Abstract. Dependently typed programs contain an excessive amount of static terms which are necessary to please the type checker but irrelevant for computation. To obtain reasonable performance of not only the compiled program but also the type checker such static terms need to be erased as early as possible, preferably immediately after type checking. To this end, Pfenning’s type theory with irrelevant quantification, that models a distinction between static and dynamic code, is extended to universes and large eliminations. Novel is a heterogeneously typed implementation of equality which allows the smooth construction of a universal Kripke model that proves normalization, consistency and decidability.

We devise a typed equality judgement for a predicative version of Miquel’s Implicit Calculus and complete it with a calculus for explicit substitutions. The resulting theory IITT, Implicit Intensional Type Theory, is shown consistent by a partial equivalence model. We further present a bidirectional type checking and extraction algorithm and briefly sketch the integration of another notion of irrelevance, Awodey and Bauer’s bracket types. This work is aimed at providing a solid an practical foundation for extraction of efficient programs from type theory.

Dependent type theory is a proven technology for verified functional programming in which programs and their correctness proofs may be developed using the same rules in a single formal system. In practice, large portions of programs developed in this way have no computational relevance to the ultimate result of the program and should therefore be removed prior to program execution. In previous work on identifying and removing irrelevant portions of programs, computational irrelevance is usually treated as an intrinsic property of program expressions. We find that such an approach forces programmers to maintain two copies of commonly used datatypes: a computationally relevant one and a computationally irrelevant one. We instead develop an extrinsic notion of computational irrelevance and find that it yields several benefits including (1) avoidance of the above mentioned code duplication problem; (2) an identification of computational irrelevance with a highly general form of parametric polymorphism; and (3) an elective (i.e., user-2 directed) notion of proof irrelevance. We also develop a program analysis for identifying irrelevant expressions and show how previously studied types embodying computational irrelevance (including subset types and squash types) are expressible in the extension of type theory developed herein.

Abstract. We consider the Calculus of Constructions with typed beta-eta equality and an algorithm which computes long normal forms. The normalization algorithm evaluates terms into a semantic domain, and reifies the values back to terms in normal form. To show termination, we interpret types as partial equivalence relations between values and type constructors as operators on PERs. This models also yields consistency of the beta-eta-Calculus of Constructions. The model construction can be carried out directly in impredicative type theory, enabling a formalization in Coq. 1

Abstract. Dependently typed programs contain an excessive amount of static terms which are necessary to please the type checker but irrelevant for computation. To obtain reasonable performance of not only the compiled program but also the type checker such static terms need to be erased as early as possible, preferably immediately after type checking. To this end, Pfenning’s type theory with irrelevant quantification, that models a distinction between static and dynamic code, is extended to universes and large eliminations. Normalization, consistency, and decidability are obtained via a universal Kripke model based on algorithmic equality. 1. Introduction and Related