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CVC4Sy is a syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS) solver based on bounded term enumeration and, for restricted fragments, quantifier elimination. The enumerative strategies are based on encoding term enumeration as an extension of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Andrew Reynolds , Haniel Barbosa , Andres Nötzli , Clark Barrett , Cesare Tinelli

We consider the decidability of the verification problem of programs \emph{modulo axioms} --- that is, verifying whether programs satisfy their assertions, when the functions and relations it uses are assumed to interpreted by arbitrary…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Umang Mathur , P. Madhusudan , Mahesh Viswanathan

In this article, the problem of synthesizing switching controllers is considered through the synthesis of a "control certificate". Control certificates include control barrier and Lyapunov functions, which represent control strategies, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

We study the problem of completely automatically verifying uninterpreted programs---programs that work over arbitrary data models that provide an interpretation for the constants, functions and relations the program uses. The verification…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Umang Mathur , P. Madhusudan , Mahesh Viswanathan

This paper considers program synthesis in the context of computational hardness, asking the question: How hard is it to determine whether a given synthesis problem has a solution or not? To answer this question, this paper studies program…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jinwoo Kim

Program synthesis--the automated generation of executable code from high-level specifications--has been a central goal of computer science for over fifty years. This thesis provides a comparative literature review of the main paradigms that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zurabi Kobaladze , Anna Arnania , Tamar Sanikidze

Large pre-trained language models have been used to generate code,providing a flexible interface for synthesizing programs from natural language specifications. However, they often violate syntactic and semantic rules of their output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Gabriel Poesia , Oleksandr Polozov , Vu Le , Ashish Tiwari , Gustavo Soares , Christopher Meek , Sumit Gulwani

We show that the regular separability problem of VASS reachability languages is decidable and $\mathbf{F}_{\omega}$-complete. At the heart of our decision procedure are doubly-marked graph transition sequences, a new proof object that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Eren Keskin , Roland Meyer

We study synthesis of reactive systems interacting with environments using an infinite data domain. A popular formalism for specifying and modelling such systems is register automata and transducers. They extend finite-state automata by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Ayrat Khalimov

Software synthesis - the process of generating complete, general-purpose programs from specifications - has become a hot research topic in the past few years. For decades the problem was thought to be insurmountable: the search space of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Jonathan Frankle

The synthesis problem asks to automatically generate, if it exists, an algorithm from a specification of correct input-output pairs. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of computable functions of infinite words, for a classical Turing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Emmanuel Filiot , Sarah Winter

We study synthesis of reactive systems interacting with environments using an infinite data domain. A popular formalism for specifying and modelling such systems is register automata and transducers. They extend finite-state automata by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Ayrat Khalimov

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

Due to the development of pre-trained language models, automated code generation techniques have shown great promise in recent years. However, the generated code is difficult to meet the syntactic constraints of the target language,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Guang Yang , Yu Zhou , Xiang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Yiran Xu , Tingting Han , Taolue Chen

We prove several decidability and undecidability results for the satisfiability and validity problems for languages that can express solutions to word equations with length constraints. The atomic formulas over this language are equality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Vijay Ganesh , Mia Minnes , Armando Solar-Lezama , Martin Rinard

Program Synthesis is the mapping of a specification of what a computer program is supposed to do, into a computer program that does what the specification says to do. This is equivalent to constructing any computer program and a sound proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Charles Volkstorf

Synthesizing user-intended programs from a small number of input-output examples is a challenging problem with several important applications like spreadsheet manipulation, data wrangling and code refactoring. Existing synthesis systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ashwin Kalyan , Abhishek Mohta , Oleksandr Polozov , Dhruv Batra , Prateek Jain , Sumit Gulwani

Context-free grammars (CFGs) are the de-facto formalism for declaratively describing concrete syntax for programming languages and generating parsers. One of the major challenges in defining a desired syntax is ruling out all possible…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yunjeong Lee , Gokul Rajiv , Ilya Sergey

Program synthesis is the process of automatically translating a specification into computer code. Traditional synthesis settings require a formal, precise specification. Motivated by computer education applications where a student learns to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Evan Hernandez , Ara Vartanian , Xiaojin Zhu

Formal synthesis is the process of generating a program satisfying a high-level formal specification. In recent times, effective formal synthesis methods have been proposed based on the use of inductive learning. We refer to this class of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Susmit Jha , Sanjit A. Seshia