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Being able to soundly estimate roundoff errors of finite-precision computations is important for many applications in embedded systems and scientific computing. Due to the discrepancy between continuous reals and discrete finite-precision…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Heiko Becker , Nikita Zyuzin , Raphael Monat , Eva Darulova , Magnus O. Myreen , Anthony Fox

Reliable verification of proofs remains a bottleneck for training and evaluating AI systems on hard mathematical reasoning. Fully formal proofs, in languages like Lean, are easy to verify because they are unambiguous and modular. Most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Slim Barkallah , Luke Bailey , Kaiyue Wen , Mohammed Abouzaid , Tengyu Ma

We propose a general framework to build certified proofs of distributed self-stabilizing algorithms with the proof assistant Coq. We first define in Coq the locally shared memory model with composite atomicity, the most commonly used model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Karine Altisen , Pierre Corbineau , Stephane Devismes

Automatic verification deals with the validation by means of computers of correctness certificates. The related tools, usually called proof assistants or interactive provers, provide an interactive environment for the creation of formal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Andrea Asperti

Large language models (LLMs) can potentially help with verification using proof assistants by automating proofs. However, it is unclear how effective LLMs are in this task. In this paper, we perform a case study based on two mature Rocq…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Barış Bayazıt , Yao Li , Xujie Si

Current approaches for formal verification of algorithms face important limitations. For specification, they cannot express algorithms naturally and concisely, especially for algorithms with states and flexible control flow. For…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Chengxi Yang , Shushu Wu , Qinxiang Cao

We present a novel characterization of stable mergesort functions using relational parametricity, and show that it implies the functional correctness of mergesort. As a result, one can prove the correctness of several variations of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Cyril Cohen , Kazuhiko Sakaguchi

Automated theorem proving is fundamental to formal methods, and the recent trend is to integrate large language models (LLMs) and proof assistants to form effective proof agents. While existing proof agents show promising performance, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yican Sun , Chengwei Shi , Hangzhou Lyu , Yingfei Xiong

On the one hand, ordered completion is a fundamental technique in equational theorem proving that is employed by automated tools. On the other hand, their complexity makes such tools inherently error prone. As a remedy to this situation we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Christian Sternagel , Sarah Winkler

Numerous theorems, such as those in geometry, are often presented in multimodal forms (e.g., diagrams). Humans benefit from visual reasoning in such settings, using diagrams to gain intuition and guide the proof process. Modern Multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zhitao He , Zongwei Lyu , Dazhong Chen , Dadi Guo , Yi R. Fung

In this paper, we introduce a system called GamePad that can be used to explore the application of machine learning methods to theorem proving in the Coq proof assistant. Interactive theorem provers such as Coq enable users to construct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Daniel Huang , Prafulla Dhariwal , Dawn Song , Ilya Sutskever

One of the main issues in proof certification is that different theorem provers, even when designed for the same logic, tend to use different proof formalisms and produce outputs in different formats. The project ProofCert promotes the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Tomer Libal , Marco Volpe

In the context of interactive theorem provers based on a dependent type theory, automation tactics (dedicated decision procedures, call of automated solvers, ...) are often limited to goals which are exactly in some expected logical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Valentin Blot , Denis Cousineau , Enzo Crance , Louise Dubois de Prisque , Chantal Keller , Assia Mahboubi , Pierre Vial

Choreographic programming is a paradigm for writing coordination plans for distributed systems from a global point of view, from which correct-by-construction decentralised implementations can be generated automatically. Theory of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Luís Cruz-Filipe , Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti

The problem-solving in automated theorem proving (ATP) can be interpreted as a search problem where the prover constructs a proof tree step by step. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning algorithm for proof search in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Mitsuru Kusumoto , Keisuke Yahata , Masahiro Sakai

The automated generation of exercises may substantially reduce the time educators devote to manual exercise design. A major obstacle to the integration of such automation into teaching practice, however, lies in the ability to control the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 João Mendes , João Marcos , Patrick Terrematte

Applying Gr\"obner basis theory to concrete problems in Lean 4 remains difficult since the current formalization of multivariate polynomials is based on a non-computable representation and is therefore not suitable for efficient symbolic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hao Shen , Junyu Guo , Junqi Liu , Lihong Zhi

Interactive theorem provers such as Coq are powerful tools to formally guarantee the correctness of software. However, using these tools requires significant manual effort and expertise. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Minghai Lu , Benjamin Delaware , Tianyi Zhang

Formalizing mathematical proofs using computerized verification languages like Lean 4 has the potential to significantly impact the field of mathematics, it offers prominent capabilities for advancing mathematical reasoning. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Xichen Tang

Symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) are a common framework for reasoning about computation, focusing on the parallel and sequential compositionality of operations. String diagrams are a ubiquitous and powerful tool for reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Benjamin Caldwell , William Spencer , Aleks Kissinger , Robert Rand