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 14:06 - 14:24 at Junior Ballroom 3&4 - Verifying Real Systems Chair(s): Bor-Yuh Evan Chang

With the rapid progress of deep learning and large language models (LLMs), companies spend enormous sums executing GPU kernels. These kernels have become prime targets for aggressive optimization. Recent efforts increasingly leverage LLMs to generate GPU kernels, but make no formal guarantees about the generated kernels. We present the first equivalence checker for GPU kernels and use it to formally verify the correctness of machine learning (ML) kernels optimized by hand, by LLM, and by compiler. We show that our equivalence checker is sound and, for a well-defined class of GPU kernels which includes many programs of interest, complete. Our implementation, VOLTA, can verify ML computations such as convolutions, matrix multiplications, and various attention mechanisms.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 6 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
Verifying Real SystemsOOPSLA at Junior Ballroom 3&4
Chair(s): Bor-Yuh Evan Chang University of Colorado Boulder; Amazon
13:30
18m
Talk
Formalizing the Linux eBPF Core ISA: A Mechanized Operational Semantics and Its Real-World Applications
OOPSLA
Shenghao Yuan Zhejiang University, Yazhou Tang Zhejiang University, Tianci Cao Zhejiang University, Frédéric Besson Inria Rennes, Jean-Pierre Talpin Inria, Mingshuai Chen Zhejiang University
DOI
13:48
18m
Talk
ZSafe: Proving the Safety of Proprietary Hardware Designs in Zero Knowledge
OOPSLA
Zhaoxiang Liu Kansas State University, James Parker Ossa Network, Ning Luo University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
DOI
14:06
18m
Talk
Equivalence Checking of ML GPU Kernels
OOPSLA
Benjamin Driscoll Stanford University, Kshitij Dubey Microsoft Research, Anjiang Wei Stanford University, Neeraj Kayal Microsoft Research, Rahul Sharma Google DeepMind, Alex Aiken Stanford University
DOI
14:24
18m
Talk
AADT: Abstract Abstract Data Types
OOPSLA
Julien Simonnet Université Paris-Saclay - CEA LIST, Matthieu Lemerre Université Paris-Saclay - CEA LIST, Mihaela Sighireanu Université Paris-Saclay - ENS Paris-Saclay - CNRS - LMF
DOI
14:42
18m
Talk
RAT-CAT-SAT: Model Checking Memory Consistency Models
OOPSLA
Jan Grünke TU Braunschweig, Thomas Haas TU Braunschweig, Roland Meyer TU Braunschweig
DOI