Mon 21 Oct 2024 16:30 - 16:50 at Pacific C - Afternoon Session Chair(s): Raj Barik

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are fundamental tools for program analysis and verification. The satisfiability problem for first-order logic is undecidable. In practice, SMT solvers typically employ various heuristics and are inherently incomplete. Solvers return unknown if they cannot solve a particular formula. The unknown results drastically hinder the usability of SMT solvers and directly affect client applications. The standard way to reduce unknown cases is to develop more powerful solvers, which requires significant algorithmic and engineering efforts. This work-in-progress paper discusses a new perspective on improving SMT solving: instead of developing more powerful solvers for all formulas, we focus on mutating “hard” formulas (unknown formulas) to make them “easier” to solve. That gives us enormous flexibility to process unknown formulas without affecting normal formulas. Specifically, given an unknown formula and a solver, we propose to repeatedly modify the formula via structural mutations. Our key insights are (1) structural mutations make formulas smaller so that they are presumably easier to reason about, and (2) structural mutations approximate formulas so that we can reason about the original formulas indirectly. Then, we utilize the same solver to solve the mutated formulas to retrieve the sat/unsat results of the original unknown formulas.

Mon 21 Oct

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16:00 - 17:30
Afternoon SessionVIVEKFEST at Pacific C
Chair(s): Raj Barik Gitar Co.
16:00
20m
Research paper
Enabling User-level Asynchronous Tasking in the FA-BSP Model - Case Study: Distributed Triangle Counting
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Akihiro Hayashi Georgia Institute of Technology, Shubhendra Singhal , Youssef Elmougy Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, Jiawei Yang
16:20
10m
Talk
Max Grossman (Cruise)
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Max Grossman Rice University, USA
16:30
20m
Research paper
Retrieving Unknown SMT Formulas via Structural Mutations
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Shuo Ding Georgia Institute of Technology, Qirun Zhang Georgia Institute of Technology
16:50
30m
Talk
Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Tech)
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Vivek Sarkar Georgia Institute of Technology
17:20
10m
Talk
Closing and proceed to "Collaborators' Toast: Drinks & Memories of Vivek's Work (6-8PM)"
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