By: Philip Zucker
Re-posted from: https:/www.philipzucker.com/juliacon-talk/
Alessandro very graciously invited me to join him giving a talk on Metatheory.jl, his package for rewriting and egraphs. Thanks Alessandro!
I keep saying to myself I should try to give more talks, but hoo boy is it stressful. I felt like the whole month of June I was freaking out. And yet, it came off just fine I think. I was worried for nothing. Whenever these things come up, I always think that this time I need to tie up all the loose ends that I don’t know the answer to. But these loose ends exist because they are hard or they need stewing time.
It’s lunacy and hubris to think I can fix it all, but I do it every time. We had way way too much material anyway!
Here’s a snippet of todos from my notes.
Metatheory talk:
- PEGs
- Rewriting functional programs – https://www.haskellforall.com/2013/12/equational-reasoning.html
- Gries equational logic?
- datalog?
- Summation – WIP though.
- Automating catlab translation – This is only half built
- The ideas behind the catlab trasnlation
- Rearranging linear algerba expressions
- translate Egg Projects
- rewriting aexpr + bexpr
Ridiculous. Here’s some of the bits and pieces I did make though.
Stream Fusion
I started writing down how to optimize iterator expressions. This is known as stream fusion This is an interesting application, especially if you extract for asymptotic complexity rather than ast size. This is a very cool application though
using Pkg
Pkg.activate("metatheory")
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/0x0f0f0f/Metatheory.jl.git")
using Metatheory
using Metatheory.EGraphs
@metatheory_init ()
array_theory = @theory begin
reverse(reverse(x)) => x
map(f,reverse(x)) => reverse(map(f, x))
map(f,fill(x,N)) => fill(apply(f,x), N) # hmm
filter(f,reverse(x)) => reverse(filter(f,x))
reverse(fill(x,N)) => fill(x,N)
#map(f,x)[n:m] = map(f,x[n:m]) # but does NOT commute with filter
filter(f, fill(x,N)) => f(x) ? fill(x,N) : fill(x,0)
filter(f, filter(g, x)) => filter(f && g, x) # using functional &&
cat(fill(x,N),fill(x,M)) => fill(x,N + M)
cat(map(f,x), map(f,y)) => map(f, cat(x,y))
map(f, cat(x,y)) => cat(map(f,x), map(f,y))
map(f,map(g,x)) => map(f ⋅ g, x)
reverse( cat(x,y) ) => cat(reverse(y), reverse(x))
sum(fill(x,N)) => x * N
map(f,x)[n] => apply(f,x[n]) #?
apply(f ⋅ g, x) => apply(f, apply(g, x))
fill(x,N)[n] => x
cumsum(fill(x,N)) => collect(x:x:(N*x))
length(fill(x,N)) => N
end
#G = EGraph(:(a * b * c * d * e));
#G = EGraph(:( reverse(reverse(fill(10,20))) ))
#G = EGraph(:( map(x -> 7 * x, reverse(cat(fill(13,40),fill(10,20))) )))
G = EGraph(:( map(x -> 7 * x, fill(3,4) )))
G = EGraph(:( map(x -> 7 * x, fill(3,4) )[1]))
report = saturate!(G,array_theory);
ex = extract!(G, astsize)
Links on stream fusion:
- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.15.0.0/docs/src/GHC-List.html#drop
- https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/publications/IFL10.pdf theory and practice of fusion
- http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.104.7401 from list and stream to nothing
- https://teh.id.au/#/posts/2017/06/30/notes-on-fusion/index.html
- https://twitter.com/SandMouth/status/1399510138487283713?s=20
List.v - HLint https://t.co/A2FYzWU1za?amp=1
- https://t.co/DvyoxctdHT?amp=1
E-PEGs
E-PEGs https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ross/publications/eqsat/ are a compiler IR format that plays with the egraph. It’s interestingly related to the above. The basic idea I think is to enhance the CFG into being effectively in a purely functional form. Gated Phi nodes really are basically functional if the else constructs, since they reify the path condition. The other kinds of funky nodes they use for loops can be though of as functional stream combinators. In some sense the values things take on inside loops is a stream of values.
I started translating the table from Tate’s thesis chapters 7/8 into metatheory.jl and julia but I didn’t finish. I now appreciate the cleverness of the @capture macro from MacroTools though.
using MacroTools
function translate_prog(p)
@capture(p, function f_(args__) body_ end)
translate_statement(body, Dict(zip(args,args)), 0)[:retvar]
end
function translate_statement(s, env, loop_level) # translate statement
#println(s)
if @capture(s, begin s1_; s2__ end) && length(s2) > 0
return translate_statement( Expr(:block, s2...), translate_statement(s1, env, loop_level), loop_level)
elseif @capture(s, x_ = e_)
env2 = copy(env)
env2[x] = translate_expr(e, env)
return env2
elseif @capture(s, if e_ s1_ else s2_ end)
return phi( translate_expr(e, env), translate_statement(s1, env, loop_level) , translate_statement(s2, env, loop_level) )
elseif @capture(s, while c_ b_ end)
end
println("no match", e)
end
function translate_expr(e, env)
if @capture( e , op_(args__))
args = [translate_expr(arg, env) for arg in args]
:($op( $(args...) ))
elseif e isa Number
e
else
env[e]
end
end
function combine(m1,m2,conflict)
res = Dict()
for (k,v) in m1
res[k] = v
end
for (k,v) in m2
if haskey(res,k)
res[k] = conflict( m1[k], m2[k] )
else
res[k] = v
end
end
return res
end
function phi(n, env1, env2,)
combine(env1,env2, (t,f) -> :(ϕ($n, $t, $f ) ))
end
Automating The Catlab Translation
https://www.philipzucker.com/metatheory-progress/
This is only half built. It sounded like Alessandro was on the case a while back so I got discouraged. I really do not remember what state this is in, but here it is to those curious and extremely bold.
using Pkg
Pkg.activate("metacat")
Pkg.add(url="git@github.com:AlgebraicJulia/Catlab.jl.git")
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/0x0f0f0f/Metatheory.jl.git")
using Metatheory
using Metatheory.EGraphs
using Catlab
using Catlab.Theories
function convert_types(types)
ret = []
for typ in types
for accessor in typ.params
lhs = Expr(:call, accessor, Expr(:call , :type, Expr(:call, typ.name, hom.params... )))
push!(ret, :( $lhs => $accessor ))
end
end
return ret
end
symbols(e::Expr) = length(e.args) > 1 ? reduce(union, symbols.(e.args[2:end]) ) : Set([])
symbols(s::Symbol) = Set([s])
find_field(typ::Expr, a) = findfirst(x -> x == a, typ.args[2:end])
find_field(typ::Symbol, a) = nothing
function find_context(context, a)
for (f,typ) in context
i = find_field(typ,a)
if i != nothing
return (f,typ,i)
end
end
end
find_field(:(Hom(A,B)), :C)
find_context(Dict(:f => :(Hom(A,B))), :A)
function build_type_finder(ctx, u) # builds functional form of extractor from context.
ident, typ, pos = find_context(ctx, u)
u => :(proj($pos, type($ident )))
end
type_finder_dict(ctx, unknowns) = Dict([ build_type_finder(ctx, u) for u in unknowns])
replace(e::Symbol, ud) = begin
#println(e)
haskey(ud,e) ? ( ud[e]) : e
end
replace(e::Expr, unknown_replace_dict) = begin
Expr(e.head, e.args[1], [ replace(a, unknown_replace_dict) for a in e.args[2:end] ]... ) end
function type_terms(terms)
ret = []
for term in terms
lhs = Expr(:call , :type, Expr(:call, term.name, term.params... ))
known = Set(term.params)
unknowns = setdiff(symbols(term.typ) , known)
unknown_replace_dict = type_finder_dict(term.context, unknowns)
builtterm = replace(term.typ, unknown_replace_dict)
#println(unknown_replace_dict)
#println(builtterm)
#=
typ_map = Dict()
while !isempty(unknowns)
u = pop!(unknowns)
push!(known, u)
type_u = term.context[u]
typ_map[u] = type_u
unknowns = unknowns ∪ (setdiff(symbols(type_u) , known ))
end
println(typ_map)
=#
push!(ret, :( $lhs => $(builtterm)))
end
return ret
end
type_terms( theory(Category).terms )
# If we want to go with the accessor encoding, We need to lookup parameters on the right hand side
# I should possible use metatheory to do replacement
# should I make these function singular and just map them?
function convert_axioms(axioms)
ret = []
for axiom in axioms
#lhs = Expr(:call , :type, Expr(:call, term.name, term.params... ))
#println(axiom)
leftsyms = symbols(axiom.left)
rightsyms = symbols(axiom.right)
# left to right
unknowns = setdiff(rightsyms, leftsyms)
#println(unknowns)
#println([ find_context(axiom.context, u) for u in unknowns])
d = type_finder_dict(axiom.context, unknowns)
newright = replace(axiom.right, d)
push!(ret, :( $(axiom.left) => $(newright)))
unknowns = setdiff(leftsyms, rightsyms)
d = type_finder_dict(axiom.context, unknowns)
newleft = replace(axiom.left, d)
push!(ret, :( $(axiom.right) => $(newleft)))
end
return ret
end
#convert_axioms( theory(Category).axioms)
convert_axioms( theory(MonoidalCategory).axioms)
#theory(MonoidalCategory).axioms
function find_term(termcons, n)
for termcon in termcons
if termcon.name == n
return termcon
end
end
end
function typing_equuations(theory,s::Symbol)
return []
end
function typing_equations(theory, e::Expr)
@assert e.head == :call
name = e.args[1]
term_con = find_term(theory.terms, name)
println(e)
#freshparams = [p => gensym(p) for p in term_con.params ]
#rec_equations = [ kv[2] => a for (kv,a) in zip(freshparams, e.args[2:end]) ]
rec_equations = [k => v for (k,v) in zip(term_con.params, e.args[2:end])]
r2 = [ replace( k, Dict(rec_equations)) => replace( v, Dict(rec_equations)) for (k,v) in term_con.context]
r3 = [ typing_equations(theory, a) for a in e.args[2:end] ]
return vcat(r2,r3)
end
typing_equations( theory(MonoidalCategory), :(otimes(f,id(a))) )