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We propose a novel framework of program and invariant synthesis called neural network-guided synthesis. We first show that, by suitably designing and training neural networks, we can extract logical formulas over integers from the weights…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Naoki Kobayashi , Taro Sekiyama , Issei Sato , Hiroshi Unno

Effective human-robot collaboration requires the ability to learn personalized concepts from a limited number of demonstrations, while exhibiting inductive generalization, hierarchical composition, and adaptability to novel constraints.…

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods have achieved impressive performance on tasks in a variety of domains. However, neural network policies produced with DRL methods are not human-interpretable and often have difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Dweep Trivedi , Jesse Zhang , Shao-Hua Sun , Joseph J. Lim

Answering compositional questions that require multiple steps of reasoning against text is challenging, especially when they involve discrete, symbolic operations. Neural module networks (NMNs) learn to parse such questions as executable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Nitish Gupta , Kevin Lin , Dan Roth , Sameer Singh , Matt Gardner

We propose Nester, a method for injecting neural networks into constrained structured predictors. The job of the neural network(s) is to compute an initial, raw prediction that is compatible with the input data but does not necessarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Paolo Dragone , Stefano Teso , Andrea Passerini

Large language models generate code one token at a time. Their autoregressive generation process lacks the feedback of observing the program's output. Training LLMs to suggest edits directly can be challenging due to the scarcity of rich…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Shreyas Kapur , Erik Jenner , Stuart Russell

We introduce a model that learns to convert simple hand drawings into graphics programs written in a subset of \LaTeX. The model combines techniques from deep learning and program synthesis. We learn a convolutional neural network that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Kevin Ellis , Daniel Ritchie , Armando Solar-Lezama , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Language models' (LMs) proficiency in handling deterministic symbolic reasoning and rule-based tasks remains limited due to their dependency implicit learning on textual data. To endow LMs with genuine rule comprehension abilities, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yixuan Weng , Minjun Zhu , Fei Xia , Bin Li , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

We challenge black-box purely deep neural approaches for molecules and graph generation, which are limited in controllability and lack formal guarantees. We introduce Neuro-Symbolic Graph Generative Modeling (NSGGM), a neurosymbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Chuqin Geng , Li Zhang , Mark Zhang , Haolin Ye , Ziyu Zhao , Xujie Si

Recent years have seen the rise of statistical program learning based on neural models as an alternative to traditional rule-based systems for programming by example. Rule-based approaches offer correctness guarantees in an unsupervised way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Raphaël Dang-Nhu

The advent of large scale neural computational platforms has highlighted the lack of algorithms for synthesis of neural structures to perform predefined cognitive tasks. The Neural Engineering Framework offers one such synthesis, but it is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-29 J. Tapson , G. Cohen , S. Afshar , K. Stiefel , Y. Buskila , R. Wang , T. J. Hamilton , A. van Schaik

Recent work has shown that commonly available machine reading comprehension (MRC) datasets can be used to train high-performance neural information retrieval (IR) systems. However, the evaluation of neural IR has so far been limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Vikas Yadav , Md Arafat Sultan , Martin Franz , Vittorio Castelli , Heng Ji , Avirup Sil

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with Long Short-Term Memory units (LSTM) are widely used because they are expressive and are easy to train. Our interest lies in empirically evaluating the expressiveness and the learnability of LSTMs in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Wojciech Zaremba , Ilya Sutskever

We present a neural architecture that takes as input a 2D or 3D shape and outputs a program that generates the shape. The instructions in our program are based on constructive solid geometry principles, i.e., a set of boolean operations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Gopal Sharma , Rishabh Goyal , Difan Liu , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Subhransu Maji

Programming-by-example is the task of synthesizing a program that is consistent with a set of user-provided input-output examples. As examples are often an under-specification of one's intent, a good synthesizer must choose the intended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Saujas Vaduguru , Daniel Fried , Yewen Pu

We consider the task of program synthesis in the presence of a reward function over the output of programs, where the goal is to find programs with maximal rewards. We employ an iterative optimization scheme, where we train an RNN on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Daniel A. Abolafia , Mohammad Norouzi , Jonathan Shen , Rui Zhao , Quoc V. Le

Identifying governing equations for a dynamical system is a topic of critical interest across an array of disciplines, from mathematics to engineering to biology. Machine learning -- specifically deep learning -- techniques have shown their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Nibodh Boddupalli , Timothy Matchen , Jeff Moehlis

Existing approaches for predictive process monitoring are sub-symbolic, meaning that they learn correlations between descriptive features and a target feature fully based on data, e.g., predicting the surgical needs of a patient based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Fabrizio De Santis , Gyunam Park , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Francesco Zanichelli

Programming by Example (PBE) targets at automatically inferring a computer program for accomplishing a certain task from sample input and output. In this paper, we propose a deep neural networks (DNN) based PBE model called Neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Chengxun Shu , Hongyu Zhang

We present a novel approach to the automatic synthesis of recursive programs from mixed-quantifier first-order logic properties. Our approach uses Skolemization to reduce the mixed-quantifier synthesis problem to a $\forall^*$-synthesis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Derek Egolf , Stavros Tripakis