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We consider the task of text generation in language models with constraints specified in natural language. To this end, we first create a challenging benchmark Cognac that provides as input to the model a topic with example text, along with…

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As training deep learning models on large dataset takes a lot of time and resources, it is desired to construct a small synthetic dataset with which we can train deep learning models sufficiently. There are recent works that have explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Wei Jin , Xianfeng Tang , Haoming Jiang , Zheng Li , Danqing Zhang , Jiliang Tang , Bing Yin

Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS) is the computational problem of finding an implementation f that meets both a semantic constraint given by a logical formula phi in a background theory T, and a syntactic constraint given by a grammar G,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Rajeev Alur , Dana Fisman , Rishabh Singh , Armando Solar-Lezama

Inductive program synthesis, from input/output examples, can provide an opportunity to automatically create programs from scratch without presupposing the algorithmic form of the solution. For induction of general programs with loops (as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Christopher D. Rosin

Instruction-following has emerged as a crucial capability for large language models (LLMs). However, existing approaches often rely on pre-existing documents or external resources to synthesize instruction-following data, which limits their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Tingfeng Hui , Pengyu Zhu , Bowen Ping , Ling Tang , Guanting Dong , Yaqi Zhang , Sen Su

Grammar-based parsers have achieved high performance in the cross-domain text-to-SQL parsing task, but suffer from low decoding efficiency due to the much larger number of actions for grammar selection than that of tokens in SQL queries.…

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Compositional generalization, representing the model's ability to generate text with new attribute combinations obtained by recombining single attributes from the training data, is a crucial property for multi-aspect controllable text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tianqi Zhong , Zhaoyi Li , Quan Wang , Linqi Song , Ying Wei , Defu Lian , Zhendong Mao

Synthesis of optimization algorithms typically follows a {\em design-then-analyze\/} approach, which can obscure fundamental performance limits and hinder the systematic development of algorithms that operate near these limits. Recently, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Ibrahim K. Ozaslan , Wuwei Wu , Jie Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Mihailo R. Jovanovic

SYNTAGMA is a rule-based parsing system, structured on two levels: a general parsing engine and a language specific grammar. The parsing engine is a language independent program, while grammar and language specific rules and resources are…

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We propose a systematic learning-based approach to the generation of massive quantities of synthetic 3D scenes and arbitrary numbers of photorealistic 2D images thereof, with associated ground truth information, for the purposes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Chenfanfu Jiang , Siyuan Qi , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang , Jenny Lin , Lap-Fai Yu , Demetri Terzopoulos , Song-Chun Zhu

Gradient-based meta-learning methods leverage gradient descent to learn the commonalities among various tasks. While previous such methods have been successful in meta-learning tasks, they resort to simple gradient descent during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Yoonho Lee , Seungjin Choi

While large models achieve impressive results, their learning dynamics are far from understood. Many domains of interest, such as natural language syntax, coding languages, arithmetic problems, are captured by context-free grammars (CFGs).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Laura Ying Schulz , Daniel Mitropolsky , Tomaso Poggio

This paper presents a novel optimization method for maximizing generalization over tasks in meta-learning. The goal of meta-learning is to learn a model for an agent adapting rapidly when presented with previously unseen tasks. Tasks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram

We propose \textit{Meta-Regularization}, a novel approach for the adaptive choice of the learning rate in first-order gradient descent methods. Our approach modifies the objective function by adding a regularization term on the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Guangzeng Xie , Hao Jin , Dachao Lin , Zhihua Zhang

Prompt tuning, a recently emerging paradigm, enables the powerful vision-language pre-training models to adapt to downstream tasks in a parameter -- and data -- efficient way, by learning the ``soft prompts'' to condition frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Juncheng Li , Minghe Gao , Longhui Wei , Siliang Tang , Wenqiao Zhang , Mengze Li , Wei Ji , Qi Tian , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang

Reactive synthesis is the task of automatically deriving a correct implementation from a specification. It is a promising technique for the development of verified programs and hardware. Despite recent advances in terms of algorithms and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Bernd Finkbeiner , Gideon Geier , Noemi Passing

Syntactic constituency parsing is a fundamental problem in natural language processing and has been the subject of intensive research and engineering for decades. As a result, the most accurate parsers are domain specific, complex, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Oriol Vinyals , Lukasz Kaiser , Terry Koo , Slav Petrov , Ilya Sutskever , Geoffrey Hinton

We present \synver{}, a novel synthesis and verification framework for C programs, that deploys a Large Language Model (LLM) to search for a candidate program that satisfies the given specification. Our key idea is to impose syntactic and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Prasita Mukherjee , Benjamin Delaware

Program synthesis is the generation of a program from a specification. Correct synthesis is difficult, and methods that provide formal guarantees suffer from scalability issues. On the other hand, neural networks are able to generate…

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Model-based parser generators decouple language specification from language processing. The model-driven approach avoids the limitations that conventional parser generators impose on the language designer. Conventional tools require the…

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