An Empirical Study of LLM-Generated Specifications for VeriFast
arXiv:2606. 26490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static verification tools can assure industrial scale software, but require significant human labor to write specifications.
The paper introduces the first benchmark suite for formal verification of PLC programs, covering both Structured Text and Ladder Diagram encodings of IEC 61131‑3. It contains 50 programs in 83 variants across ten industrial domains, each paired with a formal property, a machine‑checkable expected verdict, and a violation witness in SV‑COMP format. The suite’s ground‑truth methodology uses construction, fault injection, and cross‑tool consensus to ensure reliable verdicts, and the authors validate it with ESBMC and nuXmv, revealing format and semantics fragmentation in existing tools.
arXiv:2606. 26490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static verification tools can assure industrial scale software, but require significant human labor to write specifications.
The paper introduces ReviveBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate coding agents’ ability to revive non‑running software and reconstruct industrial engines from open specifications. It comprises two families of tasks—revival (ten tasks addressing dependency issues, missing modules, legacy builds, and GPU models) and reconstruction (thirteen tasks covering numerical, geometric, hardware, and transactional systems). The benchmark uses hidden verifiers calibrated against native environments, engineering tools, or reference implementations, and the authors report that the strongest evaluated model passes all revival tasks and most reconstruction tasks, while also uncovering verifier defects that highlight measurement error in executable verification.
arXiv:2607. 12650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool access alone does not make LLM empirical reasoning governable: accepted outputs need not descend from attested evidence, and accepted deductions need not hold up under formal scrutiny.
arXiv:2608. 19009v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly paired with verifiers (step checkers, self-consistency filters, tool-based fact checkers, formal proof assistants) that claim to detect the model's errors.
arXiv:2606. 13706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present HierSVA, an integrated suite that combines a pipeline, dataset, and benchmark for LLM-driven hierarchical hardware formal verification.
arXiv:2608. 02630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph engineering often distributes accepted state, observations, constraints, processes, and hypothetical scenarios across artifacts whose combined execution contract remains external.
arXiv:2609.21190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ensuring the correctness of LLM-generated code is a core challenge for modern software engineering. Benchmarks for agentic code generation check corr...
arXiv:2602. 09464v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vericoding refers to the generation of formally verified code from rigorous specifications.
arXiv:2608. 13450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles depend on large safety-critical software stacks, where weaknesses reachable from adversarial inputs may affect steering, braking, or other control decisions.
The paper introduces a framework that translates natural‑language descriptions into SysMLv2 models using a generate‑check‑repair loop driven by a SysMLv2 conformance checker. By embedding the checker as an oracle, the system iteratively repairs generated models until they achieve zero conformance errors, ensuring they are deployable in industrial modeling environments. Evaluation on 151 prompts across four large language models shows the approach raises production‑conformance acceptance from 51.16% to 100%.
arXiv:2607. 21199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Grounding, the translation of high-level theories into equivalent quantifier-free formulas, is a crucial step in declarative solving, yet it has so far escaped the proof-logging revolution.
arXiv:2609.39568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) may generate unreliable code on corner cases missed by testing, while formal verification can provide machine-checkable...