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We introduce Synapse motivated by the needs to estimate and emulate workload execution characteristics on high-performance and distributed heterogeneous resources. Synapse has a platform independent application profiler, and the ability to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Andre Merzky , Shantenu Jha

We present a novel and efficient method for synthesis of parameterized distributed protocols by sketching. Our method is both syntax-guided and counterexample-guided, and utilizes a fast equivalence reduction technique that enables…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Derek Egolf , William Schultz , Stavros Tripakis

Programming by Example (PBE) is the task of inducing computer programs from input-output examples. It can be seen as a type of machine learning where the hypothesis space is the set of legal programs in some programming language. Recent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-03 John K. Feser , Marc Brockschmidt , Alexander L. Gaunt , Daniel Tarlow

In recent years, researchers have explored component-based synthesis, which aims to automatically construct programs that operate by composing calls to existing APIs. However, prior work has not considered efficient synthesis of methods…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Sankha Narayan Guria , Jeffrey S. Foster , David Van Horn

We present a novel algorithm that synthesizes imperative programs for introductory programming courses. Given a set of input-output examples and a partial program, our algorithm generates a complete program that is consistent with every…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Sunbeom So , Hakjoo Oh

Programming-by-example is the task of synthesizing a program that is consistent with a set of user-provided input-output examples. As examples are often an under-specification of one's intent, a good synthesizer must choose the intended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Saujas Vaduguru , Daniel Fried , Yewen Pu

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

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

Programming-by-Example (PBE) systems synthesize an intended program in some (relatively constrained) domain-specific language from a small number of input-output examples provided by the user. In this paper, we motivate and define the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Sumit Gulwani , Kunal Pathak , Arjun Radhakrishna , Ashish Tiwari , Abhishek Udupa

Language models can be used to provide interactive, personalized student feedback in educational settings. However, real-world deployment faces three key challenges: privacy concerns, limited computational resources, and the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Fares Fawzi , Vinitra Swamy , Dominik Glandorf , Tanya Nazaretsky , Tanja Käser

Dialogue systems is an increasingly popular task of natural language processing. However, the dialogue paths tend to be deterministic, restricted to the system rails, regardless of the given request or input text. Recent advances in program…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Eli Whitehouse , William Gerard , Yauhen Klimovich , Marc Franco-Salvador

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that satisfy both a functional specification and an asymptotic resource bound. Prior methods for synthesis with a resource metric require the user to specify a concrete expression…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Qinheping Hu , John Cyphert , Loris D'Antoni , Thomas Reps

We present a new domain-agnostic synthesis technique for generating programs from input-output examples. Our method, called metric program synthesis, relaxes the well-known observational equivalence idea (used widely in bottom-up…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-12 John Feser , Isil Dillig , Armando Solar-Lezama

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

In Programming by Example, a system attempts to infer a program from input and output examples, generally by searching for a composition of certain base functions. Performing a naive brute force search is infeasible for even mildly involved…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Aditya Krishna Menon , Omer Tamuz , Sumit Gulwani , Butler Lampson , Adam Tauman Kalai

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 introduce SpreadPy as a Python library for simulating spreading activation in cognitive single-layer and multiplex networks. Our tool is designed to perform numerical simulations testing structure-function relationships in cognitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Salvatore Citraro , Edith Haim , Alessandra Carini , Cynthia S. Q. Siew , Giulio Rossetti , Massimo Stella

We develop an approach to estimate the probability that a program sampled from a large language model is correct. Given a natural language description of a programming problem, our method samples both candidate programs as well as candidate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Darren Key , Wen-Ding Li , Kevin Ellis

Python's dynamic type system, while offering significant flexibility and expressiveness, poses substantial challenges for static analysis and automated tooling, particularly in unannotated or partially annotated codebases. Existing type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ali Aman , Muhammad Asaduzzaman , Shaowei Wang

LambdaBeam is a state-of-the-art, execution-guided algorithm for program synthesis that utilizes higher-order functions, lambda functions, and iterative loops within a Domain-Specific Language (DSL). LambdaBeam generates each program from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Janis Zenkner , Lukas Dierkes , Tobias Sesterhenn , Chrisitan Bartelt