arXiv · 2206.05716
Divergences on Monads for Relational Program Logics
Abstract
Several relational program logics have been introduced for integrating reasoning about relational properties of programs and measurement of quantitative difference between computational effects. Towards a general framework for such logics, in this paper, we formalize quantitative difference between computational effects as divergence on monad, then develop a relational program logic acRL that supports generic computational effects and divergences on them. To give a categorical semantics of acRL supporting divergences, we give a method to obtain graded strong relational liftings from divergences on monads. We derive two instantiations of acRL for the verification of 1) various differential privacy of higher-order functional probabilistic programs and 2) difference of distribution of costs between higher-order functional programs with probabilistic choice and cost counting operations.
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Tetsuya Sato, Shin-ya Katsumata. 2022-06-12. Divergences on Monads for Relational Program Logics. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960129523000245
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