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About this paper
Alejandro J. Mercado, Alessio Lomuscio
A formal framework from Imperial College London enables pre-deployment verification of LLM-driven agentic systems operating on persistent relational data against first-order temporal business requirements. This work introduces Stateful Tool-Enabled Agentic Deployments (STEADs), proves general verification undecidable, and proposes a canonical wrapper to enforce agent equivariance, facilitating exact finite verification under specific conditions.
Key insights
- The general problem of formally verifying LLM-driven agentic systems against first-order temporal properties over evolving relational data is undecidable.
- LLM-based agents can practically violate the crucial property of equivariance (consistent behavior under identifier renamings), which is essential for applying powerful finite abstraction techniques in formal verification.
- Enforcing agent equivariance through a constructive canonical wrapper allows for exact verification of such systems by reducing the infinite-state system to a tractable finite-state model under specific boundedness conditions.
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