{"scopus_import":"1","quality_controlled":"1","title":"Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time","issue":"POPL","oa_version":"Published Version","file":[{"file_size":564151,"content_type":"application/pdf","file_id":"8328","creator":"cziletti","date_updated":"2020-09-01T11:12:58Z","access_level":"open_access","success":1,"file_name":"2019_ACM_POPL_Wang.pdf","relation":"main_file","date_created":"2020-09-01T11:12:58Z","checksum":"c6193d109ff4ecb17e7a6513d8eb34c0"}],"intvolume":"         4","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"ACM","year":"2020","day":"01","tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"date_published":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","_id":"8324","author":[{"last_name":"Wang","first_name":"Peixin","full_name":"Wang, Peixin"},{"last_name":"Fu","first_name":"Hongfei","full_name":"Fu, Hongfei"},{"full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","first_name":"Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","last_name":"Chatterjee","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"first_name":"Yuxin","full_name":"Deng, Yuxin","last_name":"Deng"},{"last_name":"Xu","full_name":"Xu, Ming","first_name":"Ming"}],"doi":"10.1145/3371093","related_material":{"link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3533633","relation":"software"}]},"publication_status":"published","publication":"Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages","abstract":[{"text":"The notion of program sensitivity (aka Lipschitz continuity) specifies that changes in the program input result in proportional changes to the program output. For probabilistic programs the notion is naturally extended to expected sensitivity. A previous approach develops a relational program logic framework for proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic while loops, where the number of iterations is fixed and bounded. In this work, we consider probabilistic while loops where the number of iterations is not fixed, but randomized and depends on the initial input values. We present a sound approach for proving expected sensitivity of such programs. Our sound approach is martingale-based and can be automated through existing martingale-synthesis algorithms. Furthermore, our approach is compositional for sequential composition of while loops under a mild side condition. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on several classical examples from Gambler's Ruin, stochastic hybrid systems and stochastic gradient descent. We also present experimental results showing that our automated approach can handle various probabilistic programs in the literature.","lang":"eng"}],"article_number":"25","date_updated":"2024-02-22T15:16:45Z","volume":4,"has_accepted_license":"1","type":"conference","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2475-1421"]},"status":"public","project":[{"_id":"25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"S11407","call_identifier":"FWF","name":"Game Theory"}],"external_id":{"arxiv":["1902.04744"]},"user_id":"3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","ddc":["004"],"oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2020-09-01T11:12:58Z","acknowledgement":"We thank anonymous reviewers for helpful comments, especially for pointing to us a scenario of piecewise-linear approximation (Remark5). The research was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 61802254, 61672229, 61832015,61772336,11871221 and Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN under Grant No. S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE). We thank Prof. Yuxi Fu, director of the BASICS Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, for his support.","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","citation":{"chicago":"Wang, Peixin, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Yuxin Deng, and Ming Xu. “Proving Expected Sensitivity of Probabilistic Programs with Randomized Variable-Dependent Termination Time.” In <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages</i>, Vol. 4. ACM, 2020. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371093\">https://doi.org/10.1145/3371093</a>.","ista":"Wang P, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Deng Y, Xu M. 2020. Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. vol. 4, 25.","apa":"Wang, P., Fu, H., Chatterjee, K., Deng, Y., &#38; Xu, M. (2020). Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time. In <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages</i> (Vol. 4). ACM. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371093\">https://doi.org/10.1145/3371093</a>","short":"P. Wang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, Y. Deng, M. Xu, in:, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, ACM, 2020.","mla":"Wang, Peixin, et al. “Proving Expected Sensitivity of Probabilistic Programs with Randomized Variable-Dependent Termination Time.” <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages</i>, vol. 4, no. POPL, 25, ACM, 2020, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371093\">10.1145/3371093</a>.","ama":"Wang P, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Deng Y, Xu M. Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time. In: <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages</i>. Vol 4. ACM; 2020. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371093\">10.1145/3371093</a>","ieee":"P. Wang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, Y. Deng, and M. Xu, “Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time,” in <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages</i>, 2020, vol. 4, no. POPL."},"month":"01","date_created":"2020-08-30T22:01:12Z"}