Compiler Verification

A Higher-Order Abstract Syntax Approach to the Verified Compilation of Functional Programs
- 2016 PhD thesis; Yuting Wang
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03363
- http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wang-yuting/files/phd_thesis.pdf
A Verified Compiler for a Linear Function/Imperative Intermediate Language
- 2018 PhD Thesis; Sigurd Schneider
- https://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/Publications/documents/Schneider_2018_PhDThesis.pdf
- LVC - Linear Verified Compiler: https://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~sdschn/LVC.html
A Verified Packrat Parser Interpreter for Parsing Expression Grammars
- Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) 2020
- Clement Blaudeau, Natarajan Shankar
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04457
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLjRcMAMuts
ALIVe: Automatic LLVM InstCombine Verifier
- https://github.com/nunoplopes/alive
- online: http://rise4fun.com/Alive
- blog post: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1170
- slides: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-10/Slides/Menendez-Alive.pdf
- Alive-FP: Automated Verification of Floating Point Based Peephole Optimizations in LLVM
  - SAS 2016; David Menendez, Santosh Nagarakatte, Aarti Gupta
  - https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/research/technical_reports/report.php?series_id=1&report_id=723
- Alive-Loops: https://github.com/rutgers-apl/alive-loops
  - Termination checking for LLVM peephole optimizations
  - ICSE 2016; David Menendez, Santosh Nagarakatte
  - https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~sn349/papers/icse2016-alive-loops.pdf
- Alive-NJ - https://github.com/rutgers-apl/alive-nj
- LifeJacket: Verifying precise floating-point optimizations in LLVM
  - SOAP 2016, EuroLLVM 2017; Andres Nötzli, Fraser Brown
  - http://export.arxiv.org/abs/1603.09290
  - https://github.com/4tXJ7f/alive
  - http://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-03/2017/02/20/accepted-sessions.html#25
- Practical Formal Techniques and Tools for Developing LLVM's Peephole Optimizations
  - 2018 PhD Thesis; David Menendez
  - https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~santosh.nagarakatte/david-menendez-phd-thesis.pdf
- Precondition Inference for Peephole Optimizations in LLVM
  - PLDI 2017
  - David Menendez, Santosh Nagarakatte
  - http://export.arxiv.org/abs/1611.05980
  - https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~santosh.nagarakatte/papers/pldi2017-alive-infer.pdf
  - PLDI 2017 talk, David Menendez - https://pldi17.sigplan.org/event/pldi-2017-papers-precondition-inference-for-peephole-optimizations-in-llvm
- Provably Correct Peephole Optimizations with Alive
  - PLDI 2015
  - Nuno P. Lopes, David Menendez, Santosh Nagarakatte, John Regehr
  - https://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi15.pdf
  - http://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs.php?id=alive-pldi15
- AliveInLean: A Verified LLVM Peephole Optimization Verifier
  - Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) 2019
  - Juneyoung Lee, Chung-Kil Hur, Nuno P. Lopes
  - https://sf.snu.ac.kr/aliveinlean/
  - https://github.com/Microsoft/AliveInLean
Alive2: Automatic verification of LLVM optimizations
- https://github.com/AliveToolkit/alive2
- Alive2: Verifying Existing Optimizations
  - 2019 LLVM Developers’ Meeting; Nuno Lopes, John Regehr
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJhdBp_iA4
  - https://llvm.org/devmtg/2019-10/slides/Lopes-Regehr-Alive2.pdf
- Alive 2 Part 1: Introduction
  - https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1722
An Abstract Stack Based Approach to Verified Compositional Compilation to Machine Code
- POPL 2019
- Yuting Wang, Pierre Wilke, Zhong Shao
- https://popl19.sigplan.org/event/popl-2019-research-papers-an-abstract-stack-based-approach-to-verified-compositional-compilation-to-machine-code
Blackbox Equivalence Checking of Program Optimizations
- 2019 Ph.D. Dissertation; Berkeley Roshan Churchill
- https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/theses/churchill.pdf
CakeML: A Verified Implementation of ML
- https://cakeml.org/
- https://github.com/CakeML/cakeml
- Verified Compilation of CakeML to Multiple Machine-Code Targets
  - Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) 2017
  - Anthony Fox, Magnus O. Myreen, Yong Kiam Tan, Ramana Kumar.
  - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mom22/cpp17.pdf
  - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mom22/publications.html
- Verified Compilation on a Verified Processor
  - PLDI 2019
  - Andreas Lööw, Ramana Kumar, Yong Kiam Tan, Magnus O. Myreen, Michael Norrish, Oskar Abrahamsson, Anthony Fox
  - https://cakeml.org/pldi19.pdf
- The Verified CakeML Compiler Backend
  - JFP 2019
  - Yong Kiam Tan, Magnus O. Myreen, Ramana Kumar, Anthony Fox, Scott Owens, Michael Norrish
  - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yongkiat/files/cakeml-jfp.pdf
- Icing: Supporting Fast-math Style Optimizations in a Verified Compiler
  - Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) 2019
  - Heiko Becker, Eva Darulova, Magnus O. Myreen, Zachary Tatlock
  - https://cakeml.org/cav19.pdf
CompCert: formally-verified C compiler
- http://compcert.inria.fr/
- https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert
- The formal verification of compilers - Xavier Leroy - DeepSpec Summer School 2017
  - https://deepspec.org/event/dsss17/lecture_leroy.html
  - http://gallium.inria.fr/~xleroy/courses/DSSS-2017/
- A Verified CompCert Front-End for a Memory Model Supporting Pointer Arithmetic and Uninitialised Data
  - Journal of Automated Reasoning 62(4) (2019)
  - Frédéric Besson, Sandrine Blazy, Pierre Wilke
  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10817-017-9439-z
  - https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01656895
- An Abstract Stack Based Approach to Verified Compositional Compilation to Machine Code
  - POPL 2019
  - Yuting Wang, Pierre Wilke, Zhong Shao
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK3wP1BK-K8
  - https://popl19.sigplan.org/event/popl-2019-research-papers-an-abstract-stack-based-approach-to-verified-compositional-compilation-to-machine-code
  - Stack-Aware CompCert and CompCert MC - https://certikos.github.io/compcertmc/
  - http://flint.cs.yale.edu/flint/publications/sacc.html
- Closing the Gap – The Formally Verified Optimizing Compiler CompCert
  - SSS'17: Safety-critical Systems Symposium 2017
  - https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01399482/
- CompCertM: CompCert with Lightweight Modular Verification and Multi-Language Linking
  - POPL 2020
  - Youngju Song, Minki Cho, Dongjoo Kim, Yonghyun Kim, Jeehoon Kang, Chung-Kil Hur
  - https://sf.snu.ac.kr/compcertm/
- CompCertS: A Memory-Aware Verified C Compiler Using a Pointer as Integer Semantics
  - Journal of Automated Reasoning 63(2) (2019)
  - Frédéric Besson, Sandrine Blazy, Pierre Wilke
  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10817-018-9496-y
  - https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01656875
- Compositional CompCert
  - POPL 2015
  - Stewart, G., Beringer, L., Cuellar, S., Appel, A.W.
  - https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/compcomp
- Formal Verification of a Constant-Time Preserving C Compiler
  - Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2020
  - Gilles Barthe, Sandrine Blazy, Benjamin Grégoire, Rémi Hutin, Vincent Laporte, David Pichardie, Alix Trieu
  - https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/926
  - http://cs.au.dk/%7Etrieu/POPL20/
  - Slides (Verified Software Workshop): https://vetss.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/122/2019/10/Blazy-Formal-Verification-of-a-Constant-Time.pdf
  - https://vetss.org.uk/verified-software-workshop-programme/
  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3371075
  - A CompCert Compiler that Preserves Cryptographic Constant-time
    - Sandrine Blazy, Rémi Hutin, David Pichardie
    - PriSC 2020 Principles of Secure Compilation
    - https://popl20.sigplan.org/details/prisc-2020-papers/10/A-CompCert-Compiler-that-Preserves-Cryptographic-Constant-time
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eci48EC4v4o
- Lightweight Verification of Separate Compilation
  - POPL 2016
  - Jeehoon Kang, Yoonseung Kim, Chung-Kil Hur, Derek Dreyer, Viktor Vafeiadis
  - https://sf.snu.ac.kr/sepcompcert/
- Reconciling Low-Level Features of C with Compiler Optimizations
  - 2019 Ph.D. Dissertation; Jeehoon Kang
  - https://sf.snu.ac.kr/jeehoon.kang/thesis/
  - Chapter I, Section 2, Background: A Brief Tour of CompCert
  - Chapter III, Separate Compilation and Linking
  - Chapter IV, Cast between Integers and Pointers
- Verified Peephole Optimizations for CompCert
  - PLDI 2016
  - Eric Mullen, Daryl Zuniga, Zachary Tatlock, Dan Grossman
  - http://peek.uwplse.org/
  - https://conf.researchr.org/event/pldi-2016/pldi-2016-papers-verified-peephole-optimizations-for-compcert-
  - Peek: a verified peephole optimizer for CompCert - https://github.com/uwplse/peek
Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis
- 2016 Master's Thesis; Clément Pit-Claudel
- http://pit-claudel.fr/clement/MSc/
- https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/107293/973557793-MIT.pdf?sequence=1
- http://pit-claudel.fr/clement/MSc/FiatToFacade_Pit-Claudel_2016.pdf
Compositional Verification of Compiler Optimisations on Relaxed Memory
- ESOP 2018
- Mike Dodds, Mark Batty, Alexey Gotsman
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05918
Crellvm: Verified Credible Compilation for LLVM
- Programming Languages Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2018
- Jeehoon Kang, Yoonseung Kim, Youngju Song, Juneyoung Lee, Sanghoon Park, Mark Dongyeon Shin, Yonghyun Kim, Sungkeun Cho, Joonwon Choi,Chung-Kil Hur, Kwangkeun Yi
- a verified credible compilation (or equivalently, verified translation validation) framework for LLVM
- http://sf.snu.ac.kr/crellvm/
- http://sf.snu.ac.kr/gil.hur/publications/crellvm.pdf
- http://sf.snu.ac.kr/gil.hur/publications/crellvm.zip
- https://github.com/snu-sf/crellvm-tests-parallel
Mechanized Semantics and Verified Compilation for a Dataflow Synchronous Language with Reset
- POPL 2020
- Timothy Bourke, Lélio Brun, Marc Pouzet
- https://popl20.sigplan.org/details/POPL-2020-Research-Papers/20/Mechanized-Semantics-and-Verified-Compilation-for-a-Dataflow-Synchronous-Language-wit
- https://github.com/INRIA/velus
Pilsner: A Compositionally Verified Compiler for a Higher-Order Imperative Language
- International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2015
- Georg Neis, Chung-Kil Hur, Jan-Oliver Kaiser, Craig McLaughlin, Derek Dreyer, Viktor Vafeiadis
- https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/pilsner/paper.pdf
- http://plv.mpi-sws.org/pils/
Pushing the Limits of Compiler Verification
- 2018 PhD Thesis; Eric Mullen
- https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~djg/theses/mullen_thesis.pdf
- Œuf: Verified Coq Extraction in Coq - https://github.com/uwplse/oeuf
- Peek: Verified Peephole Optimizations for CompCert - https://github.com/uwplse/peek
Self-compilation and self-verification
- 2017 Ph.D. Dissertation; Ramana Kumar
- http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Dissertation/2017_kumar.pdf
- https://cakeml.org/
The Correctness of a Code Generator for a Functional Language
- Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) 2020
- Nathanaël Courant, Antoine Séré, Natarajan Shankar
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39322-9_4
Towards Formally Verified Just-In-Time Compilation
- CoqPL 2020
- Aurèle Barrière, Sandrine Blazy, David Pichardie
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-CwSREJOI
- https://popl20.sigplan.org/details/CoqPL-2020-papers/4/Towards-Formally-Verified-Just-in-Time-compilation
Vale (Verified Assembly Language for Everest)
- USENIX Security Symposium 2017
- Barry Bond and Chris Hawblitzel, Manos Kapritsos, K. Rustan M. Leino, Jacob R. Lorch, Bryan Parno, Ashay Rane, Srinath Setty, Laure Thompson
- https://github.com/project-everest/vale
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/vale-verifying-high-performance-cryptographic-assembly-code/
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/bond
Vellvm: Verifying the LLVM
- http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/vellvm/
- https://github.com/vellvm
- DeepSpec Summer School 2017; Steve Zdancewic - https://deepspec.org/event/dsss17/lecture_zdancewic.html
- Galois, Inc. Tech Talk 2018; Steve Zdancewic
  - https://galois.com/blog/2018/07/vellvm-verifying-the-llvm/
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpRKkP8gec
- Strange Loop 2018; Steve Zdancewic
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6gSC3OxB_8
  - https://thestrangeloop.com/2018/vellvm---verifying-the-llvm.html
Verified Compilers for a Multi-Language World
- Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL) 2015
- Amal Ahmed
- http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amal/papers/verifcomp.pdf

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Last modified 05 January 2026

Compiler Verification

Verifying compiler correctness and compilation of functional programs.