SPLASH 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 Oakland, California, United States
co-located with SPLASH/ISSTA 2026
Mon 5 Oct 2026 15:30 - 15:48 at Junior Ballroom 3&4 - Probabilistic Programming Chair(s): Eva Darulova

Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) are an expressive and intuitive means of representing complex probability distributions. In that realm, languages like Dice target an important class of probabilistic programs: those whose probability distributions are discrete. Discrete distributions are common in many fields, including text analysis, network verification, artificial intelligence, and graph analysis. Another important feature in the world of probabilistic modeling are nondeterministic choices as found in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) which play a major role in reinforcement learning. Modern PPLs usually lack support for nondeterminism. We address this gap with the introduction of noDice, which extends the discrete probabilistic inference engine Dice. noDice performs inference on loop-free programs by constructing an MDP so that the distributions modeled by the program correspond to schedulers in the MDP. Furthermore, decision diagrams are used as an intermediate step to exploit the program structure and drastically reduce the state space of the MDP.

Mon 5 Oct

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15:30 - 17:00
Probabilistic ProgrammingOOPSLA at Junior Ballroom 3&4
Chair(s): Eva Darulova Uppsala University
15:30
18m
Talk
noDice: Inference for Discrete Probabilistic Programs with Nondeterminism and Conditioning
OOPSLA
Tobias Gürtler Saarland University; Saarland Informatics Campus, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski Saarland University; University College London
DOI
15:48
18m
Talk
Static Factorisation of Probabilistic Programs with User-Labelled Sample Statements and While Loops
OOPSLA
Markus Böck TU Wien, Jürgen Cito TU Wien
DOI Authorizer link
16:06
18m
Talk
Probabilistic Programming with Programmable Divide-Conquer-Combine Inference on Modern Hardware
OOPSLA
Markus Böck TU Wien, Jürgen Cito TU Wien
DOI Authorizer link
16:24
18m
Talk
Type-Directed Discretization of Probabilistic Programs
OOPSLA
Katherine Wu Cornell University, Jules Jacobs ETH Zurich; Jane Street, Kevin Batz University of Münster, Alexandra Silva Cornell University
DOI
16:42
18m
Talk
Probabilistic Floating-Point Round-Off Analysis via Concentration Inequalities
OOPSLA
Yichen Tao University of Michigan, Hongfei Fu Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Jiawei Chen University of Michigan, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin University of Michigan
DOI