Thu 19 Jan 2023 10:45 - 11:10 at Grand Ballroom A - Synthesis II Chair(s): Benjamin Delaware

We present a new algorithm that synthesizes functional reactive programs from observation data. The key novelty is to iterate between a \textit{functional synthesis} step, which attempts to generate a transition function over observed states, and an \textit{automata synthesis} step, which adds any additional latent state necessary to fully account for the observations. We develop a functional reactive DSL called \textsc{Autumn} that can express a rich variety of causal dynamics in time-varying, Atari-style grid worlds, and apply our method to synthesize \textsc{Autumn} programs from data. We evaluate our algorithm on a benchmark suite of 30 \textsc{Autumn} programs as well as a third-party corpus of grid-world-style video games. We find that our algorithm synthesizes 27 out of 30 programs in our benchmark suite and 21 out of 27 programs from the third-party corpus, including several programs describing complex latent state transformations, and from input traces containing hundreds of observations. We expect that our approach will provide a template for how to integrate functional and automata synthesis in other induction domains.

Thu 19 Jan

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10:20 - 12:00
Synthesis IIPOPL at Grand Ballroom A
Chair(s): Benjamin Delaware Purdue University
10:20
25m
Talk
babble: Learning Better Abstractions with E-Graphs and Anti-unification
POPL
David Cao University of California at San Diego, Rose Kunkel University of California at San Diego, Chandrakana Nandi Certora, Max Willsey University of Washington, Zachary Tatlock University of Washington, Nadia Polikarpova University of California at San Diego
DOI Pre-print
10:45
25m
Talk
Combining Functional and Automata Synthesis to Discover Causal Reactive Programs
POPL
Ria Das Stanford University, Joshua B. Tenenbaum Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Armando Solar-Lezama Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Zenna Tavares Basis; Columbia University
DOI
11:10
25m
Talk
Comparative Synthesis: Learning Near-Optimal Network Designs by Query
POPL
Yanjun Wang Amazon Web Services, USA, Zixuan Li Purdue University, Chuan Jiang Purdue University, Xiaokang Qiu Purdue University, Sanjay Rao Purdue University
DOI
11:35
25m
Talk
Top-Down Synthesis for Library Learning
POPL
Maddy Bowers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Theo X. Olausson Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lionel Wong Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gabriel Grand Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joshua B. Tenenbaum Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kevin Ellis Cornell University, Armando Solar-Lezama Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DOI Pre-print