SPLASH 2025
Sun 12 - Sat 18 October 2025 Singapore
co-located with ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Sat 18 Oct 2025 11:30 - 11:45 at Orchid Plenary Ballroom - Synthesis 1 Chair(s): Yingfei Xiong

We present an approach to automatically synthesise recursive predicates in Separation Logic (SL) from concrete data structure instances using Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) techniques. The main challenges to make such synthesis effective are (1) making it work without negative examples that are required in ILP but are difficult to construct for heap-based structures in an automated fashion, and (2) to be capable of summarising not just the \emph{shape} of a heap (e.g., it is a \emph{linked} list), but also the \emph{properties} of the data it stores (e.g., it is a \emph{sorted} linked list). We tackle these challenges with a new predicate learning algorithm. The key contributions of our work are (a) the formulation of ILP-based learning only using positive examples and (b) an algorithm that synthesises property-rich SL predicates from concrete \emph{memory graphs} based on the positive-only learning.

We show that our framework can efficiently and correctly synthesise SL predicates for structures that were beyond the reach of the state-of-the-art tools, including those featuring non-trivial payload constraints (e.g., binary search trees) and nested recursion (e.g., $n$-ary trees). We further extend the usability of our approach by a memory graph generator that produces positive heap examples from programs. Finally, we show how our approach facilitates deductive verification and synthesis of correct-by-construction code.

Sat 18 Oct

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10:30 - 12:15
Synthesis 1OOPSLA at Orchid Plenary Ballroom
Chair(s): Yingfei Xiong Peking University
10:30
15m
Talk
Abstraction Refinement-guided Program Synthesis for Robot Learning from Demonstrations
OOPSLA
Guofeng Cui Rutgers University, Yuning Wang Rutgers University, Wensen Mao Rutgers University, Yuanlin Duan Rutgers University, He Zhu Rutgers University, USA
10:45
15m
Talk
API-guided Dataset Synthesis to Finetune Large Code Models
OOPSLA
Li Zongjie Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Daoyuan Wu Lingnan University, Shuai Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich
11:00
15m
Talk
Fast Constraint Synthesis for C++ Function Templates
OOPSLA
Shuo Ding Georgia Institute of Technology, Qirun Zhang Georgia Institute of Technology
11:15
15m
Talk
Hambazi: Spatial Coordination Synthesis for Augmented Reality
OOPSLA
Yi-Zhen Tsai University of California, Riverside, Jiasi Chen University of Michigan, Mohsen Lesani University of California at Santa Cruz
11:30
15m
Talk
Inductive Synthesis of Inductive Heap Predicates
OOPSLA
Ziyi Yang National University of Singapore, Ilya Sergey National University of Singapore
11:45
15m
Talk
LOUD: Synthesizing Strongest and Weakest Specifications
OOPSLA
Kanghee Park University of Wisconsin-Madison, Xuanyu Peng University of California, San Diego, Loris D'Antoni University of California at San Diego
12:00
15m
Talk
Metamorph: Synthesizing Large Objects from Dafny Specifications
OOPSLA
Aleksandr Fedchin Tufts University, Alexander Bai New York University, Jeffrey S. Foster Tufts University