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Automating the design of heuristic search methods is an active research field within computer science, artificial intelligence and operational research. In order to make these methods more generally applicable, it is important to eliminate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Edmund Burke , Tim Curtois , Matthew Hyde , Gabriela Ochoa , Jose A. Vazquez-Rodriguez

Heuristics are a central component of deterministic planning, particularly in domain-independent settings where general applicability is prioritized over task-specific tuning. This work revisits that paradigm in light of recent advances in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Alexander Tuisov , Yonatan Vernik , Alexander Shleyfman

Real-time heuristic search is a popular model of acting and learning in intelligent autonomous agents. Learning real-time search agents improve their performance over time by acquiring and refining a value function guiding the application…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vadim Bulitko

We present a framework for symbolically executing and model checking higher-order programs with external (open) methods. We focus on the client-library paradigm and in particular we aim to check libraries with respect to any definable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Yu-Yang Lin , Nikos Tzevelekos

We present a technique for automatically generating features for data-driven program analyses. Recently data-driven approaches for building a program analysis have been proposed, which mine existing codebases and automatically learn…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Kwonsoo Chae , Hakjoo Oh , Kihong Heo , Hongseok Yang

We study the problem of learning differentiable functions expressed as programs in a domain-specific language. Such programmatic models can offer benefits such as composability and interpretability; however, learning them requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ameesh Shah , Eric Zhan , Jennifer J. Sun , Abhinav Verma , Yisong Yue , Swarat Chaudhuri

Heuristics are widely used for dealing with complex search and optimization problems. However, manual design of heuristics can be often very labour extensive and requires rich working experience and knowledge. This paper proposes Evolution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fei Liu , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Xi Lin , Fu Luo , Zhenkun Wang , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

We present a new approach to automated reasoning about higher-order programs by extending symbolic execution to use behavioral contracts as symbolic values, enabling symbolic approximation of higher-order behavior. Our approach is based on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , David Van Horn

A dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, deletions, and specific problem queries. While extensive research exists on dynamic algorithms for graph problems solvable in polynomial time, most of these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

Symbolic execution is an important software analysis technique which benefits downstream tasks such as software testing and debugging. However, several limitations hinder symbolic execution from application on real-world software. One of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wenhan Wang , Kaibo Liu , Zeyu Sun , An Ran Chen , Ge Li , Gang Huang , Lei Ma

Symbolic planning can provide an intuitive interface for non-expert users to operate autonomous robots by abstracting away much of the low-level programming. However, symbolic planners assume that the initially provided abstract domain and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Julian Förster , Lionel Ott , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Jen Jen Chung

Automated planning remains one of the most general paradigms in Artificial Intelligence, providing means of solving problems coming from a wide variety of domains. One of the key factors restricting the applicability of planning is its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Pawel Gomoluch , Dalal Alrajeh , Alessandra Russo , Antonio Bucchiarone

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into evolutionary frameworks has established a new paradigm for automated heuristic discovery. Despite their promise, these methods typically search in the discrete space of program syntax,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Cheikh Ahmed , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Zirui Zhou

Identifying governing equations for a dynamical system is a topic of critical interest across an array of disciplines, from mathematics to engineering to biology. Machine learning -- specifically deep learning -- techniques have shown their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Nibodh Boddupalli , Timothy Matchen , Jeff Moehlis

Identifying the dynamic precompensator that renders a nonlinear control system feedback linearizable is a challenging problem. Researchers have explored the problem -- dynamic feedback linearization -- and produced existence conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Rollen S. D'Souza

Symbolic execution helps check programs by exploring different paths based on symbolic inputs. Tools like KLEE are commonly used because they can automatically detect bugs and create test cases. But one of KLEE's biggest issues is how slow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rong Feng , Vanisha Gupta , Vivek Patel , Viroopaksh Reddy Ernampati , Suman Saha

We demonstrate how to learn efficient heuristics for automated reasoning algorithms for quantified Boolean formulas through deep reinforcement learning. We focus on a backtracking search algorithm, which can already solve formulas of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Gil Lederman , Markus N. Rabe , Edward A. Lee , Sanjit A. Seshia

Existing support for regular expressions in automated test generation or verification tools is lacking. Common aspects of regular expression engines found in mainstream programming languages, such as backreferences or greedy matching, are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Blake Loring , Duncan Mitchell , Johannes Kinder

Graph search planning algorithms for navigation typically rely heavily on heuristics to efficiently plan paths. As a result, while such approaches require no training phase and can directly plan long horizon paths, they often require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Rishi Veerapaneni , Muhammad Suhail Saleem , Maxim Likhachev

In so-called constraint-based testing, symbolic execution is a common technique used as a part of the process to generate test data for imperative programs. Databases are ubiquitous in software and testing of programs manipulating databases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Michaël Marcozzi , Wim Vanhoof , Jean-Luc Hainaut