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Probabilistic programming offers a powerful framework for modeling uncertainty, yet statistical model discovery in this domain entails navigating an immense search space under strict domain-specific constraints. When small language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Madhav Kanda , Shubham Ugare , Sasa Misailovic

We present a method for the synthesis of polynomial lasso programs. These programs consist of a program stem, a set of transitions, and an exit condition, all in the form of algebraic assertions (conjunctions of polynomial equalities).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Jan Leike , Ashish Tiwari

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

We develop an approach to estimate the probability that a program sampled from a large language model is correct. Given a natural language description of a programming problem, our method samples both candidate programs as well as candidate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Darren Key , Wen-Ding Li , Kevin Ellis

In a common formulation of semi-infinite programs, the infinite constraint set is a requirement that a function parametrized by the decision variables is nonnegative over an interval. If this function is sufficiently closely approximable by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Dávid Papp

This paper presents an example-driven synthesis technique for automating a large class of data preparation tasks that arise in data science. Given a set of input tables and an out- put table, our approach synthesizes a table transformation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Yu Feng , Ruben Martins , Jacob Van Geffen , Isil Dillig , Swarat Chaudhuri

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

In many scenarios we need to find the most likely program under a local context, where the local context can be an incomplete program, a partial specification, natural language description, etc. We call such problem program estimation. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Yingfei Xiong , Bo Wang , Guirong Fu , Linfei Zang

We study the problem of synthesizing programs from nonlinear real arithmetic (NRA) specifications. Existing techniques, such as syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS), fail to synthesize programs when the specification is unrealizable. We argue…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 S. Akshay , Supratik Chakraborty , R. Govind , Aniruddha R. Joshi

We consider the termination/non-termination property of a class of loops. Such loops are commonly used abstractions of real program pieces. Second-order logic is a convenient language to express non-termination. Of course, such property is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet

An uninterpreted program (UP) is a program whose semantics is defined over the theory of uninterpreted functions. This is a common abstraction used in equivalence checking, compiler optimization, and program verification. While simple, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Hari Govind V K , Sharon Shoham , Arie Gurfinkel

Programming-by-example (PBE) systems aim to alleviate the burden of programming. However, user-specified examples are often ambiguous, leaving multiple programs to satisfy the specification. Consequently, in most prior work, users have had…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Priyan Vaithilingam , Yewen Pu , Elena L. Glassman

We introduce a novel approach to the automated termination analysis of computer programs: we use neural networks to represent ranking functions. Ranking functions map program states to values that are bounded from below and decrease as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Mirco Giacobbe , Daniel Kroening , Julian Parsert

In recent years, deep learning techniques have been developed to improve the performance of program synthesis from input-output examples. Albeit its significant progress, the programs that can be synthesized by state-of-the-art approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Xinyun Chen , Chang Liu , Dawn Song

Qualification has been recently introduced as a generalization of uncertainty in the field of Logic Programming. In this report we investigate a more expressive language for First-Order Functional Logic Programming with Constraints and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-01-12 Rafael Caballero , Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo , Carlos A. Romero-Díaz

We present a scalable, robust approach to creating quantum programs of arbitrary size and complexity. The approach is based on the true abstraction of the problem. The quantum program is expressed in terms of a high-level model together…

Developing suitable formal semantics can be of great help in the understanding, design and implementation of a programming language, and act as a guide for software development tools like analyzers or partial evaluators. In this sense, full…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-02-16 F. J. López-Fraguas , J. Rodríguez-Hortalá

We present Scrybe, an example-based synthesis tool for a statically-typed functional programming language, which combines top-down deductive reasoning in the style of $\lambda^2$ with Smyth-style live bidirectional evaluation. During…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Niek Mulleners , Johan Jeuring , Bastiaan Heeren

We address the decision problem for a fragment of real analysis involving differentiable functions with continuous first derivatives. The proposed theory, besides the operators of Tarski's theory of reals, includes predicates for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Domenico Cantone , Gianluca Cincotti

Users of program analyses expect that results change predictably in response to changes in their programs, but many analyses fail to provide such robustness. This paper introduces a theoretical framework that provides a unified language to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zachary Kincaid , Shaowei Zhu