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A key challenge in program synthesis is the astronomical size of the search space the synthesizer has to explore. In response to this challenge, recent work proposed to guide synthesis using learned probabilistic models. Obtaining such a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shraddha Barke , Hila Peleg , Nadia Polikarpova

Many approaches to program synthesis perform a search within an enormous space of programs to find one that satisfies a given specification. Prior works have used neural models to guide combinatorial search algorithms, but such approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Hanjun Dai , Kevin Ellis , Charles Sutton

We propose an algorithm for solving bound-constrained mathematical programs with complementarity constraints on the variables. Each iteration of the algorithm involves solving a linear program with complementarity constraints in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Kirches , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Paul Manns

This paper describes a way to improve the scalability of program synthesis by exploiting modularity: larger programs are synthesized from smaller programs. The key issue is to make each "larger-created-from-smaller" synthesis sub-problem be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Kanghee Park , Keith J. C. Johnson , Loris D'Antoni , Thomas Reps

Program synthesis is an umbrella term for generating programs and logical formulae from specifications. With the remarkable performance improvements that GPUs enable for deep learning, a natural question arose: can we also implement a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Martin Berger , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Mojtaba Valizadeh

Syntax-guided synthesis is a paradigm in program synthesis in which the search space of candidate solutions is constrained by a syntactic template in the form of a grammar. These syntactic constraints serve two purposes: constraining the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yixuan Li , Federico Mora , Elizabeth Polgreen , Sanjit A. Seshia

In program synthesis there is a well-known trade-off between concise and strong specifications: if a specification is too verbose, it might be harder to write than the program; if it is too weak, the synthesised program might not match the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Andreea Costea , Amy Zhu , Nadia Polikarpova , Ilya Sergey

Logic languages based on the theory of rational, possibly infinite, trees have much appeal in that rational trees allow for faster unification (due to the safe omission of the occurs-check) and increased expressivity (cyclic terms can…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Roberto Bagnara , Roberta Gori , Patricia M. Hill , Enea Zaffanella

Syntax-guided synthesis aims to find a program satisfying semantic specification as well as user-provided structural hypothesis. For syntax-guided synthesis there are two main search strategies: concrete search, which systematically or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Kangjing Huang , Xiaokang Qiu , Qi Tian , Yanjun Wang

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

Despite the success of large pre-trained language models (LMs) such as Codex, they show below-par performance on the larger and more complicated programming related questions. We show that LMs benefit from the summarized version of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Kirby Kuznia , Swaroop Mishra , Mihir Parmar , Chitta Baral

Component selection is considered one of hard tasks in Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE). It is difficult to find the optimal component selection. CBSE is an approach that is used to develop a software system from pre-existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Weam Gaoud Alghabban , M. Rizwan Jameel Qureshi

Similarity search in math is to find mathematical expressions that are similar to a user's query. We conceptualized the similarity factors between mathematical expressions, and proposed an approach to math similarity search (MSS) by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Qun Zhang , Abdou Youssef

While model serving has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, the high cost of serving large-scale models continues to be a significant barrier to widespread accessibility and rapid innovation. Compiler optimizations have long driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Annabelle Sujun Tang , Christopher Priebe , Rohan Mahapatra , Lianhui Qin , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Despite the continuous efforts in improving both the effectiveness and efficiency of code search, two issues remained unsolved. First, programming languages have inherent strong structural linkages, and feature mining of code as text form…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yi Hu , Bo Cai , Yaoxiang Yu

Automatic performance tuning, or auto-tuning, accelerates high-performance codes by exploring vast spaces of code variants. However, due to the large number of possible combinations and complex constraints, constructing these search spaces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Floris-Jan Willemsen , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort , Ben van Werkhoven

The ability to model search in a constraint solver can be an essential asset for solving combinatorial problems. However, existing infrastructure for defining search heuristics is often inadequate. Either modeling capabilities are extremely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-07 Tom Schrijvers , Guido Tack , Pieter Wuille , Horst Samulowitz , Peter J. Stuckey

The goal of constraint-based sequence mining is to find sequences of symbols that are included in a large number of input sequences and that satisfy some constraints specified by the user. Many constraints have been proposed in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Benjamin Negrevergne , Tias Guns

In this paper we present and evaluate a search strategy called Decomposition Based Search (DBS) which is based on two steps: subproblem generation and subproblem solution. The generation of subproblems is done through value ranking and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. J. van Hoeve , M. Milano