POPL 2026
Sun 11 - Sat 17 January 2026 Rennes, France

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Sun 11 Jan 2026 16:18 - 16:36 at Horizons - Session 4

We present a benchmark for vericoding, generation of formally verified code from formal specifications — in contrast to vibe coding, which generates potentially buggy code from natural language descriptions. Rapid AI progress has popularized LLM-based generation of computer programs from natural language descriptions. Unfortunately, the resulting code can be buggy, and traditional test case analysis can typically only demonstrate the presence and not the absence of bugs. Fortunately, rigorous correctness guarantees can be created via formal verification, by generating a machine-checkable proof that code meets its human-written specifications.

To support automation of formal verification and vericoding, we present an extensive suite of formal specifications for Lean, Rust/Verus and Dafny. We discuss how we assembled and curated these tasks, as well as vericoding results from straightforward LLM-prompting experiments

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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Sun 11 Jan

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16:00 - 18:00
Session 4Dafny at Horizons
16:00
18m
Talk
ATLAS: Automated Toolkit for Large-Scale Verified Code Synthesis
Dafny
Mantas Bakšys University of Cambridge, Stefan Zetzsche Amazon Web Services, Olivier Bouissou Amazon Web Services, Soonho Kong Amazon Web Services, Remi Delmas Amazon Web Services
Pre-print
16:18
18m
Talk
A benchmark for vericoding: formally verified program synthesis
Dafny
Sergiu Bursuc Beneficial AI Foundation, Theodore Ehrenborg Beneficial AI Foundation, Shaowei Lin Beneficial AI Foundation, Lăcrămioara Aștefănoaei Beneficial AI Foundation, Ionel Emilian Chiosa MIT, Jure Kukovec Beneficial AI Foundation, Alok Singh Beneficial AI Foundation, Oliver Butterley Beneficial AI Foundation, Adem Bizid MIT, Quinn Dougherty Beneficial AI Foundation, Miranda Zhao MIT, Max Tan MIT, Max Tegmark Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pre-print File Attached
16:36
18m
Talk
DafnyPro: LLM-Assisted Automated Verification for Dafny Programs
Dafny
Debangshu Banerjee UIUC, Olivier Bouissou Amazon Web Services, Stefan Zetzsche Amazon Web Services
16:54
18m
Talk
MiniF2F-Dafny: LLM-Guided Mathematical Theorem Proving via Auto-Active Verification
Dafny
Mantas Bakšys University of Cambridge, Stefan Zetzsche Amazon Web Services, Olivier Bouissou Amazon Web Services
Pre-print
17:12
18m
Talk
Specification-Guided Repair of Arithmetic Errors in Dafny Programs using LLMs
Dafny
Valentina Wu Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Alexandra Mendes Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto & INESC TEC, Alexandre Abreu INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto
17:30
18m
Talk
Toward Automated, Contamination-free Dafny Benchmark Generation
Dafny
Changjie Wang KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Mariano Scazzariello RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Dejan Kostic KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Marco Chiesa KTH Royal Institute of Technology
17:48
12m
Day closing
Day closing
Dafny
Stefan Zetzsche Amazon Web Services, Yannick Moy ANSSI