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Synthetic verification techniques such as generating test cases and reward modelling are common ways to enhance the coding capabilities of large language models (LLM) beyond predefined tests. Additionally, code verification has recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aleksander Ficek , Somshubra Majumdar , Vahid Noroozi , Boris Ginsburg

In this paper, we focus on a general yet important learning problem, pairwise similarity learning (PSL). PSL subsumes a wide range of important applications, such as open-set face recognition, speaker verification, image retrieval and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yandong Wen , Weiyang Liu , Yao Feng , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh , Adrian Weller , Michael J. Black , Bernhard Schölkopf

The steep learning curve of formal technologies is a well-known barrier to the adoption of formal verification tools in industry. This paper presents VSCode-PVS, a modern integrated development environment for the Prototype Verification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Paolo Masci , César A. Muñoz

Recently, Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Test-Time Scaling (TTS) have advanced LLM code generation through executable verification. Yet Ground-Truth Unit Tests (GT UTs) remain a bottleneck: SOTA RLVR methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhangyi Hu , Chenhui Liu , Tian Huang , Jindong Li , Yang Yang , Jiemin Wu , Zining Zhong , Menglin Yang , Yutao Yue

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

Throughout scientific history, overarching theoretical frameworks have allowed researchers to grow beyond personal intuitions and culturally biased theories. They allow to verify and replicate existing findings, and to link is connected…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Daniel Hernandez , Kevin Denamganai , Sam Devlin , Spyridon Samothrakis , James Alfred Walker

Quantitative verification techniques have been developed for the formal analysis of a variety of probabilistic models, such as Markov chains, Markov decision process and their variants. They can be used to produce guarantees on quantitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker

We consider the problem of how a trusted, but computationally bounded agent (a 'verifier') can learn to interact with one or more powerful but untrusted agents ('provers') in order to solve a given task. More specifically, we study the case…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lewis Hammond , Sam Adam-Day

Deductive verification is an effective method to ensure that a given system exposes the intended behavior. In spite of its proven usefulness and feasibility in selected projects, deductive verification is still not a mainstream technique.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Lea Salome Brugger , Xavier Denis , Peter Müller

We present a method based on program analysis and formal verification to identify conditionally relevant variables (CRVs) - variables which could lead to violation of safety properties in control software when affected by single event…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ganesha , Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti

Trustworthy verifiers are essential for the success of reinforcement learning with verifiable reward (RLVR), which is the core methodology behind various large reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1. In complex domains like mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yuzhen Huang , Weihao Zeng , Xingshan Zeng , Qi Zhu , Junxian He

Playtesting is an essential step in the game design process. Game designers use the feedback from playtests to refine their designs. Game designers may employ procedural personas to automate the playtesting process. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Sinan Ariyurek , Elif Surer , Aysu Betin-Can

Reinforcement Learning (RL) traditionally relies on scalar reward signals, limiting its ability to leverage the rich semantic knowledge often available in real-world tasks. In contrast, humans learn efficiently by combining numerical…

Autoformalization aims to produce formal statements that compile and faithfully preserve the intended meaning of informal mathematics. Yet standard single-output evaluation protocols collapse a many-to-many problem into a single-output…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haijian Lu , Wei Wang , Jing Liu

LLM-as-a-judge models have been used for evaluating both human and AI generated content, specifically by providing scores and rationales. Rationales, in addition to increasing transparency, help models learn to calibrate its judgments.…

A program verifier produces reliable results only if both the logic used to justify the program's correctness is sound, and the implementation of the program verifier is itself correct. Whereas it is common to formally prove soundness of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Gaurav Parthasarathy , Peter Müller , Alexander J. Summers

Formally verifying system properties is one of the most effective ways of improving system quality, but its high manual effort requirements often render it prohibitively expensive. Tools that automate formal verification, by learning from…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Alex Sanchez-Stern , Emily First , Timothy Zhou , Zhanna Kaufman , Yuriy Brun , Talia Ringer

We give a process for verifying numerical programs against their functional specifications. Our implementation is capable of automatically verifying programs against tight error bounds featuring common elementary functions. We demonstrate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Junaid Rasheed , Michal Konečný

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on external tools such as search engines to solve complex agentic tasks that require reasoning and external knowledge retrieval. Recently, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Peiran Xu , Zhuohao Li , Xiaoying Xing , Guannan Zhang , Debiao Li , Kunyu Shi

One of the most pressing societal issues is the fight against false news. The false claims, as difficult as they are to expose, create a lot of damage. To tackle the problem, fact verification becomes crucial and thus has been a topic of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Pawan Kumar Sahu , Saksham Aggarwal , Taneesh Gupta , Gyanendra Das