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A central aspect of machine learning research is experimentation, the process of designing and running experiments, analyzing the results, and iterating towards some positive outcome (e.g., improving accuracy). Could agents driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Qian Huang , Jian Vora , Percy Liang , Jure Leskovec

AI agents have recently shown significant promise in software engineering. Much public attention has been transfixed on the topic of code generation from Large Language Models (LLMs) via a prompt. However, software engineering is much more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Abhik Roychoudhury

To integrate seamlessly into real-world software engineering, Code Agents must evolve from passive instruction followers into proactive collaborative partners. However, current evaluation paradigms predominantly reward "guessing" user…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jialin Li , Yuan Wu , Yi Chang

We introduce ${\rm C{\small LEVER}}$, a high-quality, curated benchmark of 161 problems for end-to-end verified code generation in Lean. Each problem consists of (1) the task of generating a specification that matches a held-out…

Certified program synthesis (aka vericoding) is the process of automatically generating a program, its formal specification, and a machine-checkable proof of their alignment from a natural-language description. Two challenges make…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yueyang Feng , Dipesh Kafle , Vladimir Gladshtein , Vitaly Kurin , George Pîrlea , Qiyuan Zhao , Peter Müller , Ilya Sergey

Recent progress in formal theorem proving has benefited from large-scale proof generation and verifier-aware training, but agentic proving is rarely integrated into prover training, appearing only at inference time. We present OProver, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 David Ma , Kaijing Ma , Shawn Guo , Yunfeng Shi , Enduo Zhao , Jiajun Shi , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Gavin Cheung , Jiaheng Liu , Zili Wang

Automatic and efficient verification of multiplier designs, especially through a provably correct method, is a difficult problem. We show how to utilize a theorem prover, ACL2, to implement an efficient rewriting algorithm for multiplier…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mertcan Temel

We propose a minimal agentic baseline that enables systematic comparison across different AI-based theorem prover architectures. This design implements the core features shared among state-of-the-art systems: iterative proof refinement,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Borja Requena , Austin Letson , Krystian Nowakowski , Izan Beltran-Ferreiro , Leopoldo Sarra

This study empirically validates automated logical specification methods for behavioural models, focusing on their robustness, scalability, and reproducibility. By the systematic reproduction and extension of prior results, we confirm key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Radoslaw Klimek , Jakub Semczyszyn

Coding agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have gained traction for automating code generation through iterative problem-solving with minimal human involvement. Despite the emergence of various frameworks, e.g., LangChain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Junpeng Wang , Yuzhong Chen , Menghai Pan , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Mahashweta Das

As large language models (LLMs) advance their mathematical capabilities toward the IMO level, the scarcity of challenging, high-quality problems for training and evaluation has become a significant bottleneck. Simultaneously, recent code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dadi Guo , Yuejin Xie , Qingyu Liu , Jiayu Liu , Zhiyuan Fan , Qihan Ren , Shuai Shao , Tianyi Zhou , Dongrui Liu , Yi R. Fung

Can a committee of weak reasoning-model calls reach the performance of much stronger models? We study verifier-backed committee search as inference-time boosting for reasoning language models. The mechanism is not simply that ``more agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Varun Sunkaraneni , Pierfrancesco Beneventano , Riccardo Neumarker , Tomaso Poggio , Tomer Galanti

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful declarative programming paradigm commonly used for solving challenging search and optimization problems. The modeling languages of ASP are supported by sophisticated solving algorithms (solvers)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Zach Hansen

Ensuring the security of complex system-on-chips (SoCs) designs is a critical imperative, yet traditional verification techniques struggle to keep pace due to significant challenges in automation, scalability, comprehensiveness, and…

Large language models have become proficient at generating functional code, but ensuring the output truly matches the programmer's intent remains difficult. Testing improves trust, yet for safety-critical applications, formal verification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mantas Baksys , Stefan Zetzsche , Olivier Bouissou , Remi Delmas , Soonho Kong , Sean B. Holden

To enable human oversight, agentic AI systems often provide a trace of reasoning and action steps. Designing traces to have an informative, but not overwhelming, level of detail remains a critical challenge. In three user studies on a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin , Hussein Mozannar , Maya Murad , Jingya Chen , Saleema Amershi , Adam Fourney

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate Computer-Aided Design (CAD), yet lack physical comprehension required for reliable engineering design. Instead of attempting to implicitly learn physical laws from data, we propose a Hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Elias Berger , Muhammad Usama , Jan Mehlstäubl , Bernhard Saske , Kristin Paetzold-Byhain

Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved programming efficiency, but their performance degrades significantly as requirements scale; when faced with multi-modal documents containing hundreds of scenarios, LLMs often produce incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weiyu Kong , Yun Lin , Xiwen Teoh , Duc-Minh Nguyen , Ruofei Ren , Jiaxin Chang , Haoxu Hu , Haoyu Chen

Agentic theorem provers combine a reasoning model, retrieval, search, and a proof assistant verifier, yet it remains unclear which components actually improve finite-budget proof success and why they help on real mathematical workloads. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Sho Sonoda , Shunta Akiyama , Yuya Uezato

Large language models can consult information that fixed static analyzers cannot, such as documentation, current security advisories, version-specific metadata, and informal API contracts. This makes LLMs a compelling option for program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jacqueline L. Mitchell , Chao Wang