Natural Programming Lab

Natural Programming Lab (NPL) is led by Prof. Yewen Pu at Nanyang Technological University. NPL studies how to bridge the gap between today’s agentic systems and true human collaborators. While modern LLMs excel at tasks with clear objectives and feedback, many real-world problems require alignment through interaction. Our work focuses on communication-driven intelligence—such as iterative repair, convention formation, and the development of shared mental models—and builds interactive systems that are both natural to instruct and reliable in execution.