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We propose a novel method for automatic program synthesis. P-Tree Programming represents the program search space through a single probabilistic prototype tree. From this prototype tree we form program instances which we evaluate on a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Christian Oesch

Neural inductive program synthesis is a task generating instructions that can produce desired outputs from given inputs. In this paper, we focus on the generation of a chunk of assembly code that can be executed to match a state change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yifan Xu , Lu Dai , Udaikaran Singh , Kening Zhang , Zhuowen Tu

We propose a method for automatically generating abstract transformers for static analysis by abstract interpretation. The method focuses on linear constraints on programs operating on rational, real or floating-point variables and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-07-28 David Monniaux

Fast numerical libraries have been a cornerstone of scientific computing for decades, but this comes at a price. Programs may be tied to vendor specific software ecosystems resulting in polluted, non-portable code. As we enter an era of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Bruce Collie , Philip Ginsbach , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

We propose a novel approach to understanding the decision making of complex machine learning models (e.g., deep neural networks) using a combination of probably approximately correct learning (PAC) and a logic inference methodology called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Daniel Neider , Bishwamittra Ghosh

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

There is a vast gap in the quality of IDE tooling between static languages like Java and dynamic languages like Python or JavaScript. Modern frameworks and libraries in these languages heavily use their dynamic capabilities to achieve the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Franciszek Piszcz

Providing examples is one of the most common way for end-users to interact with program synthesizers. However, program synthesis systems assume that examples consistent with the program are chosen at random, and do not exploit the fact that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Saujas Vaduguru , Kevin Ellis , Yewen Pu

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

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 abstract extends on the previous work (arXiv:1407.2646, arXiv:1606.00075) on program induction using probabilistic programming. It describes possible further steps to extend that work, such that, ultimately, automatic probabilistic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Yura Perov

Problems in program analysis can be solved by developing novel program semantics and deriving abstractions conventionally. For over thirty years, higher-order program analysis has been sold as a hard problem. Its solutions have required…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , David Van Horn

Programming-by-example (PBE) is a synthesis paradigm that allows users to generate functions by simply providing input-output examples. While a promising interaction paradigm, synthesis is still too slow for realtime interaction and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Kairo Morton , William Hallahan , Elven Shum , Ruzica Piskac , Mark Santolucito

It was previously shown that control-flow refinement can be achieved by a program specializer incorporating property-based abstraction, to improve termination and complexity analysis tools. We now show that this purpose-built specializer…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-10 John P. Gallagher , Robert Glück

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

Generative AI systems have revolutionized human interaction by enabling natural language-based coding and problem solving. However, the inherent ambiguity of natural language often leads to imprecise instructions, forcing users to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Fabrizio Marozzo

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

Automatically constructing a program based on given specifications has been studied for decades. Despite the advances in the field of Program Synthesis, the current approaches still synthesize a block of code snippet and leave the task of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ali Shokri

Program synthesis aims to automatically construct human-readable programs that satisfy given task specifications, such as input/output pairs or demonstrations. Recent works have demonstrated encouraging results in a variety of domains, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Linghan Zhong , Ryan Lindeborg , Jesse Zhang , Joseph J. Lim , Shao-Hua Sun

The wayward quality of continuous prompts stresses the importance of their interpretability as unexpected and unpredictable behaviors appear following training, especially in the context of large language models automating people-sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Pascal Passigan , Kidus Yohannes , Joshua Pereira