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This PR establishes Spec 15 and implements Dynamic Property-Aware Partial Order Reduction (Item 8) in DporExplorer.

Historically, DporExplorer completely disabled sleep-set reduction whenever an invariant was provided, falling back to unreduced exhaustive DFS (dfsDfs). This PR integrates state-property visibility into DPOR, enabling sleep-set pruning of independent invisible operations while strictly preserving violation detection and exhaustive fallback for unannotated properties.

Key Changes

  1. Spec 15 Suite:

    • docs/specs/active/15-property-aware-dpor/README.md: Overview, goals, acceptance criteria, and map.
    • 01-property-visibility-dpor.md: Visibility contract, sleep-set operational rules, and API dispatch.
    • 02-soundness-proof.md: Mathematical proof of violation preservation under finite-trace commutativity.
    • 03-verification-and-benchmarks.md: Test matrix, differential oracles, and BugCorpus results.
  2. Core Engine:

    • IndependenceRelation.java: Exposes writesOverlap as public for cross-package visibility checks.
    • DporExplorer.java:
      • Inspects Invariant.observedLocations():
        • Optional.empty(): retains exhaustive dfsDfs fallback (unannotated callbacks, DSL final).
        • Optional.of(locations): applies property-aware DPOR (dporDfs with observation footprint).
        • null invariant: retains standard unconstrained DPOR.
      • Rule 1: Visible candidate steps writing to observed locations are never placed into sleep sets.
      • Rule 2: Executing a visible step resets the sleep set (new SleepSet()), ensuring all subsequent actions observe the updated property state.
      • Prunes independent invisible transitions via sleep sets along execution paths.
  3. Verification:

    • Added DporPropertyAwarenessTest.java with 9 targeted contracts:
      • State reduction on independent invisible work (statesExplored < dfs.statesExplored).
      • Visible race preservation (visibleIndependentWritesCannotHideIntermediateViolations).
      • Sleep set refresh on visible execution (visibleStepRefreshesSleepSet).
      • Unknown observations and DSL final exhaustive fallback preservation.
      • Empty observation set reduction.
      • Differential equivalence against DfsExplorer and StaticPorExplorer.
      • Full verdict verification across all benchmarks in BugCorpus.all().
    • All 578 test assertions passing with zero failures.
    • Passed ./gradlew check javadoc and visualizer e2e check.

…(Spec 15)

- Establish Spec 15 in docs/specs/active/15-property-aware-dpor/
  with formal soundness proof, visibility contract, and verification matrix
- Expose IndependenceRelation.writesOverlap() as public for cross-package visibility
- Update DporExplorer to apply property visibility when Invariant.observedLocations() is present:
  * Visible candidate steps never enter sleep sets (Rule 1)
  * Visible step execution refreshes sleeping transitions (Rule 2)
  * Independent invisible steps are pruned via sleep sets
  * Retain exhaustive dfsDfs fallback for unknown observations and DSL final checks (Rule 3)
- Add DporPropertyAwarenessTest exercising reduction, visible races, sleep set refresh,
  and differential equivalence across all BugCorpus benchmarks

Co-authored-by: Gemini <gemini@google.com>
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  • New Features

    • Property-aware exploration can reduce redundant execution paths when an invariant specifies which state locations it observes, while retaining exhaustive exploration when observations are unknown.
    • Exploration continues to check for invariant violations and deadlocks under the documented conditions.
  • Tests

    • Added comparisons against exhaustive exploration across observed, unknown, and empty observation sets, including benchmark scenarios.

The explorer now applies property-aware DPOR when an invariant provides observed locations. It uses exhaustive DFS when observations are unknown. The change also adds a soundness proof, verification criteria, and differential tests.

Changes: Property-aware DPOR

Layer / File(s) Summary
Observation contract and search dispatch
docs/specs/active/15-property-aware-dpor/01-property-visibility-dpor.md, docs/specs/active/15-property-aware-dpor/README.md, src/main/java/dev/samhb/interleave/dpor/DporExplorer.java, README.md
The specification defines an optional observed-location footprint and the search behavior for known, unknown, and absent observations. DporExplorer now follows these dispatch rules.
Visibility and sleep-set maintenance
src/main/java/dev/samhb/interleave/dpor/DporExplorer.java, src/main/java/dev/samhb/interleave/por/IndependenceRelation.java, docs/specs/active/15-property-aware-dpor/01-property-visibility-dpor.md, docs/specs/active/15-property-aware-dpor/02-soundness-proof.md
The explorer clears the sleep set after visible steps and excludes visible competing steps from it. The specification defines the rules and fallback; the proof states assumptions and argues that the rules preserve discovery of invariant violations. writesOverlap is now public.
Differential and regression verification
src/test/java/dev/samhb/interleave/dpor/DporPropertyAwarenessTest.java, docs/specs/active/15-property-aware-dpor/03-verification-and-benchmarks.md
Tests compare DPOR outcomes and explored-state counts with DFS and StaticPorExplorer, including observation edge cases and BugCorpus benchmarks. The specification lists verification criteria and mutation targets.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DporExplorer
  participant Invariant
  participant IndependenceRelation
  participant dporDfs
  participant dfsDfs
  DporExplorer->>Invariant: Request observedLocations()
  Invariant-->>DporExplorer: Return optional observation set
  alt Observation set is known
    DporExplorer->>dporDfs: Start search with observations
    dporDfs->>IndependenceRelation: Check writes against observations
    IndependenceRelation-->>dporDfs: Return overlap result
    dporDfs-->>DporExplorer: Return search result
  else Observation set is unknown
    DporExplorer->>dfsDfs: Start exhaustive search
    dfsDfs-->>DporExplorer: Return search result
  end
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- Around line 37-40: Update the benchmark list to match the entries actually
returned by BugCorpus.all(): remove producer-consumer-bounded, circular-buffer,
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require dpor.statesExplored() to be strictly less than dfs.statesExplored() for
the empty observation set, while preserving the existing outcome comparison.
- Line 254: Add meaningful Javadoc to the private `locations` and `outcomes`
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Graphify reviewed this change.

Worth a look — the grounded gate found no coupling regressions or blocking issues, but 2 advisory finding(s) below merit a look before merge.

Not checked: tests were not run; no formal proof of the changed code.


Graphify review — findings

Adds property-aware sleep-set pruning to DporExplorer. When an invariant declares its observed locations, only steps whose writes overlap them are treated as visible: visible steps never enter a sleep set and executing one clears it, while invisible independent steps can still be pruned. Invariants with unknown observations (and DSL final assertions) fall back to unreduced DFS, though the pruning in dporDfs is combined with visited-state deduplication and that interaction is where a missed violation could hide. Adds the Spec 15 documents (visibility contract, soundness proof, verification matrix and benchmarks) plus a README pointer, and a DporPropertyAwarenessTest suite covering reduction, intermediate-violation preservation and the exhaustive fallback. The proof's Theorem 1 does not account for the visited-state store, and the verification matrix names tests the suite may not contain.

Worth a look

  • Sleep sets combined with visited-state pruning can miss invariant violations — src/main/java/dev/samhb/interleave/dpor/DporExplorer.java:133 · Escalate · medium
    • agreed by 2 of 2 members but NOT verified (no proof, no reproducing execution) — consensus is not a verdict; needs human review
  • Soundness proof ignores the interaction between sleep sets and the visited-state store — docs/specs/active/15-property-aware-dpor/02-soundness-proof.md:47 · Escalate · medium
    • agreed by 2 of 2 members but NOT verified (no proof, no reproducing execution) — consensus is not a verdict; needs human review

Review partial — this diff was larger than one review pass covers, so later files were not reviewed; some findings may be missing.

Analysis details — impact, health, verification

Impact & health

Graphify review

Impact — 110 functions depend on the 101 functions this change touches.

Health — grade A; no new coupling hotspots.

Verification — 110 functions in the blast radius were not formally verified this run (proofs are advisory here).

Gate & verification

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PASS — objectively clean (no health regressions, tests not run — proofs not run this pass (advisory)). Grounded, not self-assessed.

Advisory (not blocking):

  • verification_scope: 110 function(s) in the blast radius were not formally verified this run

SamuelIVX and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 22:50
- Align 03-verification-and-benchmarks.md with exact BugCorpus.all() entries
- Add dslAlwaysPropertyAppliesPropertyAwareReduction test for declarative always invariants
- Strengthen emptyObservationsReducesCompletely to strictly assert reduction (<)
- Add state-count monotonicity assertions across corpus benchmark checks
- Add proof section in 02-soundness-proof.md for sleep-set and state-store interaction
- Update README.md line 34 to reflect property-aware DPOR reduction
- Add 100% complete Javadocs across DporPropertyAwarenessTest

Co-authored-by: Gemini <gemini@google.com>
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