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Homomorphism Calculus for User-Defined Aggregations

Talkat PLDI 2026 · 2026-06-15..06-19· [data-engineering]
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Introduces a decidable homomorphism calculus and a synthesis tool Inc that reduces dataframe homomorphism verification to a local per-row check via a normalizer and uses type-directed decomposition plus proof rules to refute impossible cases. Implementation synthesizes merge operators for 43 of 45 homomorphic UDAFs in a 50-benchmark corpus, successfully refutes all 5 non-homomorphic tasks, finds many developer bugs (e.g., several hand-written merges are incorrect), and outperforms prior synthesizers.

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  1. 0:00Homomorphism calculus intro
  2. 1:03User-defined aggregations
  3. 3:53Merge function correctness
  4. 6:42Goal of homomorphism calculus
  5. 7:25Verifying merge functions
  6. 9:55Local verification method
  7. 11:19Refuting non-homomorphic UDAFs
  8. 12:23Type-directed decomposition
  9. 14:30Inc evaluation
  10. 16:17Questions and answers session
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