Enhancing Translation Validation of Compiler Transformations with Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16797v2
• Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 00:19:32 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Translation Validation of Compiler Transformations with Large Language Models
• Authors: Yanzhao Wang, Fei Xie
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) into translation validation. We first utilize existing formal verification tools for translation validation. When formal verification tools are unable to confirm a transformation's soundness, our framework employs fine-tuned LLMs for prediction.
• Score: 5.103162976634333
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) into translation validation, targeting LLVM compiler transformations where formal verification tools fall short. Our framework first utilizes existing formal verification tools for translation validation. In this work, we use Alive2, a well-known tool in LLVM compiler verification, as an example. When formal verification tools are unable to confirm a transformation's soundness, our framework employs fine-tuned LLMs for prediction. It then applies fuzzing to transformations predicted as potentially unsound by the LLMs due to return values or memory inconsistencies, aiming to find counterexamples. In cases where transformations are unsound for other reasons or sound, or if no counterexamples emerge, the framework directly reports these outcomes without further fuzzing. This methodology has shown effectiveness in complex application such as deep-learning accelerator designs, where traditional formal verification tools struggle.

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