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While leveraging LLMs to automatically generate SystemVerilog assertions (SVAs) from natural language specifications holds great potential, existing techniques face a key challenge: LLMs often lack sufficient understanding of IC design,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yonghao Wang , Jiaxin Zhou , Yang Yin , Hongqin Lyu , Zhiteng Chao , Wenchao Ding , Jing Ye , Tiancheng Wang , Huawei Li

Sequence generation and prediction form a cornerstone of modern machine learning, with applications spanning natural language processing, program synthesis, and time-series forecasting. These tasks are typically modeled in an autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Vincenzo Collura , Karim Tit , Laura Bussi , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Maxime Cordy

Current abstractive summarization systems outperform their extractive counterparts, but their widespread adoption is inhibited by the inherent lack of interpretability. To achieve the best of both worlds, we propose EASE, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Haoran Li , Arash Einolghozati , Srinivasan Iyer , Bhargavi Paranjape , Yashar Mehdad , Sonal Gupta , Marjan Ghazvininejad

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus remains one of the most compelling and challenging benchmarks for tracking progress toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence. In contrast to other evaluation datasets designed to assess an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Michael D. Moffitt

Algorithmic reasoning -- the ability to perform step-by-step logical inference -- has become a core benchmark for evaluating reasoning in graph neural networks (GNNs) and large language models (LLMs). Ideally, one would like to design a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dongyue Li , Zhenshuo Zhang , Minxuan Duan , Edgar Dobriban , Hongyang R. Zhang

Most of the existing information extraction frameworks (Wadden et al., 2019; Veysehet al., 2020) focus on sentence-level tasks and are hardly able to capture the consolidated information from a given document. In our endeavour to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Debanjana Kar , Sudeshna Sarkar , Pawan Goyal

Structured claim decomposition is often proposed as a solution for verifying complex, multi-faceted claims, yet empirical results have been inconsistent. We argue that these inconsistencies stem from two overlooked bottlenecks: evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mahmud Elahi Akhter , Federico Ruggeri , Iman Munire Bilal , Rob Procter , Maria Liakata

We present ABETS, an assertion-based, dynamic analyzer that helps diagnose errors in Maude programs. ABETS uses slicing to automatically create reduced versions of both a run's execution trace and executed program, reduced versions in which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-05 M. Alpuente , D. Ballis , F. Frechina , J. Sapiña

The task of inferring logical formulas from examples has garnered significant attention as a means to assist engineers in creating formal specifications used in the design, synthesis, and verification of computing systems. Among various…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider

The lack of labeled data is a major obstacle to learning high-quality sentence embeddings. Recently, self-supervised contrastive learning (SCL) is regarded as a promising way to address this problem. However, the existing works mainly rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Junhan Yang , Zheng Liu , Shitao Xiao , Jianxun Lian , Lijun Wu , Defu Lian , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

Autoregressive (AR) models have shown great promise in image generation, yet they face a fundamental inefficiency stemming from their core component: a vast, unstructured vocabulary of visual tokens. This conventional approach treats tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Lixuan He , Shikang Zheng , Linfeng Zhang

Recent progress in LLM reasoning has increasingly shifted from single-pass generation to explicit search over intermediate reasoning states. Tree-of-Thoughts (ToT) organizes inference to tree-structured search with branching and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yeqiu Chen , Ziyan Liu , Zhenxin Huang , Runquan Gui , Hong Wang , Lei Liu

LLMs can generate SystemVerilog assertions (SVAs) from natural language specs, but single-pass outputs often lack functional coverage due to limited IC design understanding. We propose CoverAssert, an iterative framework that clusters…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yonghao Wang , Yang Yin , Hongqin Lyu , Jiaxin Zhou , Zhiteng Chao , Mingyu Shi , Wenchao Ding , Yunlin Du , Jing Ye , Tiancheng Wang , Huawei Li

Abstract reasoning ability reflects the intelligence and generalization capacity of LLMs to extract and apply abstract rules. However, accurately measuring this ability remains challenging: existing benchmarks either rely on expensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qingchuan Ma , Yuexiao Ma , Yongkang Xie , Tianyu Xie , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji

Speculative decoding has been widely used to accelerate auto-regressive (AR) text generation. However, its effectiveness for visual AR models remains limited due to token selection ambiguity, where multiple tokens share similarly low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sihwan Park , Doohyuk Jang , Sungyub Kim , Souvik Kundu , Eunho Yang

DBSCAN, a well-known density-based clustering algorithm, has gained widespread popularity and usage due to its effectiveness in identifying clusters of arbitrary shapes and handling noisy data. However, it encounters challenges in producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Hao Peng , Xiang Huang , Shuo Sun , Ruitong Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Despite the syntactic fluency of Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring their logical correctness in high-stakes domains remains a fundamental challenge. We present a neurosymbolic framework that combines LLMs with SMT solvers to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Vikash Singh , Darion Cassel , Nathaniel Weir , Nick Feng , Sam Bayless

Tree-based models underpin many modern semantic search engines and recommender systems due to their sub-linear inference times. In industrial applications, these models operate at extreme scales, where every bit of performance is critical.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Philip A. Etter , Kai Zhong , Hsiang-Fu Yu , Lexing Ying , Inderjit Dhillon

Adaptive inference schemes reduce the cost of machine learning inference by assigning smaller models to easier examples, attempting to avoid invocation of larger models when possible. In this work we explore a simple, effective adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Steven Kolawole , Don Dennis , Ameet Talwalkar , Virginia Smith

Specification inference techniques aim at (automatically) inferring a set of assertions that capture the exhibited software behaviour by generating and filtering assertions through dynamic test executions and mutation testing. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aayush Garg , Renzo Degiovanni , Facundo Molina , Mike Papadakis , Nazareno Aguirre , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon