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Program synthesis is the generation of a program from a specification. Correct synthesis is difficult, and methods that provide formal guarantees suffer from scalability issues. On the other hand, neural networks are able to generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Elizabeth Polgreen , Ralph Abboud , Daniel Kroening

In this paper, we present a novel approach to synthesize invariant clusters for polynomial programs. An invariant cluster is a set of program invariants that share a common structure, which could, for example, be used to save the needs for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Qiuye Wang , Lihong Zhi , Naijun Zhan , Bai Xue , Zhi-hong Yang

In this paper, we address the problem of learning compact similarity-preserving embeddings for massive high-dimensional streams of data in order to perform efficient similarity search. We present a new online method for computing binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Anne Morvan , Antoine Souloumiac , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Jamal Atif

Matching binary to source code and vice versa has various applications in different fields, such as computer security, software engineering, and reverse engineering. Even though there exist methods that try to match source code with binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ali TehraniJamsaz , Hanze Chen , Ali Jannesari

This work presents CLIPDraw, an algorithm that synthesizes novel drawings based on natural language input. CLIPDraw does not require any training; rather a pre-trained CLIP language-image encoder is used as a metric for maximizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Kevin Frans , L. B. Soros , Olaf Witkowski

We introduce a novel approach to automatically synthesize a mathematical representation of the control algorithms implemented in industrial cyber-physical systems (CPS), given the embedded system binary. The output model can be used by…

Program synthesis -- the automatic generation of code given a specification -- is one of the most fundamental tasks in artificial intelligence (AI) and the dream of many programmers. Numerous synthesizers have been developed for program…

Dynamic program analysis is invaluable for malware detection, debugging, and performance profiling. However, software-based instrumentation incurs high overhead and can be evaded by anti-analysis techniques. In this paper, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Changyu Zhao , Yohan Beugin , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Quinn Burke , Guancheng Li , Patrick McDaniel

Sketching is an important means of communication in software engineering practice. Yet, there is little research investigating the use of sketches. We want to contribute a better understanding of sketching, in particular its use during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Sebastian Baltes , Stefan Wagner

Image-guided drawing can compensate for the lack of skills but often requires a significant number of repetitive strokes to create textures. Existing automatic stroke synthesis methods are usually limited to predefined styles or require…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yilan Chen , Kin Chung Kwan , Li-Yi Wei , Hongbo Fu

Creative sketch is a universal way of visual expression, but translating images from an abstract sketch is very challenging. Traditionally, creating a deep learning model for sketch-to-image synthesis needs to overcome the distorted input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Qiang Wang , Di Kong , Fengyin Lin , Yonggang Qi

Our goal is to build systems which write code automatically from the kinds of specifications humans can most easily provide, such as examples and natural language instruction. The key idea of this work is that a flexible combination of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Maxwell Nye , Luke Hewitt , Joshua Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

Novice programmers often struggle with problem solving due to the high cognitive loads they face. Furthermore, many introductory programming courses do not explicitly teach it, assuming that problem solving skills are acquired along the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Oka Kurniawan , Cyrille Jégourel , Norman Tiong Seng Lee , Matthieu De Mari , Christopher M. Poskitt

Progress in the field of machine learning has been fueled by the introduction of benchmark datasets pushing the limits of existing algorithms. Enabling the design of datasets to test specific properties and failure modes of learning…

Large pre-trained language models have been used to generate code,providing a flexible interface for synthesizing programs from natural language specifications. However, they often violate syntactic and semantic rules of their output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Gabriel Poesia , Oleksandr Polozov , Vu Le , Ashish Tiwari , Gustavo Soares , Christopher Meek , Sumit Gulwani

Material node graphs are programs that generate the 2D channels of procedural materials, including geometry such as roughness and displacement maps, and reflectance such as albedo and conductivity maps. They are essential in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jonas Belouadi , Tamy Boubekeur , Adrien Kaiser

We present a neurosymbolic framework for the lifelong learning of algorithmic tasks that mix perception and procedural reasoning. Reusing high-level concepts across domains and learning complex procedures are key challenges in lifelong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Lazar Valkov , Dipak Chaudhari , Akash Srivastava , Charles Sutton , Swarat Chaudhuri

Sketching techniques have become popular for scaling up machine learning algorithms by reducing the sample size or dimensionality of massive data sets, while still maintaining the statistical power of big data. In this paper, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jialei Wang , Jason D. Lee , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Mladen Kolar , Nathan Srebro

A recent trend in binary code analysis promotes the use of neural solutions based on instruction embedding models. An instruction embedding model is a neural network that transforms sequences of assembly instructions into embedding vectors.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Fiorella Artuso , Marco Mormando , Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Leonardo Querzoni

We present a novel approach to the automatic synthesis of recursive programs from mixed-quantifier first-order logic properties. Our approach uses Skolemization to reduce the mixed-quantifier synthesis problem to a $\forall^*$-synthesis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Derek Egolf , Stavros Tripakis