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Many real applications problems can be encoded easily as quantified formulas in SMT. However, this simplicity comes at the cost of difficulty during solving by SMT solvers. Different strategies and quantifier instantiation techniques have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mudathir Mohamed , Nick Feng , Andrew Reynolds , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett , Marsha Chechik

We consider the problem of synthesizing a program given a probabilistic specification of its desired behavior. Specifically, we study the recent paradigm of distribution-guided inductive synthesis (DIGITS), which iteratively calls a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Samuel Drews , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

We present an approach to automatically synthesize synchronized models from lightweight formal specifications. Our approach takes as input a specification of a distributed system along with a global linear time constraint, which must be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Pablo F. Castro , Luciano Putruele , Renzo Degiovanni , Nazareno Aguirre

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

Designing a static analysis is generally a substantial undertaking, requiring significant expertise in both program analysis and the domain of the program analysis, and significant development resources. As a result, most program analyses…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Colin S. Gordon

Program synthesis techniques construct or infer programs from user-provided specifications, such as input-output examples. Yet most specifications, especially those given by end-users, leave the synthesis problem radically ill-posed,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yewen Pu , Kevin Ellis , Marta Kryven , Josh Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

This paper presents an automatic formal controller synthesis method for nonlinear sampled-data systems with safety and reachability specifications. Fundamentally, the presented method is not restricted to polynomial systems and controllers.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Cees F. Verdier , Manuel Mazo

The ability to model search in a constraint solver can be an essential asset for solving combinatorial problems. However, existing infrastructure for defining search heuristics is often inadequate. Either modeling capabilities are extremely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-07 Tom Schrijvers , Guido Tack , Pieter Wuille , Horst Samulowitz , Peter J. Stuckey

A challenging problem for autonomous systems is to synthesize a reactive controller that conforms to a set of given correctness properties. Linear temporal logic (LTL) provides a formal language to specify the desired behavioral properties…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

Temporal logic specifications play an important role in a wide range of software analysis tasks, such as model checking, automated synthesis, program comprehension, and runtime monitoring. Given a set of positive and negative examples,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Changjian Zhang , Parv Kapoor , Ian Dardik , Leyi Cui , Romulo Meira-Goes , David Garlan , Eunsuk Kang

The unrealizability of a specification is often due to the assumption that the behavior of the environment is unrestricted. In this paper, we present algorithms for synthesis in bounded environments, where the environment can only generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

Software synthesis - the process of generating complete, general-purpose programs from specifications - has become a hot research topic in the past few years. For decades the problem was thought to be insurmountable: the search space of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Jonathan Frankle

This paper addresses the problem of specifying and parsing the syntax of domain-specific languages (DSLs) in a modular, user-friendly way. That is, we want to enable the design of composable DSLs that combine the natural syntax of external…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Erik Silkensen , Jeremy G. Siek

Designing mechanical mechanisms to trace specific paths is a classic yet notoriously difficult engineering problem, characterized by a vast and complex search space of discrete topologies and continuous parameters. We introduce MechaFormer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Diana Bolanos , Mohammadmehdi Ataei , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman

Designing component-based constraint solvers is a complex problem. Some components are required, some are optional and there are interdependencies between the components. Because of this, previous approaches to solver design and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-31 Ian P. Gent , Chris Jefferson , Lars Kotthoff , Ian Miguel

Biological and advanced cyberphysical control systems often have limited, sparse, uncertain, and distributed communication and computing in addition to sensing and actuation. Fortunately, the corresponding plants and performance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Yuh-Shyang Wang , Nikolai Matni , John C. Doyle

Neural network verification tools currently support only a narrow class of specifications, typically expressed as low-level constraints over raw inputs and outputs. This limitation significantly hinders their adoption and practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yizhak Y. Elboher , Reuven Peleg , Zhouxing Shi , Guy Katz , Jan Křetínský

We define the problem of learning a transducer ${S}$ from a target language $U$ containing possibly conflicting transducers, using membership queries and conjecture queries. The requirement is that the language of ${S}$ be a subset of $U$.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Roderick Bloem , Hana Chockler , Masoud Ebrahimi , Dana Fisman , Heinz Riener

Programming by example is the problem of synthesizing a program from a small set of input / output pairs. Recent works applying machine learning methods to this task show promise, but are typically reliant on generating synthetic examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Judith Clymo , Haik Manukian , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Adrià Gascón , Brooks Paige

We study the problem of synthesizing string to string transformations from a set of input/output examples. The transformations we consider are expressed using deterministic finite automata (DFA) that read pairs of letters, one letter from…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Jad Hamza , Viktor Kunčak