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Python is a high-level interpreted language that has become an industry standard in a wide variety of applications. In this paper, we take a first step towards using ACL2s to reason about Python code by developing an embedding of a subset…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Samuel Xifaras , Panagiotis Manolios , Andrew T. Walter , William Robertson

Effective program synthesis requires a way to minimise the number of candidate programs being searched. A type signature, for example, places some small restrictions on the structure of potential candidates. We introduce and motivate a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Bruce Collie , Michael O'Boyle

Type theories can be formalized using the intrinsically (hard) or the extrinsically (soft) typed style. In large libraries of type theoretical features, often both styles are present, which can lead to code duplication and integration…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Florian Rabe , Navid Roux

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

Type inference refers to the task of inferring the data type of a given column of data. Current approaches often fail when data contains missing data and anomalies, which are found commonly in real-world data sets. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Taha Ceritli , Christopher K. I. Williams , James Geddes

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

To be usable in practice, interactive theorem provers need to provide convenient and efficient means of writing expressions, definitions, and proofs. This involves inferring information that is often left implicit in an ordinary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Leonardo de Moura , Jeremy Avigad , Soonho Kong , Cody Roux

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

Bringing the benefits of gradual typing to a language with parametric polymorphism like System F, while preserving relational parametricity, has proven extremely challenging: first attempts were formulated a decade ago, and several designs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Elizabeth Labrada , Matías Toro , Éric Tanter

This paper presents the first implementation of session types in a dynamically-typed language - Python. Communication safety of the whole system is guaranteed at runtime by monitors that check the execution traces comply with an associated…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Rumyana Neykova

In Bayesian hierarchical models, group-level parameter arrays must be mapped to the observation axis, often using explicit indexing. In complex models with numerous incompatible data and parameter sets, this introduces the potential for…

Computation · Statistics 2025-10-31 Daniel O'Hanlon

Type inference methods based on deep learning are becoming increasingly popular as they aim to compensate for the drawbacks of static and dynamic analysis approaches, such as high uncertainty. However, their practical application is still…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jonathan Elkobi , Bernd Gruner , Tim Sonnekalb , Clemens-Alexander Brust

We present an approach for modeling the Semantic Web as a type system. By using a type system, we can use symbolic representation for representing linked data. Objects with only data properties and references to external resources are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Rod Moten

Python is one of the most commonly used programming languages in industry and education. Its English keywords and built-in functions/modules allow it to come close to pseudo-code in terms of its readability and ease of writing. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Joshua Otten , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Kevin Moran

The expression problem describes a fundamental tradeoff between two types of extensibility: extending a type with new operations, such as by pattern matching on an algebraic data type in functional programming, and extending a type with new…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Bohdan Liesnikov , David Binder , Tim Süberkrüb

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that provably satisfy a given specification in the form of a polymorphic refinement type. We observe that such specifications are particularly suitable for program synthesis for two…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Nadia Polikarpova , Ivan Kuraj , Armando Solar-Lezama

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

Semantic subtyping is an approach to define subtyping relations for type systems featuring union and intersection type connectives. It has been studied only for strict languages, and it is unsound for non-strict semantics. In this work, we…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Tommaso Petrucciani , Giuseppe Castagna , Davide Ancona , Elena Zucca

A type system is introduced for a generic Object Oriented programming language in order to infer resource upper bounds. A sound andcomplete characterization of the set of polynomial time computable functions is obtained. As a consequence,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux

Typology is a subfield of linguistics that focuses on the study and classification of languages based on their structural features. Unlike genealogical classification, which examines the historical relationships between languages, typology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Gerhard Jäger