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Applications designed for entertainment and other non-instrumental purposes are challenging to optimize because the relationships between system parameters and user experience can be unclear. Ideally, we would crowdsource these design…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Alan Medlar , Jing Li , Yang Liu , Dorota Glowacka

Inspired by the principle of deliberate practice in human learning, we propose Deliberate Practice for Synthetic Data Generation (DP), a novel framework that improves sample efficiency through dynamic synthetic data generation. Prior work…

Software Engineering practitioners work using highly diverse methods and practices, and general theories in software engineering are lacking. One attempt at creating a common ground in the area of software engineering methodologies has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Arthur Evensen , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Xiaofeng Wang , Juhani Risku , Pekka Abrahamsson

In syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS), a synthesizer's goal is to automatically generate a program belonging to a grammar of possible implementations that meets a logical specification. We investigate a common limitation across…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Saswat Padhi , Todd Millstein , Aditya Nori , Rahul Sharma

Despite great advances in program synthesis techniques, they remain algorithmic black boxes. Although they guarantee that when synthesis is successful, the implementation satisfies the specification, they provide no additional information…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Amirmohammad Nazari , Souti Chattopadhyay , Swabha Swayamdipta , Mukund Raghothaman

Because of the importance of object oriented methodologies, the research in developing new measure for object oriented system development is getting increased focus. The most of the metrics need to find the interactions between the objects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-08-11 K. M. Azharul Hasan , Mohammad Sabbir Hasan

Because of the importance of object oriented methodologies, the research in developing new measure for object oriented system development is getting increased focus. The most of the metrics need to find the interactions between the objects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-07-15 K. M. Azharul Hasan , Mohammad Sabbir Hasan

Program synthesis aims to {\it automatically} find programs from an underlying programming language that satisfy a given specification. While this has the potential to revolutionize computing, how to search over the vast space of programs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuan Yuan , Wolfgang Banzhaf

For several decades, the CPU has been the standard model to use in the majority of computing. While the CPU does excel in some areas, heterogeneous computing, such as reconfigurable hardware, is showing increasing potential in areas like…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Carl-Johannes Johnsen , Alberte Thegler , Kenneth Skovhede , Brian Vinter

We consider the problem of parsing natural language descriptions into source code written in a general-purpose programming language like Python. Existing data-driven methods treat this problem as a language generation task without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

While modern Requirements Engineering (RE) heavily relies on natural language processing and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, their effectiveness is limited by the scarcity of high-quality datasets. This paper introduces Synthline, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Abdelkarim El-Hajjami , Camille Salinesi

A common approach in robotics is to learn tasks by generalizing from special cases given by a so-called demonstrator. In this paper, we apply this paradigm and present an algorithm that uses a demonstrator (typically given by a trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Jiří Fejlek , Stefan Ratschan

Presenting users with diverse responses from foundation models is crucial for enhancing user experience and accommodating varying preferences. However, generating multiple high-quality and diverse responses without sacrificing accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yeming Wen , Swarat Chaudhuri

Program synthesis aims to automatically generate an executable program that conforms to the given specification. Recent advancements have demonstrated that deep neural methodologies and large-scale pretrained language models are highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Tianyi Chen , Qidi Wang , Zhen Dong , Liwei Shen , Xin Peng

Creating and editing high-quality 3D content remains a central challenge in computer graphics. We address this challenge by introducing CompoSE, a novel method for Compositional Synthesis and Editing of 3D shapes via part-aware control. Our…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Habib Slim , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Yifan Wang , Mike Roberts

We introduce program splicing, a programming methodology that aims to automate the commonly used workflow of copying, pasting, and modifying code available online. Here, the programmer starts by writing a "draft" that mixes unfinished code,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yanxin Lu , Swarat Chaudhuri , Chris Jermaine , David Melski

Answer set programming (ASP) is a form of declarative programming that allows to succinctly formulate and efficiently solve complex problems. An intuitive extension of this formalism is communicating ASP, in which multiple ASP programs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-09-13 Kim Bauters , Jeroen Janssen , Steven Schockaert , Dirk Vermeir , Martine De Cock

While deep learning approaches to information extraction have had many successes, they can be difficult to augment or maintain as needs shift. Rule-based methods, on the other hand, can be more easily modified. However, crafting rules…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Robert Vacareanu , Marco A. Valenzuela-Escarcega , George C. G. Barbosa , Rebecca Sharp , Mihai Surdeanu

The challenges facing speech recognition systems, such as variations in pronunciations, adverse audio conditions, and the scarcity of labeled data, emphasize the necessity for a post-processing step that corrects recurring errors. Previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Tomer Wullach , Shlomo E. Chazan

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