POPL 2026
Sun 11 - Sat 17 January 2026 Rennes, France
Tue 13 Jan 2026 14:00 - 14:22 at Belvédère - Program verification Chair(s): Clement Pit-Claudel

Finite Transducers (FTs) extend the capabilities of Finite Au- tomata (FAs) by enabling the transformation of input strings into output strings. In many practical applications — includ- ing program analysis, string constraint solving, and analysis of security-critical sanitizers — Symbolic FTs (SFTs) and Sym- bolic FAs (SFAs) are used instead of the explicitly represented models. To circumvent to the notorious state-space explo- sion problem caused by an extremely large alphabet size (e.g. UTF-16), SFTs and SFAs allow the representation of the al- phabet as an effective boolean algebra including finite unions of intervals, as well as SMT-Algebras. The security-critical nature of many of these applications demands trustworthy implementations of such systems. To this end, we present the first formalization of SFTs and their most important algo- rithms in Isabelle/HOL. To evaluate the effectiveness of our formalization, we apply the formalized SFTs to two applica- tions: (1) HTMLdecode, a sanitizer used for preventing XSS attacks, and (2) string solving, which increasingly employs intricate string replacement operations. Our experimental results demonstrate that our methods are competitive with the existing unverified implementations.

Tue 13 Jan

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14:00 - 15:30
Program verificationCPP at Belvédère
Chair(s): Clement Pit-Claudel EPFL
14:00
22m
Talk
Certified Symbolic Finite Transducers: Formalization and Applications to String Analysis
CPP
Shuanglong Kan Barkhausen Institute, Dresden, Anthony Widjaja Lin TU Kaiserslautern; MPI-SWS
14:22
22m
Talk
Enhancing Symbolic Execution with Machine-Checked Safety Proofs
CPP
David Trabish Technion, Shachar Itzhaky Technion
Pre-print
14:45
22m
Talk
Layers of Confluence for Actors
CPP
Ludovic Henrio University of Lyon - ENS Lyon - UCBL - CNRS - Inria - LIP, Einar Broch Johnsen University of Oslo, Åsmund Aqissiaq Arild Kløvstad University of Oslo (UiO), Violet Ka I Pun Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Yannick Zakowski Inria
15:07
22m
Talk
Towards composable proofs of cache coherence protocols
CPP