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This paper introduces an approach to endow generative diffusion processes the ability to satisfy and certify compliance with constraints and physical principles. The proposed method recast the traditional sampling process of generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jacob K Christopher , Stephen Baek , Ferdinando Fioretto

We propose novel controller synthesis techniques for probabilistic systems modelled using stochastic two-player games: one player acts as a controller, the second represents its environment, and probability is used to capture uncertainty…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Klaus Drager , Vojtech Forejt , Marta Kwiatkowska , David Parker , Mateusz Ujma

Private synthetic data sharing is preferred as it keeps the distribution and nuances of original data compared to summary statistics. The state-of-the-art methods adopt a select-measure-generate paradigm, but measuring large domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Dihang Deng , Lihua Yin

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

In syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS), a synthesizer's goal is to automatically generate a program belonging to a grammar of possible implementations that meets a logical specification. We investigate a common limitation across…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Saswat Padhi , Todd Millstein , Aditya Nori , Rahul Sharma

Synthesis is the automatic construction of a system from its specification. In classical synthesis algorithms, it is always assumed that the system is "constructed from scratch" rather than composed from reusable components. This, of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Sumit Nain , Yoad Lustig , Moshe Y Vardi

Program synthesis--the automated generation of executable code from high-level specifications--has been a central goal of computer science for over fifty years. This thesis provides a comparative literature review of the main paradigms that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zurabi Kobaladze , Anna Arnania , Tamar Sanikidze

This paper introduces a deterministic algorithm for solving an instance of the Subset Sum Problem based on a new method entitled the Bipartite Synthesis Method. The algorithm is described and shown to have worst-case limiting performance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Scott Lilienthal

With the increasing importance of distributed systems as a computing paradigm, a systematic approach to their design is needed. Although the area of formal verification has made enormous advances towards this goal, the resulting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Adrià Gascón , Ashish Tiwari

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that provably satisfy a given specification in the form of a polymorphic refinement type. We observe that such specifications are particularly suitable for program synthesis for two…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Nadia Polikarpova , Ivan Kuraj , Armando Solar-Lezama

Probabilistic programming offers a powerful framework for modeling uncertainty, yet statistical model discovery in this domain entails navigating an immense search space under strict domain-specific constraints. When small language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Madhav Kanda , Shubham Ugare , Sasa Misailovic

This work introduces an innovative method for improving combinational digital circuits through random exploration in MIG-based synthesis. High-quality circuits are crucial for performance, power, and cost, making this a critical area of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Felix Arnold , Maxence Bouvier , Ryan Amaudruz , Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli

We propose a data-driven algorithm for numerical invariant synthesis and verification. The algorithm is based on the ICE-DT schema for learning decision trees from samples of positive and negative states and implications corresponding to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Ahmed Bouajjani , Wael-Amine Boutglay , Peter Habermehl

In the synthesis problem, we are given a specification, and we automatically generate a system that satisfies the specification in all environments. We introduce and study {\em synthesis with guided environments} (SGE, for short), where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Orna Kupferman , Ofer Leshkowitz

This thesis describes work on two applications of probabilistic programming: the learning of probabilistic program code given specifications, in particular program code of one-dimensional samplers; and the facilitation of sequential Monte…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Yura N Perov

We consider the problem of controller synthesis under imperfect information in a setting where there is a set of available observable predicates equipped with a cost function. The problem that we address is the computation of a subset of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-07-06 Peter Bulychev , Franck Cassez , Alexandre David , Kim G. Larsen , Jean-Francois Raskin , Pierre-Alain Reynier

Automatic synthesis of hardware components from declarative specifications is an ambitious endeavor in computer aided design. Existing synthesis algorithms are often implemented with Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), inheriting their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Roderick Bloem , Robert Koenighofer , Martina Seidl

Formal methods apply algorithms based on mathematical principles to enhance the reliability of systems. It would only be natural to try to progress from verification, model checking or testing a system against its formal specification into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Gal Katz , Doron Peled

Dataset distillation reduces the network training cost by synthesizing small and informative datasets from large-scale ones. Despite the success of the recent dataset distillation algorithms, three drawbacks still limit their wider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Kai Wang , Jianyang Gu , Daquan Zhou , Zheng Zhu , Wei Jiang , Yang You

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating expressions that satisfy a given specification. Program synthesis techniques have been used to automate the generation of loop invariants in code, synthesize function summaries, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Elizabeth Polgreen , Sanjit A. Seshia