Tue 20 Jun 2023 14:00 - 14:20 at Royal - PLDI: Probabilistic Analyses Chair(s): Gagandeep Singh

We present Zar: a formally verified compiler pipeline from discrete probabilistic programs with unbounded loops in the conditional probabilistic guarded command language (cpGCL) to proved-correct executable samplers in the random bit model. We exploit the key idea that all discrete probability distributions can be reduced to unbiased coin-flipping schemes. The compiler pipeline first translates cpGCL programs into choice-fix trees, an intermediate representation suitable for reduction of biased probabilistic choices. Choice-fix trees are then translated to coinductive interaction trees for execution within the random bit model. The correctness of the composed translations establishes the sampling equidistribution theorem: compiled samplers are correct wrt. the conditional weakest pre-expectation semantics of cpGCL source programs. Zar is implemented and fully verified in the Coq proof assistant. We extract verified samplers to OCaml and Python and empirically validate them on a number of illustrative examples.

Tue 20 Jun

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13:40 - 15:40
PLDI: Probabilistic AnalysesPLDI Research Papers at Royal
Chair(s): Gagandeep Singh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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13:40
20m
Talk
Lilac: A Modal Separation Logic for Conditional Probability
PLDI Research Papers
John Li Northeastern University, Amal Ahmed Northeastern University, USA, Steven Holtzen Northeastern University
DOI Pre-print
14:00
20m
Talk
Formally Verified Samplers from Probabilistic Programs with Loops and Conditioning
PLDI Research Papers
Alexander Bagnall Ohio University, Gordon Stewart Bedrock Systems, Anindya Banerjee IMDEA Software Institute
DOI
14:20
20m
Talk
Verified Density Compilation for a Probabilistic Programming Language
PLDI Research Papers
Joseph Tassarotti NYU, Jean-Baptiste Tristan Amazon Web Services
DOI
14:40
20m
Talk
Probabilistic Programming with Stochastic Probabilities
PLDI Research Papers
Alexander K. Lew Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Matin Ghavami Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Martin Rinard MIT, Vikash K. Mansinghka Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DOI
15:00
20m
Talk
Automated Expected Value Analysis of Recursive Programs
PLDI Research Papers
Martin Avanzini Inria, Georg Moser University of Innsbruck, Michael Schaper Build Informed
DOI
15:20
20m
Talk
Synthesizing Quantum-Circuit Optimizers
PLDI Research Papers
Amanda Xu University of Wisconsin-Madison, Abtin Molavi University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lauren Pick University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of California, Berkeley, Swamit Tannu University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aws Albarghouthi University of Wisconsin-Madison
DOI Pre-print