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The introduction of separation logic has led to the development of symbolic execution techniques and tools that are (functionally) compositional with function specifications that can be used in broader calling contexts. Many of the compositional symbolic execution tools developed…
The use of function specifications to reason about function calls and the manipulation of user-defined predicates are two essential ingredients of modern compositional verification tools based on separation logic. To execute these operations successfully, these tools must be able…
Large-scale software repositories are a source of insights for software engineering. They offer an unmatched window into the software development process at scale. Their sheer number and size holds the promise of broadly applicable results. At the same time, that very size presen…
Basic Block Versioning (BBV) is a compilation technique for optimizing program execution. It consists in duplicating and specializing basic blocks of code according to the execution contexts of the blocks, up to a version limit. BBV has been used in Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers f…
Frameworks for writing, compiling, and optimizing deep learning (DL) models have recently enabled progress in areas like computer vision and natural language processing. Extending these frameworks to accommodate the rapidly diversifying landscape of DL models and hardware platfor…
We present and verify template algorithms for lock-free concurrent search structures that cover a broad range of existing implementations based on lists and skiplists. Our linearizability proofs are fully mechanized in the concurrent separation logic Iris. The proofs are modular …
Choreographic programming is a paradigm for writing distributed applications. It allows programmers to write a single program, called a choreography, that can be compiled to generate correct implementations of each process in the application. Although choreographies provide good …
Tensor processing infrastructures such as deep learning frameworks and specialized hardware accelerators have revolutionized how computationally intensive code from domains such as deep learning and image processing is executed and optimized. These infrastructures provide powerfu…
Synchronous languages such as Lustre and Scade are used to implement safety-critical control systems; proving such programs correct and having the proved properties apply to the compiled code is therefore equally critical. We introduce Pipit, a small synchronous language embedded…
Partial Redundancy Elimination (PRE) is a powerful and well-known code optimization. The idea to combine Common Subexpression Elimination and Loop Invariant Code Motion optimizations into a single optimization was originally conceived by Morel and Renvoise. Their algorithm is bid…
Interprocedural data-flow analysis is important for computing precise information on whole programs. In theory, the popular algorithmic framework interprocedural distributive environments (IDE) provides a tool to solve distributive interprocedural data-flow problems efficiently. …
Analyzing the similarity of two code fragments has many applications, including code clone, vulnerability and plagiarism detection. Most existing approaches for similarity analysis work on source code. However, in scenarios like plagiarism detection, copyright violation detection…
While programmers know that the low-level memory representation of data structures can have significant effects on performance, compiler support to optimize the layout of those structures is an under-explored field. Prior work has optimized the layout of individual, non-recursive…
Refinement types have been extensively used in class-based languages to specify and verify fine-grained logical specifications. Despite the advances in practical aspects such as applicability and usability, two fundamental issues persist. First, the soundness of existing class-ba…
Multiparty message-passing protocols are notoriously difficult to design, due to interaction mismatches that lead to errors such as deadlocks. Existing protocol specification formats have been developed to prevent such errors (e.g. multiparty session types (MPST)). In order to fu…
Failure transparency enables users to reason about distributed systems at a higher level of abstraction, where complex failure-handling logic is hidden. This is especially true for stateful dataflow systems, which are the backbone of many cloud applications. In particular, this p…
A growing trend in program analysis is to encode verification conditions within the language of the input program. This simplifies the design of analysis tools by utilizing off-the-shelf verifiers, but makes communication with the underlying solver more challenging. Essentially, …
Type systems evolve too slowly to keep up with the quick evolution of libraries - especially libraries that introduce abstractions. Type tailoring offers a lightweight solution by equipping the core language with an API for modifying the elaboration of surface code into the inter…
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Synthetic Separation Logic (SSL) is a formalism that powers SuSLik, the state-of-the-art approach for the deductive synthesis of provably-correct programs in C-like languages that manipulate Heap-based linked data structures. Despite its expressivity, SSL suffers from two shortco…