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We consider the problem of generating automatic code given sample input-output pairs. We train a neural network to map from the current state and the outputs to the program's next statement. The neural network optimizes multiple tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Amit Zohar , Lior Wolf

A deductive program synthesis tool takes a specification as input and derives a program that satisfies the specification. The drawback of this approach is that search spaces for such correct programs tend to be enormous, making it difficult…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Yutaka Nagashima

Programmatic reinforcement learning (PRL) has been explored for representing policies through programs as a means to achieve interpretability and generalization. Despite promising outcomes, current state-of-the-art PRL methods are hindered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Max Liu , Chan-Hung Yu , Wei-Hsu Lee , Cheng-Wei Hung , Yen-Chun Chen , Shao-Hua Sun

The stakeholders involved in software development are becoming increasingly diverse, with both human contributors from varied backgrounds and AI-powered agents collaborating together in the process. This situation presents unique governance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Adem Ait , Gwendal Jouneaux , Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo , Jordi Cabot

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

Many example-guided program synthesis techniques use abstractions to prune the search space. While abstraction-based synthesis has proven to be very powerful, a domain expert needs to provide a suitable abstract domain, together with the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Xinyu Wang , Greg Anderson , Isil Dillig , K. L. McMillan

In today's society, we are becoming increasingly dependent on software systems. However, we also constantly witness the negative impacts of buggy software. Program synthesis aims to improve software correctness by automatically generating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Sanyogita Piya , Allison Sullivan

Data analysis is at the core of scientific studies, a prominent task that researchers and practitioners typically undertake by programming their own set of automated scripts. While there is no shortage of tools and languages available for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Artur Andrzejak , Oliver Wenz , Diego Costa

Program synthesis aims to {\it automatically} find programs from an underlying programming language that satisfy a given specification. While this has the potential to revolutionize computing, how to search over the vast space of programs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuan Yuan , Wolfgang Banzhaf

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

In model-driven engineering, developing a textual domain-specific language (DSL) involves constructing a meta-model, which defines an underlying abstract syntax, and a grammar, which defines the concrete syntax for the DSL. Language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Weixing Zhang , Jörg Holtmann , Daniel Strüber , Regina Hebig , Jan-Philipp Steghöfer

In this paper, we propose a new technique based on program synthesis for extracting information from webpages. Given a natural language query and a few labeled webpages, our method synthesizes a program that can be used to extract similar…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Qiaochu Chen , Aaron Lamoreaux , Xinyu Wang , Greg Durrett , Osbert Bastani , Isil Dillig

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

Program synthesis is a class of regression problems where one seeks a solution, in the form of a source-code program, mapping the inputs to their corresponding outputs exactly. Due to its precise and combinatorial nature, program synthesis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Yewen Pu , Zachery Miranda , Armando Solar-Lezama , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has paved the way for a new era of programming tools with both significant capabilities and risks, as the generated code lacks guarantees of correctness and reliability. Developers using LLMs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kyla H. Levin , Kyle Gwilt , Emery D. Berger , Stephen N. Freund

We present a new approach to example-guided program synthesis based on counterexample-guided abstraction refinement. Our method uses the abstract semantics of the underlying DSL to find a program $P$ whose abstract behavior satisfies the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Xinyu Wang , Isil Dillig , Rishabh Singh

Various software features such as classes, methods, requirements, and tests often have similar functionality. This can lead to emergence of duplicates in their descriptive documentation. Uncontrolled duplicates created via copy/paste hinder…

The article presents a technology for dynamic knowledge-based building of Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) to describe data-intensive scientific discovery tasks using BigData technology. The proposed technology supports high level abstract…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Sergey V. Kovalchuk , Artem V. Zakharchuk , Jiaqi Liao , Sergey V. Ivanov , Alexander V. Boukhanovsky

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant advancements, but the increasing complexity of tasks and higher performance demands highlight the need for continuous improvement. Some approaches utilize synthetic data generated by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haokun Zhao , Jinyi Han , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Xiaojun Meng , Jiansheng Wei

Syntax-guided synthesis is commonly used to generate programs encoding policies. In this approach, the set of programs, that can be written in a domain-specific language defines the search space, and an algorithm searches within this space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Rubens O. Moraes , Levi H. S. Lelis