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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.23

Mirroring Call-By-Need, or Values Acting Silly

Authors: Beniamino Accattoli and Adrienne Lancelot

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 299, 9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024)

Abstract

Call-by-need evaluation for the λ-calculus can be seen as merging the best of call-by-name and call-by-value, namely the wise erasing behaviour of the former and the wise duplicating behaviour of the latter. To better understand how duplication and erasure can be combined, we design a degenerated calculus, dubbed call-by-silly, that is symmetric to call-by-need in that it merges the worst of call-by-name and call-by-value, namely silly duplications by-name and silly erasures by-value. We validate the design of the call-by-silly calculus via rewriting properties and multi types. In particular, we mirror the main theorem about call-by-need - that is, its operational equivalence with call-by-name - showing that call-by-silly and call-by-value induce the same contextual equivalence. This fact shows the blindness with respect to efficiency of call-by-value contextual equivalence. We also define a call-by-silly strategy and measure its length via tight multi types. Lastly, we prove that the call-by-silly strategy computes evaluation sequences of maximal length in the calculus.

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Beniamino Accattoli and Adrienne Lancelot. Mirroring Call-By-Need, or Values Acting Silly. In 9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 299, pp. 23:1-23:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{accattoli_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.23,
  author =	{Accattoli, Beniamino and Lancelot, Adrienne},
  title =	{{Mirroring Call-By-Need, or Values Acting Silly}},
  booktitle =	{9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-323-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{299},
  editor =	{Rehof, Jakob},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-203527},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lambda calculus, intersection types, call-by-value, call-by-need}
}

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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)

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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.ITP.2019.7

Primitive Floats in Coq

Authors: Guillaume Bertholon, Érik Martin-Dorel, and Pierre Roux

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 141, 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)

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Some mathematical proofs involve intensive computations, for instance: the four-color theorem, Hales' theorem on sphere packing (formerly known as the Kepler conjecture) or interval arithmetic. For numerical computations, floating-point arithmetic enjoys widespread usage thanks to its efficiency, despite the introduction of rounding errors. Formal guarantees can be obtained on floating-point algorithms based on the IEEE 754 standard, which precisely specifies floating-point arithmetic and its rounding modes, and a proof assistant such as Coq, that enjoys efficient computation capabilities. Coq offers machine integers, however floating-point arithmetic still needed to be emulated using these integers. A modified version of Coq is presented that enables using the machine floating-point operators. The main obstacles to such an implementation and its soundness are discussed. Benchmarks show potential performance gains of two orders of magnitude.

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Guillaume Bertholon, Érik Martin-Dorel, and Pierre Roux. Primitive Floats in Coq. In 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 141, pp. 7:1-7:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{bertholon_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2019.7,
  author =	{Bertholon, Guillaume and Martin-Dorel, \'{E}rik and Roux, Pierre},
  title =	{{Primitive Floats in Coq}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-122-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{141},
  editor =	{Harrison, John and O'Leary, John and Tolmach, Andrew},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110629},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Coq formal proofs, floating-point arithmetic, reflexive tactics, Cholesky decomposition}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.06021.4

A Proposal to add Interval Arithmetic to the C++ Standard Library

Authors: Sylvain Pion, Hervé Brönnimann, and Guillaume Melquiond

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6021, Reliable Implementation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice (2006)

Abstract

I will report on a recent effort by Guillaume Melquiond, HervÃƒÂ© Br"onnimann and myself to push forward a proposal to include interval arithmetic in the next C++ ISO standard. The goals of the standardization are to produce a unified specification which will serve as many uses of intervals as possible, together with hoping for very efficient implementations, closer to the compilers. I will describe how the standardization process works, explain some of the design choices made, and list some of the other questions arising in the process. We welcome any comment on the proposal.

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Sylvain Pion, Hervé Brönnimann, and Guillaume Melquiond. A Proposal to add Interval Arithmetic to the C++ Standard Library. In Reliable Implementation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6021, pp. 1-25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{pion_et_al:DagSemProc.06021.4,
  author =	{Pion, Sylvain and Br\"{o}nnimann, Herv\'{e} and Melquiond, Guillaume},
  title =	{{A Proposal to add Interval Arithmetic to the C++ Standard Library}},
  booktitle =	{Reliable Implementation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice},
  pages =	{1--25},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{6021},
  editor =	{Peter Hertling and Christoph M. Hoffmann and Wolfram Luther and Nathalie Revol},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.06021.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-7189},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.06021.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Interval arithmetic, C++, ISO standard}
}

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