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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) for code applications have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot fluency and instruction following on challenging code related tasks ranging from test case generation to self-repair.…

Recently, program synthesis driven by large language models (LLMs) has become increasingly popular. However, program synthesis for machine learning (ML) tasks still poses significant challenges. This paper explores a novel form of program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jinglue Xu , Jialong Li , Zhen Liu , Nagar Anthel Venkatesh Suryanarayanan , Guoyuan Zhou , Jia Guo , Hitoshi Iba , Kenji Tei

Finite State Machines (FSMs) play a critical role in implementing control logic for Systems-on-Chip (SoC). Traditionally, FSMs are implemented by hardware engineers through Verilog coding, which is often tedious and time-consuming.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ziteng Hu , Yingjie Xia , Xiyuan Chen , Li Kuang

For a finite state automaton, a synchronizing sequence is an input sequence that takes all the states to the same state. Checking the existence of a synchronizing sequence and finding a synchronizing sequence, if one exists, can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Canan Güniçen , Esra Erdem , Hüsnü Yenigün

We study the problem of determining whether a given temporal specification can be implemented by a symmetric system, i.e., a system composed from identical components. Symmetry is an important goal in the design of distributed systems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ruediger Ehlers , Bernd Finkbeiner

State machine replication is standard approach to fault tolerance. One of the key assumptions of state machine replication is that replicas must execute operations deterministically and thus serially. To benefit from multi-core servers,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Eduardo Alchieri , Fernando Dotti , Fernando Pedone

Large pre-trained language models have been used to generate code,providing a flexible interface for synthesizing programs from natural language specifications. However, they often violate syntactic and semantic rules of their output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Gabriel Poesia , Oleksandr Polozov , Vu Le , Ashish Tiwari , Gustavo Soares , Christopher Meek , Sumit Gulwani

Modern state-space models (SSMs) often utilize transition matrices which enable efficient computation but pose restrictions on the model's expressivity, as measured in terms of the ability to emulate finite-state automata (FSA). While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Aleksandar Terzić , Nicolas Menet , Michael Hersche , Thomas Hofmann , Abbas Rahimi

Linearizability is a well-known correctness property for concurrent and distributed systems. In the past, it was also used to prove the design and implementation of replicated state-machines correct. State-machine replication (SMR) is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Franz J. Hauck , Alexander Heß

This paper proposes a parallelizable algorithm for linear-quadratic model predictive control (MPC) problems with state and input constraints. The algorithm itself is based on a parallel MPC scheme that has originally been designed for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Jiahe Shi , Yuning Jiang , Juraj Oravec , Boris Houska

This paper focuses on automated synthesis of divide-and-conquer parallelism, which is a common parallel programming skeleton supported by many cross-platform multithreaded libraries. The challenges of producing (manually or automatically) a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Azadeh Farzan , Victor Nicolet

Computational memory (CM) is a promising approach for accelerating inference on neural networks (NN) by using enhanced memories that, in addition to storing data, allow computations on them. One of the main challenges of this approach is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Kornilios Kourtis , Martino Dazzi , Nikolas Ioannou , Tobias Grosser , Abu Sebastian , Evangelos Eleftheriou

We study compiled AI, a paradigm in which large language models generate executable code artifacts during a compilation phase, after which workflows execute deterministically without further model invocation. This paradigm has antecedents…

Finite-State Machines (FSMs) are critical for modeling the operational logic of network protocols, enabling verification, analysis, and vulnerability discovery. However, existing FSM extraction techniques face limitations such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Fares Wael , Youssef Maklad , Ali Hamdi , Wael Elsersy

State-machine replication, a fundamental approach to fault tolerance, requires replicas to execute commands deterministically, which usually results in sequential execution of commands. Sequential execution limits performance and underuses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Parisa Jalili Marandi , Fernando Pedone

Previous work has shown that there are two major complexity barriers in the synthesis of fault-tolerant distributed programs: (1) generation of fault-span, the set of states reachable in the presence of faults, and (2) resolving deadlock…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fuad Abujarad , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sandeep S. Kulkarni

A compiler processes the code written in a high level language and produces machine executable code. The compiler writers often face the challenge of keeping the compilation times reasonable. That is because aggressive optimization passes…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Sanket Tavarageri

C/C++/OpenCL-based high-level synthesis (HLS) becomes more and more popular for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) accelerators in many application domains in recent years, thanks to its competitive quality of results (QoR) and short…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Yuze Chi , Licheng Guo , Jason Lau , Young-kyu Choi , Jie Wang , Jason Cong

Time series modeling is a well-established problem, which often requires that methods (1) expressively represent complicated dependencies, (2) forecast long horizons, and (3) efficiently train over long sequences. State-space models (SSMs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Michael Zhang , Khaled K. Saab , Michael Poli , Tri Dao , Karan Goel , Christopher Ré

In this paper we propose a new approach to the description of a network of interacting processes in a traditional programming language. Special programming languages or extensions to sequential languages are usually designed to express the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Sergey Vostokin