Symbolic Semantics for Probabilistic Programs (extended version)

07/19/2023
by   Erik Voogd, et al.
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We present a new symbolic execution semantics of probabilistic programs that include observe statements and sampling from continuous distributions. Building on Kozen's seminal work, this symbolic semantics consists of a countable collection of measurable functions, along with a partition of the state space. We use the new semantics to provide a full correctness proof of symbolic execution for probabilistic programs. We also implement this semantics in the tool symProb, and illustrate its use on examples.

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