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Homogeneous generative meta-programming (HGMP) enables the generation of program fragments at compile-time or run-time. We present the first foundational calculus which can model powerful HGMP languages such as Template Haskell. The…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Martin Berger , Laurence Tratt , Christian Urban

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable success in code generation. However, they still frequently produce uncompilable output because their next-token inference procedure does not model formal aspects of code. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Niels Mündler , Jingxuan He , Hao Wang , Koushik Sen , Dawn Song , Martin Vechev

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

Genetic Programming (GP) is known to suffer from the burden of being computationally expensive by design. While, over the years, many techniques have been developed to mitigate this issue, data vectorization, in particular, is arguably…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Francisco Baeta , João Correia , Tiago Martins , Penousal Machado

Among the evolutionary methods, one that is quite prominent is Genetic Programming, and, in recent years, a variant called Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) has shown to be successfully applicable to many real-world problems.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Mauro Castelli , Luca Manzoni , Luca Mariot , Giuliamaria Menara , Gloria Pietropolli

We present SignalGP, a new genetic programming (GP) technique designed to incorporate the event-driven programming paradigm into computational evolution's toolbox. Event-driven programming is a software design philosophy that simplifies the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Alexander Lalejini , Charles Ofria

Feature construction can substantially improve the accuracy of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. Genetic Programming (GP) has been proven to be effective at this task by evolving non-linear combinations of input features. GP additionally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Marco Virgolin , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

A good feature representation is a determinant factor to achieve high performance for many machine learning algorithms in terms of classification. This is especially true for techniques that do not build complex internal representations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Noëlie Cherrier , Jean-Philippe Poli , Maxime Defurne , Franck Sabatié

Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) has previously shown capabilities in image processing tasks by evolving programs with a function set specialized for computer vision. A similar approach can be applied to Atari playing. Programs are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Dennis G Wilson , Sylvain Cussat-Blanc , Hervé Luga , Julian F Miller

Combining multiple audio features can improve the performance of music tagging, but common deep learning-based feature fusion methods often lack interpretability. To address this problem, we propose a Genetic Programming (GP) pipeline that…

We consider the problem of parsing natural language descriptions into source code written in a general-purpose programming language like Python. Existing data-driven methods treat this problem as a language generation task without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

Probabilistic techniques are central to data analysis, but different approaches can be difficult to apply, combine, and compare. This paper introduces composable generative population models (CGPMs), a computational abstraction that extends…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Feras Saad , Vikash Mansinghka

Ongoing progress in computational intelligence (CI) has led to an increased desire to apply CI techniques for the purpose of improving software engineering processes, particularly software testing. Existing state-of-the-art automated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jarrod Goschen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman , Stefan Gruner

In recent times, a plethora of Large Code Generation Models (LCGMs) have been proposed, showcasing significant potential in assisting developers with complex programming tasks. Benchmarking LCGMs necessitates the creation of a set of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Simin Chen , Xiaoning Feng , Xiaohong Han , Cong Liu , Wei Yang

Most state of the art decision systems based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) are data-driven black-box neural models, where it is often difficult to incorporate expert knowledge into the models or let experts review and validate the learned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Vadim Liventsev , Aki Härmä , Milan Petković

Large Language Models (LLMs) typically excel at coding tasks involving high-level programming languages, as opposed to lower-level programming languages, such as assembly. We propose a synthetic data generation method named C-ing Clearly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Teodor Poncu , Ioana Pintilie , Marius Dragoi , Dragos Tantaru , Florin Brad

Finding Boolean functions suitable for cryptographic primitives is a complex combinatorial optimization problem, since they must satisfy several properties to resist cryptanalytic attacks, and the space is very large, which grows super…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek , Domagoj Jakobovic , Marko Djurasevic , Alberto Leporati

Models can be built directly from input and output data trough a process known as system identification. The Nonlinear AutoRegressive with eXogenous inputs (NARMAX) models are among the most used mathematical representations in the area and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Henrique Carvalho de Castro , Bruno Henrique Groenner Barbosa

Grammars provide a convenient and powerful mechanism to define the space of possible solutions for a range of problems. However, when used in grammatical evolution (GE), great care must be taken in the design of a grammar to ensure that the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Grant Dick , Peter A. Whigham

Genetic Programming (GP) is an evolutionary algorithm commonly used for machine learning tasks. In this paper we present a method that allows GP to transform the representation of a large-scale machine learning dataset into a more compact…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Lino Rodriguez-Coayahuitl , Alicia Morales-Reyes , Hugo Jair Escalante