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Translating statistical methods into reliable software is a persistent bottleneck in quantitative research. Existing AI code-generation tools produce code quickly but cannot guarantee faithful implementation -- a critical requirement for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianzhu Qin , Yiqing Xu

Agentic AI coding tools increasingly automate software development tasks. Developers can configure these tools through versioned repository-level artifacts such as Markdown and JSON files. We present a systematic analysis of configuration…

Agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in the software industry, contributing code as collaborators or even autonomous developers. As their presence grows, it becomes important to assess the current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qixing Zhou , Jiacheng Zhang , Haiyang Wang , Rui Hao , Jiahe Wang , Minghao Han , Yuxue Yang , Shuzhe Wu , Feiyang Pan , Lue Fan , Dandan Tu , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for translating natural-language statutes into executable logic, but reliability in legally critical settings remains challenging due to ambiguity and hallucinations. We present an agentic approach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sina Gogani-Khiabani , Ashutosh Trivedi , Diptikalyan Saha , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

Agentic coding tools, such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, are transforming the software engineering landscape. These AI-powered systems function as autonomous teammates capable of planning and executing complex development tasks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kosei Horikawa , Hao Li , Yutaro Kashiwa , Bram Adams , Hajimu Iida , Ahmed E. Hassan

We introduce a comprehensive validation framework for LLM-based agentic systems that provides systematic diagnosis and improvement of reliability failures. The framework includes fifteen failure-detection tools and two root-cause analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hadar Mulian , Sergey Zeltyn , Ido Levy , Liane Galanti , Avi Yaeli , Segev Shlomov

Verification is critical for improving agents: it provides the reward signal for Reinforcement Learning and enables inference-time gains through Test-Time Scaling (TTS). Despite its importance, verification in software engineering (SWE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Mohit Raghavendra , Anisha Gunjal , Bing Liu , Yunzhong He

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capability to understand and develop code. However, their capability to rigorously reason about and prove code correctness remains in question. This paper offers a comprehensive study of…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chenyuan Yang , Natalie Neamtu , Chris Hawblitzel , Jacob R. Lorch , Shan Lu

Agentic systems involved in high-stake decision-making under adversarial pressure need formal guarantees not offered by existing approaches. Motivated by the operational needs of security operations centers (SOCs) that must configure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Kerri Prinos , Lilianne Brush , Cameron Denton , Zhanqi Wang , Joshua Knox , Snehal Antani , Anton Foltz , Amy Villaseñor

While LLM-based agents are able to tackle a wide variety of code reasoning questions, the answers are not always correct. This prevents the agent from being useful in situations where high precision is desired: (1) helping a software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Meghana Sistla , Gogul Balakrishnan , Pat Rondon , José Cambronero , Michele Tufano , Satish Chandra

Agentic systems have recently become the dominant paradigm for formal theorem proving, achieving strong performance by coordinating multiple models and tools. However, existing approaches often rely on task-specific pipelines and trained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Junqi Liu , Zihao Zhou , Zekai Zhu , Marco Dos Santos , Weikun He , Jiawei Liu , Ran Wang , Yunzhou Xie , Junqiao Zhao , Qiufeng Wang , Lihong Zhi , Jia Li , Wenda Li

While AI agents have long been discussed and studied in computer science, today's Agentic AI systems are something new. We consider other definitions of Agentic AI and propose a new realist definition. Agentic AI is a software delivery…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sebastian Benthall , Andrew Clark

Agentic AI in software product development is increasingly adopted by organizations, yet the field lacks a consolidated synthesis of where adoption is mature, which architectural patterns dominate, and what limitations and coping mechanisms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Spyridon Alvanakis Apostolou , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

We report on using an agentic coding assistant (Claude Code, powered by Claude Opus 4.6) to mechanize a substantial Rocq correctness proof from scratch, with human guidance but without human proof writing. The proof establishes semantic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zoe Paraskevopoulou

The capabilities of AI-assisted coding are progressing at breakneck speed. Chat-based vibe coding has evolved into fully fledged AI-assisted, agentic software development using agent scaffolds where the human developer creates a plan that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Magnus Palmblad , Jared M. Ragland , Benjamin A. Neely

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has substantially advanced automatic code generation and formal theorem proving, yet software verification has not seen comparable gains. To address this gap, we propose WybeCoder, an agentic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Fabian Gloeckle , Mantas Baksys , Darius Feher , Kunhao Zheng , Amaury Hayat , Sean B. Holden , Gabriel Synnaeve , Peter O'Hearn

Deductive verification provides strong correctness guarantees for code by extracting verification conditions (VCs) and writing formal proofs for them. The expertise-intensive task of VC proving is the main bottleneck in this process, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Huan Zhao , Haoxin Tu , Zhengyao Liu , Martin Rinard , Abhik Roychoudhury

Atomicity violations in interrupt-driven programs pose a significant threat to software reliability in safety-critical systems. These violations occur when the execution sequence of operations on shared resources is disrupted by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Hang He , Yixing Luo , Chengcheng Wan , Ting Su , Haiying Sun , Geguang Pu

Hardware verification is one of the most challenging stages of the hardware design process, requiring significant time and resources to ensure a design is fully validated and production-ready. Verification teams aim to maximize design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sean Lowe , Elias Hilaneh , Alma Babbit , Nakul Gopalan , Vidya Chhabria , Aman Arora

Formal verification provides mathematical guarantees that a software is correct. Design-level verification tools ensure software specifications are correct, but they do not expose defects in actual implementations. For this purpose,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Paschal C. Amusuo , Parth V. Patil , Owen Cochell , Taylor Le Lievre , James C. Davis