SyGuS-Comp 2018

The 5th Syntax-Guided Synthesis Competition (SyGuS-Comp) will take place as a satellite event of FLoC, CAV and SYNT 2018.

UPDATE: SyGuS-Comp 2018 has concluded (Results). Congratulations to all winners.

Important Dates

1 May 2018 Deadline for submitting benchmarks
1 June 2018 Deadline for submitting the first version of solvers
14 June 2018 Deadline for submitting the final version of solvers and their descriptions
7 July 2018 Notification of results to authors
14 July 2018 Awards ceremony (at FLoC Olympic games, Oxford, UK)
18 July 2018 Solvers presentation (at SYNT’18 workshop)

Call for Participation

This is a call for participation in the 5th Syntax-Guided Synthesis Competition to be organized as a satellite event of SYNT and CAV 2018 and as part of the FLoC Olympic games.

The classical formulation of the program-synthesis problem is to find a program that meets a correctness specification given as a logical formula. Recent work on program synthesis and program optimization illustrates many potential benefits of allowing the user to supplement the logical specification with a syntactic template that constrains the space of allowed implementation. The motivation is twofold. First, narrowing the space of implementations makes the synthesis problem more tractable. Second, providing a specific syntax can potentially lead to better optimizations.

The input to the syntax-guided synthesis problem (SyGuS) consists of a background theory, a semantic correctness specification for the desired program given by a logical formula, and a syntactic set of candidate implementations given by a grammar. The computational problem then is to find an implementation from the set of candidate expressions that satisfies the specification in the given theory. The formulation of the problem builds on SMT-LIB.

There has been a lot of recent interest in both using SyGuS solvers for various synthesis applications and developing different solving algorithms. The SyGuS competition (SyGuS-Comp’18) will allow solvers to compete on a large collection of benchmarks and advance the state-of-the-art for program-synthesis tools. We invite authors to submit their SyGuS solvers to this year’s SyGuS Competition.

For questions regarding the competition please contact the organizers at .

Competition Tracks

This year’s competition will have 5 tracks:

Check the specification language for more details on the formulation of the problems for these tracks.

Evaluation

Solvers will be evaluated on the StarExec platform, which provided 200 dual quad-core machines with 256GB memory each. The solvers would be run with a TIMEOUT value. The SyGuS-correctness checker, as well as the solvers from last year’s competition are available on the SyGuS community at StarExec. Candidate participants are invited to register on StarExec, where they can easily compare their solvers to the previous ones against the public benchmarks.

Scoring Scheme

The scoring system is per track and as follows.
A solver that solved \(N\) benchmarks in the track, out of which \(F\) benchmarks among the fastest1, and \(S\) benchmarks with an expression size among the smallest2 will receive a score: \(5 N + 3 F + S\). The solver with highest score will be announced the winner of the track — an honor which will be accompanied by a FLoC 2018 Olympic games medal.

Tool Submission and Description

We expect tool developers to test their solvers on the public benchmarks, and submit the solver binaries on StarExec by the solver submission deadline. Each solver submission should also be accompanied by a brief (1 – 2 page in IEEE format) description of the key ideas of the solver.

Licensing of Tools and Benchmarks:

All benchmarks will be made public after the competition. We encourage the tool developers to make their solvers open-source, but participants are welcomed to submit binaries of proprietary tools as well.

Participating Solvers

Five solvers participated in SyGuS-Comp’18:

Results

The winners for various tracks are as follows.

Slides for final presentation of results are here.
Slides for final presentation of solvers: CVC4, DryadSynth, Horndini, LoopInvGen

A detailed final report is also available here.

  1. according to the pseudo-logarithmic time scale used in previous competitions ↩

  2. according to the pseudo-logarithmic size scale used in previous competitions ↩