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We present PAFL, a new technique for enhancing existing fault localization methods by leveraging project-specific fault patterns. We observed that each software project has its own challenges and suffers from recurring fault patterns associated with those challenges. However, exi…
This is a corrigendum for the article “PAFL: Enhancing Fault Localizers by Leveraging Project-Specific Fault Patterns” by Donguk Kim, Minseok Jeon, Doha Hwang, and Hakjoo Oh, published in Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 9, OOPSLA1, Article 129 (April 2025), https://doi.org/10.1145/37205…
Applications like program synthesis sometimes require proving that a property holds for all of the infinitely many programs described by a grammar---i.e., an inductively defined set of programs. Current verification frameworks overapproximate programs' behavior when sets of progr…
Quantum computing platforms rely on simulators for modelling circuit behaviour prior to hardware execution, where inconsistencies can lead to costly errors. While existing formal validation methods typically target specific compiler components to manage state explosion, they ofte…
Zero-knowledge (ZK) protocols enable software developers to provide proofs of their programs' correctness to other parties without revealing the programs themselves. Regular expressions are pervasive in real-world software, and zero-knowledge protocols have been developed in the …
We study the problem of synthesizing domain-specific languages (DSLs) for few-shot learning in symbolic domains. Given a base language and instances of few-shot learning problems, where each instance is split into training and testing samples, the DSL synthesis problem asks for a…
We present batch-based consistency, a new approach for consistency optimization that allows programmers to specialize consistency with application-level integrity properties. We implement the approach with a two-step process: we statically infer optimal consistency requirements f…
Property-based testing (PBT) is a popular technique for automatically testing semantic properties of a program, specified as a pair of pre- and post-conditions. The efficacy of this approach depends on being able to quickly generate inputs that meet the precondition, in order to …
Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) play a ubiquitous role in scientific computing and engineering. While numerical methods make solving PDEs tractable, these numerical solvers encounter several issues, particularly for hyperbolic PDEs. These issues arise from multiple sources …
Debugging non-deterministic programs on microcontrollers is notoriously challenging, especially when bugs manifest in unpredictable, input-dependent execution paths. A recent approach, called multiverse debugging, makes it easier to debug non-deterministic programs by allowing pr…
This paper proposes a mechanized formal semantics for dataflow circuits: rather than following a predetermined, static schedule, the execution of the circuit components is constrained solely by the availability of their input data. We model circuit components as abstract computin…
React has become the most widely used web front-end framework, enabling the creation of user interfaces in a declarative and compositional manner. Hooks are a set of APIs that manage side effects in function components in React. However, their semantics are often seen as opaque t…
Concurrent separation logic (CSL) has excelled in verifying safety properties across various applications, yet its application to liveness properties remains limited. While existing approaches like TaDA Live and Fair Operational Semantics (FOS) have made significant strides, they…
We propose type qualifiers based on Boolean algebras. Traditional type systems with type qualifiers have been based on lattices, but lattices lack the ability to express exclusion . We argue that Boolean algebras, which permit exclusion, are a practical and useful choice of domai…
Compute Express Link (CXL) memory sharing, persistent memory, and other related technologies allow data to survive crash events. A key challenge is ensuring that data is consistent after crashes such that it can be safely accessed. While there has been much work on bug-finding to…
Multiple frameworks and optimizations have been proposed for accelerating Graph Neural Network (GNN) workloads over the years, achieving sizable runtime performance improvements. However, we notice that existing systems usually explore optimizing either at the intra-operator leve…
In untrusted execution environments such as web browsers, code from remote sources is regularly executed. To harden these environments against attacks, constituent programming languages and their implementations must uphold certain safety properties, such as memory safety. These …
Strongly-consistent replicated data stores are a popular foundation for many kinds of online services, but their implementations are very complex. Strong replication is not available under network partitions, and so achieving a functional degree of fault-tolerance requires correc…
In static analysis frameworks for Java, the bytecode frontend serves as a critical component, transforming complex, stack-based Java bytecode into a more analyzable register-based, typed 3-address code representation. This transformation often significantly influences the overall…
In this paper, we present structural abstraction refinement, a novel framework for verifying the threshold problem of probabilistic programs. Our approach represents the structure of a Probabilistic Control-Flow Automaton (PCFA) as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) by abstracting a…