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Synthesis is a particularly challenging problem for concurrent programs. At the same time it is a very promising approach, since concurrent programs are difficult to get right, or to analyze with traditional verification techniques. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Anca Muscholl

The problem of finding a constant bound on a term given a set of assumptions has wide applications in optimization as well as program analysis. However, in many contexts the objective term may be unbounded. Still, some sort of symbolic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-23 John Cyphert , Yotam Feldman , Zachary Kincaid , Thomas Reps

Natural language syntax can serve as a major test for how to integrate two infamously distinct frameworks: symbolic representations and connectionist neural networks. Building on a recent neurocomputational architecture for syntax (ROSE), I…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Elliot Murphy

The classical formulation of the program-synthesis problem is to find a program that meets a correctness specification given as a logical formula. Syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS) is a standardized format for specifying the correctness…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Saswat Padhi , Elizabeth Polgreen , Mukund Raghothaman , Andrew Reynolds , Abhishek Udupa

Due to the availability of increasingly large amounts of visual data, there is a growing need for tools that can help users find relevant images. While existing tools can perform image retrieval based on similarity or metadata, they fall…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Celeste Barnaby , Qiaochu Chen , Chenglong Wang , Isil Dillig

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

Rule-based systems remain central in safety-critical domains but often struggle with scalability, brittleness, and goal misspecification. These limitations can lead to reward hacking and failures in formal verification, as AI systems tend…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zainab Rehan , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Sona Ghahremani , Holger Giese

Reactive synthesis, the problem of automatically constructing a hardware circuit from a logical specification, is a long-standing challenge in formal verification. It is elusive for two reasons: It is algorithmically hard, and writing…

Traditional code instruction data synthesis methods suffer from limited diversity and poor logic. We introduce Infinite-Instruct, an automated framework for synthesizing high-quality question-answer pairs, designed to enhance the code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Wenjing Xing , Wenke Lu , Yeheng Duan , Bing Zhao , Zhenghui kang , Yaolong Wang , Kai Gao , Lei Qiao

Given a multithreaded program written assuming a friendly, non-preemptive scheduler, the goal of synchronization synthesis is to automatically insert synchronization primitives to ensure that the modified program behaves correctly, even…

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

As machine learning models increase in scale and complexity, obtaining sufficient training data has become a critical bottleneck due to acquisition costs, privacy constraints, and data scarcity in specialised domains. While synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Giacomo Savazzi , Eugenio Lomurno , Cristian Sbrolli , Agnese Chiatti , Matteo Matteucci

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating code based on a specification. In Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS) this specification is a combination of a syntactic template and a logical formula, and the result is guaranteed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Julian Parsert , Elizabeth Polgreen

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

Large pre-trained language models have been used to generate code,providing a flexible interface for synthesizing programs from natural language specifications. However, they often violate syntactic and semantic rules of their output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Gabriel Poesia , Oleksandr Polozov , Vu Le , Ashish Tiwari , Gustavo Soares , Christopher Meek , Sumit Gulwani

In syntax-guided synthesis, one of the challenges is to reduce the enormous size of the search space. We observe that most search spaces are not just flat sets of programs, but can be endowed with a structure that we call an oriented…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Roland Meyer , Jakob Tepe

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a specification. Recent years have seen proposal of a number of neural approaches for program synthesis, many of which adopt a sequence generation paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Rudy Bunel , Matthew Hausknecht , Jacob Devlin , Rishabh Singh , Pushmeet Kohli

We present realizability and realization logic, two program logics that jointly address the problem of finding solutions in semantics-guided synthesis. What is new is that we proceed eagerly and not only analyze a single candidate program…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roland Meyer , Jakob Tepe , Sebastian Wolff

The goal of constraint-based sequence mining is to find sequences of symbols that are included in a large number of input sequences and that satisfy some constraints specified by the user. Many constraints have been proposed in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Benjamin Negrevergne , Tias Guns

Automatic software generation based on some specification is known as program synthesis. Most existing approaches formulate program synthesis as a search problem with discrete parameters. In this paper, we present a novel formulation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shantanu Mandal , Todd A. Anderson , Javier Turek , Justin Gottschlich , Abdullah Muzahid