Verification of PETSc with CIVL using LLM-generated ACSL contracts and deterministic driver generation

arXiv:2609.31687 · cs.CL, cs.MS, cs.PL, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.MS, cs.PL, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Terminology

• Verification — 33× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Argonne National Laboratory — 2× in this paper
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Formal Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Verifier — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• ATLAS: Automated Toolkit for Large-Scale Verified Code Synthesis

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