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This paper presents a novel method for the automated synthesis of probabilistic programs. The starting point is a program sketch representing a finite family of finite-state Markov chains with related but distinct topologies, and a PCTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Roman Andriushchenko , Milan Ceska , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen

The Verified Software Toolchain (VST) is a system for proving correctness of C programs using separation logic. By connecting to the verified compiler CompCert, it produces the strongest possible guarantees of correctness for real C code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-18 William Mansky

A long-standing open challenge for automated program repair is the overfitting problem, which is caused by having insufficient or incomplete specifications to validate whether a generated patch is correct or not. Most available repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Anastasiia Grishina , Leon Moonen

We present a neural program synthesis approach integrating components which write, execute, and assess code to navigate the search space of possible programs. We equip the search process with an interpreter or a read-eval-print-loop (REPL),…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Kevin Ellis , Maxwell Nye , Yewen Pu , Felix Sosa , Josh Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

We introduce the first program synthesis engine implemented inside an SMT solver. We present an approach that extracts solution functions from unsatisfiability proofs of the negated form of synthesis conjectures. We also discuss novel…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Andrew Reynolds , Morgan Deters , Viktor Kuncak , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett

The problem of synthesis in computer sciences, including cybernetics, artificial intelligence and system analysis, is analyzed. Main methods of realization this problem are discussed. Ways of search universal method of creation universal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Vladislav Dorofeev , Petro Trokhimchuk

Selecting the right compiler optimisations has a severe impact on programs' performance. Still, the available optimisations keep increasing, and their effect depends on the specific program, making the task human intractable. Researchers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefano Cereda , Gianluca Palermo , Paolo Cremonesi , Stefano Doni

Class-agnostic 3D instance segmentation tackles the challenging task of segmenting all object instances, including previously unseen ones, without semantic class reliance. Current methods struggle with generalization due to the scarce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Shengchao Zhou , Jiehong Lin , Jiahui Liu , Shizhen Zhao , Chirui Chang , Xiaojuan Qi

Visual grouping -- operationalized through tasks such as instance segmentation, visual grounding, and object detection -- enables applications ranging from robotic perception to photo editing. These fundamental problems in computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Weikai Huang , Jieyu Zhang , Taoyang Jia , Chenhao Zheng , Ziqi Gao , Jae Sung Park , Winson Han , Ranjay Krishna

Program synthesis with language models (LMs) has unlocked a large set of reasoning abilities; code-tuned LMs have proven adept at generating programs that solve a wide variety of algorithmic symbolic manipulation tasks (e.g. word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Nathaniel Weir , Muhammad Khalifa , Linlu Qiu , Orion Weller , Peter Clark

We propose a novel method for automatic program synthesis. P-Tree Programming represents the program search space through a single probabilistic prototype tree. From this prototype tree we form program instances which we evaluate on a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Christian Oesch

Loop-invariant synthesis is the basis of program verification. Due to the undecidability of the problem in general, a tool for invariant synthesis necessarily uses heuristics. Despite the common belief that the design of heuristics is vital…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Minchao Wu , Takeshi Tsukada , Hiroshi Unno , Taro Sekiyama , Kohei Suenaga

Matching Logic is a framework for specifying programming language semantics and reasoning about programs. Its formulas are called patterns and are built with variables, symbols, connectives and quantifiers. A pattern is a combination of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Andrei Arusoaie , Dorel Lucanu

In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in automated synthesis techniques that are able to automatically generate code based on some intent expressed by the programmer. A major challenge for the adoption of synthesis remains in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hila Peleg , Sharon Shoham , Eran Yahav

Program verification is a formal technique to rigorously ensure the correctness and fault-freeness of software systems. However, constructing comprehensive interprocedural specifications for full verification obligations is time-consuming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Lezhi Ma , Shangqing Liu , Yi Li , Qiong Wu , Han Wang , Lei Bu

The so called ``cogen approach'' to program specialisation, writing a compiler generator instead of a specialiser, has been used with considerable success in partial evaluation of both functional and imperative languages. This paper…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael Leuschel , Jesper Joergensen , Wim Vanhoof , Maurice Bruynooghe

This work presents a hybrid approach to solve the maximum stable set problem, using constraint and semidefinite programming. The approach consists of two steps: subproblem generation and subproblem solution. First we rank the variable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. J. van Hoeve

Ensuring string stability is critical for the safety and efficiency of large-scale interconnected systems. Although learning-based controllers (e.g., those based on reinforcement learning) have demonstrated strong performance in complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Jingyuan Zhou , Haoze Wu , Haokun Yu , Kaidi Yang

Reactive synthesis transforms a specification of a reactive system, given in a temporal logic, into an implementation. The main advantage of synthesis is that it is automatic. The main disadvantage is that the implementation is usually very…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tom Baumeister , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

Stochastic hybrid systems have received significant attentions as a relevant modelling framework describing many systems, from engineering to the life sciences: they enable the study of numerous applications, including transportation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Alessandro Abate , Majid Zamani