Thu 18 Jun 2026 12:00 - 12:20 at Flatirons 4 - Semantics and Hyperproperty Reasoning Chair(s): Derek Dreyer

Many important functional and security properties—including non-interference, determinism, and generalized non-interference (GNI)—are hyperproperties, i.e., properties relating multiple executions of a program. Existing separation logics allow one to reason about specific classes of hyperproperties, e.g., $\forall\forall$-hyperproperties such as non-interference and $\exists\exists$-properties such as non-determinism. However, they do not support quantifier alternation, which is for instance needed to express GNI. The only existing logic that can reason about such properties is Hyper Hoare Logic, but it does not support heap-manipulating programs and, thus, is not applicable to common imperative programs.

This paper introduces Hyper Separation Logic (HSL), the first program logic that supports modular reasoning about hyperproperties with arbitrary quantifier alternation over programs that manipulate the heap. HSL generalizes Hyper Hoare Logic with a novel hyper separating conjunction that lifts the standard separating conjunction to sets of states, enabling a generalized frame rule for hyperproperties. We prove HSL sound in Isabelle/HOL and demonstrate its expressiveness for hyperproperties that lie beyond the reach of existing separation logics.

Thu 18 Jun

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11:00 - 12:40
Semantics and Hyperproperty ReasoningPLDI Research Papers at Flatirons 4
Chair(s): Derek Dreyer MPI-SWS
11:00
20m
Talk
Towards Removing Undef Values from LLVM IRDistinguished Paper
PLDI Research Papers
Pedro Lobo INESC-ID; Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, John McIver Virginia Tech, George Mitenkov Aptos, Juneyoung Lee AWS, Kirshanthan Sundararajah Virginia Tech, Nuno P. Lopes INESC-ID; Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon
DOI Pre-print
11:20
20m
Talk
The Downgrading Semantics of Memory Safety
PLDI Research Papers
René Rydhof Hansen Aalborg University, Andreas Stenbæk Larsen Aarhus University, Aslan Askarov Aarhus University
DOI
11:40
20m
Talk
Causality and Semantic Separation
PLDI Research Papers
Anna Zhang Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Qinglan Luo Wellesley College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London Bielicke University of California at Los Angeles, Eunice Jun University of California at Los Angeles, Adam Chlipala Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
12:00
20m
Talk
Hyper Separation Logic
PLDI Research Papers
Trayan Gospodinov INSAIT at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Peter Müller ETH Zurich, Thibault Dardinier EPFL
DOI
12:20
20m
Talk
Pantomime: Constructive Leakage Proofs via Simulation
PLDI Research Papers
Robin Webbers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Robert Schenck Northeastern University, Wind Wong Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Kristina Sojakova Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Klaus von Gleissenthall Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
DOI