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Large language models (LLMs) offer significant potential to accelerate systematic literature reviews (SLRs), yet current approaches often rely on brittle, manually crafted prompts that compromise reliability and reproducibility. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Teo Susnjak

Program synthesis is an umbrella term for generating programs and logical formulae from specifications. With the remarkable performance improvements that GPUs enable for deep learning, a natural question arose: can we also implement a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Martin Berger , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Mojtaba Valizadeh

We present a Neural Program Search, an algorithm to generate programs from natural language description and a small number of input/output examples. The algorithm combines methods from Deep Learning and Program Synthesis fields by designing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Illia Polosukhin , Alexander Skidanov

In recent years, deep learning has made tremendous progress in a number of fields that were previously out of reach for artificial intelligence. The successes in these problems has led researchers to consider the possibilities for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Neel Kant

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative logic formalism that allows to encode computational problems via logic programs. Despite the declarative nature of the formalism, some advanced expertise is required, in general, for designing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Elena Mastria , Jessica Zangari , Simona Perri , Francesco Calimeri

We present the first sentence simplification model that learns explicit edit operations (ADD, DELETE, and KEEP) via a neural programmer-interpreter approach. Most current neural sentence simplification systems are variants of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Yue Dong , Zichao Li , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

In Programming by Example, a system attempts to infer a program from input and output examples, generally by searching for a composition of certain base functions. Performing a naive brute force search is infeasible for even mildly involved…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Aditya Krishna Menon , Omer Tamuz , Sumit Gulwani , Butler Lampson , Adam Tauman Kalai

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

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

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

Program synthesis techniques construct or infer programs from user-provided specifications, such as input-output examples. Yet most specifications, especially those given by end-users, leave the synthesis problem radically ill-posed,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yewen Pu , Kevin Ellis , Marta Kryven , Josh Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

We study machine learning formulations of inductive program synthesis; given input-output examples, we try to synthesize source code that maps inputs to corresponding outputs. Our aims are to develop new machine learning approaches based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Alexander L. Gaunt , Marc Brockschmidt , Rishabh Singh , Nate Kushman , Pushmeet Kohli , Jonathan Taylor , Daniel Tarlow

In the field of language modeling, models augmented with retrieval components have emerged as a promising solution to address several challenges faced in the natural language processing (NLP) field, including knowledge grounding,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 To Eun Kim , Alireza Salemi , Andrew Drozdov , Fernando Diaz , Hamed Zamani

Visual program synthesis is a promising approach to exploit the reasoning abilities of large language models for compositional computer vision tasks. Previous work has used few-shot prompting with frozen LLMs to synthesize visual programs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zaid Khan , Vijay Kumar BG , Samuel Schulter , Yun Fu , Manmohan Chandraker

Large Language Models have evolved from single-round generators into long-horizon agents, capable of complex text synthesis scenarios. However, current evaluation frameworks lack the ability to assess the actual synthesis operations, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Andrew Zhuoer Feng , Cunxiang Wang , Yu Luo , Bosi Wen , Yidong Wang , Lin Fan , Yilin Zhou , Zikang Wang , Wenbo Yu , Lindong Wu , Hongning Wang , Minlie Huang

The combination of Large Language Models (LLMs), systematic evaluation, and evolutionary algorithms has enabled breakthroughs in combinatorial optimization and scientific discovery. We propose to extend this powerful combination to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Carlo Bosio , Mark W. Mueller

Aiming to produce reinforcement learning (RL) policies that are human-interpretable and can generalize better to novel scenarios, Trivedi et al. (2021) present a method (LEAPS) that first learns a program embedding space to continuously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Guan-Ting Liu , En-Pei Hu , Pu-Jen Cheng , Hung-yi Lee , Shao-Hua Sun

A key challenge in example-based program synthesis is the gigantic search space of programs. To address this challenge, various work proposed to use abstract interpretation to prune the search space. However, most of existing approaches…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yongho Yoon , Woosuk Lee , Kwangkeun Yi

System programming languages are typically compiled in a linear pipeline process, which is a completely opaque and isolated to end-users. This limits the possibilities of performing meta-programming in the same language and environment, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Ronie Salgado

We study machine learning formulations of inductive program synthesis; that is, given input-output examples, synthesize source code that maps inputs to corresponding outputs. Our key contribution is TerpreT, a domain-specific language for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Alexander L. Gaunt , Marc Brockschmidt , Rishabh Singh , Nate Kushman , Pushmeet Kohli , Jonathan Taylor , Daniel Tarlow