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Language models have shown remarkable proficiency in code generation; nevertheless, ensuring type correctness remains a challenge. Although traditional methods, such as constrained decoding, alleviate this problem by externally rejecting…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhechong Huang , Zhao Zhang , Ruyi Ji , Tingxuan Xia , Qihao Zhu , Qinxiang Cao , Zeyu Sun , Wiggin Zhou , Yingfei Xiong

Automatic software generation based on some specification is known as program synthesis. Most existing approaches formulate program synthesis as a search problem with discrete parameters. In this paper, we present a novel formulation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shantanu Mandal , Todd A. Anderson , Javier Turek , Justin Gottschlich , Abdullah Muzahid

We propose a new technique based on program synthesis for automatically generating visualizations from natural language queries. Our method parses the natural language query into a refinement type specification using the intents-and-slots…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Qiaochu Chen , Shankara Pailoor , Celeste Barnaby , Abby Criswell , Chenglong Wang , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

Object-oriented programs tend to be written using many common coding idioms, such as those captured by design patterns. While design patterns are useful, implementing them is often tedious and repetitive, requiring boilerplate code that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jasper Geer , Fox Huston , Jeffrey S. Foster

Program synthesis aims to {\it automatically} find programs from an underlying programming language that satisfy a given specification. While this has the potential to revolutionize computing, how to search over the vast space of programs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuan Yuan , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Program synthesis is the task of automatically deriving a program that has been specified by a user in advance. Combining automated theorem proving with program synthesis enables the automated construction of proven-to-be-correct programs,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Márton Hajdu , Petra Hozzová , Laura Kovács , Eva Maria Wagner

The ability to generate test data is often a necessary prerequisite for automated software testing. For the generated data to be fit for its intended purpose, the data usually has to satisfy various logical constraints. When testing is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ghanem Soltana , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Lionel C. Briand

Multi-modal program synthesis refers to the task of synthesizing programs (code) from their specification given in different forms, such as a combination of natural language and examples. Examples provide a precise but incomplete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Kia Rahmani , Mohammad Raza , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Daniel Morris , Arjun Radhakrishna , Gustavo Soares , Ashish Tiwari

We introduce transductive program synthesis, a new formulation of the program synthesis task that explicitly leverages test inputs during synthesis. While prior approaches to program synthesis--whether based on natural language descriptions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Kang-il Lee , Jahyun Koo , Seunghyun Yoon , Minbeom Kim , Hyukhun Koh , Dongryeol Lee , Kyomin Jung

This work introduces the novel concept of kind refinement, which we develop in the context of an explicitly polymorphic ML-like language with type-level computation. Just as type refinements embed rich specifications by means of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Luís Caires , Bernardo Toninho

Even with impressive advances in automated formal methods, certain problems in system verification and synthesis remain challenging. Examples include the verification of quantitative properties of software involving constraints on timing…

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This paper introduces a general approach for synthesizing procedural models of the state-transitions of a given discrete system. The approach is general in that it accepts different target languages for modeling the state-transitions of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Javier Segovia-Aguas , Jonathan Ferrer-Mestres , Sergio Jiménez

Given a specification $\varphi(X,Y)$ over inputs $X$ and output $Y$, defined over a background theory $\mathbb{T}$, the problem of program synthesis is to design a program $f$ such that $Y=f(X)$ satisfies the specification $\varphi$. Over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Priyanka Golia , Subhajit Roy , Kuldeep S. Meel

When giving automated feedback to a student working on a beginner's exercise, many programming tutors run into a completeness problem. On the one hand, we want a student to experiment freely. On the other hand, we want a student to write…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Niek Mulleners , Johan Jeuring , Bastiaan Heeren

Proof-oriented programs mix computational content with proofs of program correctness. However, the human effort involved in programming and proving is still substantial, despite the use of Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Saikat Chakraborty , Gabriel Ebner , Siddharth Bhat , Sarah Fakhoury , Sakina Fatima , Shuvendu Lahiri , Nikhil Swamy

Program synthesis aims to automatically construct human-readable programs that satisfy given task specifications, such as input/output pairs or demonstrations. Recent works have demonstrated encouraging results in a variety of domains, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Linghan Zhong , Ryan Lindeborg , Jesse Zhang , Joseph J. Lim , Shao-Hua Sun

Syntax-guided synthesis is a paradigm in program synthesis in which the search space of candidate solutions is constrained by a syntactic template in the form of a grammar. These syntactic constraints serve two purposes: constraining the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yixuan Li , Federico Mora , Elizabeth Polgreen , Sanjit A. Seshia

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

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 describe techniques for synthesis and verification of recursive functional programs over unbounded domains. Our techniques build on top of an algorithm for satisfiability modulo recursive functions, a framework for deductive synthesis,…

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