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REST: Integrating Term Rewriting with Program Verification

Authors Zachary Grannan , Niki Vazou , Eva Darulova , Alexander J. Summers

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Zachary Grannan
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Niki Vazou
  • IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain
Eva Darulova
  • Uppsala University, Sweden
Alexander J. Summers
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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This work was supported by the Juan de la Cierva grants IJC2019-041599-I, the HaCrypt ONR project N00014-19-1-2292, and the ERC starting grant CRETE (101039196). We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

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We thank Jonathan Chan, Eric Conlon, Rui Ge, Paulette Koronkevich and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive feedback.

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Zachary Grannan, Niki Vazou, Eva Darulova, and Alexander J. Summers. REST: Integrating Term Rewriting with Program Verification. In 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 222, pp. 13:1-13:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.13

Abstract

We introduce REST, a novel term rewriting technique for theorem proving that uses online termination checking and can be integrated with existing program verifiers. REST enables flexible but terminating term rewriting for theorem proving by: (1) exploiting newly-introduced term orderings that are more permissive than standard rewrite simplification orderings; (2) dynamically and iteratively selecting orderings based on the path of rewrites taken so far; and (3) integrating external oracles that allow steps that cannot be justified with rewrite rules. Our REST approach is designed around an easily implementable core algorithm, parameterizable by choices of term orderings and their implementations; in this way our approach can be easily integrated into existing tools. We implemented REST as a Haskell library and incorporated it into Liquid Haskell’s evaluation strategy, extending Liquid Haskell with rewriting rules. We evaluated our REST implementation by comparing it against both existing rewriting techniques and E-matching (as used in most SMT solvers) and by showing that it can be used to supplant manual lemma application in many existing Liquid Haskell proofs.

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  • Theory of computation → Program verification
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  • term rewriting
  • program verification
  • theorem proving

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