Quantitative Analysis of Assertion Violations in Probabilistic Programs
Fri 25 Jun 2021 21:35 - 21:40 at PLDI-A - Talks 5A: Machine Learning and Probabilistic Programming
We consider the fundamental problem of deriving quantitative bounds on the probability that a given assertion is violated in a probabilistic program. We provide automated algorithms that obtain both lower and upper bounds on the assertion violation probability. The main novelty of our approach is that we prove new and dedicated fixed-point theorems which serve as the theoretical basis of our algorithms and enable us to reason about assertion violation bounds in terms of pre and post fixed-point functions. To synthesize such fixed-points, we devise algorithms that utilize a wide range of mathematical tools, including repulsing ranking supermartingales, Hoeffding's lemma, Minkowski decompositions, Jensen's inequality, and convex optimization. On the theoretical side, we provide (i) the first automated algorithm for lower-bounds on assertion violation probabilities, (ii) the first complete algorithm for upper-bounds of exponential form in affine programs, and (iii) provably and significantly tighter upper-bounds than the previous approaches. On the practical side, we show our algorithms can handle a wide variety of programs from the literature and synthesize bounds that are remarkably tighter than previous results, in some cases by thousands of orders of magnitude.
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21:00 5mTalk | DeepCuts: A Deep Learning Optimization Framework for Versatile GPU Workloads PLDI Wookeun Jung Seoul National University, Thanh Tuan Dao Seoul National University, Jaejin Lee Seoul National University DOI | ||
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21:10 5mTalk | DreamCoder: Bootstrapping Inductive Program Synthesis with Wake-Sleep Library Learning PLDI Kevin Ellis Cornell University, Lionel Wong Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maxwell Nye Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathias Sablé-Meyer PSL University; Collège de France; NeuroSpin, Lucas Morales Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Luke Hewitt Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Luc Cary Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Armando Solar-Lezama Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joshua B. Tenenbaum Massachusetts Institute of Technology DOI | ||
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21:20 5mTalk | Compiling Stan to Generative Probabilistic Languages and Extension to Deep Probabilistic Programming PLDI Guillaume Baudart Inria, Javier Burroni University of Massachusetts Amherst, Martin Hirzel IBM Research, Louis Mandel IBM Research, USA, Avraham Shinnar IBM Research DOI | ||
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