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We present a language to specify syntax guided synthesis (SyGuS) problems. Syntax guidance is a prominent theme in contemporary program synthesis approaches, and SyGuS was first described in [1]. This paper describes concretely the input…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Mukund Raghothaman , Abhishek Udupa

Given a specification and a set of candidate programs (program space), the program synthesis problem is to find a candidate program that satisfies the specification. We present the synthesis through unification (STUN) approach, which is an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Rajeev Alur , Pavol Cerny , Arjun Radhakrishna

Program verification and synthesis frameworks that allow one to customize the language in which one is interested typically require the user to provide a formally defined semantics for the language. Because writing a formal semantics can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiangyi Liu , Charlie Murphy , Anvay Grover , Keith J. C. Johnson , Thomas Reps , Loris D'Antoni

We investigate the problem of synthesizing switching controllers for stabilizing continuous-time plants. First, we introduce a class of control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) for switched systems along with a switching strategy that yields a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

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

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 performance of a syntax-guided synthesis algorithm is highly dependent on the provision of a good syntactic template, or grammar. Provision of such a template is often left to the user to do manually, though in the absence of such a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Nicolas Chan , Elizabeth Polgreen , Sanjit A. Seshia

Counterexample-guided inductive synthesis CEGIS is used to synthesize programs from a candidate space of programs. The technique is guaranteed to terminate and synthesize the correct program if the space of candidate programs is finite. But…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Susmit Jha , Sanjit A. Seshia

There are several paradigms for integrating interactive and automated theorem provers, combining the convenience of powerful automation with strong soundness guarantees. We introduce a new approach for reconstructing proofs found by SMT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Joshua Clune , Haniel Barbosa , Jeremy Avigad

In syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS), a synthesizer's goal is to automatically generate a program belonging to a grammar of possible implementations that meets a logical specification. We investigate a common limitation across…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Saswat Padhi , Todd Millstein , Aditya Nori , Rahul Sharma

Program synthesis is the generation of a program from a specification. Correct synthesis is difficult, and methods that provide formal guarantees suffer from scalability issues. On the other hand, neural networks are able to generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Elizabeth Polgreen , Ralph Abboud , Daniel Kroening

We present a computer-aided programming approach to concurrency. The approach allows programmers to program assuming a friendly, non-preemptive scheduler, and our synthesis procedure inserts synchronization to ensure that the final program…

We propose a framework for synthesizing inductive invariants for incomplete verification engines, which soundly reduce logical problems in undecidable theories to decidable theories. Our framework is based on the counter-example guided…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Daniel Neider , Pranav Garg , P. Madhusudan , Shambwaditya Saha , Daejun Park

Semantics-Guided Synthesis (SemGuS) provides a framework to specify synthesis problems in a solver-agnostic and domain-agnostic way, by allowing a user to provide both the syntax and semantics of the language in which the desired program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Charlie Murphy , Keith Johnson , Thomas Reps , Loris D'Antoni

Automated verification tools based on SMT solvers have made significant progress in verifying complex software systems. However, these tools face a fundamental tension between automation and performance when dealing with quantifier…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Alexander Y. Bai , Chris Hawblitzel , Andrea Lattuada

We present \synver{}, a novel synthesis and verification framework for C programs, that deploys a Large Language Model (LLM) to search for a candidate program that satisfies the given specification. Our key idea is to impose syntactic and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Prasita Mukherjee , Benjamin Delaware

QNNVerifier is the first open-source tool for verifying implementations of neural networks that takes into account the finite word-length (i.e. quantization) of their operands. The novel support for quantization is achieved by employing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Xidan Song , Edoardo Manino , Luiz Sena , Erickson Alves , Eddie de Lima Filho , Iury Bessa , Mikel Lujan , Lucas Cordeiro

With the growing interest in quantum programs, ensuring their correctness is a fundamental challenge. Although constraint-solving techniques can overcome some limitations of traditional testing and verification, they have not yet been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Shangzhou Xia , Haitao Fu , Jianjun Zhao

We introduce a counter-example guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS) framework for synthesizing continuous-time switching controllers that guarantee reach while stay (RWS) properties of the closed loop system. The solution is based on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

We propose a novel framework of program and invariant synthesis called neural network-guided synthesis. We first show that, by suitably designing and training neural networks, we can extract logical formulas over integers from the weights…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Naoki Kobayashi , Taro Sekiyama , Issei Sato , Hiroshi Unno