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Many approaches to program synthesis perform a search within an enormous space of programs to find one that satisfies a given specification. Prior works have used neural models to guide combinatorial search algorithms, but such approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Hanjun Dai , Kevin Ellis , Charles Sutton

A major bottleneck in search-based program synthesis is the exponentially growing search space which makes learning large programs intractable. Humans mitigate this problem by leveraging the compositional nature of the real world: In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jonas Witt , Sebastijan Dumančić , Tias Guns , Claus-Christian Carbon

In this paper, we investigate formal test-case generation for high-level mission objectives, specifically reachability, of autonomous systems. We use Kripke structures to represent the high-level decision-making of the agent under test and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-16 Apurva Badithela , Richard M. Murray

We present a new program synthesis approach that combines an encoder-decoder based synthesis architecture with a differentiable program fixer. Our approach is inspired from the fact that human developers seldom get their program correct on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-22 Matej Balog , Rishabh Singh , Petros Maniatis , Charles Sutton

This paper introduces corpus-guided top-down synthesis as a mechanism for synthesizing library functions that capture common functionality from a corpus of programs in a domain specific language (DSL). The algorithm builds abstractions…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Matthew Bowers , Theo X. Olausson , Lionel Wong , Gabriel Grand , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Kevin Ellis , Armando Solar-Lezama

Successfully synthesizing controllers for complex dynamical systems and specifications often requires leveraging domain knowledge as well as making difficult computational or mathematical tradeoffs. This paper presents a flexible and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Eric S. Kim , Murat Arcak , Sanjit A. Seshia

This work presents a dual-agent \ac{llm}-based reasoning framework for automated planar mechanism synthesis that tightly couples linguistic specification with symbolic representation and simulation. From a natural-language task description,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 João Pedro Gandarela , Thiago Rios , Stefan Menzel , André Freitas

Proving equivalence between functional programs is a fundamental problem in program verification, which often amounts to reasoning about algebraic data types (ADTs) and compositions of structural recursions. Modern theorem provers address…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yican Sun , Ruyi Ji , Jian Fang , Xuanlin Jiang , Mingshuai Chen , Yingfei Xiong

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

Static analysis is the analysis of a program without executing it, usually carried out by an automated tool. Symbolic execution is a popular static analysis technique used both in program verification and in bug detection software. It works…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gabor Horvath , Reka Kovacs , Zoltan Porkolab

We present a computer-aided programming approach to concurrency. The approach allows programmers to program assuming a friendly, non-preemptive scheduler, and our synthesis procedure inserts synchronization to ensure that the final program…

Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion models, have made generating high-quality synthetic images widely accessible. Prior works have shown that training on synthetic images improves many perception tasks, such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Jacob Schnell , Jieke Wang , Lu Qi , Vincent Tao Hu , Meng Tang

A widely adopted strategy for model enhancement is to use synthetic data generated by a stronger model for supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, for emerging reasoning models like Qwen3-8B, this approach often fails to improve reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zixian Huang , Kaichen Yang , Xu Huang , Feiyang Hao , Qiming Ge , Bowen Li , He Du , Kai Chen , Qipeng Guo

Inspired by recent progress in dynamic programming approaches for weighted model counting, we investigate a dynamic-programming approach in the context of boolean realizability and synthesis, which takes a conjunctive-normal-form boolean…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yi Lin , Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi

Algorithmic reasoning refers to the ability to understand the complex patterns behind the problem and decompose them into a sequence of reasoning steps towards the solution. Such nature of algorithmic reasoning makes it a challenge for…

While program comprehension tools often use static program analysis techniques to obtain useful information, they usually work only with sufficiently scalable techniques with limited precision. A possible improvement of this approach is to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Robert Husák , Jan Kofroň , Filip Zavoral

The increasing capability of large language models (LLMs) to generate synthetic content has heightened concerns about their misuse, driving the development of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) detection models. However, these detectors face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Haoyi Li , Angela Yifei Yuan , Soyeon Caren Han , Christopher Leckie

Effective program synthesis requires a way to minimise the number of candidate programs being searched. A type signature, for example, places some small restrictions on the structure of potential candidates. We introduce and motivate a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Bruce Collie , Michael O'Boyle

Syntax-guided synthesis aims to find a program satisfying semantic specification as well as user-provided structural hypothesis. For syntax-guided synthesis there are two main search strategies: concrete search, which systematically or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Kangjing Huang , Xiaokang Qiu , Qi Tian , Yanjun Wang

Compounding is a highly productive word-formation process in some languages that is often problematic for natural language processing applications. In this paper, we investigate whether distributional semantics in the form of word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Joachim Daiber , Lautaro Quiroz , Roger Wechsler , Stella Frank