End-to-end translation validation for the halide language
Basile Clément, Albert Cohen · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 2022
This paper considers the correctness of domain-specific compilers for tensor programming languages through the study of Halide, a popular representative. It describes a translation validation algorithm for affine Halide specifications, independently of the scheduling language. The algorithm relies on “prophetic” annotations added by the compiler to the generated array assignments. The annotations provide a refinement mapping from assignments in the generated code to the tensor definitions from the specification. Our implementation leverages an affine solver and a general SMT solver, and scales to complete Halide benchmarks.