Publications

Venkatesan Guruswami, Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren, Yican Sun, Kewen Wu (2024). Almost Optimal Time Lower Bound for Approximating Parameterized Clique, CSP, and More, under ETH. Preprint.

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Yican Sun (2024). Synthesis and Verification of Complex Algorithms. The 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, Doctorial Symposium.

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Yican Sun, Ruyi Ji, Jian Fang, Xuanlin Jiang, Mingshuai Chen, Yingfei Xiong (2024). Proving Functional Program Equivalence via Directed Lemma Synthesis. The 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM'24).

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Zhao Zhang, Yican Sun, Ruyi Ji, Siyuan Li, Xuanyu Peng, Zhechong Huang, Sizhe Li, Tianran Zhu, Yingfei Xiong (2024). ASAC: A Benchmark for Algorithm Synthesis. The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Demonstration Track (FSE'24 Demo).

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Venkatesan Guruswami, Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren, Yican Sun, Kewen Wu (2024). Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis under ETH. The 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC'24, Best Paper Award).

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Yican Sun, Xuanyu Peng, Yingfei Xiong (2023). Synthesizing Efficient Memoization Algorithms. Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications 2023 (OOPSLA'23, Round 2).

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Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren, Yican Sun, Xiuhan Wang (2023). Improved Hardness of Approximating k-Clique under ETH. 64th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'23).

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Yican Sun, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady (2023). Automated Tail Bound Analysis for Probabilistic Recurrence Relations. 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV'23).

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Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren, Yican Sun, Xiuhan Wang (2022). Constant Approximating Parameterized k-SetCover is W[2]-hard. ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'23).

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Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren, Yican Sun, Xiuhan Wang (2022). On Lower Bounds of Approximating Parameterized k-Clique. The 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP'22).

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Jinyi Wang$^*$, Yican Sun$^*$, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady (2021). Quantitative Analysis of Assertion Violations in Probabilistic Programs. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI'21).

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Ruyi Ji, Yican Sun, Yingfei Xiong, Zhenjiang Hu (2020). Guiding Dynamic Programing via Structural Probability for Accelerating Programming by Example. Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications 2020 (OOPSLA'20).

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Zeyu Sun, Qihao Zhu, Yingfei Xiong, Yican Sun, Lili Mou, Lu Zhang (2019). TreeGen: A Tree-Based Transformer Architecture for Code Generation. The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'20).

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