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.

Symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) are a common framework for reasoning about computation, focusing on the parallel and sequential compositionality of operations. String diagrams are a ubiquitous and powerful tool for reasoning about equations in SMCs, leveraging eliding the fine details of compositionality to focus on connectivity. However, when working with SMCs in a proof assistant, the rigid equational structure of composition occludes the essential connective information, longer proofs filled with uninformative syntactic manipulation. To address the gap between proof assistants and paper proof, we have developed verified tools for diagrammatic reasoning in Rocq, including inferring term equivalence and rewriting modulo the deformation of string diagrams. This is achieved by converting between syntactic representations of SMC terms and hypergraphs with interfaces, while preserving a common tensor semantics. We provide tools to develop simple SMC theories from generators and relations, and perform equational reasoning these systems. We also enable our tactics to be used in existing verification projects about SMCs which can be given semantics as tensor expressions.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 6 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Proof Automation and Theorem ProvingOOPSLA at Junior Ballroom 1&2
Chair(s): Zachary Tatlock University of Washington
10:30
18m
Talk
Infinitary Relational Logic
OOPSLA
Vladimir Gladshtein , Qiyuan Zhao National University of Singapore, Yuxi Ling National University of Singapore, Sean Wang Princeton University, Ilya Sergey National University of Singapore
10:48
18m
Talk
TensorRocq: Enabling diagrammatic reasoning in Rocq
OOPSLA
Ben Caldwell University of Chicago, William Spencer University of Chicago, Aleks Kissinger University of Oxford, Robert Rand University of Chicago
11:06
18m
Talk
A Minimalist Proof Language for Neural Theorem Proving over Isabelle/HOL
OOPSLA
Qiyuan Xu Nangyang Technology University, Renxi Wang MBZUAI, Peixin Wang East China Normal University, Haonan Li MBZUAI, Conrad Watt Nanyang Technological University