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TLA-Prover model synthesizes verifiable TLA+ specs with 30% success

Researchers have developed TLA-Prover, a 20-billion-parameter model designed to synthesize verifiable TLA+ specifications for distributed systems. This model significantly improves upon existing large language models, achieving a 30% success rate on a benchmark, which is approximately 3.5 times better than previous baselines. TLA-Prover utilizes a combination of supervised fine-tuning and a novel repair-based policy optimization technique to enhance its ability to generate correct and verifiable specifications. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM capabilities for formal verification, potentially improving the reliability of critical software systems.

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TLA-Prover model synthesizes verifiable TLA+ specs with 30% success

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Eric Spencer, Arslan Bisharat, Brian Ortiz, Khushboo Bhadauria, TaiNing Wang, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Laufer, Mohammed Abuhamad ·

    TLA-Prover: Verifiable TLA+ Specification Synthesis via Preference-Optimized Low-Rank Adaptation

    arXiv:2606.06133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: TLA+ is a formal specification language for verifying distributed systems and safety-critical protocols. Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce TLA+ specifications that fail the TLC model checker for semantic reasons. Acr…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohammed Abuhamad ·

    TLA-Prover: Verifiable TLA+ Specification Synthesis via Preference-Optimized Low-Rank Adaptation

    TLA+ is a formal specification language for verifying distributed systems and safety-critical protocols. Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce TLA+ specifications that fail the TLC model checker for semantic reasons. Across 25 LLMs, the best public baseline is 26.6% syn…