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Automatic synthesis of hardware components from declarative specifications is an ambitious endeavor in computer aided design. Existing synthesis algorithms are often implemented with Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), inheriting their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Roderick Bloem , Robert Koenighofer , Martina Seidl

Program Synthesis is the mapping of a specification of what a computer program is supposed to do, into a computer program that does what the specification says to do. This is equivalent to constructing any computer program and a sound proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Charles Volkstorf

The idea of synthesis, i.e., the process of automatically computing implementations from their specifications, has recently gained a lot of momentum in the contexts of software engineering and reactive system design. While it is widely…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Rüdiger Ehlers , Susmit Jha

Joint logical-numerical reasoning remains a major challenge for language models, yet existing datasets rely on fixed rule sets and offer limited control over task complexity, constraining their generalizability for evaluation and training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yiwei Liu , Yucheng Li , Xiao Li , Gong Cheng

Boolean functional synthesis is a fundamental problem in computer science with wide-ranging applications and has witnessed a surge of interest resulting in progressively improved techniques over the past decade. Despite intense algorithmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Priyanka Golia , Subhajit Roy , Kuldeep S. Meel

The automated synthesis of correct-by-construction Boolean functions from logical specifications is known as the Boolean Functional Synthesis (BFS) problem. BFS has many application areas that range from software engineering to circuit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ravi Raja , Stanly Samuel , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya , Deepak D'Souza , Aditya Kanade

In the classical synthesis problem, we are given an LTL formula psi over sets of input and output signals, and we synthesize a transducer that realizes psi. One weakness of automated synthesis in practice is that it pays no attention to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Shaull Almagor , Orna Kupferman

Logic synthesis is one of the most important steps in design and implementation of digital chips with a big impact on final Quality of Results (QoR). For a most general input circuit modeled by a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), many logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Ghasem Pasandi , Sreedhar Pratty , James Forsyth

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a specification. Recent years have seen proposal of a number of neural approaches for program synthesis, many of which adopt a sequence generation paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Rudy Bunel , Matthew Hausknecht , Jacob Devlin , Rishabh Singh , Pushmeet Kohli

Program synthesis is the task of automatically deriving a program that has been specified by a user in advance. Combining automated theorem proving with program synthesis enables the automated construction of proven-to-be-correct programs,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Márton Hajdu , Petra Hozzová , Laura Kovács , Eva Maria Wagner

In formal synthesis of reactive systems an implementation of a system is automatically constructed from its formal specification. The great advantage of synthesis is that the resulting implementation is correct by construction; therefore…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Hadas Kress-Gazit , Hazem Torfah

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

A major bottleneck in search-based program synthesis is the exponentially growing search space which makes learning large programs intractable. Humans mitigate this problem by leveraging the compositional nature of the real world: In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jonas Witt , Sebastijan Dumančić , Tias Guns , Claus-Christian Carbon

Synthesis is the automated construction of a system from its specification. The system has to satisfy its specification in all possible environments. Modern systems often interact with other systems, or agents. Many times these agents have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-07-20 Dana Fisman , Orna Kupferman , Yoad Lustig

Given a relational specification between Boolean inputs and outputs, the goal of Boolean functional synthesis is to synthesize each output as a function of the inputs such that the specification is met. In this paper, we first show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-21 S. Akshay , Supratik Chakraborty , Shubham Goel , Sumith Kulal , Shetal Shah

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

Reversible logic represents the basis for many emerging technologies and has recently been intensively studied. However, most of the Boolean functions of practical interest are irreversible and must be embedded into a reversible function…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Mathias Soeken , Robert Wille , Oliver Keszocze , D. Michael Miller , Rolf Drechsler

Component-based synthesis (CBS) aims to generate loop-free programs from a set of libraries whose methods are annotated with specifications and whose output must satisfy a set of logical constraints, expressed as a query. The effectiveness…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ashish Mishra , Suresh Jagannathan

Reactive synthesis is a technology for the automatic construction of reactive systems from logical specifications. In these lecture notes, we study different algorithms for the reactive synthesis problem of linear-time temporal logic (LTL).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Bernd Finkbeiner , Felix Klein

Recently, program synthesis driven by large language models (LLMs) has become increasingly popular. However, program synthesis for machine learning (ML) tasks still poses significant challenges. This paper explores a novel form of program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jinglue Xu , Jialong Li , Zhen Liu , Nagar Anthel Venkatesh Suryanarayanan , Guoyuan Zhou , Jia Guo , Hitoshi Iba , Kenji Tei