Diversify2Verify pipeline shows implementation structure affects automated verifiability
A new paper introduces Diversify2Verify, a staged LLM-based pipeline for Why3 that generates diverse recursive and imperative array/list implementations from the same task-level semantics and tests whether implementation structure affects automated verifiability. The pipeline infers representation-specific contracts, generates and tests implementations, and attempts verification with bounded verifier-guided annotation repair. This work matters to practitioners because it suggests that choosing the right program structure can significantly ease automated verification.
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