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We present MIPS, a novel method for program synthesis based on automated mechanistic interpretability of neural networks trained to perform the desired task, auto-distilling the learned algorithm into Python code. We test MIPS on a…

A typical way in which a machine acquires knowledge from humans is by programming. Compared to learning from demonstrations or experiences, programmatic learning allows the machine to acquire a novel skill as soon as the program is written,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Leonardo Hernandez Cano , Yewen Pu , Robert D. Hawkins , Josh Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

The grammars of natural languages may be learned by using genetic algorithms that reproduce and mutate grammatical rules and part-of-speech tags, improving the quality of later generations of grammatical components. Syntactic rules are…

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Despite recent success in large language model (LLM) reasoning, LLMs struggle with hierarchical multi-step reasoning tasks like generating complex programs. For these tasks, humans often start with a high-level algorithmic design and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Eric Zelikman , Qian Huang , Gabriel Poesia , Noah D. Goodman , Nick Haber

In recent years, prompting has quickly become one of the standard ways of steering the outputs of generative machine learning models, due to its intuitive use of natural language. In this work, we propose a system conditioned on embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Thomas Bott , Florian Lux , Ngoc Thang Vu

We propose a new technique based on program synthesis for automatically generating visualizations from natural language queries. Our method parses the natural language query into a refinement type specification using the intents-and-slots…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Qiaochu Chen , Shankara Pailoor , Celeste Barnaby , Abby Criswell , Chenglong Wang , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

This survey reviews how large language models (LLMs) are transforming synthetic training data generation in both natural language and code domains. By producing artificial but task-relevant examples, these models can significantly augment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mihai Nadas , Laura Diosan , Andreea Tomescu

Code completion is a prominent application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering. Due to the near real-time response requirements of this task, base models with small to medium-sized parameters are typically employed,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Dongjun Yu , Xiao Yan , Zhenrui Li , Jipeng Xiao , Haochuan He , Yongda Yu , Hao Zhang , Guoping Rong , Xiaobo Huang

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

Translation between natural language and source code can help software development by enabling developers to comprehend, ideate, search, and write computer programs in natural language. Despite growing interest from the industry and the…

Large language models can perform semantic parsing with little training data, when prompted with in-context examples. It has been shown that this can be improved by formulating the problem as paraphrasing into canonical utterances, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Richard Shin , Benjamin Van Durme

While large language models (LLMs) excel in various natural language processing tasks, their huge size and the inaccessibility of parameters present challenges for practical deployment. Previous studies try to distill task-specific ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xuekai Zhu , Biqing Qi , Kaiyan Zhang , Xinwei Long , Zhouhan Lin , Bowen Zhou

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

We draw a formal connection between using synthetic training data to optimize neural network parameters and approximate, Bayesian, model-based reasoning. In particular, training a neural network using synthetic data can be viewed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Tuan Anh Le , Atilim Gunes Baydin , Robert Zinkov , Frank Wood

Reasoning is a fundamental capability of Large Language Models. While prior research predominantly focuses on enhancing narrow skills like math or code generation, improving performance on many other reasoning tasks remains challenging due…

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Domain-specific languages (DSLs) for machine learning are revolutionizing the speed and efficiency of machine learning workloads as they enable users easy access to high-performance compiler optimizations and accelerators. However, to take…

Program verification and synthesis frameworks that allow one to customize the language in which one is interested typically require the user to provide a formally defined semantics for the language. Because writing a formal semantics can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiangyi Liu , Charlie Murphy , Anvay Grover , Keith J. C. Johnson , Thomas Reps , Loris D'Antoni

This paper presents a method of decoupled pronunciation and prosody modeling to improve the performance of meta-learning-based multilingual speech synthesis. The baseline meta-learning synthesis method adopts a single text encoder with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Yukun Peng , Zhenhua Ling

We propose a novel approach to program synthesis, focusing on synthesizing database queries. At a high level, our proposed algorithm takes as input a sketch with soft constraints encoding user intent, and then iteratively interacts with the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Osbert Bastani , Xin Zhang , Armando Solar-Lezama

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to generate synthetic data for training Neural Machine Translation systems. The proposed approach transforms a given parallel corpus between a written language and a target language to a parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Hany Hassan , Mostafa Elaraby , Ahmed Tawfik