DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs
Machine Learning
2017-03-09 v2
Abstract
We develop a first line of attack for solving programming competition-style problems from input-output examples using deep learning. The approach is to train a neural network to predict properties of the program that generated the outputs from the inputs. We use the neural network's predictions to augment search techniques from the programming languages community, including enumerative search and an SMT-based solver. Empirically, we show that our approach leads to an order of magnitude speedup over the strong non-augmented baselines and a Recurrent Neural Network approach, and that we are able to solve problems of difficulty comparable to the simplest problems on programming competition websites.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.01989,
title = {DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs},
author = {Matej Balog and Alexander L. Gaunt and Marc Brockschmidt and Sebastian Nowozin and Daniel Tarlow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01989},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Submitted to ICLR 2017