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Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive promise in code generation, yet their progress remains limited by the shortage of large-scale datasets that are both diverse and well-aligned with human reasoning. Most existing resources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Amal Abed , Ivan Lukic , Jörg K. H. Franke , Frank Hutter

Business process simulation is a well-known approach to estimate the impact of changes to a process with respect to time and cost measures -- a practice known as what-if process analysis. The usefulness of such estimations hinges on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Manuel Camargo , Marlon Dumas , Oscar González-Rojas

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a given specification. A natural way to specify programs is to provide examples of desired input-output behavior, and many current program synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alexander Suh , Yuval Timen

Cyber-physical systems like autonomous vehicles are tested in simulation before deployment, using domain-specific programs for scenario specification. To aid the testing of autonomous vehicles in simulation, we design a natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Rimvydas Rubavicius , Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone , Alex Lascarides , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

A domain specific language (DSL) abstracts from implementation details and is aligned with the way domain experts reason about a software component. The development of DSLs is usually centered around a grammar and transformations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Sarmen Keshishzadeh , Arjan J. Mooij , Jozef Hooman

Understanding procedural language requires anticipating the causal effects of actions, even when they are not explicitly stated. In this work, we introduce Neural Process Networks to understand procedural text through (neural) simulation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Antoine Bosselut , Omer Levy , Ari Holtzman , Corin Ennis , Dieter Fox , Yejin Choi

Accurate representation of procedures in restricted scenarios, such as non-standardized scientific experiments, requires precise depiction of constraints. Unfortunately, Domain-specific Language (DSL), as an effective tool to express…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yu-Zhe Shi , Haofei Hou , Zhangqian Bi , Fanxu Meng , Xiang Wei , Lecheng Ruan , Qining Wang

This paper is an extension to an early presented programming language, called a domain specific language. This paper extends the proposed concept with new sensors and behaviours to address real-life situations. The functionality was tested…

A domain specific language (DSL) abstracts from implementation details and is aligned with the way domain experts reason about a software component. The development of DSLs is usually centered around a grammar and transformations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Sarmen Keshishzadeh , Arjan J. Mooij , Jozef Hooman

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

Program synthesis or code generation aims to generate a program that satisfies a problem specification. Recent approaches using large-scale pretrained language models (LMs) have shown promising results, yet they have some critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hung Le , Yue Wang , Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare , Silvio Savarese , Steven C. H. Hoi

The development of domain-specific languages (DSLs) is a laborious and iterative process that seems to naturally lean to the use of generative artificial intelligence. We design and prototype DSL Assistant, a tool that integrates generative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 My M. Mosthaf , Andrzej Wąsowski

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

Program synthesis--the automated generation of executable code from high-level specifications--has been a central goal of computer science for over fifty years. This thesis provides a comparative literature review of the main paradigms that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zurabi Kobaladze , Anna Arnania , Tamar Sanikidze

Many structured prediction and reasoning tasks can be framed as program synthesis problems, where the goal is to generate a program in a domain-specific language (DSL) that transforms input data into the desired output. Unfortunately,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shraddha Barke , Emmanuel Anaya Gonzalez , Saketh Ram Kasibatla , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nadia Polikarpova

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

We present DAPIP, a Programming-By-Example system that learns to program with APIs to perform data transformation tasks. We design a domain-specific language (DSL) that allows for arbitrary concatenations of API outputs and constant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Surya Bhupatiraju , Rishabh Singh , Abdel-rahman Mohamed , Pushmeet Kohli

Automating string transformations has been one of the killer applications of program synthesis. Existing synthesizers that solve this problem produce programs in domain-specific languages (DSL) that are engineered to help the synthesizer,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Anvay Grover , Ruediger Ehlers , Loris D'Antoni

We present a neural program synthesis approach integrating components which write, execute, and assess code to navigate the search space of possible programs. We equip the search process with an interpreter or a read-eval-print-loop (REPL),…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Kevin Ellis , Maxwell Nye , Yewen Pu , Felix Sosa , Josh Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

This survey reviews how large language models (LLMs) are transforming synthetic training data generation in both natural language and code domains. By producing artificial but task-relevant examples, these models can significantly augment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mihai Nadas , Laura Diosan , Andreea Tomescu