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Children learn though play. We introduce the analogous idea of learning programs through play. In this approach, a program induction system (the learner) is given a set of tasks and initial background knowledge. Before solving the tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Andrew Cropper

Many students in introductory programming courses fare poorly in the code writing tasks of the final summative assessment. Such tasks are designed to assess whether novices have developed the analytical skills to translate from the given…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Shruthi Ravikumar , Margaret Hamilton , Charles Thevathayan , Maria Spichkova , Kashif Ali , Gayan Wijesinghe

Answer set programming is a prominent declarative programming paradigm used in formulating combinatorial search problems and implementing different knowledge representation formalisms. Frequently, several related and yet substantially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yuliya Lierler

Prediction without justification has limited applicability. As a remedy, we learn to extract pieces of input text as justifications -- rationales -- that are tailored to be short and coherent, yet sufficient for making the same prediction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Tao Lei , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an important logic programming paradigm within the field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. As a concise, human-readable, declarative language, ASP is an excellent tool for developing trustworthy…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Zachary Hansen

The paper presents a software tool for analysis and interactive engagement in various logical reasoning tasks. A first feature of the program consists in providing an interface for working with logic-specific repositories of formal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Ştefan Minică

Provably correct software is one of the key challenges of our software-driven society. Program synthesis -- the task of constructing a program satisfying a given specification -- is one strategy for achieving this. The result of this task…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Andreas Humenberger , Daneshvar Amrollahi , Nikolaj Bjørner , Laura Kovács

People ask questions that are far richer, more informative, and more creative than current AI systems. We propose a neuro-symbolic framework for modeling human question asking, which represents questions as formal programs and generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Ziyun Wang , Brenden M. Lake

Program synthesis with language models (LMs) has unlocked a large set of reasoning abilities; code-tuned LMs have proven adept at generating programs that solve a wide variety of algorithmic symbolic manipulation tasks (e.g. word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Nathaniel Weir , Muhammad Khalifa , Linlu Qiu , Orion Weller , Peter Clark

Large language models make remarkable progress in reasoning capabilities. Existing works focus mainly on deductive reasoning tasks (e.g., code and math), while another type of reasoning mode that better aligns with human learning, inductive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kedi Chen , Zhikai Lei , Fan Zhang , Yinqi Zhang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Liang He , Qipeng Guo , Kai Chen , Wei Zhang

This report outlines an approach to learning generative models from data. We express models as probabilistic programs, which allows us to capture abstract patterns within the examples. By choosing our language for programs to be an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Irvin Hwang , Andreas Stuhlmüller , Noah D. Goodman

We present a new method for automatically providing feedback for introductory programming problems. In order to use this method, we need a reference implementation of the assignment, and an error model consisting of potential corrections to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-11-19 Rishabh Singh , Sumit Gulwani , Armando Solar-Lezama

We propose a new formal language for the expressive representation of probabilistic knowledge based on Answer Set Programming (ASP). It allows for the annotation of first-order formulas as well as ASP rules and facts with probabilities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Matthias Nickles , Alessandra Mileo

Large language models (LLMs) make remarkable progress in reasoning tasks. Among different reasoning modes, inductive reasoning, due to its better alignment with human learning, attracts increasing interest. However, research on inductive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Kedi Chen , Zhikai Lei , Xu Guo , Xuecheng Wu , Siyuan Zeng , Jianghao Yin , Yinqi Zhang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Liang He , Qipeng Guo , Kai Chen , Wei Zhang

Inductive reasoning is a core problem-solving capacity: humans can identify underlying principles from a few examples, which robustly generalize to novel scenarios. Recent work evaluates large language models (LLMs) on inductive reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ruocheng Wang , Eric Zelikman , Gabriel Poesia , Yewen Pu , Nick Haber , Noah D. Goodman

Table Question-Answering involves both understanding the natural language query and grounding it in the context of the input table to extract the relevant information. In this context, many methods have highlighted the benefits of…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Raphaël Mouravieff , Benjamin Piwowarski , Sylvain Lamprier

Language models now provide an interface to express and often solve general problems in natural language, yet their ultimate computational capabilities remain a major topic of scientific debate. Unlike a formal computer, a language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Alex Lewandowski , Marlos C. Machado , Dale Schuurmans

A logic programming paradigm which expresses solutions to problems as stable models has recently been promoted as a declarative approach to solving various combinatorial and search problems, including planning problems. In this paradigm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maurice Bruynooghe

Significant research has been conducted in recent years to extend Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) methods to induce Answer Set Programs (ASP). These methods perform an exhaustive search for the correct hypothesis by encoding an ILP…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Farhad Shakerin , Gopal Gupta

Rule-based reasoning is an essential part of human intelligence prominently formalized in artificial intelligence research via logic programs. Describing complex objects as the composition of elementary ones is a common strategy in computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Christian Antic