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Fully Abstract Models of the Probabilistic lambda-calculus

Authors Pierre Clairambault, Hugo Paquet



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Pierre Clairambault
  • Univ Lyon, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, LIP, France
Hugo Paquet
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK

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Pierre Clairambault and Hugo Paquet. Fully Abstract Models of the Probabilistic lambda-calculus. In 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 119, pp. 16:1-16:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.16

Abstract

We compare three models of the probabilistic lambda-calculus: the probabilistic Böhm trees of Leventis, the probabilistic concurrent games of Winskel et al., and the weighted relational model of Ehrhard et al. Probabilistic Böhm trees and probabilistic strategies are shown to be related by a precise correspondence theorem, in the spirit of existing work for the pure lambda-calculus. Using Leventis' theorem (probabilistic Böhm trees characterise observational equivalence), we derive a full abstraction result for the games model. Then, we relate probabilistic strategies to the weighted relational model, using an interpretation-preserving functor from the former to the latter. We obtain that the relational model is also fully abstract.

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  • Theory of computation → Denotational semantics
  • Theory of computation → Probabilistic computation
Keywords
  • Game Semantics
  • Lambda-calculus
  • Probabilistic programming
  • Relational model
  • Full abstraction

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