PARF: An Adaptive Abstraction-Strategy Tuner for Static Analysis
Abstract
We launch Parf - a toolkit for adaptively tuning abstraction strategies of static program analyzers in a fully automated manner. Parf models various types of external parameters (encoding abstraction strategies) as random variables subject to probability distributions over latticed parameter spaces. It incrementally refines the probability distributions based on accumulated intermediate results generated by repeatedly sampling and analyzing, thereby ultimately yielding a set of highly accurate abstraction strategies. Parf is implemented on top of Frama-C/Eva - an off-the-shelf open-source static analyzer for C programs. Parf provides a web-based user interface facilitating the intuitive configuration of static analyzers and visualization of dynamic distribution refinement of the abstraction strategies. It further supports the identification of dominant parameters in Frama-C/Eva analysis. Benchmark experiments and a case study demonstrate the competitive performance of Parf for analyzing complex, large-scale real-world programs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.13229,
title = {PARF: An Adaptive Abstraction-Strategy Tuner for Static Analysis},
author = {Zhongyi Wang and Mingshuai Chen and Tengjie Lin and Linyu Yang and Junhao Zhuo and Qiuye Wang and Shengchao Qin and Xiao Yi and Jianwei Yin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13229},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Per journal policy, the peer-reviewed version will be published in J. Comput. Sci. Technol. and supersede this preprint