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Correctly Compiling Proofs About Programs Without Proving Compilers Correct

Authors: Audrey Seo, Christopher Lam, Dan Grossman, and Talia Ringer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 309, 15th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2024)


Abstract
Guaranteeing correct compilation is nearly synonymous with compiler verification. However, the correctness guarantees for certified compilers and translation validation can be stronger than we need. While many compilers do have incorrect behavior, even when a compiler bug occurs it may not change the program’s behavior meaningfully with respect to its specification. Many real-world specifications are necessarily partial in that they do not completely specify all of a program’s behavior. While compiler verification and formal methods have had great success for safety-critical systems, there are magnitudes more code, such as math libraries, compiled with incorrect compilers, that would benefit from a guarantee of its partial specification. This paper explores a technique to get guarantees about compiled programs even in the presence of an unverified, or even incorrect, compiler. Our workflow compiles programs, specifications, and proof objects, from an embedded source language and logic to an embedded target language and logic. We implement two simple imperative languages, each with its own Hoare-style program logic, and a system for instantiating proof compilers out of compilers between these two languages that fulfill certain equational conditions in Coq. We instantiate our system on four compilers: one that is incomplete, two that are incorrect, and one that is correct but unverified. We use these instances to compile Hoare proofs for several programs, and we are able to leverage compiled proofs to assist in proofs of larger programs. Our proof compiler system is formally proven sound in Coq. We demonstrate how our approach enables strong target program guarantees even in the presence of incorrect compilation, opening up new options for which proof burdens one might shoulder instead of, or in addition to, compiler correctness.

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Audrey Seo, Christopher Lam, Dan Grossman, and Talia Ringer. Correctly Compiling Proofs About Programs Without Proving Compilers Correct. In 15th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 309, pp. 33:1-33:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{seo_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2024.33,
  author =	{Seo, Audrey and Lam, Christopher and Grossman, Dan and Ringer, Talia},
  title =	{{Correctly Compiling Proofs About Programs Without Proving Compilers Correct}},
  booktitle =	{15th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2024)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-337-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{309},
  editor =	{Bertot, Yves and Kutsia, Temur and Norrish, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2024.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207612},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2024.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: proof transformations, compiler validation, program logics, proof engineering}
}
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An Interpretable Classification Method for Predicting Drug Resistance in M. Tuberculosis

Authors: Hooman Zabeti, Nick Dexter, Amir Hosein Safari, Nafiseh Sedaghat, Maxwell Libbrecht, and Leonid Chindelevitch

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 172, 20th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2020)


Abstract
Motivation: The prediction of drug resistance and the identification of its mechanisms in bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent of tuberculosis, is a challenging problem. Modern methods based on testing against a catalogue of previously identified mutations often yield poor predictive performance. On the other hand, machine learning techniques have demonstrated high predictive accuracy, but many of them lack interpretability to aid in identifying specific mutations which lead to resistance. We propose a novel technique, inspired by the group testing problem and Boolean compressed sensing, which yields highly accurate predictions and interpretable results at the same time. Results: We develop a modified version of the Boolean compressed sensing problem for identifying drug resistance, and implement its formulation as an integer linear program. This allows us to characterize the predictive accuracy of the technique and select an appropriate metric to optimize. A simple adaptation of the problem also allows us to quantify the sensitivity-specificity trade-off of our model under different regimes. We test the predictive accuracy of our approach on a variety of commonly used antibiotics in treating tuberculosis and find that it has accuracy comparable to that of standard machine learning models and points to several genes with previously identified association to drug resistance.

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Hooman Zabeti, Nick Dexter, Amir Hosein Safari, Nafiseh Sedaghat, Maxwell Libbrecht, and Leonid Chindelevitch. An Interpretable Classification Method for Predicting Drug Resistance in M. Tuberculosis. In 20th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 172, pp. 2:1-2:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{zabeti_et_al:LIPIcs.WABI.2020.2,
  author =	{Zabeti, Hooman and Dexter, Nick and Safari, Amir Hosein and Sedaghat, Nafiseh and Libbrecht, Maxwell and Chindelevitch, Leonid},
  title =	{{An Interpretable Classification Method for Predicting Drug Resistance in M. Tuberculosis}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2020)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-161-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{172},
  editor =	{Kingsford, Carl and Pisanti, Nadia},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2020.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-127911},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2020.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Drug resistance, whole-genome sequencing, interpretable machine learning, integer linear programming, rule-based learning}
}
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