POPL 2026
Sun 11 - Sat 17 January 2026 Rennes, France
Sun 11 Jan 2026 09:00 - 09:05 at Salle 13 - First Session Chair(s): Alexander K. Lew

Sun 11 Jan

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09:00 - 10:30
First SessionLAFI at Salle 13
Chair(s): Alexander K. Lew Yale University
09:00
5m
Day opening
Welcome
LAFI
Hugo Paquet Inria, École Normale Supérieure, Alexander K. Lew Yale University
09:07
20m
Industry talk
Basis — A Programming Languages Take on Principled Foundations for AI
LAFI
09:29
10m
Talk
Towards an Equational Calculus of Interventions
LAFI
Shubh Agrawal Northeastern University, Jialu Bao Northeastern University, Steven Holtzen Northeastern University
Pre-print
09:41
10m
Talk
Typed Abstractions for Causal Probabilistic Programming
LAFI
Theo Wang University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Dario Stein University of Oxford, Eli Bingham Broad Institute, Jack Feser Basis, Ohad Kammar University of Edinburgh, Michael Lee University of Cambridge, UK, Jeremy Yallop University of Cambridge
File Attached
09:53
10m
Talk
A Design for Massively Parallel Gibbs Sampling on the GPU via Static and Dynamic Analysis of Probabilistic Programs
LAFI
Matin Ghavami Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Martin C. Rinard Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vikash Mansinghka Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:05
10m
Talk
A Design Proposal for GraPPL: Probabilistic Programming with Low-Level, High-Performance GPU Programmable Inference
LAFI
Karen Chung Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Elias Rojas Collins MIT, McCoy Reynolds Becker MIT, Mathieu Huot MIT, Vikash Mansinghka Massachusetts Institute of Technology