We introduce Refinement Reflection, a new framework for building SMT-based deductive verifiers. The key idea is to reflect the code implementing a user-defined function into the function’s (output) refinement type. As a consequence, at uses of the function, the function definition is instantiated in a precise fashion that permits decidable verification. We show how reflection allows the user to write equational proofs of programs just by writing other programs e.g., using pattern-matching and recursion to perform case-splitting and induction. Thus, via, the propositions-as-types principle we show that reflection permits the specification of arbitrary functional correctness properties. While equational proofs are easy, writing them out can be exhausting. We introduce a proof-search algorithm called Proof by Logical Evaluation that uses techniques from model checking and abstract interpretation, to completely automate equational reasoning. We have implemented reflection in Liquid Haskell and used it to verify that the widely used instances of the Monoid, Applicative, Functor, and Monad typeclasses actually satisfy key algebraic laws required to make the clients safe, and to build the first library that actually verifies assumptions about associativity and ordering that are crucial for safe deterministic parallelism.
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13:30 10mAwards | SRC Awards Research Papers Benjamin Delaware Purdue University | ||
13:30 22mTalk | Refinement Reflection: Complete Verification with SMT Research Papers Niki Vazou University of Maryland, Anish Tondwalkar UCSD, Vikraman Choudhury , Ryan Scott Indiana University, Ryan R. Newton Indiana University, Philip Wadler University of Edinburgh, UK, Ranjit Jhala University of California, San Diego | ||
14:05 25mTalk | Non-Linear Reasoning For Invariant Synthesis Research Papers Zachary Kincaid Princeton University, John Cyphert University of Wisconsin - Madison, Jason Breck University of Wisconsin - Madison, Thomas Reps University of Wisconsin - Madison and GrammaTech, Inc. | ||
14:30 25mTalk | A Practical Construction for Decomposing Numerical Abstract Domains Research Papers | ||
14:55 25mTalk | Verifying Equivalence of Database-Driven Applications Research Papers Yuepeng Wang University of Texas at Austin, Işıl Dillig UT Austin, Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft Research, William Cook University of Texas at Austin |