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Machine learning methods can automate the in silico design of biological sequences, aiming to reduce costs and accelerate medical research. Given the limited access to wet labs, in silico design methods commonly use an oracle model to…

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Synthetic data has emerged as a crucial solution to the data scarcity bottleneck in large language models (LLMs), particularly for specialized domains and low-resource languages. However, the broader adoption of existing synthetic data…

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Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating expressions that satisfy a given specification. Program synthesis techniques have been used to automate the generation of loop invariants in code, synthesize function summaries, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Elizabeth Polgreen , Sanjit A. Seshia

We consider the decision problem for quantifier-free formulas whose atoms are linear inequalities interpreted over the reals or rationals. This problem may be decided using satisfiability modulo theory (SMT), using a mixture of a SAT solver…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-23 David Monniaux

Syntax-guided synthesis (SyGuS) is a recently proposed framework for program synthesis problems. The SyGuS problem is to find an expression or program generated by a given grammar that meets a correctness specification. Correctness…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Benjamin Caulfield , Markus N. Rabe , Sanjit A. Seshia , Stavros Tripakis

Constraint Handling Rules (CHRs) are a high-level rule-based programming language for specification and implementation of constraint solvers. CHR manipulates a global store representing a flat conjunction of constraints. By default, CHR…

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Logic locking "hides" the functionality of a digital circuit to protect it from counterfeiting, piracy, and malicious design modifications. The original design is transformed into a "locked" design such that the circuit reveals its correct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Gourav Takhar , Ramesh Karri , Christian Pilato , Subhajit Roy

We consider the problem of verification modulo tested library contracts as a step towards automating the verification of client programs that use complex libraries. We formulate this problem as the synthesis of modular contracts for the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abhishek Uppar , Omar Muhammad , Sumanth Prabhu , Deepak D'Souza , Madhusudan P , Adithya Murali

The Why3 IDE and verification system facilitates the use of a wide range of Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers through a driver-based architecture. We present Where4: a portfolio-based approach to discharge Why3 proof obligations.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Andrew Healy , Rosemary Monahan , James F. Power

Boolean matching is an important problem in logic synthesis and verification. Despite being well-studied for conventional Boolean circuits, its treatment for reversible logic circuits remains largely, if not completely, missing. This work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Tian-Fu Chen , Jie-Hong R. Jiang

The Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT), as the prototypical $\mathsf{NP}$-complete problem, is crucial in both theoretical computer science and practical applications. To address this problem, stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Maximilian J. Kramer , Paul Boes , Jens Eisert

Conversational search (CS) requires a complex software engineering pipeline that integrates query reformulation, ranking, and response generation. CS researchers currently face two barriers: the lack of a unified framework for efficiently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shaojie Jiang , Svitlana Vakulenko , Maarten de Rijke

Submodularity is an important concept in integer and combinatorial optimization. A classical submodular set function models the utility of selecting homogenous items from a single ground set, and such selections can be represented by binary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Simge Küçükyavuz , Qimeng Yu

Reactive synthesis is the process of using temporal logic specifications in LTL to generate correct controllers, but its use has been restricted to Boolean specifications. Recently, a Boolean abstraction technique allows to translate LTL T…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Andoni Rodríguez , Cesar Sanchez

Designing synthetically accessible molecules and recommending analogs to unsynthesizable molecules are important problems for accelerating molecular discovery. We reconceptualize both problems using ideas from program synthesis. Drawing…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-04 Michael Sun , Alston Lo , Minghao Guo , Jie Chen , Connor Coley , Wojciech Matusik

Program synthesis has seen many new applications in recent years, in large part thanks to the introduction of SyGuS. However, no existing SyGuS solvers have support for synthesizing recursive functions. We introduce an multi-phase algorithm…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Shmuel Berman , Mark Santolucito

Despite achieving superior performance in human-level control problems, unlike humans, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) lacks high-order intelligence (e.g., logic deduction and reuse), thus it behaves ineffectively than humans regarding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Yushi Cao , Zhiming Li , Tianpei Yang , Hao Zhang , Yan Zheng , Yi Li , Jianye Hao , Yang Liu

Enhancing the mathematical reasoning of large language models (LLMs) demands high-quality training data, yet conventional methods face critical challenges in scalability, cost, and data reliability. To address these limitations, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Sirui Chen , Changxin Tian , Binbin Hu , Kunlong Chen , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

Modal synthesis is an important area of physical modeling whose exploration in the past has been held back by a large number of control parameters, the scarcity of general-purpose design tools and the difficulty of obtaining the…

Sound · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ilia Bisnovatyi

SMT solvers use sophisticated techniques for polynomial (linear or non-linear) integer arithmetic. In contrast, non-polynomial integer arithmetic has mostly been neglected so far. However, in the context of program verification, polynomials…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl