This program is tentative and subject to change.

We present Foxtrot, the first higher-order separation logic for proving contextual refinement of higher-order concurrent probabilistic programs with higher-order local state.
From a high level, Foxtrot inherits various concurrency reasoning principles from standard concurrent separation logic, e.g. invariants and ghost resources, and supports advanced probabilistic reasoning principles for reasoning about complex probability distributions induced by concurrent threads, e.g. tape presampling and induction by error amplification.
The integration of these strong reasoning principles is highly \emph{non-trivial} due to the combination of probability and concurrency in the language and the complexity of the Foxtrot model; the soundness of the logic relies on a version of the axiom of choice within the Iris logic, which is not used in earlier work on Iris-based logics.
We demonstrate the expressiveness of Foxtrot on a wide range of examples, including the adversarial von Neumann coin and the $\mathsf{randombytes_uniform}$ function of the Sodium cryptography software library.

All results have been mechanized in the Rocq proof assistant and the Iris separation logic framework.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

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13:40 - 15:00
Formal Verification of Probabilistic ProgramsPLDI Research Papers at Flatirons 3
13:40
20m
Talk
Contextual Refinement of Higher-Order Concurrent Probabilistic Programs
PLDI Research Papers
Kwing Hei Li Aarhus University, Alejandro Aguirre Aarhus University, Joseph Tassarotti New York University, Lars Birkedal Aarhus University
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14:00
20m
Talk
Supermartingales for Unique Fixed Points: A Unified Approach to Lower Bound Verification
PLDI Research Papers
Satoshi Kura Waseda University, Hiroshi Unno Tohoku University, Takeshi Tsukada Chiba University
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14:20
20m
Talk
SuperDP: Differential Privacy Refutation via Supermartingales
PLDI Research Papers
Krishnendu Chatterjee IST Austria, Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady IST Austria, Đorđe Žikelić Singapore Management University
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14:40
20m
Talk
Modular Verification of Differential Privacy in Probabilistic Higher-Order Separation Logic
PLDI Research Papers
Philipp G. Haselwarter Aarhus University, Alejandro Aguirre Aarhus University, Simon Oddershede Gregersen CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Kwing Hei Li Aarhus University, Joseph Tassarotti New York University, Lars Birkedal Aarhus University
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