Publications related to Compiler-compiler

WarpAttack: Bypassing CFI through Compiler-Introduced Double-Fetches

Mathias Josef Payer, Flavio Toffalini, Luca Di Bartolomeo, Jianhao Xu

Code-reuse attacks are dangerous threats that attracted the attention of the security community for years. These attacks aim at corrupting important control-flow transfers for taking control of a process without injecting code. Nowadays, the combinations o ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Silent Bugs Matter: A Study of Compiler-Introduced Security Bugs

Mathias Josef Payer, Jianhao Xu

Compilers assure that any produced optimized code is semantically equivalent to the original code. However, even "correct" compilers may introduce security bugs as security properties go beyond translation correctness. Security bugs introduced by such corr ...

Usenix Assoc2023

Scalable Metaprogramming in Scala 3

Nicolas Alexander Stucki

A metaprogrammer should be able to reason about the semantics of the generated code. Multi-stage programming introduced an elegant and powerful solution to this problem. It follows a semantically driven approach to code generation, where semantics are full ...

EPFL2023

Quantum mixed state compiling

Zoë Holmes

The task of learning a quantum circuit to prepare a given mixed state is a fundamental quantum subroutine. We present a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) to learn mixed states which is suitable for near-term hardware. Our algorithm represents a generaliz ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

DASS: Combining Dynamic & Static Scheduling in High-Level Synthesis

Paolo Ienne, Lana Josipovic

A central task in high-level synthesis is scheduling: the allocation of operations to clock cycles. The classic approach to scheduling is static, in which each operation is mapped to a clock cycle at compile-time, but recent years have seen the emergence o ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Musical Garden Paths: Evidence for Syntactic Revision Beyond the Linguistic Domain

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Steffen Alexander Herff, Gabriele Cecchetti

While theoretical and empirical insights suggest that the capacity to represent and process complex syntax is crucial in language as well as other domains, it is still unclear whether specific parsing mechanisms are also shared across domains. Focusing on ...

Wiley2022

Dr.Jit: A Just-In-Time Compiler for Differentiable Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Nicolas Julien Roussel, Delio Aleardo Vicini, Sébastien Nicolas Speierer

Dr.Jit is a new just-in-time compiler for physically based rendering and its derivative. Dr.Jit expedites research on these topics in two ways: first, it traces high-level simulation code (e.g., written in Python) and aggressively simplifies and specialize ...

2022

Efficient Parsing with Derivatives and Zippers

Romain Edelmann

Parsing is the process that enables a computer system to make sense of raw data. Parsing is common to almost all computer systems: It is involved every time sequential data is read and elaborated into structured data. The theory of parsing usually focuses ...

EPFL2021

EVA: An Encrypted Vector Arithmetic Language and Compiler for Efficient Homomorphic Computation

Blagovesta Hristova Kostova, Wei Dai

Fully-Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) offers powerful capabilities by enabling secure offloading of both storage and computation, and recent innovations in schemes and implementations have made it all the more attractive. At the same time, FHE is notoriously ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Semantics-preserving inlining for metaprogramming

Martin Odersky, Sébastien Jean R Doeraene, Nicolas Alexander Stucki

Inlining is used in many different ways in programming languages: some languages use it as a compiler-directive solely for optimization, some use it as a metaprogramming feature, and others lay their design in-between. This paper presents inlining through ...

2020

RetroWrite: Statically Instrumenting COTS Binaries for Fuzzing and Sanitization

Mathias Josef Payer, Duo Xu

Analyzing the security of closed source binaries is currently impractical for end-users, or even developers who rely on third-party libraries. Such analysis relies on automatic vulnerability discovery techniques, most notably fuzzing with sanitizers enable ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Just-in-time performance without warm-up

Denys Shabalin

Scala has been developed as a language that deeply integrates with the Java ecosystem. It offers seamless interoperability with existing Java libraries. Since the Scala compiler targets Java bytecode, Scala programs have access to high-performance runtimes ...

EPFL2020

Combining Dynamic & Static Scheduling in High-level Synthesis

Paolo Ienne, Lana Josipovic

A central task in high-level synthesis is scheduling: the allocation of operations to clock cycles. The classic approach to scheduling is static, in which each operation is mapped to a clock cycle at compile-time, but recent years have seen the emergence o ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

A review of CUDA optimization techniques and tools for structured grid computing

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Recent advances in GPUs opened a new opportunity in harnessing their computing power for general purpose computing. CUDA, an extension to C programming, is developed for programming NVIDIA GPUs. However, efficiently programming GPUs using CUDA is very tedi ...

2020

Recursive Non-Autoregressive Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Dependency Parsing with Iterative Refinement

James Henderson, Alireza Mohammadshahi

We propose the Recursive Non-autoregressive Graph-to-graph Transformer architecture (RNG-Tr) for the iterative refinement of arbitrary graphs through the recursive application of a non-autoregressive Graph-to-Graph Transformer and apply it to syntactic dep ...

2021

Type-Safe Metaprogramming and Compilation Techniques For Designing Efficient Systems in High-Level Languages

Lionel Emile Vincent Parreaux

Software engineering practices have been steadily moving towards higher-level programming languages and away from lower-level ones. High-level languages tend to greatly improve safety, productivity, and code maintainability because they handle various impl ...

EPFL2020

Compiler Generation for Performance-Oriented Embedded DSLs (Short Paper)

Christoph Koch, Amir Shaikhha, Vojin Jovanovic

In this paper, we present a framework for generating optimizing compilers for performance-oriented embedded DSLs (EDSLs). This framework provides facilities to automatically generate the boilerplate code required for building DSL compilers on top of the ex ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Shrink It or Shed It! Minimize the Use of LSQs in Dataflow Designs

Paolo Ienne, Andrea Guerrieri, Lana Josipovic, Atri Bhattacharyya

When applications have unpredictable memory accesses or irregular control flow, dataflow circuits overcome the limitations of statically scheduled high-level synthesis (HLS). If memory dependences cannot be determined at compile time, dataflow circuits rel ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Secured Routines: Language-based Construction of Trusted Execution Environments

James Richard Larus, Edouard Bugnion, Adrien Ghosn

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel SGX enclaves, use hardware to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of operations on sensitive data. While the technology is available on many processors, the complexity of its programming model and i ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Tizian Lucien Zeltner, Delio Aleardo Vicini, Merlin Eléazar Nimier-David

Modern rendering systems are confronted with a dauntingly large and growing set of requirements: in their pursuit of realism, physically based techniques must increasingly account for intricate properties of light, such as its spectral composition or polar ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019