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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems· 2026Q2

Omnidirectional type inference for ML: principality any way

Alistair O'Brien, Didier Rémy, Gabriel Scherer

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A new omnidirectional type inference algorithm restores principality (unique most general type) to ML-like languages extended with fragile features like static overloading and first-class polymorphism, by allowing type information to flow dynamically rather than in a fixed order.

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Field: Artificial Intelligence

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science