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The unrealizability of a specification is often due to the assumption that the behavior of the environment is unrestricted. In this paper, we present algorithms for synthesis in bounded environments, where the environment can only generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

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

We consider the problem of generating automatic code given sample input-output pairs. We train a neural network to map from the current state and the outputs to the program's next statement. The neural network optimizes multiple tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Amit Zohar , Lior Wolf

Fast numerical libraries have been a cornerstone of scientific computing for decades, but this comes at a price. Programs may be tied to vendor specific software ecosystems resulting in polluted, non-portable code. As we enter an era of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Bruce Collie , Philip Ginsbach , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

Probabilistic programming has become a standard practice to model stochastic events and learn about the behavior of nature in different scientific contexts, ranging from Genetics and Ecology to Linguistics and Psychology. However, domain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Guilherme Espada , Alcides Fonseca

This paper focuses on automated synthesis of divide-and-conquer parallelism, which is a common parallel programming skeleton supported by many cross-platform multithreaded libraries. The challenges of producing (manually or automatically) a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Azadeh Farzan , Victor Nicolet

Inductive program synthesis, or inferring programs from examples of desired behavior, offers a general paradigm for building interpretable, robust, and generalizable machine learning systems. Effective program synthesis depends on two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Catherine Wong , Kevin Ellis , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jacob Andreas

Visual scene understanding is a fundamental task in computer vision that aims to extract meaningful information from visual data. It traditionally involves disjoint and specialized algorithms for different tasks that are tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Américo Pereira , Pedro Carvalho , Luís Côrte-Real

Reactive synthesis transforms a specification of a reactive system, given in a temporal logic, into an implementation. The main advantage of synthesis is that it is automatic. The main disadvantage is that the implementation is usually very…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tom Baumeister , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

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, what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Joey Hong , Manzil Zaheer , Pengcheng Yin , Charles Sutton

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

Recently, program synthesis driven by large language models (LLMs) has become increasingly popular. However, program synthesis for machine learning (ML) tasks still poses significant challenges. This paper explores a novel form of program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jinglue Xu , Jialong Li , Zhen Liu , Nagar Anthel Venkatesh Suryanarayanan , Guoyuan Zhou , Jia Guo , Hitoshi Iba , Kenji Tei

Automatic code transformation in which transformations are tuned for specific applications and contexts are difficult to achieve in an accessible manner. In this paper, we present an approach to build application specific code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Matthew J. Sottile , Geoffrey C. Hulette

Neural program embeddings have shown much promise recently for a variety of program analysis tasks, including program synthesis, program repair, fault localization, etc. However, most existing program embeddings are based on syntactic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Ke Wang , Rishabh Singh , Zhendong Su

Neural models excel at extracting statistical patterns from large amounts of data, but struggle to learn patterns or reason about language from only a few examples. In this paper, we ask: Can we learn explicit rules that generalize well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Saujas Vaduguru , Aalok Sathe , Monojit Choudhury , Dipti Misra Sharma

Program synthesis from input-output (IO) examples has been a long-standing challenge. While recent works demonstrated limited success on domain-specific languages (DSL), it remains highly challenging to apply them to real-world programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xinyun Chen , Dawn Song , Yuandong Tian

Inspired by a concrete industry problem we consider the input synthesis problem for hybrid systems: given a hybrid system that is subject to input from outside (also called disturbance or noise), find an input sequence that steers the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Takumi Akazaki , Ichiro Hasuo , Kohei Suenaga

Software engineers mainly write code by editing existing programs. In contrast, language models (LMs) autoregressively synthesize programs in a single pass. One explanation for this is the scarcity of sequential edit data. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ulyana Piterbarg , Lerrel Pinto , Rob Fergus

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

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