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most citedInterval Analysis in Industrial-Scale BMC Software Verifiers: A Case Study

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cs.SE2026

Partial Contracts Suffice: Sound, LLM-Inferred Regression Verification

Yiannis Charalambous, Rafael Menezes, Youcheng Sun +1

Software evolves continuously, yet ensuring that a patch preserves intended behavior without re-verifying an entire codebase remains difficult. Regression verification addresses th…

cs.SE2025

Floating-Point Neural Network Verification at the Software Level

Edoardo Manino, Bruno Farias, Rafael Sá Menezes +2

The behaviour of neural network components must be proven correct before deployment in safety-critical systems. Unfortunately, existing neural network verification techniques canno…

cs.LG2025

GPT, But Backwards: Exactly Inverting Language Model Outputs

Adrians Skapars, Edoardo Manino, Youcheng Sun +1

Recent work shows that distinct inputs produce distinct hidden representations in LLMs, so the input can in principle be recovered from them. Yet, no existing method can reliably d…

cs.PL2025★ 1 cited

Neural Network Verification is a Programming Language Challenge

Lucas C. Cordeiro, Matthew L. Daggitt, Julien Girard-Satabin +8

Neural network verification is a new and rapidly developing field of research. So far, the main priority has been establishing efficient verification algorithms and tools, while pr…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Was it Slander? Towards Exact Inversion of Generative Language Models

Adrians Skapars, Edoardo Manino, Youcheng Sun +1

Training large language models (LLMs) requires a substantial investment of time and money. To get a good return on investment, the developers spend considerable effort ensuring tha…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Interval Analysis in Industrial-Scale BMC Software Verifiers: A Case Study

Rafael Sá Menezes, Edoardo Manino, Fedor Shmarov +3

Bounded Model Checking (BMC) is a widely used software verification technique. Despite its successes, the technique has several limiting factors, from state-space explosion to lack…

cs.SE2024

Verifying components of Arm(R) Confidential Computing Architecture with ESBMC

Tong Wu, Shale Xiong, Edoardo Manino +2

Realm Management Monitor (RMM) is an essential firmware component within the recent Arm Confidential Computing Architecture (Arm CCA). Previous work applies formal techniques to ve…

cs.LO2024

ESBMC v7.6: Enhanced Model Checking of C++ Programs with Clang AST

Xianzhiyu Li, Kunjian Song, Mikhail R. Gadelha +4

This paper presents Efficient SMT-Based Context-Bounded Model Checker (ESBMC) v7.6, an extended version based on previous work on ESBMC v7.3 by K. Song et al. The v7.3 introduced a…

cs.SE2024

Automated Repair of AI Code with Large Language Models and Formal Verification

Yiannis Charalambous, Edoardo Manino, Lucas C. Cordeiro

The next generation of AI systems requires strong safety guarantees. This report looks at the software implementation of neural networks and related memory safety properties, inclu…

cs.CR2024

FuSeBMC AI: Acceleration of Hybrid Approach through Machine Learning

Kaled M. Alshmrany, Mohannad Aldughaim, Chenfeng Wei +3

We present FuSeBMC-AI, a test generation tool grounded in machine learning techniques. FuSeBMC-AI extracts various features from the program and employs support vector machine and…

cs.SE2024

Generative transformations and patterns in LLM-native approaches for software verification and falsification

Víctor A. Braberman, Flavia Bonomo-Braberman, Yiannis Charalambous +3

The emergence of prompting as the dominant paradigm for leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a proliferation of LLM-native software, where application behavior arises…

cs.SE2023

ESBMC v7.4: Harnessing the Power of Intervals

Rafael Menezes, Mohannad Aldughaim, Bruno Farias +9

ESBMC implements many state-of-the-art techniques for model checking. We report on new and improved features that allow us to obtain verification results for previously unsupported…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

NeuroCodeBench: a plain C neural network benchmark for software verification

Edoardo Manino, Rafael Sá Menezes, Fedor Shmarov +1

Safety-critical systems with neural network components require strong guarantees. While existing neural network verification techniques have shown great progress towards this goal,…