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Synthesizing user-intended programs from a small number of input-output examples is a challenging problem with several important applications like spreadsheet manipulation, data wrangling and code refactoring. Existing synthesis systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ashwin Kalyan , Abhishek Mohta , Oleksandr Polozov , Dhruv Batra , Prateek Jain , Sumit Gulwani

Programming-by-example (PBE) is a synthesis paradigm that allows users to generate functions by simply providing input-output examples. While a promising interaction paradigm, synthesis is still too slow for realtime interaction and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Kairo Morton , William Hallahan , Elven Shum , Ruzica Piskac , Mark Santolucito

Program synthesis techniques construct or infer programs from user-provided specifications, such as input-output examples. Yet most specifications, especially those given by end-users, leave the synthesis problem radically ill-posed,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yewen Pu , Kevin Ellis , Marta Kryven , Josh Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

When giving automated feedback to a student working on a beginner's exercise, many programming tutors run into a completeness problem. On the one hand, we want a student to experiment freely. On the other hand, we want a student to write…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Niek Mulleners , Johan Jeuring , Bastiaan Heeren

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant advancements in reasoning and code generation, but efficiently creating new benchmarks to evaluate these capabilities remains a challenge. Traditional benchmark creation relies on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ishir Garg , Neel Kolhe , Xuandong Zhao , Dawn Song

Program synthesis is a class of regression problems where one seeks a solution, in the form of a source-code program, mapping the inputs to their corresponding outputs exactly. Due to its precise and combinatorial nature, program synthesis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Yewen Pu , Zachery Miranda , Armando Solar-Lezama , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

The problem of automatically generating a computer program from some specification has been studied since the early days of AI. Recently, two competing approaches for automatic program learning have received significant attention: (1)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Jacob Devlin , Jonathan Uesato , Surya Bhupatiraju , Rishabh Singh , Abdel-rahman Mohamed , Pushmeet Kohli

In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in automated synthesis techniques that are able to automatically generate code based on some intent expressed by the programmer. A major challenge for the adoption of synthesis remains in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hila Peleg , Sharon Shoham , Eran Yahav

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

This paper proposes relational program synthesis, a new problem that concerns synthesizing one or more programs that collectively satisfy a relational specification. As a dual of relational program verification, relational program synthesis…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yuepeng Wang , Xinyu Wang , Isil Dillig

Training student models on synthetic data generated by strong teacher models is a promising way to distilling the capabilities of teachers. However, recent studies show that stronger models are not always optimal teachers, revealing a…

We present a new domain-agnostic synthesis technique for generating programs from input-output examples. Our method, called metric program synthesis, relaxes the well-known observational equivalence idea (used widely in bottom-up…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-12 John Feser , Isil Dillig , Armando Solar-Lezama

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong downstream performance largely due to abundant supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data. However, high-quality SFT data in knowledge-intensive domains such as humanities, social sciences, medicine, law,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zhiting Fan , Ruizhe Chen , Tianxiang Hu , Ru Peng , Zenan Huang , Haokai Xu , Yixin Chen , Jian Wu , Junbo Zhao , Zuozhu Liu

Program synthesis is the process of automatically translating a specification into computer code. Traditional synthesis settings require a formal, precise specification. Motivated by computer education applications where a student learns to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Evan Hernandez , Ara Vartanian , Xiaojin Zhu

Several recently proposed program logics have incorporated notions of underapproximation into their design, enabling them to reason about reachability rather than safety. In this paper, we explore how similar ideas can be integrated into an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhe Zhou , Ankush Desai , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

We present the first technique to synthesize programs that compose side-effecting functions, pure functions, and control flow, from partial traces containing records of only the side-effecting functions. This technique can be applied to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Margarida Ferreira , Victor Nicolet , Joey Dodds , Daniel Kroening

Developing critical components, such as mission controllers or embedded systems, is a challenging task. Reactive synthesis is a technique to automatically produce correct controllers. Given a high-level specification written in LTL,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Matías Brizzio , César Sánchez

Automated Program Repair (APR) has advanced rapidly with Large Language Models (LLMs), but most existing methods remain computationally expensive, and focused on a small set of languages. Ruby, despite its widespread use in web development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Nikta Akbarpour , Mahdieh Sadat Benis , Fatemeh Hendijani Fard , Ali Ouni , Mohamed Aymen Saied

Static Analysis tools have rules for several code quality issues and these rules are created by experts manually. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic synthesis of code quality rules from examples. We formulate the rule…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pranav Garg , Srinivasan Sengamedu SHS

We are interested in a challenging task, Realistic-Music-Score based Singing Voice Synthesis (RMS-SVS). RMS-SVS aims to generate high-quality singing voices given realistic music scores with different note types (grace, slur, rest, etc.).…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Jinzheng He , Jinglin Liu , Zhenhui Ye , Rongjie Huang , Chenye Cui , Huadai Liu , Zhou Zhao