InvWeaver: Deductive Feedback for Invariant Synthesis in Interacting-Loop Programs
For program verification researchers, InvWeaver provides a neuro-symbolic method that handles complex multi-loop programs where prior LLM-based approaches fail.
InvWeaver addresses loop invariant inference for programs with multiple interacting loops, outperforming existing methods by solving 72 out of 82 multi-loop benchmarks.
Loop invariant inference is a fundamental yet challenging problem in program verification. Recent LLM-aided guess-and-check techniques have shown strong performance on single-loop programs, but they often struggle with programs containing multiple interacting loops. This paper presents InvWeaver, a neuro-symbolic framework for synthesizing invariants for such programs. The key idea is to expose inter-loop dependencies and propagate proof obligations through a combination of loop-level abstraction, obligation-guided inference, and weakest-precondition-based refinement. We evaluate InvWeaver on a comprehensive benchmark suite, including a newly curated dataset derived from classic algorithms. Experimental results show that InvWeaver substantially outperforms existing invariant inference methods, solving 72 out of 82 multi-loop benchmark problems and maintaining strong performance on single-loop tasks.