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New framework SAD improves programming-by-example systems

Researchers have introduced Solver-Aware Decomposition (SAD), a novel training framework for programming-by-example (PBE) systems. SAD addresses the limitation of current PBE approaches that train decomposers to imitate ground-truth subgoals, which may not be tractable for the underlying solver. By incorporating direct feedback from a frozen synthesizer, SAD optimizes the decomposer based on the synthesizer's loss on the target program, encouraging subgoals that the solver can effectively handle. Experiments demonstrate that SAD yields consistent improvements in synthesis and end-to-end task accuracy, even outperforming GT decompositions in certain scenarios. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more effective AI systems capable of learning complex tasks through examples by improving how they decompose problems.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Janis Zenkner, Tobias Sesterhenn, Tim Grams, Christian Bartelt ·

    Solver-Aware Decompositions for Programming-by-Example: When Dividing Requires Knowing how to Conquer

    arXiv:2608.03461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decomposition-based Programming-by-example (PBE) scales performance by splitting tasks into subtasks that a learned synthesizer solves: a decomposer predicts intermediate subgoals, and a synthesizer generates programs conditioned on…