Publications related to Scalable and Reactive Programming for Semantic Web Developers

Generative AI-Enabled Conversational Interaction to Support Self-Directed Learning Experiences in Transversal Computational Thinking

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Abdessalam Ouaazki, Juan Carlos Farah

As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...

2024

Degrees of Separation: A Flexible Type System for Safe Concurrency

Martin Odersky, Aleksander Slawomir Boruch-Gruszecki, Yichen Xu

Data races have long been a notorious problem in concurrent programming. They are subtle to detect, and lead to non-deterministic behaviours. There has been a lot of interest in type systems that statically guarantee data race freedom. Significant progress ...

2024

Infusing structured knowledge priors in neural models for sample-efficient symbolic reasoning

Mattia Atzeni

The ability to reason, plan and solve highly abstract problems is a hallmark of human intelligence. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, propelled by deep neural networks, have revolutionized disciplines like computer vision and natural language ...

EPFL2024

When Subtyping Constraints Liberate A Novel Type Inference Approach for First-Class Polymorphism

Lionel Emile Vincent Parreaux, Aleksander Slawomir Boruch-Gruszecki

Type inference in the presence of first-class or "impredicative" second-order polymorphism a la System F has been an active research area for several decades, with original works dating back to the end of the 80s. Yet, until now many basic problems remain ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2024

Compilation and Design Space Exploration of Dataflow Programs for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platforms

Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Today's continued increase in demand for processing power, despite the slowdown of Moore's law, has led to an increase in processor count, which has resulted in energy consumption and distribution problems. To address this, there is a growing trend toward ...

EPFL2023

Language Model Decoding as Likelihood–Utility Alignment

Boi Faltings, Maxime Jean Julien Peyrard, Robert West, Martin Josifoski, Valentin Hartmann, Jiheng Wei, Frano Rajic, Debjit Paul

A critical component of a successful language generation pipeline is the decoding algorithm. However, the general principles that should guide the choice of a decoding algorithm re- main unclear. Previous works only compare decoding algorithms in narrow sc ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

Monotonicity Reasoning in the Age of Neural Foundation Models

Zeming Chen, Qiyue Gao

The recent advance of large language models (LLMs) demonstrates that these large-scale foundation models achieve remarkable capabilities across a wide range of language tasks and domains. The success of the statistical learning approach challenges our unde ...

Springer2023

Blue Brain Nexus: An open, secure, scalable system for knowledge graph management and data-driven science

Henry Markram, Henry Genet, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez, Sean Lewis Hill, Huanxiang Lu, Mohameth François Sy, Samuel Claude Kerrien, Michaël Fernand Paul Dupont, Silvia Rosario Jimenez Tejeda, Bogdan Roman, Ian Lavriushev, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Didac Montero Mendez, Wojciech Adam Wajerowicz, Pierre-Alexandre Fonta, Kenneth William Pirman, Julien Antonin Machon, Jonathan Raël Lurie, Dhanesh Neela Mana, Natalia Stafeeva, Alexander Désiré Ulbrich, Carolina Johanna Elisabeth Lindqvist

Modern data-driven science often consists of iterative cycles of data discovery, acquisition, preparation, analysis, model building and validation leading to knowledge discovery as well as dissemination at scale. The unique challenges of building and simul ...

2023

Scaling Language Features for Program Verification

Georg Stefan Schmid

Formal verification of real-world software systems remains challenging for a number of reasons, including lack of automation, friction in specifying properties, and limited support for the diverse programming paradigms used in industry. In this thesis we m ...

EPFL2022

Type-Level Programming with Match Types

Martin Odersky, Olivier Eric Paul Blanvillain

Type-level programming is becoming more and more popular in the realm of functional programming. However, the combination of type-level programming and subtyping remains largely unexplored in practical programming languages. This paper presents match types ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Abstractions for Type-Level Programming

Olivier Eric Paul Blanvillain

Over the past decade, the Scala community has shown great interest in using type-level programming to obtain additional type safety. Unfortunately, the lack of support from the Scala compiler has been a barrier to the adoption of that technique, notably du ...

EPFL2022

Cognitive twin construction for system of systems operation based on semantic integration and high-level architecture

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Han Li

With the increasing complexity of engineered systems, digital twins (DTs) have been widely used to support integrated modeling, simulation, and decision-making of the system of systems (SoS). However, when integrating DTs of each constituent system, it is ...

IOS PRESS2022

A case for DOT: Theoretical Foundations for Objects with Pattern Matching and GADT-Style Reasoning

Lionel Emile Vincent Parreaux, Aleksander Slawomir Boruch-Gruszecki, Yichen Xu

Many programming languages in the OO tradition now support pattern matching in some form. Historical examples include Scala and Ceylon, with the more recent additions of Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, and Flow. But pattern matching on generic class hierarchies ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia

Tiziano Piccardi, Daniele Rama

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However, despite their widespr ...

SPRINGER2022

Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah

As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València2022

Trust as a Programming Primitive

Adrien Ghosn

Programming has changed; programming languages have not. Modern software embraced reusable software components, i.e., public libraries, and runs in the cloud, on machines that co-locate applications from various origins. This new programming paradigm leads ...

EPFL2021

Proving and Disproving Equivalence of Functional Programming Assignments

Viktor Kuncak, Dragana Milovancevic

We present an automated approach to verify the correctness of programming assignments, such as the ones that arise in a functional programming course. Our approach takes as input student submissions and reference solutions, and uses equivalence checking to ...

2023

Representing Monads with Capabilities

Martin Odersky, Aleksander Slawomir Boruch-Gruszecki, Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser

Programming with monads can be advantageous even in imperative languages with builtin support for side effects. However, in these languages composing monadic programs is different from composing side effecting imperative programs. This does not need to be ...

2021

Software Support for Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Programming

David Teksen Aksun

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is an emerging type of memory device that provides fast, byte-addressable, and high-capacity durable storage. NVM sits on the memory bus and allows durable data structures designs similar to the in-memory equivalent ones. Expensiv ...

EPFL2021

Enclosure: Language-Based Restriction of Untrusted Libraries

Adrien Ghosn, Edouard Bugnion, James Richard Larus, Evangelos Marios Kogias, Mathias Josef Payer

Programming languages and systems have failed to address the security implications of the increasingly frequent use of public libraries to construct modern software. Most languages provide tools and online repositories to publish, import, and use libraries ...

ACM2021