25.2CLJun 15
SING: Synthetic Intention Graph for Scalable Active Tool Discovery in LLM AgentsQiao Xiao, Haochen Shi, Yisen Gao et al.
Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on agent harnesses that manage context, tools, and multi-turn execution, making tools a central interface for acting in realistic digital environments. As harness-connected tool ecosystems expand to hundreds or thousands of APIs, services, and task-specific skills, exhaustive tool schema injection becomes costly and imposes a closed-world assumption that limits agents to a predefined static inventory. Retrieval-augmented tool selection offers a natural alternative, but existing one-shot retrieval methods often fail to align isolated tool descriptions with the agent's true task intention, especially in long-horizon tasks where required capabilities emerge through decomposition, observations, and newly induced subgoals. We propose SING, an intention-aware active tool discovery framework that builds an intention-tool graph linking user intentions, tool capabilities, and tool collaboration patterns, and dynamically retrieves tools according to evolving task states. Using a unified corpus of 7,471 tools, we evaluate SING on three real-world tool-use benchmarks. SING improves Global Recall@5 by up to 59.8% and downstream success rate by up to 28.9% over baselines, while reducing full-corpus tool-schema exposure by 99.8%, demonstrating that intention-aware graph structure enables more accurate and context-efficient tool discovery in large-scale agentic ecosystems.
1.9PLJun 15
Synthesizing Best Abstract Transformers via Parallel Bit-Vector OptimizationWeiqi Wang, Peisen Yao, Hanrui Zuo et al.
Abstract interpretation provides a principled foundation for constructing sound static analyses through systematic abstraction. A central challenge is synthesizing the best abstract transformers that achieve optimal precision within a given abstract domain. This paper addresses this problem for low-level code modeled with fixed-size bit-vectors. Recent approaches formulate the synthesis task as a multi-objective Optimization Modulo Theories (OMT) problem, but suffer from limited scalability. We introduce Spear, a parallel synthesis framework that exploits a key structural insight: while the bits within each objective must be processed sequentially, the objectives themselves are independent. Spear leverages the independence of inter-objective bits to better parallelize the synthesis. Experimental results on benchmarks across two binary analysis domains show that Spear consistently outperforms state-of-the-art OMT solvers, solving more instances and achieving significantly improved runtimes. To our knowledge, this is the first approach to apply parallelism to accelerate the synthesis of optimal abstract transformers.
13.3SEJun 15
Neuro-Symbolic Software Verification: Hyper-charging Local Language Models with Symbolic Reasoning at ScaleMuhammad A. A. Pirzada, Julian Parsert, Weiqi Wang et al.
Loop invariant synthesis remains a central and pivotal bottleneck in formal software verification. Recent LLM-based Neuro-Symbolic tools have achieved impressive solve rates. However, these tools rely on proprietary, often expensive cloud APIs, which constitute a hurdle for privacy-sensitive industrial deployments where the source code cannot leave the organisation or where cost is a factor. We present VerIbmc, a neuro-symbolic pipeline that pairs symbolic invariant generation with locally deployable open-weight language models with the ESBMC verification tool. Our pipeline combines a deterministic symbolic invariant synthesis phase with an iterative LLM refinement loop driven by structured verifier feedback. In addition, we provide two types of pipelines that differ in their prompting strategy: Chain-of-Thought vs. Tree-of-Thought. We conduct an extensive experimental evaluation with five open-weight models (ranging from 7B to 120B parameters) across five benchmark families comprising of 520 problems (499 after excluding 21 with unavoidable overflow). Overall, the best single configuration (GPT-OSS-120B) solves 431 of 499 problems (86.4%). Additionally, on the four benchmark suites shared with the strongest cloud-API tools, VerIbmc is competitive running only on a single local machine. The evaluation shows symbolic invariant synthesis solves 75 problems without any LLM call and yields up to +35 additional problems for the weakest model. Importantly, all inference runs entirely on a single local machine using open-weight models -- no cloud API or proprietary model is required. Overall, we demonstrate that a neuro-symbolic approach based on LLMs can be used effectively for invariant synthesis in a privacy-preserving and energy-efficient manner, without having to resort to expensive proprietary frontier models locked behind APIs.