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This study explores a novel approach to enhance the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) through the optimization of input data within prompts. While previous research has primarily focused on refining instruction components and…

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Program specialization is a program transformation methodology which improves program efficiency by exploiting the information about the input data which are available at compile time. We show that current techniques for program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti , Sophie Renault

The conversion of user epics or stories into their appropriate representation in pseudocode or code is a time-consuming task, which can take up a large portion of the time in an industrial project. With this research paper, we aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Gaurav Kolhatkar , Akshit Madan , Nidhi Kowtal , Satyajit Roy , Sheetal Sonawane

Smart contract code summarization is crucial for efficient maintenance and vulnerability mitigation. While many studies use Large Language Models (LLMs) for summarization, their performance still falls short compared to fine-tuned models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xiaoqi Li , Yingjie Mao , Zexin Lu , Wenkai Li , Zongwei Li

Pretrained code language models have enabled great progress towards program synthesis. However, common approaches only consider in-file local context and thus miss information and constraints imposed by other parts of the codebase and its…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hengzhi Pei , Jinman Zhao , Leonard Lausen , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

Control-flow refinement refers to program transformations whose purpose is to make implicit control-flow explicit, and is used in the context of program analysis to increase precision. Several techniques have been suggested for different…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Jesús J. Doménech , John P. Gallagher , Samir Genaim

Source code is usually formatted with elements like indentation and newlines to improve readability for human developers. However, these visual aids do not seem to be beneficial for large language models (LLMs) in the same way since the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Dangfeng Pan , Zhensu Sun , Cenyuan Zhang , David Lo , Xiaoning Du

Determining whether a program terminates is a core challenge in program analysis with direct implications for correctness, verification, and security. We investigate whether transformer architectures can recognise termination patterns…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yoav Alon , Cristina David

This article shows a correspondence between abstract interpretation of imperative programs and the refinement calculus: in the refinement calculus, an abstract interpretation of a program is a specification which is a function. This…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Arnaud Spiwack

Writing parallel codes is difficult and exhibits a fundamental trade-off between abstraction and performance. The high level language abstractions designed to simplify the complexities of parallelism make certain assumptions that impacts…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Nick Brown , Ludovic Capelli , J. Mark Bull

Program comprehension concerns the ability of an individual to make an understanding of an existing software system to extend or transform it. Software systems comprise of data that are noisy and missing, which makes program understanding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Amir Saeidi , Jurriaan Hage , Ravi Khadka , Slinger Jansen

A program execution monitor is a program that collects and abstracts information about program executions. The "collect" operator is a high level, general purpose primitive which lets users implement their own monitors. "Collect" is built…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Erwan Jahier

Well structured and readable source code is a pre-requisite for maintainable software and successful collaboration among developers. Static analysis enables the automated extraction of code complexity and readability metrics which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Gustaf Holst , Felix Dobslaw

In this paper two intensive problems faced during software application's analysis and development process arose by the software industry are briefly conversed i.e. identification of fault proneness and increase in rate of variability in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-11-16 Zeeshan Ahmed , Saman Majeed

In many massively parallel data management platforms, programs are represented as small imperative pieces of code connected in a data flow. This popular abstraction makes it hard to apply algebraic reordering techniques employed by…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Fabian Hueske , Aljoscha Krettek , Kostas Tzoumas

Pointer analysis is a fundamental static program analysis for computing the set of objects that an expression can refer to. Decades of research has gone into developing methods of varying precision and efficiency for pointer analysis for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-07 K. Tuncay Tekle , Yanhong A. Liu

This research paper aims to find, analyze and understand code patterns in any software system and measure its quality by defining standards and proposing a formula for the same. Every code that is written can be divided into different code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Jitesh Dundas

Code optimization is the process of enhancing code efficiency, while preserving its intended functionality. This process often requires a deep understanding of the code execution behavior at run-time to identify and address inefficiencies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Federico Di Menna , Luca Traini , Gabriele Bavota , Vittorio Cortellessa

Misconceptions about program execution hinder many novice programmers. We introduce SimpliPy, a notional machine designed around a carefully chosen Python subset to clarify core control flow and scoping concepts. Its foundation is a precise…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Moida Praneeth Jain , Venkatesh Choppella

We have developed a Prolog visualization system that is intended to support Prolog programming education. The system uses Logichart diagrams to visualize Prolog programs. The Logichart diagram is designed to visualize the Prolog execution…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-03-25 Yoshihiro Adachi