Loris D'Antoni

Loris D'Antoni

Associate Professor

Dept. of Computer Sciences - Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
1210 West Dayton Street (Office 6355)
Madison, WI 53706-1685 USA
loris@cs.wisc.edu

My research is about developing fundamental verification and synthesis techniques that
help programmers write software that meets their intent

I'm a professor in the madPL group and also a visiting academic at Amazon Web Services.

Semantics-guided synthesis

A framework for specifying and solving arbitrary synthesis problems. SemGuS allows a user to provide both the syntax and the semantics for the constructs in the language. The goal of this project is to design efficient solvers for problems expressed in the SemGuS framework. Paper and website.

Verifiable machine learning

Design scalable and effective formal methods for proving robustness, fairness, and other properties of machine learning algorithms and for training provably robust models. Take a look at Antidote and A3T.

Latest news

Oct 2
Revisar selected as Distinguished Paper at SBES21!
Sep 30
Antidote selected as SIGPLAN Research Highlight and its follow-up Antidote-P accepted at NeurIPS!
Apr 29
Prognosis accepted at SIGCOMM 21!
Apr 16
Synthesis with Asymptotic Resource Bounds accepted at CAV21!
Oct 1
Semantics-guided synthesis conditionally accepted at POPL21!
Jun 1
Robustness to Programmable String Transformations via Augmented Abstract Training accepted at ICML20!
Apr 16
Honored to have been selected as one of the Microsoft Research Fellows 2020!
Apr 6
Automata Tutor v3 accepted at CAV20!
Feb 28
Our ESOP20 paper has been nominated for EAPLS Award for the best ETAPS paper on PL and systems!
Feb 21
Antidote, Nay, and QARC accepted at PLDI20!
Feb 20
Our ESOP20 paper on synthesizing programs that operate over large integer values selected for a special issue of TOPLAS!
Jan 23
Our work on synthesis for large integer values accepted at ESOP20!
July 1
RFixer conditionally accepted at OOPSLA19!
June 16
I'll be giving an invited talk at SYNT19 on "computational synthesis theory"!
June 14
JDial accepted at SAS19!
Apr 16
Three papers accepted at CAV19. See you in NYC!
Oct 10
I'm co-organizing the first Meeting on String Constraints and Applications (MOSCA) in Bertinoro next May!
Oct 2
Facebook partially funded my proposal to the Testing and Verification Research Award!
Jun 21
Rong Pan wins PLDI18 SRC (undergraduate) for our work on synthesizing programs with large constants!
Apr 19
I will be serving in the program committee for PLATEAU 18.
Apr 2
I will be serving in the program committee for LPAR-22 and I am excited to organize the Midwest Programming Languages Summit 2018.
Mar 31
Two papers accepted at CAV 2018! The Learnability of Symbolic Automata and Syntax Guided Synthesis with Quantitative Syntactic Objectives.
Dec 20
Got the NSF CAREER! ... and Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Router Configurations accepted at SIGMETRICS 2018!
July 10
Some press about our fairness project (led by Aws) on UW News and the Wisconsin State Journal.
June 20
FairSquare: Probabilistic Verification of Program Fairness accepted at OOPSLA 2017!
June 2
NoFAQ: Synthesizing Command Repairs from Examples accepted at FSE 2017!
May 5
The long version of Streaming tree transducers will appear in JACM!
May 3
A Symbolic Decision Procedure for Symbolic Alternating Automata accepted at MFPS XXXIII!
Apr 24
Weighted Model Integration with Orthogonal Transformations accepted at IJCAI 2017!
Apr 12
Repairing Decision-Making Programs under Uncertainty accepted at CAV 2017, where I was also invited to give a tutorial on The power of Symbolic Automata and Transducers!
Feb 13
Received the Google Faculty Research Award! Moreover, Automatic Program Inversion using Symbolic Transducers and Control-Flow Recovery from Partial Failure Reports accepted at PLDI 2017!
Dec 22
Learning Symbolic Automata accepted at TACAS 2017 and nominated for best paper award! Forward Bisimulations for Nondeterministic Symbolic Finite Automata also accepted at TACAS 2017!
Dec 21
The work on Refazer produced one paper at L@S and one at ICSE17.
Oct 3
Monadic second-order logic on finite sequences and Genesis: Synthesizing Forwarding Tables in Multi-tenant Networks accepted at POPL 2017!
Sep 20
The next time you need to evaluated your tool on Automata and Temporal Logic you can use the benchmark AutomatArk and contribute with new benchmark for the community to use.
Sep 10
We open-sourced the frontend and backend of Automata Tutor. Feel free to contribute, address issues, and add features. We also made publicly available most of the data we collected.
Apr 15
Qlose: Program Repair with Quantitative Objectives with Roopsha Samanta and Rishabh Singh accepted at CAV 2016!
Apr 4
Minimization of symbolic tree automata accepted at LICS 2016!

Selected publications [ DBLP, Google Scholar ]

FMCAD 22
Synthesizing Transducers from Complex Specifications
A. Grover, R. Ehlers, L. D'Antoni
OOPSLA 22
Synthesizing Abstract Transformers
P. Kalita, S. Muduli, L. D'Antoni, T. Reps, S. Roy
TOPLAS
Solving Program Sketches with Large Integer Values
Q. Hu, R. Singh, L. D'Antoni
PLDI 22
P4BID: Information Flow Control in P4 [ pdf ]
K. Grewal, L. D'Antoni, J. Hsu
NeurIPS 21
Certifying Robustness to Programmable Data Bias in Decision Trees [ pdf ]
A. P. Meyer, A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni
EMNLP 21
Certified Robustness to Programmable Transformations in LSTMs [ pdf ]
Y. Zhang, A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni Selected for Oral Presentation
SBES 21
Learning Quick Fixes from Code Repositories [ pdf ]
R. Rolim, G. Soares, R. Gheyi, T. Barik, L. D'Antoni Distinguished Paper Award
SOSR 21
D2R: Dataplane-Only Policy-Compliant Routing Under Failures [ pdf ]
K. Subramanian, A. Abhashkumar, L. D'Antoni, A. Akella
SIGCOMM 21
Prognosis: Black-Box Analysis of Network Protocol Implementations [ pdf ]
T. Ferreira, H. Brewton, L. D'Antoni, A. Silva
CACM
Automata Modulo Theories [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes
CAV 21
Programmable Program Synthesis [ pdf ]
Q. Hu, J. Cyphert, L. D'Antoni, T. Reps, Invited Keynote
CAV 21
Synthesis with Asymptotic Resource Bounds [ pdf ]
Q. Hu, J. Cyphert, L. D'Antoni, T. Reps
POPL 21
Semantics-guided Synthesis [ pdf ]
J. Kim, Q. Hu, L. D'Antoni, T. Reps
ICML 20
Robustness to Programmable String Transformations via Augmented Abstract Training [ pdf ]
Y. Zhang, A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni
CAV 20
Automata Tutor v3 [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Helfrich, J. Kretinsky, E. Ramneantu, M. Weininger
PLDI 20
Exact and Approximate Methods for Proving Unrealizability of Syntax-Guided Synthesis Problems [ pdf ]
Q. Hu, J. Cyphert, L. D'Antoni, T. Reps
PLDI 20
Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees [ pdf ]
S. Drews, A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni SIGPLAN Research Highlight
PLDI 20
Detecting Network Load Violations for Distributed Control Planes [ pdf ]
K. Subramanian, A. Abhashkumar, L. D'Antoni, A. Akella
ESOP 20
Solving Program Sketches with Large Integer Values [ pdf ]
R. Pan, Q. Hu, R. Singh, L. D'Antoni Selected for special issue of TOPLAS
Nominated for EAPLS Award for the best ETAPS paper on PL and systems
OOPSLA 19
Automatic Repair of Regular Expressions [ pdf ]
R. Pan, Q. Hu, G. Xu, L. D'Antoni
SAS 19
Direct Manipulation for Imperative Programs [ pdf ]
Q. Hu, R.Samanta, R. Singh, L. D'Antoni
CAV 19
Efficient Synthesis with Probabilistic Constraints [ pdf ]
S. Drews, A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni
CAV 19
Symbolic Register Automata [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, T. Ferreira, M. Sammartino, A. Silva
CAV 19
Proving Unrealizability for Syntax-Guided Synthesis [ pdf ]
Q. Hu, J. Breck, J. Cyphert, L. D'Antoni, T. Reps
CAV 18
Syntax Guided Synthesis with Quantitative Syntactic Objectives [ pdf ]
Q. Hu, L. D'Antoni
CAV 18
The Learnability of Symbolic Automata [ pdf ]
G. Argyros, L. D'Antoni
SIGMETRICS 18
Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Router Configurations [ pdf ]
K. Subramanian, L. D'Antoni, A. Akella
OOPSLA 17
FairSquare: Probabilistic Verification of Program Fairness [ pdf ]
A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni, S. Drews, A. Nori
FSE 17
NoFAQ: Synthesizing Command Repairs from Examples [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, R. Singh, M. Vaughn
VL/HCC 17
TraceDiff: Debugging Unexpected Code Behavior Using Trace Divergence [ pdf ]
R. Suzuki, G Soares, A. Head, E. Glassman, R. Reis, M. Mongiovi, L. D'Antoni, B. Hartmann
JACM
Streaming Tree Transducers [ ICALP pdf, pdf ]
R. Alur, L. D'Antoni
MFPS XXXIII
A Symbolic Decision Procedure for Symbolic Alternating Finite Automata [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, Z. Kincaid, F. Wang
IJCAI 17
Weighted Model Integration with Orthogonal Transformations [ pdf ]
D. Merrell, A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni
CAV 17
Repairing Decision-Making Programs under Uncertainty [ pdf ]
S. Drews, A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni
CAV 17
The Power of Symbolic Automata and Transducers [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes, Invited Tutorial
PLDI 17
Automatic Program Inversion using Symbolic Transducers [ pdf ]
Q. Hu, L. D'Antoni
PLDI 17
Control-Flow Recovery from Partial Failure Reports [ pdf ]
P. Ohmann, A. Brooks, L. D'Antoni, B. Liblit
TACAS 17
Learning Symbolic Automata [ pdf ]
S. Drews, L. D'Antoni Nominated for best paper award.
TACAS 17
Forward Bisimulations for Nondeterministic Symbolic Finite Automata [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes
L@S 17
Writing Reusable Code Feedback at Scale with Mixed-Initiative Program Synthesis [ pdf ]
A. Head, E. Glassman, G. Soares, R. Suzuki, L. Figueredo, L. D'Antoni, B. Hartmann
ICSE 17
Learning Syntactic Program Transformations from Examples [ pdf ]
R. Rolim, G. Soares, L. D'Antoni, O. Polozov, S. Gulwani, R. Gheyi, R. Suzuki, B. Hartmann
POPL 17
Monadic second-order logic on finite sequences [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes
POPL 17
Genesis: Synthesizing Forwarding Tables in Multi-tenant Networks [ pdf ]
A. Akella, L. D'Antoni, K. Subramanian
FATML 16
Fairness as a Program Property [ pdf ]
A. Albarghouthi, L. D'Antoni, S. Drews, A. Nori
MICRO-49
HARE: Hardware acceleration for regular expressions [ pdf ]
V. Gogte, A. Kolli, M. Cafarella, L. D'Antoni, T. Wenisch
CAV 16
Qlose: Program Repair with Quantitative Objectives [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, R. Samanta, R. Singh
LICS 16
Minimization of Symbolic Tree Automata [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes
FMSD 15
Extended Symbolic Finite Automata and Transducers [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes
TOPLAS 15
Fast: A Transducer-Based Language for Tree Manipulation (extended version) [ link ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes, B. Livshits, D. Molnar
TOCHI 15
How Can Automatic Feedback Help Students Construct Automata? [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, D. Kini, R. Alur, S. Gulwani, M. Viswanathan, B. Hartmann
POPL 15
DReX: A Declarative Language for Efficiently Evaluating Regular String Transformations [ pdf, DReX ]
R. Alur, L. D'Antoni, M. Raghothaman
POPL 15
Program Boosting: Program Synthesis via Crowd-Sourcing [ pdf, slides ]
R. Cochran, L. D'Antoni, B. Livshits, D. Molnar, M. Veanes
CAV 14
Symbolic Visibly Pushdown Automata [ pdf ]
L. D'Antoni, R. Alur
PLDI 14
Fast: A Transducer-Based Language for Tree Manipulation [ pdf, slides, Fast ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes, B. Livshits, D. Molnar
POPL 14
Minimization of Symbolic Automata [ pdf, slides ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes
CAV 13
Equivalence of Extended Symbolic Finite Transducers [ pdf, slides ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes
IJCAI 13
Automated Grading of DFA Constructions [ pdf, slides, Automata Tutor ]
R. Alur, L. D'Antoni, S. Gulwani, D. Kini, M. Viswanathan
LICS 13
Regular Functions, Register Cost Automata, and Generalized Min-Cost Problems [ pdf ]
R. Alur, L. D'Antoni, J. V. Deshmukh, M. Raghothaman, Y. Yuan
VMCAI 13
Static Analysis of String Encoders and Decoders [ pdf, slides ]
L. D'Antoni, M. Veanes

Professional activities

2023
POPL
2022
Sabbatical
2021
POPL, PLDI
2020
APR, NETYS
2019
VMW@CAV, ATVA
2018
POPL, PLDI ERC, CAV, LPAR-22, PLATEAU, Midwest PL Summit
2017
POPL ERC, PLMW@POPL
2016
CAV, PLDI, POPL ERC, ICALP
2015
CAV-AEC, PLOOC