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In this paper, a library-based synthesis methodology for reversible circuits is proposed where a reversible specification is considered as a permutation comprising a set of cycles. To this end, a pre-synthesis optimization step is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Mehdi Saeedi , Mehdi Sedighi , Morteza Saheb Zamani

A core task in process mining is process discovery which aims to learn an accurate process model from event log data. In this paper, we propose to use (block-) structured programs directly as target process models so as to establish…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Dell Zhang , Alexander Kuhnle , Julian Richardson , Murat Sensoy

Automated code generation can systematically exceed expert hand-optimization for recurrence relations-computational primitives ubiquitous in orthogonal polynomials, special functions, numerical integration, and molecular integral…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Rubén Darío Guerrero

Neural codec language models enable high-quality discrete speech synthesis, yet their inference remains vulnerable to token-level artifacts and distributional drift that degrade perceptual realism. Rather than relying on preference…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Junchuan Zhao , Minh Duc Vu , Ye Wang

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is a general artificial intelligence benchmark that is currently unsolvable by any Machine Learning method, including Large Language Models (LLMs). It demands strong generalization and reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Filipe Marinho Rocha , Inês Dutra , Vítor Santos Costa

Collective communication algorithms are an important component of distributed computation. Indeed, in the case of deep-learning, collective communication is the Amdahl's bottleneck of data-parallel training. This paper introduces SCCL (for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Zixian Cai , Zhengyang Liu , Saeed Maleki , Madan Musuvathi , Todd Mytkowicz , Jacob Nelson , Olli Saarikivi

Code retrieval aims to provide users with desired code snippets based on users' natural language queries. With the development of deep learning technologies, adopting pre-trained models for this task has become mainstream. Considering the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wenchao Gu , Zongyi Lyu , Yanlin Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

This work presents CLIPDraw, an algorithm that synthesizes novel drawings based on natural language input. CLIPDraw does not require any training; rather a pre-trained CLIP language-image encoder is used as a metric for maximizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Kevin Frans , L. B. Soros , Olaf Witkowski

This thesis presents a broad-coverage probabilistic top-down parser, and its application to the problem of language modeling for speech recognition. The parser builds fully connected derivations incrementally, in a single pass from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Brian Roark

Program synthesis of general-purpose source code from natural language specifications is challenging due to the need to reason about high-level patterns in the target program and low-level implementation details at the same time. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Richard Shin , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt , Oleksandr Polozov

We present a neurosymbolic framework for the lifelong learning of algorithmic tasks that mix perception and procedural reasoning. Reusing high-level concepts across domains and learning complex procedures are key challenges in lifelong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Lazar Valkov , Dipak Chaudhari , Akash Srivastava , Charles Sutton , Swarat Chaudhuri

Large language models (LLMs) typically approach combinatorial optimization as an inference-time procedure, solving each instance separately through sampling, search, or repeated prompting. We ask whether reinforcement learning can instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Soheyl Massoudi , Gabriel Apaza , Milad Habibi , Mark Fuge

Dataset distillation seeks to synthesize a highly compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the original dataset on downstream tasks. For the classification task that use pre-trained self-supervised models as backbones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qianxin Xia , Jiawei Du , Xin Zhang , Yuhan Zhang , Jielei Wang , Guoming Lu

We present a Neural Program Search, an algorithm to generate programs from natural language description and a small number of input/output examples. The algorithm combines methods from Deep Learning and Program Synthesis fields by designing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Illia Polosukhin , Alexander Skidanov

AI agents increasingly excel at generating, testing, and refining code. However, they fall short on tasks requiring formal guarantees of full coverage that testing alone cannot provide. Distributed systems are a prime example: properties…

As one of the key tools in many security tasks, decompilers reconstruct human-readable source code from binaries. Yet, despite recent advances, their outputs often suffer from syntactic and semantic errors and remain difficult to read.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Muqi Zou , Hongyu Cai , Hongwei Wu , Zion Leonahenahe Basque , Arslan Khan , Berkay Celik , Dave , Tian , Antonio Bianchi , Ruoyu , Wang , Dongyan Xu

Search is an important technique in program synthesis that allows for adaptive strategies such as focusing on particular search directions based on execution results. Several prior works have demonstrated that neural models are effective at…

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

Bottom-up evaluation of Datalog has been studied for a long time, and is standard material in textbooks. However, if one actually wants to develop a deductive database system, it turns out that there are many implementation options. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Stefan Brass , Heike Stephan

This report investigates enhancing semantic caching effectiveness by employing specialized, fine-tuned embedding models. Semantic caching relies on embedding similarity rather than exact key matching, presenting unique challenges in…

Despite achieving superior performance in human-level control problems, unlike humans, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) lacks high-order intelligence (e.g., logic deduction and reuse), thus it behaves ineffectively than humans regarding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Yushi Cao , Zhiming Li , Tianpei Yang , Hao Zhang , Yan Zheng , Yi Li , Jianye Hao , Yang Liu