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Program synthesis aims to automatically generate an executable program that conforms to the given specification. Recent advancements have demonstrated that deep neural methodologies and large-scale pretrained language models are highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Tianyi Chen , Qidi Wang , Zhen Dong , Liwei Shen , Xin Peng

In recent years, deep learning has made tremendous progress in a number of fields that were previously out of reach for artificial intelligence. The successes in these problems has led researchers to consider the possibilities for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Neel Kant

Synthesis of program parts is very useful for concurrent systems. However, most synthesis approaches do not support common design tasks, like modifying a single process without having to re-synthesize or verify the whole system.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Roderick Bloem , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Swen Jacobs , Robert Koenighofer

The usage of Rational Speech Acts (RSA) framework has been successful in building \emph{pragmatic} program synthesizers that return programs which, in addition to being logically consistent with user-generated examples, account for the fact…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yewen Pu , Saujas Vaduguru , Priyan Vaithilingam , Elena Glassman , Daniel Fried

The system PL permits the translation of abstract proofs of program correctness into programs in a variety of programming languages. A programming language satisfying certain axioms may be the target of such a translation. The system PL…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David A. Plaisted

Synthesis is the automatic construction of a system from its specification. In classical synthesis algorithms it is always assumed that the system is "constructed from scratch" rather than composed from reusable components. This, of course,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Yoad Lustig , Moshe Vardi

The generation of comprehensible explanations is an essential feature of modern artificial intelligence systems. In this work, we consider probabilistic logic programming, an extension of logic programming which can be useful to model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Germán Vidal

Probabilistic programs are key to deal with uncertainty in e.g. controller synthesis. They are typically small but intricate. Their development is complex and error prone requiring quantitative reasoning over a myriad of alternative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Milan Češka , Christian Hensel , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Automated synthesis of reactive systems from specifications has been a topic of research for decades. Recently, a variety of approaches have been proposed to extend synthesis of reactive systems from proposi- tional specifications towards…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Andreas Katis , Grigory Fedyukovich , Huajun Guo , Andrew Gacek , John Backes , Arie Gurfinkel , Michael W. Whalen

Probabilistic programs are typically normal-looking programs describing posterior probability distributions. They intrinsically code up randomized algorithms and have long been at the heart of modern machine learning and approximate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lutz Klinkenberg , Tobias Winkler , Mingshuai Chen , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Reactive synthesis is the task of automatically deriving a correct implementation from a specification. It is a promising technique for the development of verified programs and hardware. Despite recent advances in terms of algorithms and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Bernd Finkbeiner , Gideon Geier , Noemi Passing

Timed regular expressions serve as a formalism for specifying real-time behaviors of Cyber-Physical Systems. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of timed regular expressions, focusing on generating a timed regular expression consistent…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Ziran Wang , Jie An , Naijun Zhan , Miaomiao Zhang , Zhenya Zhang

In the paper the problem of verification of functional programs (FPs) over strings is considered, where specifications of properties of FPs are defined by other FPs, and a FP S1 meets a specification defined by another FP S2 iff a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Andrew M. Mironov

A new theory of programming is proposed. The theory consists of OE (Operation Expression), SP (Semantic Predicate) and A (Axiom), abbreviated as OESPA. OE is for programming: its syntax is given by BNF formulas and its semantics is defined…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Sen Ma

Probabilistic programming has become a standard practice to model stochastic events and learn about the behavior of nature in different scientific contexts, ranging from Genetics and Ecology to Linguistics and Psychology. However, domain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Guilherme Espada , Alcides Fonseca

This paper develops a new framework for program synthesis, called semantics-guided synthesis (SemGuS), that allows a user to provide both the syntax and the semantics for the constructs in the language. SemGuS accepts a recursively defined…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Jinwoo Kim , Qinheping Hu , Loris D'Antoni , Thomas Reps

The synthesis problem asks to construct a reactive finite-state system from an $\omega$-regular specification. Initial specifications are often unrealizable, which means that there is no system that implements the specification. A common…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Barbara Jobstmann

The Curry-Howard correspondence is about a relationship between types and programs on the one hand and propositions and proofs on the other. The implications for programming language design and program verification is an active field of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Jørgen Steensgaard-Madsen

Compositional synthesis relies on the discovery of assumptions, i.e., restrictions on the behavior of the remainder of the system that allow a component to realize its specification. In order to avoid losing valid solutions, these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Bernd Finkbeiner , Niklas Metzger , Yoram Moses

Controller synthesis is the process of constructing a correct system automatically from its specification. This often requires assumptions about the behaviour of the environment. It is difficult for the designer to identify the assumptions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Romain Brenguier