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We present \synver{}, a novel synthesis and verification framework for C programs, that deploys a Large Language Model (LLM) to search for a candidate program that satisfies the given specification. Our key idea is to impose syntactic and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Prasita Mukherjee , Benjamin Delaware

This work introduces (1) a technique that allows large language models (LLMs) to leverage user-provided code when solving programming tasks and (2) a method to iteratively generate modular sub-functions that can aid future code generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Patrick Hajali , Ignas Budvytis

We propose a novel framework of program and invariant synthesis called neural network-guided synthesis. We first show that, by suitably designing and training neural networks, we can extract logical formulas over integers from the weights…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Naoki Kobayashi , Taro Sekiyama , Issei Sato , Hiroshi Unno

Learning how the world works is central to building AI agents that can adapt to complex environments. Traditional world models based on deep learning demand vast amounts of training data, and do not flexibly update their knowledge from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Wasu Top Piriyakulkij , Yichao Liang , Hao Tang , Adrian Weller , Marta Kryven , Kevin Ellis

We present a tractable method for synthesizing arbitrarily large concurrent programs, for a shared memory model with common hardware-available primitives such as atomic registers, compare-and-swap, load-linked/store conditional, etc. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-01-14 Paul C. Attie

Large language models accumulate extensive parametric knowledge through pre-training. However, knowledge conflicts occur when outdated or incorrect parametric knowledge conflicts with external knowledge in the context. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yigeng Zhou , Wu Li , Yifan Lu , Yequan Wang , Xuebo Liu , Wenya Wang , Jun Yu , Min Zhang , Jing Li

Many structured prediction and reasoning tasks can be framed as program synthesis problems, where the goal is to generate a program in a domain-specific language (DSL) that transforms input data into the desired output. Unfortunately,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shraddha Barke , Emmanuel Anaya Gonzalez , Saketh Ram Kasibatla , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nadia Polikarpova

What research can be pursued with small models trained to complete true programs? Typically, researchers study program synthesis via large language models (LLMs) which introduce issues such as knowing what is in or out of distribution,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Russ Webb , Jason Ramapuram

Current approaches to program synthesis with Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a "near miss syndrome": they tend to generate programs that semantically resemble the correct answer (as measured by text similarity metrics or human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Vadim Liventsev , Anastasiia Grishina , Aki Härmä , Leon Moonen

When writing programs, people have the ability to tackle a new complex task by decomposing it into smaller and more familiar subtasks. While it is difficult to measure whether neural program synthesis methods have similar capabilities, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Kensen Shi , Joey Hong , Yinlin Deng , Pengcheng Yin , Manzil Zaheer , Charles Sutton

Many approaches to program synthesis perform a search within an enormous space of programs to find one that satisfies a given specification. Prior works have used neural models to guide combinatorial search algorithms, but such approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Hanjun Dai , Kevin Ellis , Charles Sutton

In this paper, we identify a fragment of second-order logic with restricted quantification that is expressive enough to capture numerous static analysis problems (e.g. safety proving, bug finding, termination and non-termination proving,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Cristina David , Daniel Kroening , Matt Lewis

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) training have highlighted the need for diverse, high-quality instruction data. Recently, many works are exploring synthetic data generation using LLMs. However, they primarily focus on prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yifang Chen , David Zhu , Simon Du , Kevin Jamieson , Yang Liu

Prompt learning is a powerful technique for transferring Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP to downstream tasks. However, the prompt-based methods that are fine-tuned solely with base classes may struggle to generalize to novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Mushui Liu , Weijie He , Ziqian Lu , Yunlong Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant advancements, but the increasing complexity of tasks and higher performance demands highlight the need for continuous improvement. Some approaches utilize synthetic data generated by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haokun Zhao , Jinyi Han , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Xiaojun Meng , Jiansheng Wei

Large language models (LLMs) often retain outdated or incorrect information from pre-training, which undermines their reliability. While model editing methods have been developed to address such errors without full re-training, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dahyun Jung , Jaehyung Seo , Jaewook Lee , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

Program synthesis is a class of regression problems where one seeks a solution, in the form of a source-code program, mapping the inputs to their corresponding outputs exactly. Due to its precise and combinatorial nature, program synthesis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Yewen Pu , Zachery Miranda , Armando Solar-Lezama , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

In this paper, we propose a new data synthesis method called \textbf{LogicPro}, which leverages LeetCode-style algorithm \underline{Pro}blems and their corresponding \underline{Pro}gram solutions to synthesize Complex \underline{Logic}al…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Jin Jiang , Yuchen Yan , Yang Liu , Jianing Wang , Shuai Peng , Xunliang Cai , Yixin Cao , Mengdi Zhang , Liangcai Gao

Commit messages have an important impact in software development, especially when working in large teams. Multiple developers who have a different style of writing may often be involved in the same project. For this reason, it may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Nicolae-Teodor Pavel , Traian Rebedea

In this paper, we consider the problem of actively learning a linear classifier through query synthesis where the learner can construct artificial queries in order to estimate the true decision boundaries. This problem has recently gained a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lin Chen , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi