POPL 2025
Sun 19 - Sat 25 January 2025 Denver, Colorado, United States
Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:36 - 16:54 at Patty Cake - Analysis Techniques

We present a type-theoretic framework for reasoning about incorrectness in functional programs that interact with effectful, opaque library APIs. Our approach centers on traces – temporally-ordered sequences of library API invocations – which naturally characterize both the preconditions of individual APIs and their composite behavior. We represent these traces using symbolic regular expressions (SREs), enabling formal specification of incorrect abstract data type (ADT) behaviors across function boundaries. The core contribution is a novel type inference algorithm that operates modulo specified incorrectness properties and leverages the symbolic finite automata (SFAs) representations of regexes for compositional reasoning of traces. When the algorithm succeeds, the inferred types witness that an ADT implementation can exhibit some subset of the specified incorrect behaviors. This represents the first systematic approach to underapproximate reasoning against trace-based incorrectness specifications, enabling a new form of trace-guided compositional analysis.

Tue 21 Jan

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16:00 - 17:30
Analysis TechniquesTPSA at Patty Cake
16:00
18m
Talk
Distributed transactions over mergeable types: A meta-theory for 5G control-plane protocol verification
TPSA
Prasanth Prahladan University of Colorado Boulder
16:18
18m
Talk
Domain Reasoning In TopKAT: Reduction and Completeness
TPSA
Cheng Zhang University College London (UCL), Arthur Azevedo de Amorim Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, Marco Gaboardi Boston University
16:36
18m
Talk
From Traces to Program Incorrectness: A Type-Theoretic Approach
TPSA
Yongwei Yuan Purdue University, Zhe Zhou Purdue University, Julia Belyakova Purdue University, Benjamin Delaware Purdue University, Suresh Jagannathan Purdue University
16:54
18m
Talk
Towards Semantics Lifting for Scientific Computing: A Case Study on FFT
TPSA
Naifeng Zhang Carnegie Mellon University, Sanil Rao Carnegie Mellon University, Mike Franusich SpiralGen, Inc., Franz Franchetti Carnegie Mellon University, USA
17:12
18m
Talk
Concurrent Quantum Separation Logic for Fine-Grained Parallelism
TPSA
Yusuke Matsushita Kyoto University, Kengo Hirata University of Edinburgh, Ryo Wakizaka Kyoto University