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Smart contract is a kind of self-executing code based on blockchain technology with a wide range of application scenarios, but the traditional generation method relies on manual coding and expert auditing, which has a high threshold and low…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hao Luo , Yuhao Lin , Xiao Yan , Xintong Hu , Yuxiang Wang , Qiming Zeng , Hao Wang , Jiawei Jiang

We present a symbolic-execution-based algorithm that for a given program and a given program location produces a nontrivial necessary condition on input values to drive the program execution to the given location. We also propose an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Jan Strejček , Marek Trtík

This vision paper articulates a long-term research agenda for formal methods at the intersection with artificial intelligence, outlining multiple conceptual and technical dimensions and reporting on our ongoing work toward realising this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Arshad Beg , Diarmuid O'Donoghue , Rosemary Monahan

Recent advances in Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their promising capabilities of generating robot operation code to enable LLM-driven robots. To enhance the reliability of operation code generated by LLMs, corrective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wenhao Wang , Yi Rong , Yanyan Li , Long Jiao , Jiawei Yuan

Generative models for source code are an interesting structured prediction problem, requiring to reason about both hard syntactic and semantic constraints as well as about natural, likely programs. We present a novel model for this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Marc Brockschmidt , Miltiadis Allamanis , Alexander L. Gaunt , Oleksandr Polozov

Monitoring and analyzing process traces is a critical task for modern companies and organizations. In scenarios where there is a gap between trace events and reference business activities, this entails an interpretation problem, amounting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bettina Fazzinga , Sergio Flesca , Filippo Furfaro , Luigi Pontieri , Francesco Scala

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in in-context learning (ICL), where models adapt to new tasks through example-based prompts without requiring parameter updates. However, understanding how tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Baturay Saglam , Xinyang Hu , Zhuoran Yang , Dionysis Kalogerias , Amin Karbasi

Skills have become a practical packaging mechanism for agent instructions, workflows, scripts, and reference materials. In enterprise settings, however, a skill often needs to express more than task guidance: goals, input boundaries,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ting Liu

We encode arrays as functions which, in turn, are encoded as sets of ordered pairs. The set cardinality of each of these functions coincides with the length of the array it is representing. Then we define a fragment of set theory that is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Maximiliano Cristiá , Gianfranco Rossi

Scientific software is, by its very nature, complex. It is mathematical and highly optimized which makes it prone to subtle bugs not as easily detected by traditional testing. We outline how symbolic execution can be used to write tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Alexander C. Wilton

Generating executable code from natural language instructions using Large Language Models (LLMs) poses challenges such as semantic ambiguity and understanding taskspecific contexts. To address these issues, we propose a system called…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nirmal Joshua Kapu , Mihit Sreejith

Code contracts provide a robust way to specify functional requirements of safety-critical software in embedded systems. For example, the ANSI/ISO C Specification Language (ACSL) can be used to specify the functional behavior of C code that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jesper Amilon , Merlijn Sevenhuijsen , Mattias Nyberg , Karl Palmskog

This paper aims to develop a framework that enables a robot to execute tasks based on visual information, in response to natural language instructions for Fetch-and-Carry with Object Grounding (FCOG) tasks. Although there have been many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Motonari Kambara , Komei Sugiura

Program synthesis is the generation of a program from a specification. Correct synthesis is difficult, and methods that provide formal guarantees suffer from scalability issues. On the other hand, neural networks are able to generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Elizabeth Polgreen , Ralph Abboud , Daniel Kroening

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have substantially enhanced automated code generation across a wide range of programming languages. Nonetheless, verifying the correctness and executability of LLM-generated code remains a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Xinkui Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Zhengyi Zhou , Yueshen Xu

Symbolic execution is a powerful verification tool for hardware designs, but suffers from the path explosion problem. We introduce a new approach, piecewise composition, which leverages the modular structure of hardware to transfer the work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Kaki Ryan , Cynthia Sturton

In-context learning (ICL) in Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a powerful new learning paradigm. However, its underlying mechanism is still not well understood. In particular, it is challenging to map it to the "standard" machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Roee Hendel , Mor Geva , Amir Globerson

Symbolic Regression aims to automatically identify compact and interpretable mathematical expressions that model the functional relationship between input and output variables. Most existing search-based symbolic regression methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jianwen Sun , Xinrui Li , Fuqing Li , Xiaoxuan Shen

Modern engineering systems include many components of different types and functions. Verifying that these systems satisfy given specifications can be an arduous task, as most formal verification methods are limited to systems of moderate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Miel Sharf , Bart Besselink , Adam Molin , Qiming Zhao , Karl Henrik Johansson

Symbolic execution is a well established method for test input generation. Despite of having achieved tremendous success over numerical domains, existing symbolic execution techniques for heap-based programs are limited due to the lack of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Long H. Pham , Quang Loc Le , Quoc-Sang Phan , Jun Sun , Shengchao Qin