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Harnessing the power of dependently typed languages can be difficult. Programmers must manually construct proofs to produce well-typed programs, which is not an easy task. In particular, migrating code to these languages is challenging.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Joseph Eremondi , Ronald Garcia , Éric Tanter

One form of type checking used in gradually typed language is transient type checking: whenever an object 'flows' through code with a type annotation, the object is dynamically checked to ensure it has the methods required by the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Isaac Oscar Gariano , Richard Roberts , Stefan Marr , Michael Homer , James Noble

Static analysis tools typically address the problem of excessive false positives by requiring programmers to explicitly annotate their code. However, when faced with incomplete annotations, many analysis tools are either too conservative,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Sam Estep , Jenna Wise , Jonathan Aldrich , Éric Tanter , Johannes Bader , Joshua Sunshine

Strong static type systems help programmers eliminate many errors without much burden of supplying type annotations. However, this flexibility makes it highly non-trivial to diagnose ill-typed programs, especially for novice programmers.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Chuqin Geng , Haolin Ye , Yixuan Li , Tianyu Han , Brigitte Pientka , Xujie Si

In light of the growing interest in type inference research for Python, both researchers and practitioners require a standardized process to assess the performance of various type inference techniques. This paper introduces TypeEvalPy, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Ashwin Prasad Shivarpatna Venkatesh , Samkutty Sabu , Jiawei Wang , Amir M. Mir , Li Li , Eric Bodden

Based on the concept of annotation-based agents, this report introduces tools and a formal notation for defining and running text mining experiments using a statically typed domain-specific language embedded in Scala. Using machine learning…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Fabian Steeg

Static analysis has established itself as a weapon of choice for detecting security vulnerabilities. Taint analysis in particular is a very general and powerful technique, where security policies are expressed in terms of forbidden flows,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Saikat Dutta , Diego Garbervetsky , Shuvendu Lahiri , Max Schäfer

Dynamic Programming Languages are quite popular because they increase the programmer's productivity. However, the absence of types in the source code makes the program written in these languages difficult to understand and virtual machines…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Abhinav Jangda , Gaurav Anand

Python's dynamic typing mechanism, while promoting flexibility, is a significant source of runtime type errors that plague large-scale software, which inspires the automatic type inference techniques. Existing type inference tools have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shuo Sun , Shixin Zhang , Jiwei Yan , Jun Yan , Jian Zhang

Erlang's dynamic typing discipline can lead to runtime errors that persist even after process restarts. Some of these runtime errors could be prevented through static type checking. While Erlang provides a type specification language, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Albert Schimpf , Stefan Wehr , Annette Bieniusa

ReScript introduces a strongly typed language that targets JavaScript, as an alternative to gradually typed languages, such as TypeScript. In this paper, we present a type system for data-flow analysis for a subset of the ReScript language,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Nicky Ask Lund , Hans Hüttel

Transient gradual typing imposes run-time type tests that typically cause a linear slowdown in programs' performance. This performance impact discourages the use of type annotations because adding types to a program makes the program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Richard Roberts , Stefan Marr , Michael Homer , James Noble

We revisit occurrence typing, a technique to refine the type of variables occurring in type-cases and, thus, capturesome programming patterns used in untyped languages. Although occurrence typing was tied from its inceptionto set-theoretic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Giuseppe Castagna , Victor Lanvin , Mickaël Laurent , Kim Nguyen

We propose a novel type system for verifying that programs correctly implement constant-resource behavior. Our type system extends recent work on automatic amortized resource analysis (AARA), a set of techniques that automatically derive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Van Chan Ngo , Mario Dehesa-Azuara , Matthew Fredrikson , Jan Hoffmann

We present a new type system combining occurrence typing, previously used to type check programs in dynamically-typed languages such as Racket, JavaScript, and Ruby, with dependent refinement types. We demonstrate that the addition of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Andrew M. Kent , David Kempe , Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

Detecting design pattern instances in unfamiliar codebases remains a challenging yet essential task for improving software quality and maintainability. Traditional static analysis tools often struggle with the complexity, variability, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Christian Schindler , Andreas Rausch

In the realm of few-shot learning, foundation models like CLIP have proven effective but exhibit limitations in cross-domain robustness especially in few-shot settings. Recent works add text as an extra modality to enhance the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Yassir Bendou , Vincent Gripon , Bastien Pasdeloup , Giulia Lioi , Lukas Mauch , Fabien Cardinaux , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene

Tensor shape mismatch is a common source of bugs in deep learning programs. We propose a new type-based approach to detect tensor shape mismatches. One of the main features of our approach is the best-effort shape inference. As the tensor…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Momoko Hattori , Naoki Kobayashi , Ryosuke Sato

Reasoning about the sensitivity of functions with respect to their inputs has interesting applications in various areas, such as differential privacy. In order to check and enforce sensitivity, several approaches have been developed,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Damian Arquez , Matías Toro , Éric Tanter

In this paper we present the design and implementation of Flow, a fast and precise type checker for JavaScript that is used by thousands of developers on millions of lines of code at Facebook every day. Flow uses sophisticated type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Avik Chaudhuri , Panagiotis Vekris , Sam Goldman , Marshall Roch , Gabriel Levi