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We present a new approach to proving non-termination of non-deterministic integer programs. Our technique is rather simple but efficient. It relies on a purely syntactic reversal of the program's transition system followed by a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Petr Novotný , Đorđe Žikelić

Programming benefits from a clear separation between pure, mathematical computation and impure, effectful interaction with the world. Existing approaches to enforce this separation include monads, type-and-effect systems, and capability…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yuyan Bao , Tiark Rompf

Formal verification can provably guarantee the correctness of critical system software, but the high proof burden has long hindered its wide adoption. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown success in code analysis and synthesis.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jianan Yao , Ziqiao Zhou , Weiteng Chen , Weidong Cui

We introduce a new two-sided type system for verifying the correctness and incorrectness of functional programs with atoms and pattern matching. A key idea in the work is that types should range over sets of normal forms, rather than sets…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Celia Mengyue Li , Sophie Pull , Steven Ramsay

Our research is part of a wider project that aims to investigate and reason about the correctness of scheme-based source code transformations of Erlang programs. In order to formally reason about the definition of a programming language and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Péter Bereczky , Dániel Horpácsi , Simon Thompson

We consider prescriptive type systems for logic programs (as in Goedel or Mercury). In such systems, the typing is static, but it guarantees an operational property: if a program is "well-typed", then all derivations starting in a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre Deransart , Jan-Georg Smaus

Pluggable type systems allow programmers to extend the type system of a programming language to enforce semantic properties defined by the programmer. Pluggable type systems are difficult to deploy in legacy codebases because they require…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Kazi Amanul Islam Siddiqui , Martin Kellogg

We consider the problem of type-directed component based synthesis where, given a set of (typed) components and a query type, the goal is to synthesize a term that inhabits the query. Classical approaches based on proof search in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zheng Guo , Michael James , David Justo , Jiaxiao Zhou , Ziteng Wang , Ranjit Jhala , Nadia Polikarpova

Gradually-typed programming languages permit the incremental addition of static types to untyped programs. To remain sound, languages insert run-time checks at the boundaries between typed and untyped code. Unfortunately, performance…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Cameron Moy , Phúc C. Nguyen , Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , David Van Horn

For those of us who generally live in the world of syntax, semantic proof techniques such as reducibility, realizability or logical relations seem somewhat magical despite -- or perhaps due to -- their seemingly unreasonable effectiveness.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Pierre-Évariste Dagand , Lionel Rieg , Gabriel Scherer

This paper introduces a simple type system for combinatory logic in which combinators have at most one type, whose polymorphism is revealed by application. The combinatory types exactly describe the structure of their values, which may be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Barry Jay , Johannes Bader

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

Solving complex mathematical problems via system-2 reasoning is a natural human skill, yet it remains a significant challenge for current large language models (LLMs). We identify the scarcity of deliberate multi-step reasoning data as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Huanqia Cai , Yijun Yang , Zhifeng Li

Ability to use definitions occurring in the code directly in equational reasoning is one of the key strengths of functional programming. This is impossible in the case of Haskell type class methods unless a particular instance type is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Härmel Nestra

Data replication is used in distributed systems to maintain up-to-date copies of shared data across multiple computers in a network. However, despite decades of research, algorithms for achieving consistency in replicated systems are still…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Victor B. F. Gomes , Martin Kleppmann , Dominic P. Mulligan , Alastair R. Beresford

Linear type systems have a long and storied history, but not a clear path forward to integrate with existing languages such as OCaml or Haskell. In this paper, we study a linear type system designed with two crucial properties in mind:…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Jean-Philippe Bernardy , Mathieu Boespflug , Ryan R. Newton , Simon Peyton Jones , Arnaud Spiwack

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

Dependently typed programs contain an excessive amount of static terms which are necessary to please the type checker but irrelevant for computation. To separate static and dynamic code, several static analyses and type systems have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Andreas Abel , Gabriel Scherer

Transformer components such as non-linear activations and normalization are inherently non-injective, suggesting that different inputs could map to the same output and prevent exact recovery of the input from a model's representations. In…

This work provides a study to demonstrate the potential of using off-the-shelf programming languages and their theories to build sound language-based-security tools. Our study focuses on information flow security encompassing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Minh Ngo , David A. Naumann , Tamara Rezk