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Regular expressions (regexes) are a powerful mechanism for solving string-matching problems. They are supported by all modern programming languages, and have been estimated to appear in more than a third of Python and JavaScript projects.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Louis G. Michael , James Donohue , James C. Davis , Dongyoon Lee , Francisco Servant

The development of synthesis procedures remains a fundamental challenge in materials discovery, with procedural knowledge scattered across decades of scientific literature in unstructured formats that are challenging for systematic…

The experimental search for new thermoelectric materials remains largely confined to a limited set of successful chemical and structural families, such as chalcogenides, skutterudites, and Zintl phases. In principle, computational tools…

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

Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively utilize tools in multi-turn interactions is essential for building capable autonomous agents. However, acquiring diverse and realistic multi-turn tool-use data remains a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhihao Xu , Rumei Li , Jiahuan Li , Rongxiang Weng , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Xiting Wang

This paper describes a way to improve the scalability of program synthesis by exploiting modularity: larger programs are synthesized from smaller programs. The key issue is to make each "larger-created-from-smaller" synthesis sub-problem be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Kanghee Park , Keith J. C. Johnson , Loris D'Antoni , Thomas Reps

Designing robotic hands for specific tasks could help in the creation of optimized end-effectors for grasping and manipulation. However the systematic design of robotic hands for a simultaneous task of all fingertips presents many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Ali Tamimi , Taher Deemyad , Alba Perez-Gracia

As business processes become increasingly complex, effectively modeling decision points, their likelihood, and resource consumption is crucial for optimizing operations. To address this challenge, this paper introduces a formal extension of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Emanuele Chini , Pietro Sala , Andrea Simonetti , Omid Zare

Program synthesis -- the automatic generation of code given a specification -- is one of the most fundamental tasks in artificial intelligence (AI) and the dream of many programmers. Numerous synthesizers have been developed for program…

Spectral line observations are an indispensable tool to remotely probe the physical and chemical conditions throughout the universe. Modelling their behaviour is a computational challenge that requires dedicated software. In this paper, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Thomas Ceulemans , Frederik De Ceuster , Leen Decin , Jeremy Yates

The main target of retrosynthesis is to recursively decompose desired molecules into available building blocks. Existing template-based retrosynthesis methods follow a template selection stereotype and suffer from limited training…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Chaochao Yan , Peilin Zhao , Chan Lu , Yang Yu , Junzhou Huang

Program synthesis from input-output (IO) examples has been a long-standing challenge. While recent works demonstrated limited success on domain-specific languages (DSL), it remains highly challenging to apply them to real-world programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xinyun Chen , Dawn Song , Yuandong Tian

This paper proposes relational program synthesis, a new problem that concerns synthesizing one or more programs that collectively satisfy a relational specification. As a dual of relational program verification, relational program synthesis…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yuepeng Wang , Xinyu Wang , Isil Dillig

Composing regexes is a common but challenging engineering activity. Software engineers struggle with regex complexity, leading to defects, performance issues, and security vulnerabilities. Researchers have proposed tools to synthesize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Berk Çakar , Charles M. Sale , Sophie Chen , Dongyoon Lee , James C. Davis

We address the problem of synthesizing reactive controllers for cyber-physical systems subject to Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications in the presence of adversarial inputs. Given a finite horizon, we define a reactive hierarchy of…

Reactive synthesis is a key technique for the design of correct-by-construction systems and has been thoroughly investigated in the last decades. It consists in the synthesis of a controller that reacts to environment's inputs satisfying a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alessandro Cimatti , Luca Geatti , Nicola Gigante , Angelo Montanari , Stefano Tonetta

Program synthesis with Genetic Programming searches for a correct program that satisfies the input specification, which is usually provided as input-output examples. One particular challenge is how to effectively handle loops and recursion…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Matheus Campos Fernandes , Fabricio Olivetti de Franca , Emilio Francesquini

Existing Programming-By-Example (PBE) systems often rely on simplified benchmarks that fail to capture the high structural complexity-such as deeper nesting and frequent Unions-of real-world regexes. To overcome the resulting performance…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Seongmin Kim , Hyunjoon Cheon , Su-Hyeon Kim , Yo-Sub Han , Sang-Ki Ko

This paper proposes a language for describing reactive synthesis problems that integrates imperative and declarative elements. The semantics is defined in terms of two-player turn-based infinite games with full information. Currently,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Ioannis Filippidis , Richard M. Murray , Gerard J. Holzmann

Scientists perform diverse manual procedures that are tedious and laborious. Such procedures are considered a bottleneck for modern experimental science, as they consume time and increase burdens in fields including material science and…