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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zihuiwen Ye , Fraser Greenlee-Scott , Max Bartolo , Phil Blunsom , Jon Ander Campos , Matthias Gallé

Requirements Satisfaction Assessment (RSA) evaluates whether the set of design elements linked to a single requirement provide sufficient coverage of that requirement -- typically meaning that all concepts in the requirement are addressed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Amrit Poudel , Jinfeng Lin , Jane Cleland-Huang

This paper proposes relational program synthesis, a new problem that concerns synthesizing one or more programs that collectively satisfy a relational specification. As a dual of relational program verification, relational program synthesis…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yuepeng Wang , Xinyu Wang , Isil Dillig

We present $\textbf{Research Math Agents (RMA)}$, an agentic framework for automated reasoning on research-level mathematical problems. Unlike prior studies centered on competition mathematics or formal theorem proving, RMA targets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zelin Zhao , Bo Yuan , Jaemoo Choi , Yongxin Chen

Recent advances in computational cognitive science (i.e., simulation-based probabilistic programs) have paved the way for significant progress in formal, implementable models of pragmatics. Rather than describing a pragmatic reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Gregory Scontras , Michael Henry Tessler , Michael Franke

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 propose a new ensemble prediction method, Random Subset Averaging (RSA), tailored for settings with many covariates, particularly in the presence of strong correlations. RSA constructs candidate models via binomial random subset strategy…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Wenhao Cui , Jie Hu

Being able to provide counterfactual interventions - sequences of actions we would have had to take for a desirable outcome to happen - is essential to explain how to change an unfavourable decision by a black-box machine learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Giovanni De Toni , Bruno Lepri , Andrea Passerini

The scope of this work is the constraint-based synthesis of termination arguments for the restricted class of programs called linear lasso programs. A termination argument consists of a ranking function as well as a set of supporting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Jan Leike

Synthesizing programs from examples requires searching over a vast, combinatorial space of possible programs. In this search process, a key challenge is representing the behavior of a partially written program before it can be executed, to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Maxwell Nye , Yewen Pu , Matthew Bowers , Jacob Andreas , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

Despite remarkable advances in automated visual recognition by machines, some visual tasks remain challenging for machines. Fleuret et al. (2011) introduced the Synthetic Visual Reasoning Test (SVRT) to highlight this point, which required…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Lu Yihe , Scott C. Lowe , Penelope A. Lewis , Mark C. W. van Rossum

Program synthesis aims to automatically generate an executable program that conforms to the given specification. Recent advancements have demonstrated that deep neural methodologies and large-scale pretrained language models are highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Tianyi Chen , Qidi Wang , Zhen Dong , Liwei Shen , Xin Peng

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 general setting of this work is the constraint-based synthesis of termination arguments. We consider a restricted class of programs called lasso programs. The termination argument for a lasso program is a pair of a ranking function and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Matthias Heizmann , Jochen Hoenicke , Jan Leike , Andreas Podelski

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods have achieved impressive performance on tasks in a variety of domains. However, neural network policies produced with DRL methods are not human-interpretable and often have difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Dweep Trivedi , Jesse Zhang , Shao-Hua Sun , Joseph J. Lim

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 address the safety verification and synthesis problems for real-time systems. We introduce real-time programs that are made of instructions that can perform assignments to discrete and real-valued variables. They are general enough to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Franck Cassez , Peter Gjøl Jensen , Kim Guldstrand Larsen

Enhancing the mathematical reasoning of large language models (LLMs) demands high-quality training data, yet conventional methods face critical challenges in scalability, cost, and data reliability. To address these limitations, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Sirui Chen , Changxin Tian , Binbin Hu , Kunlong Chen , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

The problem of automatically generating a computer program from some specification has been studied since the early days of AI. Recently, two competing approaches for automatic program learning have received significant attention: (1)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Jacob Devlin , Jonathan Uesato , Surya Bhupatiraju , Rishabh Singh , Abdel-rahman Mohamed , Pushmeet Kohli

Recently, $\alpha$-Rank, a graph-based algorithm, has been proposed as a solution to ranking joint policy profiles in large scale multi-agent systems. $\alpha$-Rank claimed tractability through a polynomial time implementation with respect…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Yaodong Yang , Rasul Tutunov , Phu Sakulwongtana , Haitham Bou Ammar