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Liquid Haskell is an extension to the Haskell programming language that adds support for refinement types: data types augmented with SMT-decidable logical predicates that refine the set of values that can inhabit a type. Furthermore, Liquid…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Patrick Redmond , Gan Shen , Lindsey Kuper

We introduce Refinement Reflection, a new framework for building SMT-based deductive verifiers. The key idea is to reflect the code implementing a user-defined function into the function's (output) refinement type. As a consequence, at uses…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Niki Vazou , Anish Tondwalkar , Vikraman Choudhury , Ryan G. Scott , Ryan R. Newton , Philip Wadler , Ranjit Jhala

Refinement Reflection turns your favorite programming language into a proof assistant by reflecting the code implementing a user-defined function into the function's (output) refinement type. As a consequence, at uses of the function, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Niki Vazou , Ranjit Jhala

Liquid typing provides a decidable refinement inference mechanism that is convenient but subject to two major issues: (1) inference is global and requires top-level annotations, making it unsuitable for inference of modular code components…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Niki Vazou , Éric Tanter , David Van Horn

Refinement type checkers are a powerful way to reason about functional programs. For example, one can prove properties of a slow, specification implementation, porting the proofs to an optimized implementation that behaves the same. Without…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Niki Vazou , Michael Greenberg

We present {\lambda}ert, a type theory supporting refinement types with explicit proofs. Instead of solving refinement constraints with an SMT solver like DML and Liquid Haskell, our system requires and permits programmers to embed proofs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jad Elkhaleq Ghalayini , Neel Krishnaswami

This paper is a tutorial introducing the underlying technology and the use of the tool Liquid Haskell, a type-checker for the functional language Haskell that can help programmers to verify non-trivial properties of their programs with a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Ricardo Peña

Formal verification via theorem proving enables the expressive specification and rigorous proof of software correctness, but it is difficult to scale due to the significant manual effort and expertise required. While Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Minghai Lu , Zhe Zhou , Danning Xie , Songlin Jia , Benjamin Delaware , Tianyi Zhang

The pattern-match safety problem is to verify that a given functional program will never crash due to non-exhaustive patterns in its function definitions. We present a refinement type system that can be used to solve this problem. The…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Eddie Jones , Steven Ramsay

Equational reasoning is one of the key features of pure functional languages such as Haskell. To date, however, such reasoning always took place externally to Haskell, either manually on paper, or mechanised in a theorem prover. This…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Niki Vazou , Joachim Breitner , Will Kunkel , David Van Horn , Graham Hutton

This paper advocates for the broader application of SMT solvers in everyday programming, challenging the conventional wisdom that these tools are solely for formal methods and verification. We claim that SMT solvers, when seamlessly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Facundo Domínguez , Arnaud Spiwack

We introduce a self-play framework for semantic equivalence in Haskell, utilizing formal verification to guide adversarial training between a generator and an evaluator. The framework leverages Liquid Haskell proofs for validating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone , Poon Tsz Nok

The work presented in this thesis seeks to improve programmer productivity in the following ways: - by reducing the amount of code that has to be written to construct an application; - by increasing the reliability of the code written; and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Graham Kirby

Refinement types -- types qualified with logical predicates -- have proven effective for lightweight verification in languages like Liquid Haskell, F*, and Dafny. However, in these systems refinements are either written in a separate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Matt Bovel , Viktor Kunčak , Martin Odersky

In recent years, languages like Haskell have seen a dramatic surge of new features that significantly extends the expressive power of their type systems. With these features, the challenge of kind inference for datatype declarations has…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Ningning Xie , Richard A. Eisenberg , Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira

Refinement transforms an abstract system model into a concrete, executable program, such that properties established for the abstract model carry over to the concrete implementation. Refinement has been used successfully in the development…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Aurel Bílý , Christoph Matheja , Peter Müller

Datatype-generic programming increases program abstraction and reuse by making functions operate uniformly across different types. Many approaches to generic programming have been proposed over the years, most of them for Haskell, but…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-02-15 José Pedro Magalhães , Andres Löh

Refinement types sharpen systems of simple and dependent types by offering expressive means to more precisely classify well-typed terms. We present a system of refinement types for LF in the style of recent formulations where only canonical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 William Lovas , Frank Pfenning

We contribute a general apparatus for dependent tactic-based proof refinement in the LCF tradition, in which the statements of subgoals may express a dependency on the proofs of other subgoals; this form of dependency is extremely useful…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Jonathan Sterling , Robert Harper

Reproducing machine learning papers is essential for scientific progress but remains challenging for both humans and automated agents. Existing agent-based methods often struggle to fully and accurately reproduce implementation details such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingyang Zhou , Quanming Yao , Lun Du , Lanning Wei , Da Zheng
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