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Pierre Vial

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arXiv2022

Compositional pre-processing for automated reasoning in dependent type theory

In the context of interactive theorem provers based on a dependent type theory, automation tactics (dedicated decision procedures, call of automated solvers, ...) are often limited to goals which are exactly in some expected logical fragment. This very often prevents users from applying these tactics in other contexts, even similar ones. This paper discusses the design and the implementation of pre-processing operations for automating formal proofs in the Coq proof assistant. It presents the implementation of a wide variety of predictible, atomic goal transformations, which can be composed in various ways to target different backends. A gallery of examples illustrates how it helps to expand significantly the power of automation engines.

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arXiv2021

General Automation in Coq through Modular Transformations

Whereas proof assistants based on Higher-Order Logic benefit from external solvers' automation, those based on Type Theory resist automation and thus require more expertise. Indeed, the latter use a more expressive logic which is further away from first-order logic, the logic of most automatic theorem provers. In this article, we develop a methodology to transform a subset of Coq goals into first-order statements that can be automatically discharged by automatic provers. The general idea is to write modular, pairwise independent transformations and combine them. Each of these eliminates a specific aspect of Coq logic towards first-order logic. As a proof of concept, we apply this methodology to a set of simple but crucial transformations which extend the local context with proven first-order assertions that make Coq definitions and algebraic types explicit. They allow users of Coq to solve non-trivial goals automatically. This methodology paves the way towards the definition and combination of more complex transformations, making Coq more accessible.

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arXiv2021

Sequence Types and Infinitary Semantics

We introduce a new representation of non-idempotent intersection types, using \textbf{sequences} (families indexed with natural numbers) instead of lists or multisets. This allows scaling up \textbf{intersection type} theory to the infinitary $\lambda$-calculus. We thus characterize hereditary head normalization, which gives a positive answer to a question known as \textbf{Klop's Problem}. On our way, we use \textbf{non-idempotent intersection} to retrieve some well-known results on infinitary terms.

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arXiv2018

Non-idempotent types for classical calculi in natural deduction style

In the first part of this paper, we define two resource aware typing systems for the {\lambda}{\mu}-calculus based on non-idempotent intersection and union types. The non-idempotent approach provides very simple combinatorial arguments-based on decreasing measures of type derivations-to characterize head and strongly normalizing terms. Moreover, typability provides upper bounds for the lengths of the head reduction and the maximal reduction sequences to normal-form. In the second part of this paper, the {\lambda}{\mu}-calculus is refined to a small-step calculus called {\lambda}{\mu}s, which is inspired by the substitution at a distance paradigm. The {\lambda}{\mu}s-calculus turns out to be compatible with a natural extensionof the non-idempotent interpretations of {\lambda}{\mu}, i.e., {\lambda}{\mu}s-reduction preserves and decreases typing derivations in an extended appropriate typing system. We thus derive a simple arithmetical characterization of strongly {\lambda}{\mu}s-normalizing terms by means of typing.

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arXiv2016

All the {\lambda}-Terms are Meaningful for the Infinitary Relational Model

Infinite types and formulas are known to have really curious and unsound behaviors. For instance, they allow to type {\Omega}, the auto- autoapplication and they thus do not ensure any form of normalization/productivity. Moreover, in most infinitary frameworks, it is not difficult to define a type R that can be assigned to every {\lambda}-term. However, these observations do not say much about what coinductive (i.e. infinitary) type grammars are able to provide: it is for instance very difficult to know what types (besides R) can be assigned to a given term in this setting. We begin with a discussion on the expressivity of different forms of infinite types. Then, using the resource-awareness of sequential intersection types (system S) and tracking, we prove that infinite types are able to characterize the order (arity) of every {\lambda}-terms and that, in the infinitary extension of the relational model, every term has a "meaning" i.e. a non-empty denotation. From the technical point of view, we must deal with the total lack of productivity guarantee for typable terms: we do so by importing methods inspired by first order model theory.

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arXiv2016

Representing permutations without permutations, or the expressive power of sequence types

Recent works by Asada, Ong and Tsukada have championed a rigid description of resources. Whereas in non-rigid paradigms (e.g., standard Taylor expansion or non-idempotent intersection types), bags of resources are multisets and invariant under permutation, in the rigid ones, permutations must be processed explicitly and can be allowed or disallowed. Rigidity enables a fine-grained control of reduction paths and their effects on e.g., typing derivations. We previously introduced a very constrained coinductive type system (system S) in which permutation is completely disallowed. One may wonder in what extent the absence of permutations causes a loss of expressivity w.r.t. reduction paths, compared to a usual multiset framework or a rigid one allowing permutations. We answer this question in the most general case i.e. coinductive type grammars without validity conditions. Our main contribution is to prove that not only every non-idempotent derivation can be represented by a rigid, permutation-free derivation, but also that any dynamic behavior may be captured in this way. In other words, we prove that system S has full expressive power over multiset/permutation-inclusive intersection.

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arXiv2016

Infinitary Intersection Types as Sequences: a New Answer to Klop's Question

We provide a type-theoretical characterization of weakly-normalizing terms in an infinitary lambda-calculus. We adapt for this purpose the standard quantitative (with non-idempotent intersections) type assignment system of the lambda-calculus to our infinite calculus. Our work provides a new answer to Klop's HHN-problem, namely, finding out if there is a type system characterizing the hereditary head-normalizing (HHN) lambda-terms. Tatsuta showed that HHN could not be characterized by a finite type system. We prove that an infinitary type system endowed with a validity condition called approximability can achieve it.

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