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Many program synthesis tasks prove too challenging for even state-of-the-art language models to solve in single attempts. Search-based evolutionary methods offer a promising alternative by exploring solution spaces iteratively, but their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Julien Pourcel , Cédric Colas , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Program synthesis from input-output examples, also called programming by example (PBE), has had tremendous impact on automating end-user tasks. Large language models (LLMs) have the ability to solve PBE tasks by generating code in different…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ruhma Khan , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Arjun Radhakrishna , Ashish Tiwari , Gust Verbruggen

Formal control synthesis approaches over stochastic systems have received significant attention in the past few years, in view of their ability to provide provably correct controllers for complex logical specifications in an automated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Majid Zamani , Ilya Tkachev , Alessandro Abate

This paper introduces a general approach for synthesizing procedural models of the state-transitions of a given discrete system. The approach is general in that it accepts different target languages for modeling the state-transitions of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Javier Segovia-Aguas , Jonathan Ferrer-Mestres , Sergio Jiménez

Asynchronous programming is widely adopted for building responsive and efficient software, and modern languages such as C# provide async/await primitives to simplify the use of asynchrony. In this paper, we propose an approach for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Sidi Mohamed Beillahi , Ahmed Bouajjani , Constantin Enea , Shuvendu Lahiri

We propose trace abstraction modulo probability, a proof technique for verifying high-probability accuracy guarantees of probabilistic programs. Our proofs overapproximate the set of program traces using failure automata, finite-state…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Calvin Smith , Justin Hsu , Aws Albarghouthi

We propose a new technique based on program synthesis for automatically generating visualizations from natural language queries. Our method parses the natural language query into a refinement type specification using the intents-and-slots…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Qiaochu Chen , Shankara Pailoor , Celeste Barnaby , Abby Criswell , Chenglong Wang , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

Many problem domains, including program synthesis and rewrite-based optimization, require searching astronomically large spaces of programs. Existing approaches often rely on building specialized data structures -- version-space algebras,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-17 James Koppel , Zheng Guo , Edsko de Vries , Armando Solar-Lezama , Nadia Polikarpova

SYNTAGMA is a rule-based parsing system, structured on two levels: a general parsing engine and a language specific grammar. The parsing engine is a language independent program, while grammar and language specific rules and resources are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Daniel Christen

Automated flowsheet synthesis is an important field in computer-aided process engineering. The present work demonstrates how reinforcement learning can be used for automated flowsheet synthesis without any heuristics of prior knowledge of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Quirin Göttl , Dominik G. Grimm , Jakob Burger

While many studies and tools target the basic stabilizability problem of networked control systems (NCS), nowadays modern systems require more sophisticated objectives such as those expressed as formulae in linear temporal logic or as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Mahmoud Khaled , Matthias Rungger , Majid Zamani

In this paper we present a counter-example guided abstraction and approximation refinement (CEGAAR) technique for {\em partial predicate abstraction}, which combines predicate abstraction and fixpoint approximations for model checking…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Tuba Yavuz

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a problem modeling and solving framework for several problems in KR with growing industrial applications. Also for studies of computational complexity and deeper insights into the hardness and its sources,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Markus Hecher

The anthology of spoken languages today is inundated with textual information, necessitating the development of automatic summarization models. In this manuscript, we propose an extractor-paraphraser based abstractive summarization system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Anubhav Jangra , Raghav Jain , Vaibhav Mavi , Sriparna Saha , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

To put static program analysis at the fingertips of the software developer, we propose a framework for interactive abstract interpretation. While providing sound analysis results, abstract interpretation in general can be quite costly. To…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Julian Erhard , Simmo Saan , Sarah Tilscher , Michael Schwarz , Karoliine Holter , Vesal Vojdani , Helmut Seidl

Automated techniques for rigorous floating-point round-off error analysis are important in areas including formal verification of correctness and precision tuning. Existing tools and techniques, while providing tight bounds, fail to analyze…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Arnab Das , Ian Briggs , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan , Pavel Panchekha , Sriram Krishnamoorthy

The technique of abstracting abstract machines (AAM) provides a systematic approach for deriving computable approximations of evaluators that are easily proved sound. This article contributes a complementary step-by-step process for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-07-25 J. Ian Johnson , Nicholas Labich , Matthew Might , David Van Horn

We explore and formalize the task of synthesizing programs over noisy data, i.e., data that may contain corrupted input-output examples. By formalizing the concept of a Noise Source, an Input Source, and a prior distribution over programs,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Shivam Handa , Martin Rinard

Translating continuous control system models into finite automata allows us to use powerful discrete tools to synthesize controllers for complex specifications. The abstraction construction step is unfortunately hamstrung by high runtime…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Eric S. Kim , Murat Arcak

We present a technique for automatically generating features for data-driven program analyses. Recently data-driven approaches for building a program analysis have been proposed, which mine existing codebases and automatically learn…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Kwonsoo Chae , Hakjoo Oh , Kihong Heo , Hongseok Yang