SPLASH 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 Oakland, California, United States
co-located with SPLASH/ISSTA 2026
Wed 7 Oct 2026 10:48 - 11:06 at East Hall 1 - Analysing Dependencies and Alarms Chair(s): Manu Sridharan

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.

Wed 7 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Analysing Dependencies and AlarmsOOPSLA at East Hall 1
Chair(s): Manu Sridharan University of California at Riverside
10:30
18m
Talk
Floating-Point Usage on GitHub: A Large-Scale Study of Statically Typed Languages
OOPSLA
Andrea Gilot Uppsala University, Tobias Wrigstad Uppsala University, Eva Darulova Uppsala University
DOI Pre-print
10:48
18m
Talk
A Tale of 1001 LoC: Potential Runtime Error-Guided Specification Synthesis for Verifying Large-Scale Programs
OOPSLA
Zhongyi Wang Zhejiang University, Tengjie Lin Zhejiang University, Mingshuai Chen Zhejiang University, Haokun Li Peking University, Mingqi Yang Zhejiang University, Xiao Yi Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shengchao Qin Xidian University, Yixing Luo Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Xiaofeng Li Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Bin Gu Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Liqiang Lu Zhejiang University, Jianwei Yin Zhejiang University
DOI
11:06
18m
Talk
Beer: Interactive Alarm Resolution in Bayesian Program Analysis via Exploration-Exploitation
OOPSLA
Haoran Lin Peking University, Zhenyu Yan Peking University, Xin Zhang Peking University
DOI
11:24
18m
Talk
CLower: Detecting Compiler Pessimization Bugs through Redundant Memory Accesses
OOPSLA
Jianhao Xu Southeast University, Kunbo Zhang State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, Mathias Payer EPFL, Kangjie Lu University of Minnesota, Bing Mao State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University
DOI