TypePilot: Leveraging the Scala Type System for Secure LLM-generated Code

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Tag: sternfeld2025typepilot, paper

three-agent pipeline for Scala

• generate code, diagnose vulnerabilities (no code), revise using ADTs, refined types, sealed traits
• models: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B, DeepSeek-Coder-33B, CodeLlama-70B in Tables 2-3
• manual evaluation on simple tasks, no repeat counts or confidence intervals
  • Qwen + TypePilot passes all Table 2 checks, CodeLlama keeps failures
  • baseline injection code “virtually all” vulnerable
  • residual failures remain: DeepSeek HTML greeting compile failure, partial CodeLlama and Qwen cases
  • beats robust-prompting and Self-Planning baselines Stainless as verification target
• no model consistently generates compilable Stainless code (sec 4.1)
  • failures: unavailable ops (List.sliding, println), syntax errors
  • authors blame scarce training data
• no proof success rates reported domain types for invariants
• sealed Age + smart constructor Age.apply returning Option
• inference: Figure 5 does not deliver the claimed static guarantee
  • public ValidAge constructor bypasses the check
  • nonempty branch never returns an average Verus lessons (inference, not evaluated)
• generate/diagnose/repair loop gated by compile + verify
• put ranges in explicit predicates, prove constructors preserve them
• keep adversarial test matrix next to proofs, it exposes missing specs

Last edited: 2026-11-04