of each have been trained and largely optimised. Our purpose is to obtain a…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Roger T. Dean , Jamie Forth

Complex logical reasoning tasks require a long sequence of reasoning, which a large language model (LLM) with chain-of-thought prompting still falls short. To alleviate this issue, neurosymbolic approaches incorporate a symbolic solver.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hyun Ryu , Gyeongman Kim , Hyemin S. Lee , Eunho Yang

Internal Language Model Estimation (ILME) based language model (LM) fusion has been shown significantly improved recognition results over conventional shallow fusion in both intra-domain and cross-domain speech recognition tasks. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Yizhou Peng , Yufei Liu , Jicheng Zhang , Haihua Xu , Yi He , Hao Huang , Eng Siong Chng

We argue that current evaluation frameworks for large language models (LLMs) suffer from four systematic failures that make them structurally inadequate for deployed, agentic systems: distributional, temporal, scope, and process invalidity.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jazmia Henry

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional static program analysis methods, such as symbolic execution, offering the ability to reason over code directly without relying on theorem provers or SMT…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yihe Li , Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of natural language processing and reasoning tasks. However, their performance in the foundational domain of arithmetic remains unsatisfactory. When…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Junyu Lai , Jiahe Xu , Yao Yang , Yunpeng Huang , Chun Cao , Jingwei Xu

This paper presents a system combining symbolic execution (KLEE) with a 4-agent multi-LLM architecture for detecting memory vulnerabilities in Rust unsafe code. A central challenge we address is the incomplete-code problem: CVE database…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyad Abdelrazek , Young Lee

Symbolic execution is a classical program analysis technique used to show that programs satisfy or violate given specifications. In this work we generalize symbolic execution to support program analysis for relational specifications in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Gian Pietro Farina , Stephen Chong , Marco Gaboardi

Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the performance of Vision and Language tasks. Foundational Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have been leveraged in multiple settings and demonstrated remarkable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Santiago Castro , Amir Ziai , Avneesh Saluja , Zhuoning Yuan , Rada Mihalcea

In this paper, we present a compositional methodology for constructing symbolic models of nonlinear interconnected impulsive systems. Our approach relies on the concept of "alternating simulation function" to establish a relationship…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Sadek Belamfedel Alaoui , Adnane Saoud , Pushpak Jagtap , Abdalla Swikir

We present a new soundness proof of Concurrent Separation Logic (CSL) based on a structural operational semantics (SOS). We build on two previous proofs and develop new auxiliary notions to achieve the goal. One uses a denotational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Pedro Soares , António Ravara , Simão Melo de Sousa

Transformer based Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently reached state of the art performance in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) domains. LLMs use the Multi-Headed Self-Attention (MHSA) mechanism to capture…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zuoning Zhang , Dhruv Parikh , Youning Zhang , Viktor Prasanna

We introduce Exhaustive Symbolic Integration (ESI), a method that enumerates all symbolic functions up to a given complexity $k$ within a specified operator basis and determines which admit closed-form antiderivatives within the same class.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Harry Desmond

Semantic compositionality (SC) refers to the phenomenon that the meaning of a complex linguistic unit can be composed of the meanings of its constituents. Most related works focus on using complicated compositionality functions to model SC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Fanchao Qi , Junjie Huang , Chenghao Yang , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiao Chen , Qun Liu , Maosong Sun

Pre-trained seq2seq models excel at graph semantic parsing with rich annotated data, but generalize worse to out-of-distribution (OOD) and long-tail examples. In comparison, symbolic parsers under-perform on population-level metrics, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Zi Lin , Jeremiah Liu , Jingbo Shang

Control flow in unstructured programs can be complex and dynamic, which makes static analysis difficult. Yet, automated reasoning about unstructured control flow is important when certifying properties of binary (machine) code in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Andreas Lindner , Karl Palmskog , Scott Constable , Mads Dam , Roberto Guanciale , Hamed Nemati