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Path Signatures Enhance Program Induction Over Traditional Models

Researchers have developed a new method for program induction using path signatures, a technique from stochastic analysis. This approach treats execution traces as high-dimensional rough paths and encodes them using the path signature transform. Experiments on Karel, List, and RASP domains showed that this log-signature trace encoder outperformed LSTM, Transformer, and Fourier baselines, particularly when training data was limited. The method also demonstrated a contractive pipeline that can identify redundancy in supervision data without external oracles, leading to more interpretable latent geometries. AI

IMPACT This research offers a novel approach to program induction, potentially improving interpretability and efficiency in AI systems that analyze code or execution traces.

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Path Signatures Enhance Program Induction Over Traditional Models

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohamed Ghanem, Bernd Finkbeiner ·

    The Shape of a Program: Path Signatures for Trace-to-Program Induction

    arXiv:2611.13005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthesizing programs from execution traces is a fundamental challenge in algorithmic interpretability and the reverse engineering of complex systems. We bring a rough-path-theoretic perspective to program induction, treating exec…