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41st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2020)
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41st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2020), June 15–20, 2020, London, UK

PLDI 2020 – Proceedings

Contents - Abstracts - Authors

Frontmatter

Title Page
Message from the Chairs
PLDI 2020 Organization
Sponsors

Synthesis I

Data-Driven Inference of Representation Invariants
Anders Miltner, Saswat Padhi, Todd Millstein, and David Walker
(Princeton University, USA; University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
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Type Error Feedback via Analytic Program Repair
Georgios Sakkas, Madeline Endres, Benjamin Cosman, Westley Weimer, and Ranjit Jhala
(University of California at San Diego, USA; University of Michigan, USA)
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Synthesizing Structured CAD Models with Equality Saturation and Inverse Transformations
Chandrakana Nandi, Max Willsey, Adam Anderson, James R. Wilcox, Eva Darulova, Dan Grossman, and Zachary Tatlock
(University of Washington, USA; Certora, USA; MPI-SWS, Germany)
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Language Implementation

Compiler and Runtime Support for Continuation Marks
Matthew Flatt and R. Kent Dybvig
(University of Utah, USA; Cisco Systems, USA)
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Crafty: Efficient, HTM-Compatible Persistent Transactions
Kaan Genç, Michael D. Bond, and Guoqing Harry Xu
(Ohio State University, USA; University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
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From Folklore to Fact: Comparing Implementations of Stacks and Continuations
Kavon Farvardin and John Reppy
(University of Chicago, USA)
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Machine Learning I

Typilus: Neural Type Hints
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Soline Ducousso, and Zheng Gao
(Microsoft Research, UK; University College London, UK; ENSTA Paris, France)
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Learning Nonlinear Loop Invariants with Gated Continuous Logic Networks
Jianan Yao, Gabriel Ryan, Justin Wong, Suman Jana, and Ronghui Gu
(Columbia University, USA)
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Blended, Precise Semantic Program Embeddings
Ke Wang and Zhendong Su
(Visa Research, USA; ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Security

Towards a Verified Range Analysis for JavaScript JITs
Fraser Brown, John Renner, Andres Nötzli, Sorin Lerner, Hovav Shacham, and Deian Stefan
(Stanford University, USA; University of California at San Diego, USA; University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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Binary Rewriting without Control Flow Recovery
Gregory J. Duck, Xiang Gao, and Abhik Roychoudhury
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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BlankIt Library Debloating: Getting What You Want Instead of Cutting What You Don’t
Chris Porter, Girish Mururu, Prithayan Barua, and Santosh Pande
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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Verification I

Verifying Concurrent Search Structure Templates
Siddharth Krishna, Nisarg Patel, Dennis Shasha, and Thomas Wies
(Microsoft Research, UK; New York University, USA)
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Armada: Low-Effort Verification of High-Performance Concurrent Programs
Jacob R. Lorch, Yixuan Chen, Manos Kapritsos, Bryan Parno, Shaz Qadeer, Upamanyu Sharma, James R. Wilcox, and Xueyuan Zhao
(Microsoft Research, USA; University of Michigan, USA; Yale University, USA; Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Calibra, USA; Certora, USA)
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Decidable Verification under a Causally Consistent Shared Memory
Ori Lahav and Udi Boker
(Tel Aviv University, Israel; IDC Herzliya, Israel)
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Inductive Sequentialization of Asynchronous Programs
Bernhard Kragl, Constantin Enea, Thomas A. Henzinger, Suha Orhun Mutluergil, and Shaz Qadeer
(IST Austria, Austria; IRIF, France; University of Paris, France; CNRS, France; Calibra, USA)
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Language Design I

The Essence of Bluespec: A Core Language for Rule-Based Hardware Design
Thomas Bourgeat, Clément Pit-Claudel, Adam Chlipala, and Arvind
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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LLHD: A Multi-level Intermediate Representation for Hardware Description Languages
Fabian Schuiki, Andreas Kurth, Tobias Grosser, and Luca Benini
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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On the Principles of Differentiable Quantum Programming Languages
Shaopeng Zhu, Shih-Han Hung, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, and Xiaodi Wu
(University of Maryland, USA)
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Silq: A High-Level Quantum Language with Safe Uncomputation and Intuitive Semantics
Benjamin Bichsel, Maximilian Baader, Timon Gehr, and Martin Vechev
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Memory Management

Improving Program Locality in the GC using Hotness
Albert Mingkun Yang, Erik Österlund, and Tobias Wrigstad
(Uppsala University, Sweden; Oracle, Sweden)
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A Marriage of Pointer- and Epoch-Based Reclamation
Jeehoon Kang and Jaehwang Jung
(KAIST, South Korea)
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CARAT: A Case for Virtual Memory through Compiler- and Runtime-Based Address Translation
Brian Suchy, Simone Campanoni, Nikos Hardavellas, and Peter Dinda
(Northwestern University, USA)
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Concurrency

Repairing and Mechanising the JavaScript Relaxed Memory Model
Conrad Watt, Christopher Pulte, Anton Podkopaev, Guillaume Barbier, Stephen Dolan, Shaked Flur, Jean Pichon-Pharabod, and Shu-yu Guo
(University of Cambridge, UK; National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia; MPI-SWS, Germany; ENS Rennes, France; Bloomberg, USA)
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Promising 2.0: Global Optimizations in Relaxed Memory Concurrency
Sung-Hwan Lee, Minki Cho, Anton Podkopaev, Soham Chakraborty, Chung-Kil Hur, Ori Lahav, and Viktor Vafeiadis
(Seoul National University, South Korea; National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia; MPI-SWS, Germany; IIT Delhi, India; Tel Aviv University, Israel)
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NVTraverse: In NVRAM Data Structures, the Destination Is More Important Than the Journey
Michal Friedman, Naama Ben-David, Yuanhao Wei, Guy E. Blelloch, and Erez Petrank
(Technion, Israel; Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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Type Systems

Predictable Accelerator Design with Time-Sensitive Affine Types
Rachit Nigam, Sachille Atapattu, Samuel Thomas, Zhijing Li, Theodore Bauer, Yuwei Ye, Apurva Koti, Adrian Sampson, and Zhiru Zhang
(Cornell University, USA)
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Type-Directed Scheduling of Streaming Accelerators
David Durst, Matthew Feldman, Dillon Huff, David Akeley, Ross Daly, Gilbert Louis Bernstein, Marco Patrignani, Kayvon Fatahalian, and Pat Hanrahan
(Stanford University, USA; University of California at Los Angeles, USA; University of California at Berkeley, USA; CISPA, Germany)
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FreezeML: Complete and Easy Type Inference for First-Class Polymorphism
Frank Emrich, Sam Lindley, Jan Stolarek, James Cheney, and Jonathan Coates
(University of Edinburgh, UK; Imperial College London, UK; Lodz University of Technology, Poland; Alan Turing Institute, UK)
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Smart Contracts

Securing Smart Contract with Runtime Validation
Ao Li, Jemin Andrew Choi, and Fan Long
(University of Toronto, Canada)
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Ethainter: A Smart Contract Security Analyzer for Composite Vulnerabilities
Lexi Brent, Neville Grech, Sifis Lagouvardos, Bernhard Scholz, and Yannis Smaragdakis
(International Computer Science Institute, USA; University of Sydney, Australia; University of Athens, Greece)
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Behavioral Simulation for Smart Contracts
Sidi Mohamed Beillahi, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Michael Emmi, and Constantin Enea
(University of Paris Diderot, France; IRIF, France; CNRS, France; SRI International, USA; IUF, France)
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Synthesis II

Multi-modal Synthesis of Regular Expressions
Qiaochu Chen, Xinyu Wang, Xi Ye, Greg Durrett, and Isil Dillig
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA)
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Optimizing Homomorphic Evaluation Circuits by Program Synthesis and Term Rewriting
DongKwon Lee, Woosuk Lee, Hakjoo Oh, and Kwangkeun Yi
(Seoul National University, South Korea; Hanyang University, South Korea; Korea University, South Korea)
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CacheQuery: Learning Replacement Policies from Hardware Caches
Pepe Vila, Pierre Ganty, Marco Guarnieri, and Boris Köpf
(IMDEA Software Institute, Spain; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; Microsoft Research, UK)
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Language Design II

HipHop.js: (A)Synchronous Reactive Web Programming
Gérard Berry and Manuel Serrano
(Collège de France, France; Inria, France)
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EVA: An Encrypted Vector Arithmetic Language and Compiler for Efficient Homomorphic Computation
Roshan Dathathri, Blagovesta Kostova, Olli Saarikivi, Wei Dai, Kim Laine, and Madan Musuvathi
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; EPFL, Switzerland; Microsoft Research, USA)
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Towards an API for the Real Numbers
Hans-J. Boehm
(Google, USA)
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Responsive Parallelism with Futures and State
Stefan K. Muller, Kyle Singer, Noah Goldstein, Umut A. Acar, Kunal Agrawal, and I-Ting Angelina Lee
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
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Performance

SympleGraph: Distributed Graph Processing with Precise Loop-Carried Dependency Guarantee
Youwei Zhuo, Jingji Chen, Qinyi Luo, Yanzhi Wang, Hailong Yang, Depei Qian, and Xuehai Qian
(University of Southern California, USA; Northeastern University, USA; Beihang University, China)
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PMEvo: Portable Inference of Port Mappings for Out-of-Order Processors by Evolutionary Optimization
Fabian Ritter and Sebastian Hack
(Saarland University, Germany)
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PMThreads: Persistent Memory Threads Harnessing Versioned Shadow Copies
Zhenwei Wu, Kai Lu, Andrew Nisbet, Wenzhe Zhang, and Mikel Luján
(National University of Defense Technology, China; University of Manchester, UK)
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SCAF: A Speculation-Aware Collaborative Dependence Analysis Framework
Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, Greg Chan, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
(Princeton University, USA; Northwestern University, USA)
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Verification II

Scalable Validation of Binary Lifters
Sandeep Dasgupta, Sushant Dinesh, Deepan Venkatesh, Vikram S. Adve, and Christopher W. Fletcher
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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Polynomial Invariant Generation for Non-deterministic Recursive Programs
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady
(IST Austria, Austria; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran)
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Templates and Recurrences: Better Together
Jason Breck, John Cyphert, Zachary Kincaid, and Thomas Reps
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Princeton University, USA)
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First-Order Quantified Separators
Jason R. Koenig, Oded Padon, Neil Immerman, and Alex Aiken
(Stanford University, USA; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
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Bug Finding

Validating SMT Solvers via Semantic Fusion
Dominik Winterer, Chengyu Zhang, and Zhendong Su
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland; East China Normal University, China)
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Debugging and Detecting Numerical Errors in Computation with Posits
Sangeeta Chowdhary, Jay P. Lim, and Santosh Nagarakatte
(Rutgers University, USA)
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SmartTrack: Efficient Predictive Race Detection
Jake Roemer, Kaan Genç, and Michael D. Bond
(Ohio State University, USA)
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Understanding Memory and Thread Safety Practices and Issues in Real-World Rust Programs
Boqin Qin, Yilun Chen, Zeming Yu, Linhai Song, and Yiying Zhang
(Pennsylvania State University, USA; Purdue University, USA; University of California at San Diego, USA)
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Static Analysis

Fast Graph Simplification for Interleaved Dyck-Reachability
Yuanbo Li, Qirun Zhang, and Thomas Reps
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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Static Analysis of Java Enterprise Applications: Frameworks and Caches, the Elephants in the Room
Anastasios Antoniadis, Nikos Filippakis, Paddy Krishnan, Raghavendra Ramesh, Nicholas Allen, and Yannis Smaragdakis
(University of Athens, Greece; CERN, Switzerland; Oracle Labs, Australia; ConsenSys, Australia)
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Automated Derivation of Parametric Data Movement Lower Bounds for Affine Programs
Auguste Olivry, Julien Langou, Louis-Noël Pouchet, P. Sadayappan, and Fabrice Rastello
(Grenoble Alps University, France; CNRS, France; Inria, France; Grenoble INP, France; LIG, France; University of Colorado at Denver, USA; Colorado State University, USA; University of Utah, USA)
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Code Generation

Automatic Generation of Efficient Sparse Tensor Format Conversion Routines
Stephen Chou, Fredrik Kjolstad, and Saman Amarasinghe
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Stanford University, USA)
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OOElala: Order-of-Evaluation Based Alias Analysis for Compiler Optimization
Ankush Phulia, Vaibhav Bhagee, and Sorav Bansal
(IIT Delhi, India)
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Effective Function Merging in the SSA Form
Rodrigo C. O. Rocha, Pavlos Petoumenos, Zheng Wang, Murray Cole, and Hugh Leather
(University of Edinburgh, UK; University of Manchester, UK; University of Leeds, UK)
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Probabilistic Programming

Proving Almost-Sure Termination by Omega-Regular Decomposition
Jianhui Chen and Fei He
(Tsinghua University, China)
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λPSI: Exact Inference for Higher-Order Probabilistic Programs
Timon Gehr, Samuel Steffen, and Martin Vechev
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Reactive Probabilistic Programming
Guillaume Baudart, Louis Mandel, Eric Atkinson, Benjamin Sherman, Marc Pouzet, and Michael Carbin
(IBM Research, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; ENS, France; PSL University, France)
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Symbolic Execution

Constant-Time Foundations for the New Spectre Era
Sunjay Cauligi, Craig Disselkoen, Klaus v. Gleissenthall, Dean Tullsen, Deian Stefan, Tamara Rezk, and Gilles Barthe
(University of California at San Diego, USA; Inria, France; MPI-SP, Germany; IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
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Gillian, Part I: A Multi-language Platform for Symbolic Execution
José Fragoso Santos, Petar Maksimović, Sacha-Élie Ayoun, and Philippa Gardner
(INESC-ID, Portugal; Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Imperial College London, UK)
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Efficient Handling of String-Number Conversion
Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Yu-Fang Chen, Bui Phi Diep, Julian Dolby, Petr Janků, Hsin-Hung Lin, Lukáš Holík, and Wei-Cheng Wu
(Uppsala University, Sweden; Academia Sinica, Taiwan; IBM Research, USA; Brno University of Technology, Czechia; University of Southern California, USA)
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Networking and Hardware

NV: An Intermediate Language for Verification of Network Control Planes
Nick Giannarakis, Devon Loehr, Ryan Beckett, and David Walker
(Princeton University, USA; Microsoft Research, USA)
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Detecting Network Load Violations for Distributed Control Planes
Kausik Subramanian, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Loris D'Antoni, and Aditya Akella
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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Compiler-Directed Soft Error Resilience for Lightweight GPU Register File Protection
Hongjune Kim, Jianping Zeng, Qingrui Liu, Mohammad Abdel-Majeed, Jaejin Lee, and Changhee Jung
(Seoul National University, South Korea; Purdue University, USA; Annapurna Labs, USA; University of Jordan, Jordan)
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Adaptive Low-Overhead Scheduling for Periodic and Reactive Intermittent Execution
Kiwan Maeng and Brandon Lucia
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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Parsing, Debugging, and Code Search

Faster General Parsing through Context-Free Memoization
Grzegorz Herman
(Jagiellonian University, Poland)
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Zippy LL(1) Parsing with Derivatives
Romain Edelmann, Jad Hamza, and Viktor Kunčak
(EPFL, Switzerland)
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Debug Information Validation for Optimized Code
Yuanbo Li, Shuo Ding, Qirun Zhang, and Davide Italiano
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Apple, USA)
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Semantic Code Search via Equational Reasoning
Varot Premtoon, James Koppel, and Armando Solar-Lezama
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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Machine Learning II

Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees
Samuel Drews, Aws Albarghouthi, and Loris D'Antoni
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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A Study of the Learnability of Relational Properties: Model Counting Meets Machine Learning (MCML)
Muhammad Usman, Wenxi Wang, Marko Vasic, Kaiyuan Wang, Haris Vikalo, and Sarfraz Khurshid
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; Google, USA)
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Learning Fast and Precise Numerical Analysis
Jingxuan He, Gagandeep Singh, Markus Püschel, and Martin Vechev
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Synthesis III

Exact and Approximate Methods for Proving Unrealizability of Syntax-Guided Synthesis Problems
Qinheping Hu, John Cyphert, Loris D'Antoni, and Thomas Reps
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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Question Selection for Interactive Program Synthesis
Ruyi Ji, Jingjing Liang, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang, and Zhenjiang Hu
(Peking University, China)
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Reconciling Enumerative and Deductive Program Synthesis
Kangjing Huang, Xiaokang Qiu, Peiyuan Shen, and Yanjun Wang
(Purdue University, USA)
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