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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate requirements specifications, design documents, code, and test cases. In contrast, much less attention has been given to a more difficult assurance problem: statically verifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhi Quan Zhou , Dave Towey , Tsong Yueh Chen

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the widespread deployment of LLM-based systems across diverse domains. As these systems proliferate, understanding the risks associated with their complex supply chains is increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yujie Ma , Lili Quan , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Jiongchi Yu , Yao Zhang , Sen Chen

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and hardware security is rapidly reshaping the semiconductor industry. While LLMs offer unprecedented capabilities in generating Register Transfer Level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Ramesh Karri

Autoformalization, the process of translating informal statements into formal logic, has gained renewed interest with the emergence of powerful Large Language Models (LLMs). While LLMs show promise in generating structured outputs from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mihir Gupte , Ramesh S

Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) often require external tools, such as machine learning classifiers or knowledge retrieval systems, to provide accurate answers in domains where their pre-trained knowledge is insufficient. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Panagiotis Lymperopoulos , Vasanth Sarathy

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into software engineering has revolutionized code generation, enabling unprecedented productivity through promptware and autonomous AI agents. However, this transformation introduces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Satyam Kumar Navneet , Joydeep Chandra

Requirements traceability, the process of establishing and maintaining relationships between requirements and various software development artifacts, is paramount for ensuring system integrity and fulfilling requirements throughout the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Nouf Alturayeif , Irfan Ahmad , Jameleddine Hassine

Manufacturing quality audits are pivotal for ensuring high product standards in mass production environments. Traditional auditing processes, however, are labor-intensive and reliant on human expertise, posing challenges in maintaining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xu Yao , Xiaoxu Wu , Xi Li , Huan Xu , Chenlei Li , Ping Huang , Si Li , Xiaoning Ma , Jiulong Shan

Large language model (LLM)-based AI agents extend LLM capabilities by enabling access to tools such as data sources, APIs, search engines, code sandboxes, and even other agents. While this empowers agents to perform complex tasks, LLMs may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Aarya Doshi , Yining Hong , Congying Xu , Eunsuk Kang , Alexandros Kapravelos , Christian Kästner

Assertion-based verification (ABV) is a critical method to ensure logic designs comply with their architectural specifications. ABV requires assertions, which are generally converted from specifications through human interpretation by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Zhiyuan Yan , Wenji Fang , Mengming Li , Min Li , Shang Liu , Zhiyao Xie , Hongce Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that add malicious tokens to an input prompt to bypass the safety guardrails of an LLM and cause it to produce harmful content. In this work, we introduce erase-and-check,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Aounon Kumar , Chirag Agarwal , Suraj Srinivas , Aaron Jiaxun Li , Soheil Feizi , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Recent work has shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) are not only a suitable tool for code generation but also capable of generating annotation-based code specifications. Scaling these methodologies may allow us to deduce provable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Samuel Teuber , Bernhard Beckert

For the ACMMM25 challenge, we present a practical engineering approach to multimedia news source verification, utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4o as the backbone of our pipeline. Our method processes images and videos…

The growing emphasis on energy efficiency and environmental sustainability in global supply chains introduces new challenges in the deployment of hyperconnected logistic hub networks. In current volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yinzhu Quan , Yujia Xu , Guanlin Chen , Frederick Benaben , Benoit Montreuil

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized artificial intelligence, introducing unprecedented capabilities in natural language processing and multimodal content generation. However, the increasing complexity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Shenao Wang , Yanjie Zhao , Xinyi Hou , Haoyu Wang

Converting high-level tasks described by natural language into formal specifications like Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a key step towards providing formal safety guarantees over cyber-physical systems (CPS). While the compliance of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Junle Li , Siqi Chen , Jiakai Li , Meiqi Tian , Bingzhuo Zhong

Multi-turn tool-calling LLMs (models capable of invoking external APIs or tools across several user turns) have emerged as a key feature in modern AI assistants, enabling extended dialogues from benign tasks to critical business, medical,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Daud Waqas , Aaryamaan Golthi , Erika Hayashida , Huanzhi Mao

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in sensitive domains such as healthcare and financial institutions' data analytics; however, their execution pipelines remain vulnerable to manipulation and unverifiable behavior.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Saeid Jamshidi , Kawser Wazed Nafi , Arghavan Moradi Dakhel , Foutse Khomh , Amin Nikanjam , Mohammad Adnan Hamdaqa

The companion paper introduced a four-level verification lattice on agent-skill manifests (unverified, declared, tested, formal) and left the top level aspirational. This paper closes that gap. We give a precise semantics for skill…

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