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FM-Agent: Scaling Formal Methods to Large Systems via LLM-Based Hoare-Style Reasoning

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arXiv:2604. 11556v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-assisted software development has become increasingly prevalent, and can generate large-scale systems, such as compilers.

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