synthesis

Definition

Producing new artifacts — image synthesis, speech synthesis, view synthesis, program synthesis. Largely interchangeable with generation, though it carries a more constructive, engineering flavor and predates the current generative wave in speech and graphics. Program synthesis is the notable special case: constructing a program that satisfies a specification, which is as much a search problem as a generative one.

Explainers using this term

• The State of 3D Generation — From NeRF to Gaussian SplattingNeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
• Paper Walkthrough — FACET: Grounding Instruction, Environment, Solution and Verifier in One Executable StateFACET: Preserving Source Intent and Executable State in Terminal Task Synthesis
• Paper Deep-Dive: Recursive Synthesis — Extending Verified Tasks Into 40,000 Long-Horizon Terminal ProblemsRecursive Synthesis for Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks