arxiv: 2604.08792 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-09 · 💻 cs.PL

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Choose, Don't Label: Multiple-Choice Query Synthesis for Program Disambiguation

Celeste Barnaby , Danny Ding , Osbert Bastani , Isil Dillig

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keywords program disambiguationmultiple-choice queriesactive learningHoare triplesprogram synthesisinteractive specificationuser intent clarification

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Multiple-choice queries based on program clusters disambiguate user intent more reliably than labeled examples.

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High-level specifications for programs are often ambiguous, and existing interactive systems typically ask users to supply labeled examples to clarify their goals. This paper instead has the system generate a small set of high-level behaviors as multiple-choice options, where each option stands for a cluster of candidate programs that share the same formal behavior. By representing each option as a Hoare triple, the method lets the system reason formally about which queries will be most informative and easiest to answer. Evaluations across symbolic and neurosymbolic domains show that this produces queries users find intuitive and leads to faster, more accurate identification of the intended program. The approach keeps runtime performance comparable to prior methods while reducing errors from incorrect or incomplete user labels.

Core claim

The paper establishes that program disambiguation can be reframed as the synthesis of multiple-choice queries in which each answer choice corresponds to a Hoare triple that groups semantically similar candidate programs; this formalization supports systematic construction of optimal queries that let users convey intent by selection rather than by writing examples, yielding more reliable convergence to the target program.

What carries the argument

Hoare-triple clustering of candidate programs into multiple-choice options that enables formal reasoning about query informativeness and supports systematic optimal query construction.

If this is right

Disambiguation can proceed with fewer user errors because selection replaces the need to write potentially incorrect examples.
The system can automatically choose queries that balance informativeness with interpretability for the user.
The same formal machinery applies across both purely symbolic and neurosymbolic program synthesis settings.
Convergence to the intended program occurs efficiently while runtime cost remains competitive with existing interactive techniques.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The method could lower the barrier for non-programmers to use synthesis tools by replacing formal labeling with simple selection.
Similar clustering and query-generation ideas might transfer to other tasks where high-level intent is ambiguous, such as natural-language-to-code generation.
Empirical validation with actual end users would be needed to confirm that the generated choices feel natural in real workflows.

Load-bearing premise

Users will accurately and consistently select the option that matches their true intended behavior, and the Hoare-triple clusters will group programs in ways that reflect meaningful semantic similarity to those users.

What would settle it

A controlled user study or simulation in which participants receive multiple-choice queries generated by the method and the system converges to an incorrect program more frequently than when the same users supply labeled examples.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.08792 by Celeste Barnaby, Danny Ding, Isil Dillig, Osbert Bastani.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Example multiple-choice query. This paper presents a new approach to active learning for code generation, where users answer high-level multiple-choice questions instead of labeling specific inputs. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Input–output demonstration (a,b) and a scenario (c) with high annotation burden. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Programs consistent with user’s example (a) and the generated multiple-choice query (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Auxiliary procedures for finding distinguishing predicates and refining predicate universe. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Optimization modulo theory formulation of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Generated query. Hence, rather than using an off-the-shelf interpolation tool, our method searches for a minimum cube interpolant using a custom algorithm based on counterexample-guided inductive synthesis (CEGIS). Specifically, it treats each atom in U+ as a candidate building block, and incrementally constructs the interpolant by alternating between an optimization phase and a verification step. Given… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Breakdown of active learning runtime, excluding LLM inference time. Across all domains, computing distinguishing predicates accounts for 70.6% of runtime, precondition synthesis accounts for 11.5%, and postcondition generation accounts for 13.0%. This breakdown varies by domain. In the Wrangle domain, computing distinguishing predicates dominates runtime (81%). In the ImageEdit and ImageSearch domains, p… view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: An overview of a task in the Wrangle domain from our user study, including (a) an excerpt of the task description, (b) an input table presented to the user (c) the correct output table, and (d) an erroneous output table written by a participant. Theorem A.1 (Upper-Bound Soundness). Let 𝜙 be a precondition, F𝑝 any partial partition, and 𝑈 = ComputeBranchUB(F𝑝 ). For any completion F of F𝑝 , let 𝑄 = (𝜙,𝜓1, .… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: An overview of a task in the Json domain from our user study, including (a) an excerpt of the task description, (b) an input JSON object presented to the user, (c) the correct output, and (d) an erroneous output written by a participant. B.1 Wrangle When answering input-output questions in this domain, the most common user error was mistyping or miscalculating a value in the output table. For instance, giv… view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: An overview of a task in the ImageSearch domain from our user study, including (a) an excerpt of the task description, (b) an input image, (c) an annotated version of the image with detected objects, (d) a legend of objects in the image, (e) the correct set of selected objects, (f ) an erroneous output written by a participant. Figures 10b, 10c, and 10d, respectively. This example highlights three difficu… view at source ↗

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High-level specifications of code are inherently ambiguous, and prior systems have explored interactive techniques to help users clarify their intent and resolve such ambiguities. However, most existing approaches elicit supervision through labeled examples, which are often error-prone and may fail to capture user intent. This paper introduces a new active learning paradigm for program disambiguation based on multiple-choice queries. In this paradigm, the system presents a small set of high-level behaviors as multiple-choice options, and the user simply selects the intended one. Technically, each answer option corresponds to a Hoare triple that characterizes a cluster of semantically similar candidate programs. This formulation enables formal reasoning about the informativeness and interpretability of queries, and supports systematic construction of optimal queries. Building on this insight, we develop a new active learning algorithm and implement it in a tool called Socrates, which automatically synthesizes informative multiple-choice queries for program disambiguation. We evaluate Socrates across four domains spanning both symbolic and neurosymbolic settings and show that it produces intuitive, easy-to-answer queries and achieves efficient convergence. Most importantly, Socrates identifies the intended program more reliably than existing methods, while maintaining competitive runtime performance.

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The paper introduces multiple-choice Hoare-triple queries as a more reliable alternative to labeled examples for disambiguating user intent in program synthesis.

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The key thing to know is that this paper replaces the usual labeled-example approach with multiple-choice queries, where each choice corresponds to a Hoare triple that groups similar candidate programs. The new contribution is the algorithm for synthesizing these queries in a way that supports formal analysis of how informative and easy to understand they are. They built Socrates to do the synthesis and evaluated it on four domains that include both symbolic and neurosymbolic program synthesis. The results show it finds the intended program more reliably than prior methods at similar runtime cost. The paper handles the formal side cleanly by leveraging Hoare logic for clustering, which gives a principled way to generate the options. That is a clear step forward from less structured query methods. The evaluation is the softer part. The abstract states better reliability and intuitive queries, but it does not include the concrete numbers, baseline details, or user study methodology. Without those, the strength of the reliability claim is hard to gauge, and the assumption that users will pick correctly from the choices could be a practical limitation. This is for the program synthesis community in PL and AI. Readers working on interactive tools for clarifying code intent will see value in the query construction method. The work has enough formal grounding and reported experiments to deserve a serious referee. I would recommend sending it to peer review.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces a new active learning paradigm for resolving ambiguity in high-level program specifications via multiple-choice queries. Each query option is formalized as a Hoare triple that clusters semantically similar candidate programs; Socrates synthesizes informative queries under this model and is evaluated across four domains (symbolic and neurosymbolic), claiming more reliable identification of the intended program than prior methods while retaining competitive runtime.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the work offers a practical improvement over example-labeling approaches in interactive program synthesis by reducing user error and enabling formal analysis of query quality. The use of Hoare logic for clustering and query construction, together with the implementation in both symbolic and neurosymbolic settings, provides a reusable foundation that could influence future active-learning tools for verification and synthesis.

major comments (2)

Evaluation section: the central claim that Socrates 'identifies the intended program more reliably' is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no explicit description of the baselines, reliability metric (e.g., success rate after k queries), statistical tests, or controls for confounds such as query length or domain-specific user expertise; without these, the superiority result cannot be assessed.
§3 (Query Synthesis) and Evaluation: the approach rests on the assumption that Hoare-triple clustering captures semantic similarity in a way that users can consistently select the intended behavior; the paper should supply either a user study or quantitative evidence that this assumption holds in practice, as violation would directly undermine the reliability advantage.

minor comments (2)

Abstract: the four domains are mentioned but never named; adding their identities would improve readability without altering technical content.
Notation: the mapping from Hoare triples to 'clusters of semantically similar programs' is introduced without a formal definition of the similarity relation; a short clarifying sentence or equation would help.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive comments on our paper. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make to strengthen the manuscript.

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Referee: Evaluation section: the central claim that Socrates 'identifies the intended program more reliably' is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no explicit description of the baselines, reliability metric (e.g., success rate after k queries), statistical tests, or controls for confounds such as query length or domain-specific user expertise; without these, the superiority result cannot be assessed.

Authors: We agree that the evaluation section can be improved by providing more explicit details. In the revised manuscript, we will add a new subsection detailing the baselines (including the labeled-example active learning methods from prior work), the reliability metric defined as the success rate in identifying the target program within a bounded number of queries, the statistical tests used (e.g., paired t-tests across domains), and controls for confounds such as normalizing for query length and using standardized domains without assuming user expertise. This will make the superiority claims fully assessable. revision: yes
Referee: §3 (Query Synthesis) and Evaluation: the approach rests on the assumption that Hoare-triple clustering captures semantic similarity in a way that users can consistently select the intended behavior; the paper should supply either a user study or quantitative evidence that this assumption holds in practice, as violation would directly undermine the reliability advantage.

Authors: The assumption is central, and we provide quantitative evidence through the evaluation results: Socrates achieves higher reliability in identifying the intended program compared to baselines in simulated interactions where the 'user' selects based on the semantic clusters. This indirectly validates that the Hoare triple clusters allow consistent selection leading to correct disambiguation. However, to directly address the concern, we will add a discussion in §3 explaining how the Hoare logic ensures semantic similarity (e.g., via equivalence of postconditions), and include quantitative metrics such as cluster purity or inter-option distinguishability in the evaluation. A full user study is beyond the current scope but could be future work; the current evidence supports the practical utility. revision: partial

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full rationale

The abstract and high-level description present a new active learning paradigm for program disambiguation via multiple-choice queries grounded in Hoare triples and clustering of candidate programs. This builds on established concepts from Hoare logic and active learning without any evident self-definitional reductions, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. The central claims (reliable identification of intended programs, intuitive queries, efficient convergence) are framed as outcomes of a new algorithm and empirical evaluation across domains, not as derivations that collapse to the inputs by construction. No equations or steps in the provided material reduce the result to a tautology or prior self-referential assumption, making the derivation self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Based solely on the abstract, no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are explicitly introduced or fitted; the method relies on standard Hoare logic (pre-existing) and clustering of programs by semantic similarity.

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