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In this work we describe a new learning-based proof guidance -- ENIGMAWatch -- for saturation-style first-order theorem provers. ENIGMAWatch combines two guiding approaches for the given-clause selection implemented for the E ATP system:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Zarathustra Goertzel , Jan Jakubův , Josef Urban

Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) in formal languages is a foundational challenge for AI. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven remarkable progress, a significant gap remains between their powerful informal reasoning capabilities and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zhenwen Liang , Linfeng Song , Yang Li , Tao Yang , Feng Zhang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

Liquid Haskell is an extension to the Haskell programming language that adds support for refinement types: data types augmented with SMT-decidable logical predicates that refine the set of values that can inhabit a type. Furthermore, Liquid…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Patrick Redmond , Gan Shen , Lindsey Kuper

Proof assistants enable users to develop machine-checked proofs regarding software-related properties. Unfortunately, the interactive nature of these proof assistants imposes most of the proof burden on the user, making formal verification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Pedro Carrott , Nuno Saavedra , Kyle Thompson , Sorin Lerner , João F. Ferreira , Emily First

We initiate the study of the verification power of AfAs as part of Arthur-Merlin (AM) proof systems. We show that every unary language is verified by a real-valued AfA verifier. Then, we focus on the verifiers restricted to have only…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Aliya Khadieva , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Assurance cases can be used to argue for the safety of products in safety engineering. In safety-critical areas, the construction of assurance cases is indispensable. Trustworthiness Derivation Trees (TDTs) enhance assurance cases by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zezhong Chen , Yuxin Deng , Wenjie Du

Interactive theorem provers (ITPs) are powerful tools for the formal verification of mathematical proofs down to the axiom level. However, their lack of a natural language interface remains a significant limitation. Recent advancements in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xiaolin Hu , Qinghua Zhou , Bogdan Grechuk , Ivan Y. Tyukin

LPTP (Logic Program Theorem Prover) is an interactive natural-deduction-based theorem prover for pure Prolog programs with negation as failure, unification with the occurs check, and a restricted but extensible set of built-in predicates.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Fred Mesnard , Thierry Marianne , Étienne Payet

This paper reports our initial experiments with using external ATP on some corpora built with the ACL2 system. This is intended to provide the first estimate about the usefulness of such external reasoning and AI systems for solving ACL2…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Sebastiaan Joosten , Cezary Kaliszyk , Josef Urban

Currently, there is a lack of rigorous theoretical system for systematically generating non-trivial and logically valid theorems. Addressing this critical gap, this paper conducts research to propose a novel automated theorem generation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yang Xu , Peiyao Liu , Shuwei Chen , Jun Liu

Sized types are a modular and theoretically well-understood tool for checking termination of recursive and productivity of corecursive definitions. The essential idea is to track structural descent and guardedness in the type system to make…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Andreas Abel

Enabling more concise and modular proofs is essential for advancing formal reasoning using interactive theorem provers (ITPs). Since many ITPs, such as Rocq and Lean, use tactic-style proofs, learning higher-level custom tactics is crucial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yutong Xin , Jimmy Xin , Gabriel Poesia , Noah Goodman , Qiaochu Chen , Isil Dillig

Despite extensive research both on the theoretical and practical fronts, formalising, reasoning about, and implementing languages with variable binding is still a daunting endeavour - repetitive boilerplate and the overly complicated…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Marcelo Fiore , Dmitrij Szamozvancev

In a case study we investigate whether off the shelf higher-order theorem provers and model generators can be employed to automate reasoning in and about quantified multimodal logics. In our experiments we exploit the new TPTP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-28 Christoph Benzmueller

While methods of code abstraction and reuse are widespread and well researched, methods of proof abstraction and reuse are still emerging. We consider the use of dependent types for this purpose, introducing a completely mechanical approach…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Christopher Schwaab , Jeremy G. Siek

Automated theorem proving in first-order logic is an active research area which is successfully supported by machine learning. While there have been various proposals for encoding logical formulas into numerical vectors -- from simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Veronika Thost , Maxwell Crouse , Achille Fokoue

Among formal methods, the deductive verification approach allows establishing the strongest possible formal guarantees on critical software. The downside is the cost in terms of human effort required to design adequate formal specifications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sylvain Dailler , Claude Marché , Yannick Moy

We are using the Agda programming language and proof assistant to formally verify the correctness of a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus implementation based on HotStuff / LibraBFT. The Agda implementation is a translation of our Haskell…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Harold Carr , Christa Jenkins , Mark Moir , Victor Cacciari Miraldo , Lisandra Silva

We present a novel approach to automated proof generation for the TLA+ Proof System (TLAPS) using Large Language Models (LLMs). Our method combines two key components: a sub-proof obligation generation phase that breaks down complex proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yuhao Zhou

Humans can develop new theorems to explore broader and more complex mathematical results. While current generative language models (LMs) have achieved significant improvement in automatically proving theorems, their ability to generate new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaohan Lin , Qingxing Cao , Yinya Huang , Zhicheng Yang , Zhengying Liu , Zhenguo Li , Xiaodan Liang