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Record W190713494

Mining Maple Code for Contracts

2006· article· en· W190713494 on OpenAlexaff
Jacques Carette, Stephen Forrest

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLogic, programming, and type systems
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMapleComputer scienceProgramming languageAxiomTerminologyWishCode (set theory)Theoretical computer scienceMathematicsLinguistics
DOInot available

Abstract

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We wish to answer the following question: what is the most appropriate language for describing the “contracts” that Maple routines offer? In this , we are seeking much more than types (which Maple does not have, at least statically), as th ese are not sufficiently expressive to capture what is going on. We also wish to study what is actually in Maple, rather than what should be there. Put another way, we do not expect to find that a type system like Aldor’s or Axiom’s would be especially helpful in expla ining Maple. Our real goal is a mathematical description of the interfaces between routines. As such, the only current terminology flexible enough to encompass reality is that of c ontracts, by which we mean simply statements of complex properties (static as well as dynamic) in a sufficiently general logic. This works focuses mainly on the requirements analysis phase of this project: we perform automated analyses of the complete Maple library, to understand the kinds of contracts that are in actual use. We wish to know which kinds of theorems would need to be proved in order to formally analyze the types, effects, invariants, a nd contracts present in the current code base. As this is a monumental task, we describe what knowledge we have currently been able to extract from a very systematic approach to the problem.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.942
Threshold uncertainty score0.204

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2006
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