Publications related to Monotonicity Types

Formal Foundations of Capture Tracking

Type systems are a device for verifying properties of programs without running them. Many programming languages used in the industry have always had a type system, while others were initially created without a type system and later adopted one, when the ad ...

EPFL2024

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

Capturing Types

Martin Odersky, Ondrej Lhoták, Aleksander Slawomir Boruch-Gruszecki

Type systems usually characterize the shape of values but not their free variables. However, many desirable safety properties could be guaranteed if one knew the free variables captured by values. We describe CC

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Type-Preserving Compilation of Class-Based Languages

Guillaume André Fradji Martres

The Dependent Object Type (DOT) calculus was designed to put Scala on a sound basis, but while DOT relies on structural subtyping, Scala is a fundamentally class-based language. This impedance mismatch means that a proof of DOT soundness by itself is ...

EPFL2023

MOD2IR: High-Performance Code Generation for a Biophysically Detailed Neuronal Simulation DSL

Felix Schürmann, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Snehal Pramod Kumbhar, Omar Awile, Ioannis Magkanaris

Advances in computational capabilities and large volumes of experimental data have established computer simulations of brain tissue models as an important pillar in modern neuroscience. Alongside, a variety of domain specific languages (DSLs) have been dev ...

ACM2023

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

Studies on Types: Dormitories

Estelle Lépine, Tiago André Pratas Borges, Anja Fröhlich, Vanessa Pointet

Concepts of type and typology are not specific to architecture. Rather they represent an interdisciplinary approach to ordering knowledge and gaining insight. In the field of architecture, the study of types and typology offers a didactic perspective that ...

EPFL Press2022

An Exploratory Study of Reactions to Bot Comments on GitHub

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah, Xinyang Lu

The widespread use of bots to support software development makes social coding platforms such as GitHub a particularly rich source of data for the study of human-bot interaction. Software development bots are used to automate repetitive tasks, interacting ...

ACM2022

Towards elucidating the structural and cellular determinants of a-synuclein seeding and toxicity

Somanath Jagannath

Although it has been nearly two and half decades since the discovery of alpha-synuclein (aSyn) as the major component of Lewy bodies (LBs), our understanding of the involvement of different aSyn species, their seeding, spreading and toxicity in Parkinson's ...

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

In-Memory Hardware and Architectural Extensions for Workloads Acceleration

William Andrew Simon

Utilization of edge devices has exploded in the last decade, with such use cases as wearable devices, autonomous driving, and smart homes. As their ubiquity grows, so do expectations of their capabilities. Simultaneously, their formfactor and use cases lim ...

EPFL2022

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

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

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

Fe-57-Enrichment effect on the composition and performance of Fe-based O-2-reduction electrocatalysts

Jeremy Luterbacher, Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier

Pt-group metal (PGM)-free catalysts of the Me-N-C type based on abundant and inexpensive elements have gained importance in the field of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysis due to their promising ORR-activities. Their insufficient stability, h ...

2021

Virtual ADTs for Portable Metaprogramming

Martin Odersky, Nicolas Alexander Stucki

Scala 3 provides a metaprogramming interface that represents the abstract syntax tree definitions using algebraic data types. To allow the compiler to freely evolve without breaking the metaprogramming interface, we present virtual algebraic data types (or ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

The Simple Essence of Algebraic Subtyping: Principal Type Inference with Subtyping Made Easy

Lionel Emile Vincent Parreaux

MLsub extends traditional Hindley-Milner type inference with subtyping while preserving compact principal types, an exciting new development. However, its specification in terms of biunification is difficult to understand, relying on the new concepts of bi ...

2020

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

Using an antenna as a tool for studying microturbulence and zonal structures in tokamaks with a global gyrokinetic GPU-enabled particle-in-cell code

Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

In order to get a better understanding of the interaction of plasma microinstabilities and associated turbulence with specific modes, an antenna is implemented in the global gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code ORB5. It consists in applying an external ...

EPFL2020

Understanding Eating And Drinking In Context From Crowdsourced Data

Thanh Trung Phan

With the increasing rate of urbanization, understanding food and beverage consumption, including alcohol drinking behaviour with its consequences, is relevant in such a megacity in the future. Especially, investigation of alcohol drinking is necessary for ...

EPFL2020