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This paper presents an example-driven synthesis technique for automating a large class of data preparation tasks that arise in data science. Given a set of input tables and an out- put table, our approach synthesizes a table transformation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Yu Feng , Ruben Martins , Jacob Van Geffen , Isil Dillig , Swarat Chaudhuri

In recent years, Deep Learning (DL) has found great success in domains such as multimedia understanding. However, the complex nature of multimedia data makes it difficult to develop DL-based software. The state-of-the art tools, such as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Tian Zhao , Xiaobing Huang , Yu Cao

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

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

The goal of program synthesis is to automatically generate programs in a particular language from corresponding specifications, e.g. input-output behavior. Many current approaches achieve impressive results after training on randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Richard Shin , Neel Kant , Kavi Gupta , Christopher Bender , Brandon Trabucco , Rishabh Singh , Dawn Song

We propose a new synthesis algorithm that can efficiently search programs with local variables (e.g., those introduced by lambdas). Prior bottom-up synthesis algorithms are not able to evaluate programs with free local variables, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xiang Li , Xiangyu Zhou , Rui Dong , Yihong Zhang , Xinyu Wang

The construction of high-quality datasets is a cornerstone of modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems. However, the increasing scale of available data poses significant challenges, including storage constraints. To address these issues, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Kentaro Seki , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Takaaki Saeki , Hiroshi Saruwatari

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 key challenge in program synthesis is the astronomical size of the search space the synthesizer has to explore. In response to this challenge, recent work proposed to guide synthesis using learned probabilistic models. Obtaining such a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shraddha Barke , Hila Peleg , Nadia Polikarpova

Cost-guided bottom-up search (BUS) algorithms use a cost function to guide the search to solve program synthesis tasks. In this paper, we show that current state-of-the-art cost-guided BUS algorithms suffer from a common problem: they can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Saqib Ameen , Levi H. S. Lelis

We consider the problem of synthesizing programs with numerical constants that optimize a quantitative objective, such as accuracy, over a set of input-output examples. We propose a general framework for optimal synthesis of such programs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Stephen Mell , Steve Zdancewic , Osbert Bastani

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable prowess in text generation, yet producing long-form, factual documents grounded in extensive external knowledge bases remains a significant challenge. Existing "top-down" methods, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Binquan Ji , Jiaqi Wang , Ruiting Li , Xingchen Han , Yiyang Qi , Shichao Wang , Yifei Lu , Yuantao Han , Feiliang Ren

We introduce a top-down approach to discourse parsing that is conceptually simpler than its predecessors (Kobayashi et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020). By framing the task as a sequence labelling problem where the goal is to iteratively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Fajri Koto , Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin

Abstract semantics has proven to be instrumental for accelerating search-based program synthesis, by enabling the sound pruning of a set of incorrect programs (without enumerating them). One may expect faster synthesis with increasingly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Rui Dong , Qingyue Wu , Danny Ding , Zheng Guo , Ruyi Ji , Xinyu Wang

The rapidly evolving landscape of AI and machine learning workloads has widened the gap between high-level domain operations and efficient hardware utilization. Achieving near-peak performance still demands deep hardware expertise-experts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Arun Thangamani , Md Asghar Ahmad Shahid , Adam Siemieniuk , Rolf Morel , Renato Golin , Alexander Heinecke

Program synthesis from input-output (IO) examples has been a long-standing challenge. While recent works demonstrated limited success on domain-specific languages (DSL), it remains highly challenging to apply them to real-world programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xinyun Chen , Dawn Song , Yuandong Tian

Supervised dictionary learning (SDL) is a classical machine learning method that simultaneously seeks feature extraction and classification tasks, which are not necessarily a priori aligned objectives. The goal of SDL is to learn a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-15 Joowon Lee , Hanbaek Lyu , Weixin Yao

We present Locksynth, a tool that automatically derives synchronization needed for destructive updates to concurrent data structures that involve a constant number of shared heap memory write operations. Locksynth serves as the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sarat Chandra Varanasi , Neeraj Mittal , Gopal Gupta

In many scenarios we need to find the most likely program under a local context, where the local context can be an incomplete program, a partial specification, natural language description, etc. We call such problem program estimation. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Yingfei Xiong , Bo Wang , Guirong Fu , Linfei Zang