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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

We present a graded modal type theory, a dependent type theory with grades that can be used to enforce various properties of the code. The theory has $\Pi$-types, weak and strong $\Sigma$-types, natural numbers, an empty type, and a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Andreas Abel , Nils Anders Danielsson , Oskar Eriksson

During the software lifecycle, a program can evolve several times for different reasons such as the optimisation of a bottle-neck, the refactoring of an obscure function, etc. These code changes often involve several functions or modules,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-18 David Insa , Sergio Pérez , Josep Silva , Salvador Tamarit

Session types are a rich type discipline, based on linear types, that lifts the sort of safety claims that come with type systems to communications. However, web-based applications and microservices are often written in a mix of languages,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Atsushi Igarashi , Peter Thiemann , Yuya Tsuda , Vasco T. Vasconcelos , Philip Wadler

This dissertation introduces executable refinement types, which refine structural types by semi-decidable predicates, and establishes their metatheory and accompanying implementation techniques. These results are useful for undecidable type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Kenneth Knowles

A key challenge when statically typing so-called dynamic languages is the ubiquity of value-based overloading, where a given function can dynamically reflect upon and behave according to the types of its arguments. Thus, to establish basic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Panagiotis Vekris , Benjamin Cosman , Ranjit Jhala

Modern languages are equipped with static type checking/inference that helps programmers to keep a clean programming style and to reduce errors. However, the ever-growing size of programs and their continuous evolution require building fast…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Matteo Busi , Pierpaolo Degano , Letterio Galletta

Probabilistic programming languages have recently gained a lot of attention, in particular due to their applications in domains such as machine learning and differential privacy. To establish invariants of interest, many such languages…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wenjia Ye , Matías Toro , Federico Olmedo

Actor-based systems like Erlang/OTP power critical infrastructure -- from telecommunications to messaging platforms -- handling millions of concurrent connections with legendary reliability. Yet these systems lack static guarantees about…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Miguel de Oliveira Guerreiro

Python's dynamic typing system offers flexibility and expressiveness but can lead to type-related errors, prompting the need for automated type inference to enhance type hinting. While existing learning-based approaches show promising…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Chong Wang , Jian Zhang , Yiling Lou , Mingwei Liu , Weisong Sun , Yang Liu , Xin Peng

We propose a type-based resource usage analysis for the π-calculus extended with resource creation/access primitives. The goal of the resource usage analysis is to statically check that a program accesses resources such as files and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Naoki Kobayashi , Kohei Suenaga , Lucian Wischik

We present a logically principled foundation for systematizing, in a way that works with any computational effect and evaluation order, SMT constraint generation seen in refinement type systems for functional programming languages. By…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Dimitrios J. Economou , Neel Krishnaswami , Jana Dunfield

This work introduces the novel concept of kind refinement, which we develop in the context of an explicitly polymorphic ML-like language with type-level computation. Just as type refinements embed rich specifications by means of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Luís Caires , Bernardo Toninho

Gradually typed programming languages, which allow for soundly mixing static and dynamically typed programming styles, present a strong challenge for metatheorists. Even the simplest sound gradually typed languages feature at least…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Eric Giovannini , Tingting Ding , Max S. New

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

Graded Type Theory provides a mechanism to track and reason about resource usage in type systems. In this paper, we develop GraD, a novel version of such a graded dependent type system that includes functions, tensor products, additive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Pritam Choudhury , Harley Eades , Richard A. Eisenberg , Stephanie C Weirich

Language models have shown remarkable proficiency in code generation; nevertheless, ensuring type correctness remains a challenge. Although traditional methods, such as constrained decoding, alleviate this problem by externally rejecting…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhechong Huang , Zhao Zhang , Ruyi Ji , Tingxuan Xia , Qihao Zhu , Qinxiang Cao , Zeyu Sun , Wiggin Zhou , Yingfei Xiong

Gradual typing enables programmers to combine static and dynamic typing in the same language. However, ensuring a sound interaction between the static and dynamic parts can incur significant runtime cost. In this paper, we perform a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Michael M. Vitousek , Jeremy G. Siek , Avik Chaudhuri

We propose a type system for a calculus of contracting processes. Processes can establish sessions by stipulating contracts, and then can interact either by keeping the promises made, or not. Type safety guarantees that a typeable process…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Massimo Bartoletti , Alceste Scalas , Emilio Tuosto , Roberto Zunino

The synchronous reactive data flow language LUSTRE is an expressive language, equipped with a suite of tools for modelling, simulating and model-checking a wide variety of safety-critical systems. A critical intermediate step in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sanjiva Prasad , R. Madhukar Yerraguntla