5 Search Results for "Balabonski, Thibaut"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.47
Useful Call-by-Value: A Semantic Interpretation via Quantitative Types

Authors: Pablo Barenbaum, Delia Kesner, and Mariana Milicich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 363, 34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026)

Abstract
Useful evaluation is an optimised evaluation mechanism for functional programming languages. It relies on representing terms with sharing and imposing a restricted notion of useful substitutions, that intuitively disallows copying subterms that do not contribute to the progress of the computation. In particular, useful call-by-value evaluation optimises the standard call-by-value strategy by preserving its original semantics. This preservation result has been shown by means of syntactical rewriting techniques, difficult to adapt to alternative variants of the calculi at play. In this work, we present the first semantic model of useful call-by-value evaluation through the non-idempotent intersection type system 𝒰. Our first contribution is a characterisation of termination for useful call-by-value evaluation via system 𝒰. That is, a term is typable in system 𝒰 if and only if it terminates in the useful call-by-value strategy. As a second contribution, we show that system 𝒰 provides a quantitative interpretation for useful call-by-value evaluation, offering exact step-count information for program evaluation. Our third contribution is that termination in call-by-value and useful call-by-value are equivalent. This ensures in particular that call-by-value, which is (potentially) erasing, and useful call-by-value, which is non-erasing, are observationally equivalent. Even though the specification of the operational semantics of useful evaluation is highly complex, system 𝒰 is notably simple. As far as we know, system 𝒰 is one of the scarce quantitative type systems capturing exactly the substitution step-count for variables and abstractions in an open call-by-value strategy.
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Pablo Barenbaum, Delia Kesner, and Mariana Milicich. Useful Call-by-Value: A Semantic Interpretation via Quantitative Types. In 34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 363, pp. 47:1-47:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{barenbaum_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2026.47,
  author =	{Barenbaum, Pablo and Kesner, Delia and Milicich, Mariana},
  title =	{{Useful Call-by-Value: A Semantic Interpretation via Quantitative Types}},
  booktitle =	{34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026)},
  pages =	{47:1--47:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-411-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{363},
  editor =	{Guerrini, Stefano and K\"{o}nig, Barbara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.47},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-254721},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.47},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lambda calculus, Evaluation strategies, Call-by-Value, Useful Evaluation, Intersection types, Quantitative models}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.5
The Cost of Skeletal Call-By-Need, Smoothly

Authors: Beniamino Accattoli, Francesco Magliocca, Loïc Peyrot, and Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 337, 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)

Abstract
Skeletal call-by-need is an optimization of call-by-need evaluation also known as "fully lazy sharing": when the duplication of a value has to take place, it is first split into "skeleton", which is then duplicated, and "flesh" which is instead kept shared. Here, we provide two cost analyses of skeletal call-by-need. Firstly, we provide a family of terms showing that skeletal call-by-need can be asymptotically exponentially faster than call-by-need in both time and space; it is the first such evidence, to our knowledge. Secondly, we prove that skeletal call-by-need can be implemented efficiently, that is, with bi-linear overhead. This result is obtained by providing a new smooth presentation of ideas by Shivers and Wand for the reconstruction of skeletons, which is then smoothly plugged into the study of an abstract machine following the distillation technique by Accattoli et al.
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Beniamino Accattoli, Francesco Magliocca, Loïc Peyrot, and Claudio Sacerdoti Coen. The Cost of Skeletal Call-By-Need, Smoothly. In 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 337, pp. 5:1-5:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{accattoli_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.5,
  author =	{Accattoli, Beniamino and Magliocca, Francesco and Peyrot, Lo\"{i}c and Sacerdoti Coen, Claudio},
  title =	{{The Cost of Skeletal Call-By-Need, Smoothly}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-374-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{337},
  editor =	{Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236206},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: \lambda-calculus, abstract machines, call-by-need, cost models}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LITES.8.2.2
Swarms of Mobile Robots: Towards Versatility with Safety

Authors: Pierre Courtieu, Lionel Rieg, Sébastien Tixeuil, and Xavier Urbain

Published in: LITES, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2022): Special Issue on Distributed Hybrid Systems. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 8, Issue 2

Abstract
We present Pactole, a formal framework to design and prove the correctness of protocols (or the impossibility of their existence) that target mobile robotic swarms. Unlike previous approaches, our methodology unifies in a single formalism the execution model, the problem specification, the protocol, and its proof of correctness. The Pactole framework makes use of the Coq proof assistant, and is specially targeted at protocol designers and problem specifiers, so that a common unambiguous language is used from the very early stages of protocol development. We stress the underlying framework design principles to enable high expressivity and modularity, and provide concrete examples about how the Pactole framework can be used to tackle actual problems, some previously addressed by the Distributed Computing community, but also new problems, while being certified correct.
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Pierre Courtieu, Lionel Rieg, Sébastien Tixeuil, and Xavier Urbain. Swarms of Mobile Robots: Towards Versatility with Safety. In LITES, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2022): Special Issue on Distributed Hybrid Systems. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 02:1-02:36, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@Article{courtieu_et_al:LITES.8.2.2,
  author =	{Courtieu, Pierre and Rieg, Lionel and Tixeuil, S\'{e}bastien and Urbain, Xavier},
  title =	{{Swarms of Mobile Robots: Towards Versatility with Safety}},
  journal =	{Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems},
  pages =	{02:1--02:36},
  ISSN =	{2199-2002},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{8},
  number =	{2},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LITES.8.2.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-192942},
  doi =		{10.4230/LITES.8.2.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: distributed algorithm, mobile autonomous robots, formal proof}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.9
A Strong Call-By-Need Calculus

Authors: Thibaut Balabonski, Antoine Lanco, and Guillaume Melquiond

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 195, 6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021)

Abstract
We present a call-by-need λ-calculus that enables strong reduction (that is, reduction inside the body of abstractions) and guarantees that arguments are only evaluated if needed and at most once. This calculus uses explicit substitutions and subsumes the existing strong-call-by-need strategy, but allows for more reduction sequences, and often shorter ones, while preserving the neededness. The calculus is shown to be normalizing in a strong sense: Whenever a λ-term t admits a normal form n in the λ-calculus, then any reduction sequence from t in the calculus eventually reaches a representative of the normal form n. We also exhibit a restriction of this calculus that has the diamond property and that only performs reduction sequences of minimal length, which makes it systematically better than the existing strategy. We have used the Abella proof assistant to formalize part of this calculus, and discuss how this experiment affected its design.
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Thibaut Balabonski, Antoine Lanco, and Guillaume Melquiond. A Strong Call-By-Need Calculus. In 6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 195, pp. 9:1-9:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{balabonski_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.9,
  author =	{Balabonski, Thibaut and Lanco, Antoine and Melquiond, Guillaume},
  title =	{{A Strong Call-By-Need Calculus}},
  booktitle =	{6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-191-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{195},
  editor =	{Kobayashi, Naoki},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142477},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: strong reduction, call-by-need, evaluation strategy, normalization}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2012.85
Axiomatic Sharing-via-Labelling

Authors: Thibaut Balabonski

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 15, 23rd International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'12) (2012)

Abstract
A judicious use of labelled terms makes it possible to bring together the simplicity of term rewriting and the sharing power of graph rewriting: this has been known for twenty years in the particular case of orthogonal first-order systems. The present paper introduces a concise and easily usable axiomatic presentation of sharing-via-labelling techniques that applies to higher-order term rewriting as well as to non-orthogonal term rewriting. This provides a general framework for the sharing of subterms and keeps the formalism as simple as term rewriting.
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Thibaut Balabonski. Axiomatic Sharing-via-Labelling. In 23rd International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'12). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 15, pp. 85-100, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)

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@InProceedings{balabonski:LIPIcs.RTA.2012.85,
  author =	{Balabonski, Thibaut},
  title =	{{Axiomatic Sharing-via-Labelling}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'12)},
  pages =	{85--100},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-38-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{15},
  editor =	{Tiwari, Ashish},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2012.85},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-34868},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2012.85},
  annote =	{Keywords: Sharing, Abstract term rewriting, Graphs, Higher order, Non-orthogonality}
}
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