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We present new techniques for automatically constructing probabilistic programs for data analysis, interpretation, and prediction. These techniques work with probabilistic domain-specific data modeling languages that capture key properties…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Feras A. Saad , Marco F. Cusumano-Towner , Ulrich Schaechtle , Martin C. Rinard , Vikash K. Mansinghka

Synthesis of program parts is very useful for concurrent systems. However, most synthesis approaches do not support common design tasks, like modifying a single process without having to re-synthesize or verify the whole system.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Roderick Bloem , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Swen Jacobs , Robert Koenighofer

We revisit the problem of computing with noisy information considered in Feige et al. 1994, which includes computing the OR function from noisy queries, and computing the MAX, SEARCH and SORT functions from noisy pairwise comparisons. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Banghua Zhu , Ziao Wang , Nadim Ghaddar , Jiantao Jiao , Lele Wang

We consider the problem of synthesizing programs with numerical constants that optimize a quantitative objective, such as accuracy, over a set of input-output examples. We propose a general framework for optimal synthesis of such programs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Stephen Mell , Steve Zdancewic , Osbert Bastani

We present a program synthesis-oriented dataset consisting of human written problem statements and solutions for these problems. The problem statements were collected via crowdsourcing and the program solutions were extracted from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Maksym Zavershynskyi , Alex Skidanov , Illia Polosukhin

Compositional synthesis relies on the discovery of assumptions, i.e., restrictions on the behavior of the remainder of the system that allow a component to realize its specification. In order to avoid losing valid solutions, these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Bernd Finkbeiner , Niklas Metzger , Yoram Moses

Methods to certify the robustness of neural networks in the presence of input uncertainty are vital in safety-critical settings. Most certification methods in the literature are designed for adversarial or worst-case inputs, but researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

Program synthesis is challenging largely because of the difficulty of search in a large space of programs. Human programmers routinely tackle the task of writing complex programs by writing sub-programs and then analyzing their intermediate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Augustus Odena , Kensen Shi , David Bieber , Rishabh Singh , Charles Sutton , Hanjun Dai

Automatic software generation based on some specification is known as program synthesis. Most existing approaches formulate program synthesis as a search problem with discrete parameters. In this paper, we present a novel formulation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shantanu Mandal , Todd A. Anderson , Javier Turek , Justin Gottschlich , Abdullah Muzahid

Probabilistic approach to Boolean matrix factorization can provide solutions robustagainst noise and missing values with linear computational complexity. However,the assumption about latent factors can be problematic in real world…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-31 Lifan Liang , Songjian Lu

Self-synchronization under the presence of additive noise can be achieved by allocating a certain number of bits of each codeword as markers for synchronization. Difference systems of sets are combinatorial designs which specify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Yuichiro Fujiwara , Vladimir D. Tonchev

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function under noise. There has been a great deal of work on optimization of submodular functions under various constraints, resulting in algorithms that provide desirable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Avinatan Hassidim , Yaron Singer

Program Synthesis is the task of generating a program from a provided specification. Traditionally, this has been treated as a search problem by the programming languages (PL) community and more recently as a supervised learning problem by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Riley Simmons-Edler , Anders Miltner , Sebastian Seung

Learning unnormalized statistical models (e.g., energy-based models) is computationally challenging due to the complexity of handling the partition function. To eschew this complexity, noise-contrastive estimation~(NCE) has been proposed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Wei Jiang , Jiayu Qin , Lingyu Wu , Changyou Chen , Tianbao Yang , Lijun Zhang

A promising approach to defend against side channel attacks is to build programs that are leakage resilient, in a formal sense. One such formal notion of leakage resilience is the n-threshold-probing model proposed in the seminal work by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Arthur Blot , Masaki Yamamoto , Tachio Terauchi

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

In this paper, we identify a fragment of second-order logic with restricted quantification that is expressive enough to capture numerous static analysis problems (e.g. safety proving, bug finding, termination and non-termination proving,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Cristina David , Daniel Kroening , Matt Lewis

Synthesizing a program that realizes a logical specification is a classical problem in computer science. We examine a particular type of program synthesis, where the objective is to synthesize a strategy that reacts to a potentially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Alberto Camacho , Sheila A. McIlraith

The synthesis problem asks for the automatic construction of a system from its specification. In the traditional setting, the system is "constructed from scratch" rather than composed from reusable components. However, this is rare in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Moshe Y. Vardi

Given full or partial information about a collection of points that lie close to a union of several subspaces, subspace clustering refers to the process of clustering the points according to their subspace and identifying the subspaces. One…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-16 Zachary Charles , Amin Jalali , Rebecca Willett