SPLASH 2025
Sun 12 - Sat 18 October 2025 Singapore
co-located with ICFP/SPLASH 2025

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 16 Oct 2025 16:15 - 16:30 at Orchid East - Compilation 2

MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) compiler infrastructure provides an efficient framework for introducing a new abstraction level for programming languages and domain-specific languages. It has attracted widespread attention in recent years and has been applied in various domains, such as deep learning compiler construction. Recently, several MLIR compiler fuzzing techniques, such as MLIRSmith and MLIRod, have been proposed. However, none of them can detect silent bugs, i.e., bugs that incorrectly optimize code silently. The difficulty in detecting silent bugs arises from two main aspects: (1) UB-Free Program Generation: Ensures the generated programs are free from undefined behaviors to suit the non-UB assumptions required by compiler optimizations. (2) Lowering Support: Converts the given MLIR program into an executable form, enabling execution result comparisons, and selects a suitable lowering path for the program to reduce redundant lowering passes and improve the efficiency of fuzzing. To address the above issues, we propose DESIL. DESIL enables silent bug detection by defining a set of UB-elimination rules based on the MLIR documentation and applying them to input programs to produce UB-free MLIR programs. To convert dialects in the MLIR program into the executable form, DESIL designs a lowering path optimization strategy to convert the dialects in the given MLIR program into executable form. Furthermore, DESIL incorporates the differential testing for silent bug detection. To achieve this, it introduces an operation-aware optimization recommendation strategy into the compilation process to generate diverse executable files. We applied DESIL to the latest revisions of the MLIR compiler infrastructure. It detected 23 silent bugs and 19 crash bugs, of which 17/16 have been confirmed or fixed.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 16 Oct

Displayed time zone: Perth change

16:00 - 17:30
Compilation 2OOPSLA at Orchid East
16:00
15m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Bugs in the rustc Compiler
OOPSLA
Zixi Liu Nanjing University, Yang Feng Nanjing University, Yunbo Ni The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shaohua Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Xizhe Yin Nanjing University, Qingkai Shi Nanjing University, Baowen Xu Nanjing University, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich
16:15
15m
Talk
DESIL: Detecting Silent Bugs in MLIR Compiler Infrastructure
OOPSLA
Chenyao Suo Tianjin University, Jianrong Wang Tianjin University, Yongjia Wang College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Jiajun Jiang Tianjin University, Qingchao Shen Tianjin University, Junjie Chen Tianjin University
16:30
15m
Talk
GALA: A High Performance Graph Neural Network Acceleration LAnguage and Compiler
OOPSLA
Damitha Lenadora University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nikhil Jayakumar University of Texas at Austin, Chamika Sudusinghe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Charith Mendis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
16:45
15m
Talk
Non-interference Preserving Optimising Compilation
OOPSLA
Julian Rosemann Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus, Sebastian Hack Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus, Deepak Garg MPI-SWS
17:00
15m
Talk
Synchronized Behavior Checking: A Method for Finding Missed Compiler Optimizations
OOPSLA
Yi Zhang Nanjing University, Yu Wang Nanjing University, Linzhang Wang Nanjing University, Ke Wang Peking University
17:15
15m
Talk
Tabby: A Synthesis-Aided Compiler for High-Performance Zero-Knowledge Proof Circuits
OOPSLA
Junrui Liu University of California, Santa Barbara, Jiaxin Song University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yanning Chen University of Toronto, Hanzhi Liu University of California, Santa Barbara & Riema Labs, Hongbo Wen University of California, Santa Barbara & Riema Labs, Luke Pearson Polychain Capital, Yanju Chen University of California, San Diego, Yu Feng University of California at Santa Barbara