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We present a framework that takes a concurrent program composed of unsynchronized processes, along with a temporal specification of their global concurrent behaviour, and automatically generates a concurrent program with synchronization…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Roopsha Samanta

Reactive synthesis is the task of automatically deriving a correct implementation from a specification. It is a promising technique for the development of verified programs and hardware. Despite recent advances in terms of algorithms and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Bernd Finkbeiner , Gideon Geier , Noemi Passing

Component-based synthesis (CBS) generates loop-free programs from library components to satisfy logical queries. While expressive specifications and precise queries simplify the solution space, they make finding feasible execution paths…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ashish Mishra , Suresh Jagannathan

A major bottleneck in search-based program synthesis is the exponentially growing search space which makes learning large programs intractable. Humans mitigate this problem by leveraging the compositional nature of the real world: In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jonas Witt , Sebastijan Dumančić , Tias Guns , Claus-Christian Carbon

In reactive synthesis, the goal is to automatically generate an implementation from a specification of the reactive and non-terminating input/output behaviours of a system. Specifications are usually modelled as logical formulae or automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Pierre-Alain Reynier

Recently, reinforcement learning has been used to address logic synthesis by formulating the operator sequence optimization problem as a Markov decision process. However, through extensive experiments, we find out that the learned policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chao Wang , Chen Chen , Dong Li , Bin Wang

We introduce a metric that can quantify the temporal relaxation of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications and facilitate resilient control synthesis in the face of infeasibilities. The proposed metric quantifies a cumulative notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray

Reactive synthesis is concerned with finding a correct-by-construction controller from formal specifications, typically expressed in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The specifications describe assumptions about an environment and guarantees to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Davide G. Cavezza , Dalal Alrajeh , Andras Gyorgy

The IPARC Challenge, inspired by ARC, provides controlled program synthesis tasks over synthetic images to evaluate automatic program construction, focusing on sequence, selection, and iteration. This set of 600 tasks has resisted automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shraddha Surana , Ashwin Srinivasan , Michael Bain

We present BoSy, a reactive synthesis tool based on the bounded synthesis approach. Bounded synthesis ensures the minimality of the synthesized implementation by incrementally increasing a bound on the size of the solutions it considers.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Peter Faymonville , Bernd Finkbeiner , Leander Tentrup

This paper studies the controller synthesis problem for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications using (constrained) zonotope techniques. First, we implement (constrained) zonotope techniques to partition the state space and further to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Wei Ren , Julien Calbert , Raphael Jungers

We train hierarchical Transformers on the task of synthesizing hardware circuits directly out of high-level logical specifications in linear-time temporal logic (LTL). The LTL synthesis problem is a well-known algorithmic challenge with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Frederik Schmitt , Christopher Hahn , Markus N. Rabe , Bernd Finkbeiner

We consider the synthesis of distributed implementations for specifications in parameterized temporal logics such as PROMPT-LTL, which extends LTL by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. For single process…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Swen Jacobs , Leander Tentrup , Martin Zimmermann

Prompt engineering is a challenging and important task due to the high sensitivity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to the given prompt and the inherent ambiguity of a textual task instruction. Automatic prompt engineering is essential to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Elad Levi , Eli Brosh , Matan Friedmann

In many sequence learning tasks, such as program synthesis and document summarization, a key problem is searching over a large space of possible output sequences. We propose to learn representations of the outputs that are specifically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Joey Hong , David Dohan , Rishabh Singh , Charles Sutton , Manzil Zaheer

We propose a method for automatically generating abstract transformers for static analysis by abstract interpretation. The method focuses on linear constraints on programs operating on rational, real or floating-point variables and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-07-28 David Monniaux

Large Language models (LLMs) have shown promise as generators of symbolic control policies, producing interpretable program-like representations through iterative search. However, these models are not capable of separating the functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Carlo Bosio , Matteo Guarrera , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Mark W. Mueller

We present a controller synthesis algorithm for a discrete time reach-avoid problem in the presence of adversaries. Our model of the adversary captures typical malicious attacks envisioned on cyber-physical systems such as sensor spoofing,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Zhenqi Huang , Yu Wang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

We consider the task of program synthesis in the presence of a reward function over the output of programs, where the goal is to find programs with maximal rewards. We employ an iterative optimization scheme, where we train an RNN on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Daniel A. Abolafia , Mohammad Norouzi , Jonathan Shen , Rui Zhao , Quoc V. Le

We generalize the system level synthesis framework to systems defined by bounded causal linear operators, and use this parameterization to make connections between robust system level synthesis and classical results from the robust control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Nikolai Matni , Anish A. Sarma