SPLASH 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 Oakland, California, United States
co-located with SPLASH/ISSTA 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 6 Oct 2026 14:42 - 15:00 at East Hall 2 - Quantum Programming Chair(s): Jens Palsberg

Repeat-until-success (RUS) protocols implement single-qubit unitaries using measurement, classical control, and unbounded looping. Verifying their functional correctness is challenging due to the combination of probabilistic branching, unbounded looping, and the need to reason about all input states. In this paper, we develop a~fully automated framework for verifying the functional correctness of these protocols. The framework is based on viewing quantum states as \emph{trees} and sets of quantum states as sets of trees, which can be represented using tree automata. The particular automata model that we use are \emph{level-synchronized tree automata} (\lstas), in which nondeterminism is labelled by a~\emph{choice}. Since we can map a~sequence of choices to a~particular tree (and therefore a~quantum state) in the language of an LSTA, we can use the choice-sequence semantics to track input-output correspondence (which input quantum state got transformed into which output quantum state) and enable relational verification. To deal with reasoning about infinitely many quantum states, we prove a three-test theorem, which reduces verifying correctness of RUS protocols to testing correctness on finitely many inputs, enabling automatic invariant
synthesis and decidable verification. We implemented our approach and identified previously unreported bugs in the RUS literature.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 6 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
Quantum ProgrammingOOPSLA at East Hall 2
Chair(s): Jens Palsberg University of California at Los Angeles
13:30
18m
Talk
Compiling Quantum Regular Language States
OOPSLA
Armando Bellante Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics; Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Reinis Irmejs Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics; Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Marta Florido-Llinàs Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics; Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, María Cea Fernández Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics; Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Marianna Crupi Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics; Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Matthew Kiser TU Munich; IQM Quantum Computers, J. Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics; Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology
DOI
13:48
18m
Talk
Quantum Monte Carlo Estimation via Probabilistic Programming
OOPSLA
Seungmin Jeon KAIST, Jaeho choi HyperAccel, Jonguk Jeon KAIST, Kanguk Lee KAIST, Kyeongmin Cho Rebellions, Sukyoung Ryu KAIST, Jeehoon Kang FuriosaAI
DOI
14:06
18m
Talk
Synthesis of Compact and Expressive Quantum-Circuit Optimizations
OOPSLA
Wei Qiang Columbia University, Ronghui Gu Columbia University
DOI Pre-print
14:24
18m
Talk
Granthi: Higher-Order Quantum Programming via Unitary Wiring
OOPSLA
Samson Abramsky University College London, Radha Jagadeesan DePaul University
DOI
14:42
18m
Talk
Verifying Repeat-until-Success Protocols using Automata
OOPSLA
Jyun-Ao Lin National Taipei University of Technology, Yu-Fang Chen Academia Sinica, Jakub Havlík Brno University of Technology, Ondřej Lengál Brno University of Technology, Fang-Yi Lo Academia Sinica, Wei-Lun Tsai National Taiwan University, You-Jie Wu National Taipei University of Technology
DOI
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