Abstract
Program synthesis tools work by searching for an implementation that satisfies a given specification. Two popular search strategies are symbolic search, which reduces synthesis to a formula passed to a SAT solver, and explicit search, which uses brute force or random search to find a solution. In this paper, we propose adaptive concretization, a novel synthesis algorithm that combines the best of symbolic and explicit search. Our algorithm works by partially concretizing a randomly chosen, but likely highly influential, subset of the unknowns to be synthesized. Adaptive concretization uses an online search process to find the optimal size of the concretized subset using a combination of exponential hill climbing and binary search, employing a statistical test to determine when one degree of concretization is sufficiently better than another. Moreover, our algorithm lends itself to a highly parallel implementation, further speeding up search. We implemented adaptive concretization for Sketch and evaluated it on a range of benchmarks. We found adaptive concretization is very effective, outperforming Sketch in many cases, sometimes significantly, and has good parallel scalability. Open image in new window
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