arXiv:2603. 15510v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The synthesis of inductive loop invariants remains a critical bottleneck in automated program verification.
By Ido Pinto, Yizhak Yisrael Elboher, Haoze Wu, Nina Narodytska, Guy Katz
arXiv:2602. 09464v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vericoding refers to the generation of formally verified code from rigorous specifications.
By Haoyu Zhao, Ziran Yang, Jiawei Li, Deyuan He, Zenan Li, Chi Jin, Venugopal V. Veeravalli, Aarti Gupta, Sanjeev Arora
arXiv:2607. 22759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show promise in code generation, but their capabilities to produce correct, synthesizable hardware description language (HDL) code still remain to be properly benchmarked.
By Angshuman Chakravertty, Rahul Koshti, Buddhi Prakash Sharma, Vinay Chamola
arXiv:2606. 08976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based RTL generation and reasoning is a promising direction for hardware design automation.
By Jing Wang, Shang Liu, Wenji Fang, Yuchao Wu, Yugao Zhu, Zhiyao Xie
arXiv:2606. 15500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have facilitated impressive progress in software engineering, code generation, tooling, and systems.
By Jing Jin, Robert Chu, Ning Yan, Masood S. Mortazavi
arXiv:2604. 16706v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated evaluation of tool-using large language model (LLM) agents is widely assumed to be reliable, yet this assumption is rarely validated against human annotation.
By Bhaskar Gurram
arXiv:2606. 12983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated testbench generation has become a critical bottleneck in large language model (LLM)-driven Register Transfer Level (RTL) workflows, where large numbers of candidate designs must be verified rapidly and reliably.
By En-Ming Huang, Yu-Hung Kao, Ren-Hao Deng, Wei-Po Hsin, Yao-Ting Hsieh, Cheng Liang, Hsiang-Yu Tsou, Mu-Chi Chen, Yu-Kai Hung, Shao-Chun Ho, Po-Hsuang Huang, Shih-Hao Hung, H. T. Kung
arXiv:2606. 20128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmarks for LLM-generated GPU kernels (KernelBench, TritonBench, GEAK) score correctness through fixed-shape, small-sample allclose-style checks.
By Dipankar Sarkar
arXiv:2607. 28877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Verification consumes the majority of modern chip design effort, yet the formal verification tools that provide mathematical guarantees of correctness remain expensive and restrictively licensed.
By Ha Trung Tran
arXiv:2607. 09366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Program verification is crucial for software correctness, but producing fully verified programs remains difficult in practice.
By Shirley Yu, Ruben Martins
arXiv:2606. 26490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static verification tools can assure industrial scale software, but require significant human labor to write specifications.
By Wen Fan, Minh Tran, Sanya Dod, Xin Hu, Marilyn Rego, Danning Xie, Jenna DiVincenzo, Lin Tan
arXiv:2606. 17529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific machine-learning (SciML) surrogates approximate expensive simulations, but exact expected outputs for arbitrary inputs are unavailable (the oracle problem).
By Meng Li, Xiaohua Yang, Jie Liu, Shiyu Yan