Sat 13 Jan 2018 14:00 - 14:30 at Crocker - Session 2 Chair(s): William E. Byrd

We introduce SweetPea, a SAT-sampler aided language that addresses problems scientists face when creating randomized experimental designs. SweetPea provides a high-level interface to declaratively describe an experimental design, and a low-level synthesizer to generate unbiased sequences of trials given satisfiable constraints. Our prototype provides a rich set of primitives that closely match natural descriptions of experimental designs, allowing researchers to concisely describe what analysis they wish to perform. To ensure statistically significant results, every possible sequence of trials that satisfies the design must have an equal likelihood of being chosen for the experiment. SweetPea samples sequences of trials by compiling experimental designs into Boolean logic, which are then passed to a SAT-sampler. The SAT-sampler Unigen provides statistical guarantees that the solutions it finds are approximately uniformly probable in the space of all valid solutions.

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Sat 13 Jan

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13:30 - 15:30
Session 2Off the Beaten Track at Crocker
Chair(s): William E. Byrd University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
13:30
30m
Lunch
Lunch (12pm-2pm)
Off the Beaten Track

14:00
30m
Talk
SweetPea: A Language for Designing Experiments
Off the Beaten Track
Annie Cherkaev University of Utah, Sebastian Musslick Princeton University, Jonathan Cohen Princeton University, Vivek Srikumar University of Utah, Matthew Flatt University of Utah
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14:30
30m
Talk
Extensible Semantics for Fluidics
Off the Beaten Track
Max Willsey University of Washington, Jared Roesch University of Washington, USA
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15:00
30m
Talk
Towards Proof Synthesis by Neural Machine Translation
Off the Beaten Track
Taro Sekiyama IBM Research, Japan, Akifumi Imanishi Kyoto University, Kohei Suenaga Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
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