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It has been observed that linearizability, the prevalent consistency condition for implementing concurrent objects, does not preserve some probability distributions. A stronger condition, called strong linearizability has been proposed, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Hagit Attiya , Constantin Enea

Linearizability is the gold standard of correctness conditions for shared memory algorithms, and historically has been considered the practical equivalent of atomicity. However, it has been shown [1] that replacing atomic objects with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Sean Ovens , Philipp Woelfel

There is an increasing body of literature proposing new and efficient persistent versions of concurrent data structures ensuring that a consistent state can be recovered after a power failure or a crash. Their correctness is typically…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Emanuele D'Osualdo , Azalea Raad , Viktor Vafeiadis

Linearizability is a commonly accepted consistency condition for concurrent objects. Filipovi\'{c} et al. show that linearizability is equivalent to observational refinement. However, linearizability does not permit concurrent objects to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Tangliu Wen

Linearisability is a central notion for verifying concurrent libraries: a given library is proven safe if its operational history can be rearranged into a new sequential one which, in addition, satisfies a given specification.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Andrzej S. Murawski , Nikos Tzevelekos

Linearizability is a well-known correctness property for concurrent and distributed systems. In the past, it was also used to prove the design and implementation of replicated state-machines correct. State-machine replication (SMR) is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Franz J. Hauck , Alexander Heß

Alignment-based conformance checking is the state-of-the-art approach for comparing observed process executions with normative process models. The standard exact solution relies on an A*-based heuristic search, which can exhibit exponential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Izack Cohen

The verification of linearizability -- a key correctness criterion for concurrent objects -- is based on trace refinement whose checking is PSPACE-complete. This paper suggests to use \emph{branching} bisimulation instead. Our approach is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xiaoxiao Yang , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Hao Wu

Linearizability is the de facto correctness criterion for concurrent data structures. Unfortunately, linearizability imposes a performance penalty which scales linearly in the number of contending threads. Quiescent consistency is an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Radha Jagadeesan , James Riely

This paper proposes a general framework for adding linearizable iterators to a class of data structures that implement set operations. We introduce a condition on set operations, called local consistency, which informally states that set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Archita Agarwal , Zhiyu Liu , Eli Rosenthal , Vikram Saraph

Linearizability is a standard correctness criterion for concurrent algorithms, typically proved by establishing the algorithms' linearization points (LP). However, LPs often hinder abstraction, and for some algorithms such as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jesús Domínguez , Aleksandar Nanevski

In the past decade, many techniques have been developed to prove linearizability, the gold standard of correctness for concurrent data structures. Intuitively, linearizability requires that every operation on a concurrent data structure…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zachary Kent , Ugur Y. Yavuz , Siddhartha Jayanti , Stephanie Balzer , Guy Blelloch

Linearizability is a widely accepted notion of correctness for concurrent objects. Recent research has investigated redefining linearizability for particular hardware weak memory models, in particular for TSO. In this paper, we provide an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Graeme Smith , Kirsten Winter , Robert J. Colvin

This paper presents an approach to more efficient partial order reduction for model checking concurrent systems. This approach utilizes a compositional reachability analysis to generate over-approximate local state transition models for all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Hao Zheng , Yingying Zhang , Chris Myers

Continuing the study initiated in our earlier article [7], this paper aims to characterize various continuity properties of nonlinear composition operators acting on some sequence spaces, giving special attention to the space of sequences…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Daria Bugajewska , Piotr Kasprzak

Compositional understanding is crucial for human intelligence, yet it remains unclear whether contemporary vision models exhibit it. The dominant machine learning paradigm is built on the premise that scaling data and model sizes will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Arnas Uselis , Andrea Dittadi , Seong Joon Oh

Robustness is a correctness notion for concurrent programs running under relaxed consistency models. The task is to check that the relaxed behavior coincides (up to traces) with sequential consistency (SC). Although computationally simple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Egor Derevenetc , Roland Meyer , Sebastian Schweizer

Linearizability is a standard correctness criterion for concurrent algorithms, typically proved by establishing the algorithms' linearization points. However, relying on linearization points leads to proofs that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jesús Domínguez , Aleksandar Nanevski

Designing scalable concurrent objects, which can be efficiently used on multicore processors, often requires one to abandon standard specification techniques, such as linearizability, in favor of more relaxed consistency requirements.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Ilya Sergey , Aleksandar Nanevski , Anindya Banerjee , German Andres Delbianco

Linearizability has become the de facto correctness specification for implementations of concurrent data structures. While formally verifying such implementations remains challenging, linearizability monitoring has emerged as a promising…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lee Zheng Han , Umang Mathur