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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

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

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

Equality saturation, a technique for program optimisation and reasoning, has gained attention due to the resurgence of equality graphs (e-graphs). E-graphs represent equivalence classes of terms under rewrite rules, enabling simultaneous…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Aleksei Tiurin , Dan R. Ghica , Nick Hu

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

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

One of the major optimizations employed in deep learning frameworks is graph rewriting. Production frameworks rely on heuristics to decide if rewrite rules should be applied and in which order. Prior research has shown that one can discover…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yichen Yang , Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimtha , Yisu Remy Wang , Max Willsey , Sudip Roy , Jacques Pienaar

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

E-graphs are a prominent data structure that has been increasing in popularity in recent years due to their expanding range of applications in various formal reasoning tasks. Often, they are used for equality saturation, a process of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Eytan Singher , Shachar Itzhaky

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 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

Rewrite systems [6, 10, 12] have been widely employing equality saturation [9], which is an optimisation methodology that uses a saturated e-graph to represent all possible sequences of rewrite simultaneously, and then extracts the optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Guoliang He , Zak Singh , Eiko Yoneki

The technique of \emph{equality saturation}, which equips graphs with an equivalence relation, has proven effective for program optimisation. We give a categorical semantics to these structures, called \emph{e-graphs}, in terms of Cartesian…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Aleksei Tiurin , Chris Barrett , Dan R. Ghica , Nick Hu

Which one is better between two representative graph summarization models with and without edge weights? From web graphs to online social networks, large graphs are everywhere. Graph summarization, which is an effective graph compression…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Shinhwan Kang , Kyuhan Lee , Kijung Shin

In Symbolic Regression (SR), Genetic Programming (GP) is a popular search algorithm that delivers state-of-the-art results in term of accuracy. Its success relies on the concept of neutrality, which induces large plateaus that the search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Fabricio Olivetti de Franca , Gabriel Kronberger

Graph-structured data is prevalent in domains such as social networks, financial transactions, brain networks, and protein interactions. As a result, the research community has produced new databases and analytics engines to process such…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Puneet Mehrotra , Vaastav Anand , Daniel Margo , Milad Rezaei Hajidehi , Margo Seltzer

E-graphs have attracted growing interest in many fields, particularly in logic synthesis and formal verification. E-graph extraction is a challenging NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. It requires identifying optimal terms from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jiaqi Yin , Zhan Song , Chen Chen , Yaohui Cai , Zhiru Zhang , Cunxi Yu

Efficient Neural Architecture Search methods based on weight sharing have shown good promise in democratizing Neural Architecture Search for computer vision models. There is, however, an ongoing debate whether these efficient methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Gabriel Bender , Hanxiao Liu , Bo Chen , Grace Chu , Shuyang Cheng , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Quoc Le

Symmetry plays a major role in subgraph matching both in the description of the graphs in question and in how it confounds the search process. This work addresses how to quantify these effects and how to use symmetries to increase the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Dominic Yang , Yurun Ge , Thien Nguyen , Jacob Moorman , Denali Molitor , Andrea Bertozzi

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
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