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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

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

Providing examples is one of the most common way for end-users to interact with program synthesizers. However, program synthesis systems assume that examples consistent with the program are chosen at random, and do not exploit the fact that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Saujas Vaduguru , Kevin Ellis , Yewen Pu

Systems for synthesizer sound matching, which automatically set the parameters of a synthesizer to emulate an input sound, have the potential to make the process of synthesizer programming faster and easier for novice and experienced…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Fred Bruford , Frederik Blang , Shahan Nercessian

In the classical synthesis problem, we are given an LTL formula \psi over sets of input and output signals, and we synthesize a system T that realizes \psi: with every input sequences x, the system associates an output sequence T(x) such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Shaull Almagor , Orna Kupferman

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

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

Program synthesis strives to generate a computer program as a solution to a given problem specification, expressed with input-output examples or natural language descriptions. The prevalence of large language models advances the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Erik Nijkamp , Bo Pang , Hiroaki Hayashi , Lifu Tu , Huan Wang , Yingbo Zhou , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong

The classical formulation of the program-synthesis problem is to find a program that meets a correctness specification given as a logical formula. Syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS) is a standardized format for specifying the correctness…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Saswat Padhi , Elizabeth Polgreen , Mukund Raghothaman , Andrew Reynolds , Abhishek Udupa

We propose a novel method for automatic program synthesis. P-Tree Programming represents the program search space through a single probabilistic prototype tree. From this prototype tree we form program instances which we evaluate on a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Christian Oesch

We present a new program synthesis approach that combines an encoder-decoder based synthesis architecture with a differentiable program fixer. Our approach is inspired from the fact that human developers seldom get their program correct on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-22 Matej Balog , Rishabh Singh , Petros Maniatis , Charles Sutton

Probabilistic programming has become a standard practice to model stochastic events and learn about the behavior of nature in different scientific contexts, ranging from Genetics and Ecology to Linguistics and Psychology. However, domain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Guilherme Espada , Alcides Fonseca

We introduce E3Solver, a unification-based solver for programming-by-example (PBE) participating in the 2017 edition of the SyGuS Competition. Our tool proceeds in two phases. First, for each individual example, we enumerate a terminal…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-20 M. Ammar Ben Khadra

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that provably satisfy a given specification in the form of a polymorphic refinement type. We observe that such specifications are particularly suitable for program synthesis for two…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Nadia Polikarpova , Ivan Kuraj , Armando Solar-Lezama

We develop an approach to estimate the probability that a program sampled from a large language model is correct. Given a natural language description of a programming problem, our method samples both candidate programs as well as candidate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Darren Key , Wen-Ding Li , Kevin Ellis

Program synthesis is an umbrella term for generating programs and logical formulae from specifications. With the remarkable performance improvements that GPUs enable for deep learning, a natural question arose: can we also implement a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Martin Berger , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Mojtaba Valizadeh

In this paper, we propose a multi-modal synthesis technique for automatically constructing regular expressions (regexes) from a combination of examples and natural language. Using multiple modalities is useful in this context because…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Qiaochu Chen , Xinyu Wang , Xi Ye , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

Regular expressions are pervasive in modern systems. Many real-world regular expressions are inefficient, sometimes to the extent that they are vulnerable to complexity-based attacks, and while much research has focused on detecting…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jedidiah McClurg , Miles Claver , Jackson Garner , Jake Vossen , Jordan Schmerge , Mehmet E. Belviranli

Historical linguists have long written "programs" that convert reconstructed words in an ancestor language into their attested descendants via ordered string rewrite functions (called sound laws) However, writing these programs is…

When writing programs, people have the ability to tackle a new complex task by decomposing it into smaller and more familiar subtasks. While it is difficult to measure whether neural program synthesis methods have similar capabilities, what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Joey Hong , Manzil Zaheer , Pengcheng Yin , Charles Sutton