Ask HN: Is anyone working on ML based code/program generation?

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I've been hearing a lot about supervised learning being used to generate simple UI's and the like, but one thing that seems particularly interesting is using ML to generate logic. Is anyone working on this? Do you think it could be a lucrative opportunity?

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@tree_of_item nailed it.. what you're asking for is an entire field, with many people working in it. The Wikipedia page for Program Synthesis is a so-so introduction to the area:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_synthesis

There are even annual competitions related to this topic. See, for example:

http://sygus.seas.upenn.edu/SyGuS-COMP2018.html

Yes, you will want to research "program induction" and "program synthesis". For a review of recent work in both, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02353

For program synthesis applied to the "Atari" deep learning benchmark check out https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05695

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