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This repsitory contains the code for our paper Eywa: Automating Model-based Testing using LLMs. Our framework uses LLMs to automatically construct modular protocol models from natural-language specifications and applies symbolic execution and differential testing to…

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MetaEase is a framework for automatically finding worst-case inputs of heuristics by maximizing the gap between heuristic and optimal solutions. It combines symbolic execution (KLEE) with gradient-based optimization to efficiently explore the input space. This…

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Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites

December 11, 2025 | Xufang Luo, Yuge Zhang, Zhiyuan He, Zilong Wang, Dongsheng Li, Luna K. Qiu, Yuqing Yang

By decoupling how agents work from how they’re trained, Agent Lightning turns each step an agent takes into data for reinforcement learning. This makes it easy for developers to improve agent performance with almost zero…

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Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich | Microsoft Build 2025

November 26, 2025 | Mark Russinovich

Join Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO, Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure. Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications…

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