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Generalised planning (GP) refers to the task of synthesising programs that solve families of related planning problems. We introduce a novel, yet simple method for GP: given a set of training problems, for each problem, compute an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Dillon Z. Chen , Till Hofmann , Toryn Q. Klassen , Sheila A. McIlraith

Ensuring software correctness remains a fundamental challenge in formal program verification. One promising approach relies on finding polynomial invariants for loops. Polynomial invariants are properties of a program loop that hold before…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Erdenebayar Bayarmagnai , Fatemeh Mohammadi , Rémi Prébet

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that provably satisfy a given specification in the form of a polymorphic refinement type. We observe that such specifications are particularly suitable for program synthesis for two…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Nadia Polikarpova , Ivan Kuraj , Armando Solar-Lezama

Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) has previously shown capabilities in image processing tasks by evolving programs with a function set specialized for computer vision. A similar approach can be applied to Atari playing. Programs are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Dennis G Wilson , Sylvain Cussat-Blanc , Hervé Luga , Julian F Miller

Program synthesis strives to generate a computer program as a solution to a given problem specification, expressed with input-output examples or natural language descriptions. The prevalence of large language models advances the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Erik Nijkamp , Bo Pang , Hiroaki Hayashi , Lifu Tu , Huan Wang , Yingbo Zhou , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong

Automatic software generation based on some specification is known as program synthesis. Most existing approaches formulate program synthesis as a search problem with discrete parameters. In this paper, we present a novel formulation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shantanu Mandal , Todd A. Anderson , Javier Turek , Justin Gottschlich , Abdullah Muzahid

We present a novel multivariate classification technique based on Genetic Programming. The technique is distinct from Genetic Algorithms and offers several advantages compared to Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines. The technique…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Kyle Cranmer , R. Sean Bowman

An approximate formulation of a robust geometric program (RGP) as a convex program is proposed. Interest in using geometric programs (GPs) to model complex engineering systems has been growing, and this has motivated explicitly modeling the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Ali Saab , Edward Burnell , Warren W. Hoburg

The encoding representation of the genetic algorithm can boost or hinder its performance albeit the care one can devote to operator design. Unfortunately, a representation-theory foundation that helps to find the suitable encoding for any…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Menouar Boulif

The problem of automatic software generation is known as Machine Programming. In this work, we propose a framework based on genetic algorithms to solve this problem. Although genetic algorithms have been used successfully for many problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shantanu Mandal , Todd A. Anderson , Javier S. Turek , Justin Gottschlich , Shengtian Zhou , Abdullah Muzahid

The present study covers an approach to neural architecture search (NAS) using Cartesian genetic programming (CGP) for the design and optimization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In designing artificial neural networks, one crucial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Maciej Krzywda , Szymon Łukasik , Amir Gandomi H

This paper introduces a framework of parametric descriptive directional types for constraint logic programming (CLP). It proposes a method for locating type errors in CLP programs and presents a prototype debugging tool. The main technique…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Drabent , J. Maluszynski , P. Pietrzak

Genetic programming (GP) and large language models (LLMs) differ in how program specifications are provided: GP uses input-output examples, and LLMs use text descriptions. In this work, we compared the ability of PushGP and GPT-4o to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jose Guadalupe Hernandez , Anil Kumar Saini , Gabriel Ketron , Jason H. Moore

Genetic algorithms are considered as an original way to solve problems, probably because of their generality and of their "blind" nature. But GAs are also unusual since the features of many implementations (among all that could be thought…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Jean-Louis Dessalles

The convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one of the deep learning models, has seen much success in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, designing CNN architectures still requires expert knowledge and a lot of trial and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Masanori Suganuma , Shinichi Shirakawa , Tomoharu Nagao

Manifold learning methods are an invaluable tool in today's world of increasingly huge datasets. Manifold learning algorithms can discover a much lower-dimensional representation (embedding) of a high-dimensional dataset through non-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Andrew Lensen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

The study of the classifier's design and it's usage is one of the most important machine learning areas. With the development of automatic machine learning methods, various approaches are used to build a robust classifier model. Due to some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Ivan Gridin

Many statistical problems involve optimization over a discrete parameter space having an unknown dimension. In such settings, gradient-based methods often fail due to the non-differentiability of the objective function or a non-convex or…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-19 Mo Li , QiQi Lu , Robert Lund , Xueheng Shi

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a given specification. A natural way to specify programs is to provide examples of desired input-output behavior, and many current program synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alexander Suh , Yuval Timen

In this paper, we present the first-of-its-kind machine learning (ML) system, called AI Programmer, that can automatically generate full software programs requiring only minimal human guidance. At its core, AI Programmer uses genetic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Kory Becker , Justin Gottschlich