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Recent algorithmic advances have made equality saturation an appealing approach to program optimization because it avoids the phase-ordering problem. Existing work uses external equality saturation libraries, or custom implementations that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jules Merckx , Alexandre Lopoukhine , Samuel Coward , Jianyi Cheng , Bjorn De Sutter , Tobias Grosser

Equality saturation (EqSat) is a powerful optimization paradigm that compactly represents many equivalent programs in an e-graph and delays commitment until extraction selects a lowest-cost program. Making EqSat effective, therefore,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenyun Yin , Youwei Xiao , Yuze Luo , Yuyang Zou , Yun Liang

Optimizations in a traditional compiler are applied sequentially, with each optimization destructively modifying the program to produce a transformed program that is then passed to the next optimization. We present a new approach for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Ross Tate , Michael Stepp , Zachary Tatlock , Sorin Lerner

An e-graph efficiently represents a congruence relation over many expressions. Although they were originally developed in the late 1970s for use in automated theorem provers, a more recent technique known as equality saturation repurposes…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Max Willsey , Chandrakana Nandi , Yisu Remy Wang , Oliver Flatt , Zachary Tatlock , Pavel Panchekha

Many compilers, synthesizers, and theorem provers rely on rewrite rules to simplify expressions or prove equivalences. Developing rewrite rules can be difficult: rules may be subtly incorrect, profitable rules are easy to miss, and rulesets…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chandrakana Nandi , Max Willsey , Amy Zhu , Yisu Remy Wang , Brett Saiki , Adam Anderson , Adriana Schulz , Dan Grossman , Zachary Tatlock

We present egglog, a fixpoint reasoning system that unifies Datalog and equality saturation (EqSat). Like Datalog, it supports efficient incremental execution, cooperating analyses, and lattice-based reasoning. Like EqSat, it supports term…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yihong Zhang , Yisu Remy Wang , Oliver Flatt , David Cao , Philip Zucker , Eli Rosenthal , Zachary Tatlock , Max Willsey

Modern equality saturation systems excel at expression-level rewrites by exploring large spaces of equivalent programs without suffering from the phase-ordering problem. How- ever, these systems struggle to represent equivalence directly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Guillermo Garcia

Equality saturation is a program optimization technique based on non-destructive rewriting and a form of abstract interpretation called e-class analysis. Existing e-class analyses are pessimistic and therefore typically imprecise when…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Russel Arbore , Alvin Cheung , Max Willsey

Compilers are indispensable for transforming code written in high-level languages into performant machine code, but their general-purpose optimizations sometimes fall short. Domain experts might be aware of certain optimizations that the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jules Merckx , Tim Besard , Bjorn De Sutter

We introduce the third major version of Metatheory.jl, a Julia library for general-purpose metaprogramming and symbolic computation. Metatheory.jl provides a flexible and performant implementation of e-graphs and Equality Saturation (EqSat)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Alessandro Cheli , Niklas Heim

Equality saturation is an emerging technique for program and query optimization developed in the programming language community. It performs term rewriting over an E-graph, a data structure that compactly represents a program space. Despite…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Dan Suciu , Yisu Remy Wang , Yihong Zhang

Generating high-performance code for diverse hardware and application domains is challenging. Functional array programming languages with patterns like map and reduce have been successfully combined with term rewriting to define and explore…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Thomas Koehler , Phil Trinder , Michel Steuwer

In technology mapping, the quality of the final implementation heavily relies on the circuit structure after technology-independent optimization. Recent studies have introduced equality saturation as a novel optimization approach. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chen Chen , Guangyu HU , Cunxi Yu , Yuzhe Ma , Hongce Zhang

Equality saturation is a powerful technique for program optimization. Contextual equality saturation extends this to support rewrite rules that are conditioned on where a term appears in an expression. Existing work has brought contextual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tyler Hou , Shadaj Laddad , Joseph M. Hellerstein

In this submission, we explore the use of equality saturation to optimize concurrent computations. A concurrent environment gives rise to new optimization opportunities, like extracting a common concurrent subcomputation. To our knowledge,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Henrich Lauko , Lukáš Korenčik , Peter Goodman

We present a multi-level quantum-classical intermediate representation (IR) that enables an optimizing, retargetable, ahead-of-time compiler for available quantum programming languages. To demonstrate our architecture, we leverage our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Thien Nguyen , Alexander McCaskey

Multi-level intermediate representations (MLIR) show great promise for reducing the cost of building domain-specific compilers by providing a reusable and extensible compiler infrastructure. This work presents TPU-MLIR, an end-to-end…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Pengchao Hu , Man Lu , Lei Wang , Guoyue Jiang

This work presents MLIR, a novel approach to building reusable and extensible compiler infrastructure. MLIR aims to address software fragmentation, improve compilation for heterogeneous hardware, significantly reduce the cost of building…

Machine learning algorithms are commonly specified in linear algebra (LA). LA expressions can be rewritten into more efficient forms, by taking advantage of input properties such as sparsity, as well as program properties such as common…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yisu Remy Wang , Shana Hutchison , Jonathan Leang , Bill Howe , Dan Suciu

EDA toolchains are notoriously unpredictable, incomplete, and error-prone; the generally-accepted remedy has been to re-imagine EDA tasks as compilation problems. However, any compiler framework we apply must be prepared to handle the wide…

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