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The interfaces between layers of a system are susceptible to bugs if developers of adjacent layers proceed under subtly different assumptions. Formal verification of two layers against the same formal model of the interface between them can be used to shake out these bugs. Doing …
A structural diffing algorithm compares two pieces of tree-shaped data and computes their difference. Existing structural diffing algorithms either produce concise patches or ensure type safety, but never both. We present a new structural diffing algorithm called truediff that ac…
We propose a fully automated method that takes as input an iterative or recursive reference implementation and produces divide-and-conquer implementations that are functionally equivalent to the input. Three interdependent components have to be synthesized: a function that divide…
While Alexa can perform over 100,000 skills, its capability covers only a fraction of what is possible on the web. Individuals need and want to automate a long tail of web-based tasks which often involve visiting different websites and require programming concepts such as functio…
With the recent launch of the Intel Optane memory platform, non-volatile main memory in the form of fast, dense, byte-addressable non-volatile memory has now become available. Nevertheless, designing crash-resilient algorithms and data structures is complex and error-prone as cac…
In recent years, researchers have explored component-based synthesis, which aims to automatically construct programs that operate by composing calls to existing APIs. However, prior work has not considered efficient synthesis of methods with side effects, e.g., web app methods th…
We introduce a new approach for finding and fixing naming issues in source code. The method is based on a careful combination of unsupervised and supervised procedures: (i) unsupervised mining of patterns from Big Code that express common naming idioms. Program fragments violatin…
Analyzing multi-threaded programs is hard due to the number of thread interleavings. Partial orders can be used for modeling and analyzing multi-threaded programs. However, there is no dedicated decision procedure for solving partial-order constraints. In this paper, we propose a…
Datalog is becoming increasingly popular as a standard tool for a variety of use cases. Modern Datalog engines can achieve high performance by specializing data structures for relational operations. For example, the Datalog engine Soufflé achieves high performance with a synthesi…
We describe the first approach to automatically synthesizing heap-manipulating programs with auxiliary recursive procedures. Such procedures occur routinely in data structure transformations (e.g., flattening a tree into a list) or traversals of composite structures (e.g., n-ary …
In this work, we introduce the Fluid framework, a set of language, compiler and runtime extensions that allow for the expression of regions within which dataflow dependencies can be approximated in a disciplined manner. Our framework allows the eager execution of dependent tasks …
Widely used Deep Learning (DL) frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet, heavily rely on the NVIDIA cuDNN for performance. However, using cuDNN does not always give the best performance. One reason is that it is hard to handle every case of versatile DNN models and GPU …
Reducing a failure-inducing input to a smaller one is challenging for input with internal dependencies because most sub-inputs are invalid. Kalhauge and Palsberg made progress on this problem by mapping the task to a reduction problem for dependency graphs that avoids invalid inp…
Cache behavior is one of the major factors that influence the performance of applications. Most of the existing compiler techniques that target cache memories focus exclusively on reducing data reuse distances in time (DIT). However, current manycore systems employ distributed on…
We consider the problem of program synthesis from input-output examples via stochastic search. We identify a robust feature of stochastic synthesis: The search often progresses through a series of discrete plateaus. We observe that the distribution of synthesis times is often hea…
Since the introduction of CompCert, researchers have been refining its language semantics and correctness theorem, and used them as components in software verification efforts. Meanwhile, artifacts ranging from CPU designs to network protocols have been successfully verified, and…
First-order logic is a natural way of expressing properties of computation. It is traditionally used in various program logics for expressing the correctness properties and certificates. Although such representations are expressive for some theories, they fail to express many int…
Parsers are security-critical components of many software systems, and verified parsing therefore has a key role to play in secure software design. However, existing verified parsers for context-free grammars are limited in their expressiveness, termination properties, or perform…
Strong eventual consistency (SEC) has been used as a classic notion of correctness for Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). However, it does not give proper abstractions of functionality, thus is not helpful for modular verification of client programs using CRDTs. We prop…
This paper proposes a set of techniques to develop correctly rounded math libraries for 32-bit float and posit types. It enhances our RLIBM approach that frames the problem of generating correctly rounded libraries as a linear programming problem in the context of 16-bit types to…