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We consider the problem of synthesizing programs with numerical constants that optimize a quantitative objective, such as accuracy, over a set of input-output examples. We propose a general framework for optimal synthesis of such programs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Stephen Mell , Steve Zdancewic , Osbert Bastani

Program synthesis is the task of constructing a program conforming to a given specification. We focus on deductive synthesis, and in particular on synthesis problems with specifications given as $\forall\exists$-formulas, expressing the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Márton Hajdu , Petra Hozzová , Laura Kovács , Andrei Voronkov , Eva Maria Wagner , Richard Steven Žilinčík

Learning to Optimize (L2O) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which ML models are trained to solve parametric optimization problems. The general goal is to learn a fast approximator of solutions to constrained optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 James Kotary , Himanshu Sharma , Ethan King , Draguna Vrabie , Ferdinando Fioretto , Jan Drgona

Modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems primarily rely on scores from an Acoustic Model (AM) and a Language Model (LM) to rescore the N-best lists. With the abundance of recent natural language processing advances, the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Yuanfeng Song , Di Jiang , Xuefang Zhao , Qian Xu , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

When managing wide-area networks, network architects must decide how to balance multiple conflicting metrics, and ensure fair allocations to competing traffic while prioritizing critical traffic. The state of practice poses challenges since…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Yanjun Wang , Zixuan Li , Chuan Jiang , Xiaokang Qiu , Sanjay G. Rao

Multitask learning has shown promising performance in many applications and many multitask models have been proposed. In order to identify an effective multitask model for a given multitask problem, we propose a learning framework called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yu Zhang , Ying Wei , Qiang Yang

This paper proposes relational program synthesis, a new problem that concerns synthesizing one or more programs that collectively satisfy a relational specification. As a dual of relational program verification, relational program synthesis…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yuepeng Wang , Xinyu Wang , Isil Dillig

Learning to Optimize (L2O), a technique that utilizes machine learning to learn an optimization algorithm automatically from data, has gained arising attention in recent years. A generic L2O approach parameterizes the iterative update rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jialin Liu , Xiaohan Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin , HanQin Cai

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

Synthesizing programs from examples requires searching over a vast, combinatorial space of possible programs. In this search process, a key challenge is representing the behavior of a partially written program before it can be executed, to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Maxwell Nye , Yewen Pu , Matthew Bowers , Jacob Andreas , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

We introduce learning to condition (L2C), a scalable, data-driven framework for accelerating Most Probable Explanation (MPE) inference in Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs), a fundamentally intractable problem. L2C trains a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Brij Malhotra , Shivvrat Arya , Tahrima Rahman , Vibhav Giridhar Gogate

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

Constraint Programming (CP) and Local Search (LS) are different paradigms for dealing with combinatorial search and optimization problems. Their complementary features motivated researchers to create hybrid CP/LS solutions, maintaining both…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Mateusz Ślażyński

We propose a new synthesis algorithm that can efficiently search programs with local variables (e.g., those introduced by lambdas). Prior bottom-up synthesis algorithms are not able to evaluate programs with free local variables, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xiang Li , Xiangyu Zhou , Rui Dong , Yihong Zhang , Xinyu Wang

Program Synthesis is the task of generating a program from a provided specification. Traditionally, this has been treated as a search problem by the programming languages (PL) community and more recently as a supervised learning problem by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Riley Simmons-Edler , Anders Miltner , Sebastian Seung

Program synthesis aims to automatically construct human-readable programs that satisfy given task specifications, such as input/output pairs or demonstrations. Recent works have demonstrated encouraging results in a variety of domains, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Linghan Zhong , Ryan Lindeborg , Jesse Zhang , Joseph J. Lim , Shao-Hua Sun

Modern semantic parsers suffer from two principal limitations. First, training requires expensive collection of utterance-program pairs. Second, semantic parsers fail to generalize at test time to new compositions/structures that have not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Inbar Oren , Jonathan Herzig , Jonathan Berant

Automated Synthesis Planning has recently re-emerged as a research area at the intersection of chemistry and machine learning. Despite the appearance of steady progress, we argue that imperfect benchmarks and inconsistent comparisons mask…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Krzysztof Maziarz , Austin Tripp , Guoqing Liu , Megan Stanley , Shufang Xie , Piotr Gaiński , Philipp Seidl , Marwin Segler

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

Recently proposed models which learn to write computer programs from data use either input/output examples or rich execution traces. Instead, we argue that a novel alternative is to use a glass-box loss function, given as a program itself…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Konstantina Christakopoulou , Adam Tauman Kalai