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48 results for inductive program synthesis

Machine learning refactors knowledge to improve learning efficiency.

problem Inductive program synthesis efficiency through knowledge restructuring.
method Introduces Knorf, a system that refactors knowledge bases using constraint optimization.
result Learning from refactored knowledge improves predictive accuracy fourfold and reduces learning time by half.

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 program synthesis can generalise over any reasonable set of inputs and outputs, in …

2018-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite the tremendous advances that have been made in the last decade on developing useful machine-learning applications, their wider adoption has been hindered by the lack of strong assurance guarantees that can be made about their behavior. In this paper, we consider how formal verification techniques developed for …

2019-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Automated synthesis of inductive invariants is an important problem in software verification. Once all the invariants have been specified, software verification reduces to checking of verification conditions. Although static analyses to infer invariants have been studied for over forty years, recent years have seen a f…

2019-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

CrossBeam learns to search more efficiently in program synthesis.

problem Efficiently searching through vast program spaces.
method Trains a neural model to guide program synthesis, combining previously explored programs.
result CrossBeam explores much smaller portions of the program space compared to state-of-the-art methods.

We present a program synthesis-oriented dataset consisting of human written problem statements and solutions for these problems. The problem statements were collected via crowdsourcing and the program solutions were extracted from human-written solutions in programming competitions, accompanied by input/output examples…

2018-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

System uses machine learning and automated reasoning to speed up PBE synthesis.

problem Slow synthesis in PBE due to domain-specific knowledge and large training datasets.
method Preprocess SyGuS PBE problems with a neural network to reduce search space, then use automated reasoning for faster solution.
result System outperforms all competing tools in the 2019 SyGuS Competition for the PBE Strings track by 47.65%.

Seq2Seq models perform well in generating If-Then programs from natural language.

problem Creating If-Then programs for business process automation without technical expertise.
method Modeling If-Then programs as a sequence learning task using Seq2Seq approaches.
result Seq2Seq models can effectively generate If-Then programs from natural language.

BUSTLE synthesizes programs by learning from intermediate values.

problem Challenges in synthesizing complex programs due to large search space.
method Bottom-up search guided by a neural network trained on input-output examples.
result Bottom-up search with execution of intermediate programs provides valuable semantic information.

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 work, we present PATOIS, a system that allows a neural program synthesizer to expl…

2019-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

IReEn reveals functionality of black-box agents via iterative neural synthesis.

problem Revealing the functionality of a black-box agent without privileged information.
method Iterative refinement of candidate programs using neural program synthesis.
result The approach finds a functional equivalent program in 78% of cases, outperforming state-of-the-art.

This paper evaluates how well neural models can solve complex tasks by breaking them into simpler ones.

problem Measuring neural models' ability to solve complex tasks by breaking them into simpler subtasks.
method Characterized axes of compositional generalization, introduced a benchmark suite of tasks, and improved Transformer models' attention mechanisms.
result Modified Transformer models generally perform better than natural baselines in solving complex tasks, but challenges remain.

Framework synthesizes programs for simulating complex models and estimating parameters.

problem Parameter estimation for complex models requires manual encoding of fixed model structures.
method Combines LLMs for program synthesis with neural simulation-based inference.
result Identifies plausible model families from open-ended prompts with high accuracy.

The goal of program synthesis is to automatically generate programs in a particular language from corresponding specifications, e.g. input-output behavior. Many current approaches achieve impressive results after training on randomly generated I/O examples in limited domain-specific languages (DSLs), as with string tra…

2019-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph-based approach repairs programs from diagnostic feedback.

problem Learning to repair programs from limited labeled data and compiler error messages.
method Introduces program-feedback graph and graph neural network for reasoning, and self-supervised learning with unlabeled programs.
result DrRepair significantly outperforms prior work, achieving high repair rates.

Introduces Motion Programs for better video analysis of human motion.

problem Current video analysis focuses on raw pixels or keypoints, missing higher-level motion primitives.
method Introduces Motion Programs as a neuro-symbolic representation of motions as a composition of high-level primitives.
result Motion Programs accurately describe diverse human motions and improve downstream tasks.

We present a neurosymbolic framework for the lifelong learning of algorithmic tasks that mix perception and procedural reasoning. Reusing high-level concepts across domains and learning complex procedures are key challenges in lifelong learning. We show that a program synthesis approach that combines gradient descent w…

2018-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Significant strides have been made toward designing better generative models in recent years. Despite this progress, however, state-of-the-art approaches are still largely unable to capture complex global structure in data. For example, images of buildings typically contain spatial patterns such as windows repeating at…

2019-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently samples sequences without replacement for machine learning models.

problem Generating diverse outputs from sequential models without duplicates.
method Incremental sampling procedure for randomized programs, including neural models.
result Efficacy and flexibility of incremental sampling for large output spaces.

A new approach for specifying and synthesizing subroutines for optimizing metrics.

problem Specifying and optimizing subroutines for various metrics.
method Formalizing programming by rewards (PBR), using continuous-optimization techniques to synthesize decision functions as if-then-else programs.
result Synthesized decision functions are optimal in cases when rewards have nice properties.

DILP improves fraud detection explainability without significant performance boost.

problem Improving fraud detection explainability in machine learning.
method Differentiable Inductive Logic Programming (DILP) for fraud detection with data curation.
result DILP provides comparable results to traditional methods but lacks significant advantage.

There is a widespread need for techniques that can discover structure from time series data. Recently introduced techniques such as Automatic Bayesian Covariance Discovery (ABCD) provide a way to find structure within a single time series by searching through a space of covariance kernels that is generated using a simp…

2016-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Synthesizing programs using example input/outputs is a classic problem in artificial intelligence. We present a method for solving Programming By Example (PBE) problems by using a neural model to guide the search of a constraint logic programming system called miniKanren. Crucially, the neural model uses miniKanren's i…

2018-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel framework for Bayesian reinforcement learning infers value function distributions.

problem Bayesian reinforcement learning's challenges in inferring value function distributions.
method Inferential Induction framework for Bayesian reinforcement learning, developing Bayesian Backwards Induction algorithm.
result Proposed algorithm is competitive with state-of-the-art methods.

Paper proposes a novel RRL framework that learns from images and incorporates expert knowledge.

problem Lack of effective methods to incorporate expert background knowledge and learn from non-relational data in RRL.
method Differentiable Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) for learning relational information from images and incorporating expert knowledge.
result Efficacy demonstrated on various environments and datasets, showing improved learning and generalization.

We propose the Neural Logic Machine (NLM), a neural-symbolic architecture for both inductive learning and logic reasoning. NLMs exploit the power of both neural networks---as function approximators, and logic programming---as a symbolic processor for objects with properties, relations, logic connectives, and quantifier…

2019-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

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, one criticism is that hand-crafting its fitness function, the test that aims to…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

A new decision tree induction method using MIP for faster optimization.

problem Optimizing decision tree split rules for better classification performance.
method Mixed-integer programming (MIP) for Gini reduction maximization, efficient search algorithm.
result bsnsing trees outperform other tree models in new case discrimination.

We consider the task of mapping pseudocode to long programs that are functionally correct. Given test cases as a mechanism to validate programs, we search over the space of possible translations of the pseudocode to find a program that passes the validation. However, without proper credit assignment to localize the sou…

2019-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The problem of retrosynthetic planning can be framed as one player game, in which the chemist (or a computer program) works backwards from a molecular target to simpler starting materials though a series of choices regarding which reactions to perform. This game is challenging as the combinatorial space of possible cho…

2019-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗