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Syntax-guided synthesis aims to find a program satisfying semantic specification as well as user-provided structural hypothesis. For syntax-guided synthesis there are two main search strategies: concrete search, which systematically or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Kangjing Huang , Xiaokang Qiu , Qi Tian , Yanjun Wang

The core challenge in designing an effective static program analysis is to find a good program abstraction -- one that retains only details relevant to a given query. In this paper, we present a new approach for automatically finding such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Radu Grigore , Hongseok Yang

This paper outlines two approaches|based on counterexample-guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) and counterexample-guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS), respectively to the automated synthesis of finite-state probabilistic models and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Milan Ceska , Christian Dehnert , Nils Jansen , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Multi-hop question answering (MHQA) requires integrating knowledge scattered across multiple passages to derive the correct answer. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods primarily focus on coarse-grained textual semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Changjian Wang , Weihong Deng , Weili Guan , Quan Lu , Ning Jiang

Maintaining large code bases written in dynamically typed languages, such as JavaScript or Python, can be challenging due to the absence of type annotations: simple data compatibility errors proliferate, IDE support is limited, and APIs are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Michael Pradel , Georgios Gousios , Jason Liu , Satish Chandra

This paper presents a new technique for automatically synthesizing SQL queries from natural language. Our technique is fully automated, works for any database without requiring additional customization, and does not require users to know…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Navid Yaghmazadeh , Yuepeng Wang , Isil Dillig , Thomas Dillig

Type refinements combine the compositionality of typechecking with the expressivity of program logics, offering a synergistic approach to program verification. In this paper we apply dependent type refinements to SAX, a futures-based…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Siva Somayyajula , Frank Pfenning

Effective program synthesis requires a way to minimise the number of candidate programs being searched. A type signature, for example, places some small restrictions on the structure of potential candidates. We introduce and motivate a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Bruce Collie , Michael O'Boyle

Inferring the types of API elements in incomplete code snippets (e.g., those on Q&A forums) is a prepositive step required to work with the code snippets. Existing type inference methods can be mainly categorized as constraint-based or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zhixiang Chen , Anji Li , Neng Zhang , Jianguo Chen , Yuan Huang , Zibin Zheng

We present a new synthesis algorithm to solve program synthesis over noisy datasets, i.e., data that may contain incorrect/corrupted input-output examples. Our algorithm uses an abstraction refinement based optimization process to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Shivam Handa , Martin Rinard

Designing programming languages that enable intuitive and safe manipulation of data structures is a critical research challenge. Conventional destructive memory operations using pointers are complex and prone to errors. Existing type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jin Sano , Naoki Yamamoto , Kazunori Ueda

In recent years, deep learning techniques have been developed to improve the performance of program synthesis from input-output examples. Albeit its significant progress, the programs that can be synthesized by state-of-the-art approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Xinyun Chen , Chang Liu , Dawn Song

Document databases are increasingly popular in various applications, but their queries are challenging to write due to the flexible and complex data model underlying document databases. This paper presents a synthesis technique that aims to…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Qikang Liu , Yang He , Yanwen Cai , Byeongguk Kwak , Yuepeng Wang

This paper introduces a new methodology for the complexity analysis of higher-order functional programs, which is based on three components: a powerful type system for size analysis and a sound type inference procedure for it, a ticking…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Martin Avanzini , Ugo Dal Lago

Hybrid tabular-textual question answering (QA) requires reasoning from heterogeneous information, and the types of reasoning are mainly divided into numerical reasoning and span extraction. Current numerical reasoning methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Tengxun Zhang , Hongfei Xu , Josef van Genabith , Deyi Xiong , Hongying Zan

Recent advancements in Retrieval-Augmented Generation have significantly enhanced code completion at the repository level. Various RAG-based code completion systems are proposed based on different design choices. For instance, gaining more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Wenrui Zhang , Tiehang Fu , Ting Yuan , Ge Zhang , Dong Chen , Jie Wang

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models with external knowledge, and tree-based RAG organizes documents into hierarchical indexes to support queries at multiple granularities. However, existing Tree-RAG methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ziwen Zhao , Menglin Yang

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

Retrieval-augmented question answering over heterogeneous corpora requires connected evidence across text, tables, and graph nodes. While entity-level knowledge graphs support structured access, they are costly to construct and maintain,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Prasham Titiya , Rohit Khoja , Tomer Wolfson , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

We propose an efficient symbolic control synthesis algorithm for equivariant continuous-time dynamical systems to satisfy reach-avoid specifications. The algorithm exploits dynamical symmetries to construct lean abstractions to avoid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Hussein Sibai , Sacha Huriot , Tyler Martin , Murat Arcak