cs.SEApr 17, 2026

Certified Program Synthesis with a Multi-Modal Verifier

Authors: Yueyang Feng, Dipesh Kafle, Vladimir Gladshtein, Vitaly Kurin, George Pîrlea, Qiyuan Zhao, Peter Müller, Ilya Sergey

Organizations: National University of Singapore · Singapore · Neapolis University Pafos · Cyprus · ETH Zürich

Abstract

Certified program synthesis (aka vericoding) is the process of automatically generating a program, its formal specification, and a machine-checkable proof of their alignment from a natural-language description. Two challenges make vericoding difficult. First, specifications synthesised from natural language are often either too weak to be meaningful or too strong to be implementable, yet existing approaches lack systematic means to detect such defects. Second, the landscape of program verifiers is fragmented: each tool supports a particular reasoning mode -- auto-active (e.g., Dafny, Verus) or interactive (e.g., Coq, Lean) -- with its own trade-off between automation and expressivity. This forces every synthesis methodology to be tailored to a single verification paradigm, limiting the class of tasks it can handle effectively. We overcome both challenges by structuring the certified synthesis workflow around a multi-modal verifier -- a single tool combining dynamic validation, automated proofs, and interactive proof scripting in one foundational framework. We realise this idea in LeetProof, an agentic pipeline built on Velvet, a multi-modal verifier embedded in Lean. Multi-modality enables LeetProof to validate generated specifications via randomised property-based testing before any code is synthesised, decompose the synthesis task into sub-problems guided by verification conditions, and delegate residual proof obligations to frontier AI provers specialised for Lean. We evaluate LeetProof on benchmarks derived from prior work on certified synthesis. Our specification validation uncovers defects in existing reference benchmarks, and LeetProof's staged pipeline achieves a significantly higher rate of fully certified solutions than a single-mode baseline at the same budget -- consistently across two frontier LLM backends.

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