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Recently, two competing approaches for automatic program learning have received significant attention: (1) neural program synthesis, where a neural network is conditioned on input\/output (I\/O) examples and learns to generate a program, and (2) neural program induction, where a neural network generates new outputs directly using a latent program representation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 14.4px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;background-color: #ffffff\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 14.4px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\">Here, for the first time, we directly compare both approaches on a large-scale, real-world learning task. We additionally contrast to rule-based program synthesis, which uses hand-crafted semantics to guide the program generation. Our neural models use a modified attention RNN to allow encoding of variable-sized sets of I\/O pairs. Our best synthesis model achieves 92% accuracy on a real-world test set, compared to the 34% accuracy of the previous best neural synthesis approach. The synthesis model also outperforms a comparable induction model on this task, but we more importantly demonstrate that the strength of each approach is highly dependent on the evaluation metric and end-user application. Finally, we show that we can train our neural models to remain very robust to the type of noise expected in real-world data (e.g., typos), while a highly-engineered rule-based system fails entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem of automatically generating a computer program from some specification has been studied since the early days of AI. 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