Xiaofeng Li

Xiaofeng Li


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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

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10 April 2026 in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
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ZWZhongyi Wang
Zhongyi Wang
TLTengjie Lin
Tengjie Lin
MCMingshuai Chen
Mingshuai Chen
HLHaokun Li
Haokun Li
MYMingqi Yang
Mingqi Yang
JYJianwei Yin
Jianwei Yin
Fully automated verification of large-scale software and hardware systems is arguably the holy grail of formal methods. Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated their potential for enhancing the degree of automation in formal verification by, e.g., generating formal specifications as essential to deductive verification, yet exhibit poor scalability due to long-context reasoning limitations and, more importantly, the difficulty of inferring complex, interprocedural specifications. This paper presents Preguss - a modular, fine-grained framework for automating the generation and refinement of formal specifications. Preguss synergizes between static analysis and deductive verification by steering two components in a divide-and-conquer fashion: (i) potential runtime error-guided construction and prioritization of verification units, and (ii) LLM-aided synthesis of interprocedural specifications at the unit level. We show that Preguss substantially outperforms state-of-the-art LLM-based approaches and, in particular, it enables highly automated RTE-freeness verification for real-world programs with over a thousand LoC, with a reduction of 80.6%~88.9% human verification effort.

20 October 2023
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Conference Paper
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HWHeran Wang
Heran Wang
XDXiaogang Dong
Xiaogang Dong
BGBin Gu
Bin Gu
XLXiaofeng Li
Xiaofeng Li
RZRuiming Zhong
Ruiming Zhong



20 October 2023
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WSWeirui Shang
Weirui Shang
JDJihong Dang
Jihong Dang
YCYao Chen
Yao Chen
XLXiaofeng Li
Xiaofeng Li
XDXiaogang Dong
Xiaogang Dong