Invariant synthesis is a fundamental problem in program verification, yet existing learning-based approaches rarely exploit the inherent symmetry present in many programs, particularly parameterized and concurrent systems. Such symmetry induces a symmetric reachable state space, naturally yielding symmetric samples and admitting symmetric invariants, motivating the task of learning symmetric invariants from symmetric samples. To this end, we introduce symmetric decision trees (SDTs), a novel hypothesis class that enforces symmetry structurally, guaranteeing symmetric invariants by construction. Furthermore, we develop a learning algorithm to construct SDTs and integrate it as the learner within the Horn-ICE framework, yielding our approach, Horn-SDT. Empirical evaluation on parameterized programs demonstrates that Horn-SDT achieves faster convergence and constructs more compact trees compared to non-symmetric baselines.

@article{paperbot3840,
  title = {Learning Symmetric Invariants from Symmetric Samples},
  author = {Zhijie Xu and Fei He},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages},
  volume = {10},
  number = {OOPSLA1},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3798200}
}