Title
Empirical Abstraction
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
Given a program analysis problem that consists of a program and a property of interest, we use an empirical approach to automatically construct a sequence of abstractions that approach an ideal abstraction suitable for solving that problem. This process begins with an infinite concrete domain that maps to a finite abstract cluster domain defined by statistical procedures. Given a set of properties expressed as formulas in a restricted and bounded variant of CTL, we can test the success of the abstraction with respect to a predefined performance measure. In addition, we can perform iterative abstraction-refinement of the clustering by tuning hyperparameters that determine the accuracy of the cluster representations (abstract states) and determine the number of clusters.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
First Page
259
Last Page
278
Recommended Citation
Ho, V., Alvin, C., Mukhopadhyay, S., Peterson, B., & Lawson, J. (2020). Empirical Abstraction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12399 LNCS, 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60508-7_14