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Programming-by-example technologies are being deployed in industrial products for real-time synthesis of various kinds of data transformations. These technologies rely on the user to provide few representative examples of the transformation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ashish Tiwari , Arjun Radhakrishna , Sumit Gulwani , Daniel Perelman

Programming-by-Examples (PBE) aims to generate an algorithm from input-output examples. Such systems are practically and theoretically important: from an end-user perspective, they are deployed to millions of people, and from an AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Wen-Ding Li , Kevin Ellis

Program synthesis has seen many new applications in recent years, in large part thanks to the introduction of SyGuS. However, no existing SyGuS solvers have support for synthesizing recursive functions. We introduce an multi-phase algorithm…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Shmuel Berman , Mark Santolucito

Program synthesis techniques offer significant new capabilities in searching for programs that satisfy high-level specifications. While synthesis has been thoroughly explored for input/output pair specifications (programming-by-example),…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Will Crichton

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…

A key challenge in program synthesis is the astronomical size of the search space the synthesizer has to explore. In response to this challenge, recent work proposed to guide synthesis using learned probabilistic models. Obtaining such a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shraddha Barke , Hila Peleg , Nadia Polikarpova

Synthesizing programs using example input/outputs is a classic problem in artificial intelligence. We present a method for solving Programming By Example (PBE) problems by using a neural model to guide the search of a constraint logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Lisa Zhang , Gregory Rosenblatt , Ethan Fetaya , Renjie Liao , William E. Byrd , Matthew Might , Raquel Urtasun , Richard Zemel

We present Scrybe, an example-based synthesis tool for a statically-typed functional programming language, which combines top-down deductive reasoning in the style of $\lambda^2$ with Smyth-style live bidirectional evaluation. During…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Niek Mulleners , Johan Jeuring , Bastiaan Heeren

In the synthesis problem, we are given a specification, and we automatically generate a system that satisfies the specification in all environments. We introduce and study {\em synthesis with guided environments} (SGE, for short), where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Orna Kupferman , Ofer Leshkowitz

Program synthesis is an umbrella term for generating programs and logical formulae from specifications. With the remarkable performance improvements that GPUs enable for deep learning, a natural question arose: can we also implement a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Martin Berger , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Mojtaba Valizadeh

Formal methods apply algorithms based on mathematical principles to enhance the reliability of systems. It would only be natural to try to progress from verification, model checking or testing a system against its formal specification into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Gal Katz , Doron Peled

Dialogue systems is an increasingly popular task of natural language processing. However, the dialogue paths tend to be deterministic, restricted to the system rails, regardless of the given request or input text. Recent advances in program…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Eli Whitehouse , William Gerard , Yauhen Klimovich , Marc Franco-Salvador

We present a new program synthesis approach that combines an encoder-decoder based synthesis architecture with a differentiable program fixer. Our approach is inspired from the fact that human developers seldom get their program correct on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-22 Matej Balog , Rishabh Singh , Petros Maniatis , Charles Sutton

In the \emph{Adapter Design Pattern}, a programmer implements a \emph{Target} interface by constructing an \emph{Adapter} that accesses an existing \emph{Adaptee} code. In this work, we present a reactive synthesis interpretation to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Gal Amram , Suguman Bansal , Dror Fried , Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi , Gera Weiss

Large language models (LLMs) can generate code from natural language descriptions. Their performance is typically evaluated using programming benchmarks that simulate real-world tasks. These benchmarks provide specifications in the form of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Shuning Zhang , Yongjoo Park

In recent years, more people have seen their work depend on data manipulation tasks. However, many of these users do not have the background in programming required to write complex programs, particularly SQL queries. One way of helping…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ricardo Brancas , Miguel Terra-Neves , Miguel Ventura , Vasco Manquinho , Ruben Martins

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

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

Program synthesis is challenging largely because of the difficulty of search in a large space of programs. Human programmers routinely tackle the task of writing complex programs by writing sub-programs and then analyzing their intermediate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Augustus Odena , Kensen Shi , David Bieber , Rishabh Singh , Charles Sutton , Hanjun Dai

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that provably satisfy a given specification in the form of a polymorphic refinement type. We observe that such specifications are particularly suitable for program synthesis for two…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Nadia Polikarpova , Ivan Kuraj , Armando Solar-Lezama