PLSEFeb 3, 2016

Results and Analysis of SyGuS-Comp'15

arXiv:1602.01170v122 citations
Originality Synthesis-oriented
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This work provides a benchmarking platform for researchers in automated synthesis, though it is incremental as it builds on prior competitions.

The paper presents and analyzes the results of the 2015 Syntax-Guided Synthesis Competition (SyGuS-comp), which evaluated solvers for syntax-guided synthesis problems, including new tracks for conditional linear arithmetic and invariant synthesis.

Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS) is the computational problem of finding an implementation f that meets both a semantic constraint given by a logical formula $\varphi$ in a background theory T, and a syntactic constraint given by a grammar G, which specifies the allowed set of candidate implementations. Such a synthesis problem can be formally defined in SyGuS-IF, a language that is built on top of SMT-LIB. The Syntax-Guided Synthesis Competition (SyGuS-comp) is an effort to facilitate, bring together and accelerate research and development of efficient solvers for SyGuS by providing a platform for evaluating different synthesis techniques on a comprehensive set of benchmarks. In this year's competition we added two specialized tracks: a track for conditional linear arithmetic, where the grammar need not be specified and is implicitly assumed to be that of the LIA logic of SMT-LIB, and a track for invariant synthesis problems, with special constructs conforming to the structure of an invariant synthesis problem. This paper presents and analyzes the results of SyGuS-comp'15.

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