ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Sun 12 - Sat 18 October 2025 Singapore

We propose semiringKanren, a relational programming language where each relation expression denotes a semiring array. We formalize a type system that restricts the arrays to finite size. We then define a semantics that is parameterized by the semiring that the arrays draw their elements from. We compile semiringKanren types to bitstring representations. For the Boolean semiring, this compilation enables us to use an SAT solver to run semiringKanren programs efficiently. We compare the performance of semiringKanren and faster miniKanren for solving Sudoku puzzles. Our experiment shows that semiringKanren can be a more efficient variant of miniKanren.

Fri 17 Oct

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10:30 - 12:15
Extending miniKanren and Relational ProgrammingminiKanren at Peony NW
Chair(s): Ekaterina Verbitskaia JetBrains Research; Constructor University Bremen
10:30
26m
Talk
Beyond Cons: Purely Relational Data Structures
miniKanren
Rafaello Sanna Harvard University, William E. Byrd University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nada Amin Harvard University
Pre-print
10:56
26m
Talk
Committing to the bit: Relational programming with semiring arrays and SAT solving
miniKanren
Dmitri Volkov Indiana University, Yafei Yang Indiana University, Chung-chieh Shan Indiana University
DOI Pre-print
11:22
26m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Rational Tree Unification for miniKanren
miniKanren
Eridan Domoratskiy Saint-Petersburg State University, Dmitrii Kosarev , Dmitri Boulytchev Saint Petersburg State University
Pre-print
11:48
26m
Talk
concurrentKanren: miniKanren for parallel execution
miniKanren
Pre-print