How Well Does Knowledge Injection Enhance LLM-aided Formal Protocol Modeling?
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Security protocols play a crucial role in ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of communications over untrusted networks, and their correctness is essential to the overall security of systems. However, the traditional modeling and verification process of security protocols often relies heavily on domain experts, making it time-consuming and difficult to scale. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in code generation and semantic reasoning, creating new opportunities for automating the formal modeling of security protocols. However, existing methods still lack domain-specific knowledge and struggle to capture implicit semantics effectively. In this early-stage work, we explore a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based, LLM-assisted modeling framework that automates the generation of formal Tamarin models from natural-language protocol descriptions. The framework first parses protocol text to extract semi-structured key information, then leverages a domain-specific knowledge graph to enhance semantic understanding, and finally integrates a verification-guided feedback loop to improve model reliability and interpretability through verification-guided refinement. Preliminary experiments show a 23.68% improvement in syntactic correctness compared with the state-of-the-art baseline. These results suggest a promising direction for automated and explainable formal modeling of security protocols.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
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14:00 - 15:30 | Session 5C - Specification-Driven Code and Model DevelopmentIndustrial Track / Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track / Short Papers and Posters Track / Research Track / Registered Report Track | ||
14:00 11mTalk | Requirement Formalization using Large Language Models Research Track Zhiyuan Hu National University of Defense Technology, Wei Ma Singapore Management University, Qiang Wang Academy of Military Sciences, Lingxiao Jiang Singapore Management University, Dongsheng Li National University of Defense Technology | ||
14:11 11mTalk | Understanding Specification-Driven Code Generation with LLMs: An Empirical Study Design Registered Report Track Giovanni Rosa Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, David Moreno-Lumbreras Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Gregorio Robles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | ||
14:22 11mTalk | AI-Assisted Requirements Traceability for Large-Scale Optical Network Systems: An Industrial Experience Report Industrial Track | ||
14:33 11mTalk | From Textual Descriptions to Code: A Filtering Approach for Locating Business Rules Industrial Track Nour Ayachi Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL F-59000 Lille, France, Benoit Verhaeghe Berger-Levrault, Christopher Fuhrman École de technologie supérieure, Nicolas Anquetil University of Lille, Lille, France | ||
14:45 11mTalk | Generating User Clones from Questionnaires: A Lightweight Approach to Requirements Elicitation Short Papers and Posters Track Mai Hirabayashi Waseda University, Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Naoyasu Ubayashi Waseda University, Juichi Takahashi AGEST, Inc, Yohei Takagi AGEST Inc. | ||
14:56 11mTalk | How Well Does Knowledge Injection Enhance LLM-aided Formal Protocol Modeling? Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track Yajia Lin Xidian University, Jie Su Xidian University, Cheng Wen Xidian University, rong wang , Cong Tian Xidian University, Zhenhua Duan Xidian University, Shengchao Qin Xidian University | ||
15:07 11mTalk | LLM Driven Business Rule Extraction from Enterprise Applications Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track Shrishti Pradhan TCS Research, Aishwarya Malvade TCS Research, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, Manasi Patwardhan TCS Research | ||
15:18 11mTalk | SQL3M: Token Efficient Text-to-SQL Generation Short Papers and Posters Track Ibrahim Ücelehan Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Alina Geiger Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Dominik Sobania University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | ||