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Program synthesis approaches struggle to learn programs with numerical values. An especially difficult problem is learning continuous values over multiple examples, such as intervals. To overcome this limitation, we introduce an inductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Céline Hocquette , Andrew Cropper

We present a tractable method for synthesizing arbitrarily large concurrent programs, for a shared memory model with common hardware-available primitives such as atomic registers, compare-and-swap, load-linked/store conditional, etc. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-01-14 Paul C. Attie

The synthesis problem asks for the automatic construction of a system from its specification. In the traditional setting, the system is "constructed from scratch" rather than composed from reusable components. However, this is rare in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Moshe Y. Vardi

We consider the problem of synthesizing programs with numerical constants that optimize a quantitative objective, such as accuracy, over a set of input-output examples. We propose a general framework for optimal synthesis of such programs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Stephen Mell , Steve Zdancewic , Osbert Bastani

Programs that respond to asynchronous events are challenging to write; they are difficult to reason about and tricky to test and debug. Because these programs can have a huge space of possible input timings and interleaving, the programmer…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Julie L Newcomb , Rastislav Bodik

This work introduces (1) a technique that allows large language models (LLMs) to leverage user-provided code when solving programming tasks and (2) a method to iteratively generate modular sub-functions that can aid future code generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Patrick Hajali , Ignas Budvytis

We investigate the decidability of the definability problem for fragments of first order logic over finite words enriched with modular predicates. Our approach aims toward the most generic statements that we could achieve, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Luc Dartois , Charles Paperman

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

We study the problem of determining whether a given temporal specification can be implemented by a symmetric system, i.e., a system composed from identical components. Symmetry is an important goal in the design of distributed systems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ruediger Ehlers , Bernd Finkbeiner

When a model makes a consequential decision, e.g., denying someone a loan, it needs to additionally generate actionable, realistic feedback on what the person can do to favorably change the decision. We cast this problem through the lens of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Goutham Ramakrishnan , Yun Chan Lee , Aws Albarghouthi

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a given specification. A natural way to specify programs is to provide examples of desired input-output behavior, and many current program synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alexander Suh , Yuval Timen

The automatic generation of computer programs is one of the main applications with practical relevance in the field of evolutionary computation. With program synthesis techniques not only software developers could be supported in their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Dominik Sobania , Dirk Schweim , Franz Rothlauf

Program correctness (in imperative and functional programming) splits in logic programming into correctness and completeness. Completeness means that a program produces all the answers required by its specification. Little work has been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Wlodzimierz Drabent

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

Static analyses overwhelmingly trade precision for soundness and automation. For this reason, their use-cases are restricted to situations where imprecision isn't prohibitive. In this paper, we propose and specify a static analysis that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Abdullah H. Rasheed

Program synthesis is the task of automatically constructing a program conforming to a given specification. In this paper we focus on synthesis of single-invocation recursion-free functions conforming to a specification given as a logical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Petra Hozzová , Nikolaj Bjørner

Predictive models are fundamental to engineering reliable software systems. However, designing conservative, computable approximations for the behavior of programs (static analyses) remains a difficult and error-prone process for modern…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-05-10 David Van Horn , Matthew Might

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a specification. Recent years have seen proposal of a number of neural approaches for program synthesis, many of which adopt a sequence generation paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Rudy Bunel , Matthew Hausknecht , Jacob Devlin , Rishabh Singh , Pushmeet Kohli

Separation logic and its variants can describe various properties on pointer programs. However, when it comes to properties on sequences, one may find it hard to formalize. To deal with properties on variable-length sequences and multilevel…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Tianyue Cao , Bowen Zhang , Zhao Jin , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

We show that the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic with counting quantifiers are both in NEXPTIME, even when counting quantifiers are coded succinctly.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Ian Pratt-Hartmann