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Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong program repair performance but often suffer from over-editing, where excessive modifications overwrite correct code and hinder bug localization. We systematically quantify its impact and introduce…

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Techniques of Automatic Program Repair (APR) have the potential of thoroughly facilitating the task of producing quality software. After a promising start, however, progress in making APR practical has been hindered by the lack of a common…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Bertrand Meyer , Viktoryia Kananchuk , Li Huang

Even competent programmers make mistakes. Automatic verification can detect errors, but leaves the frustrating task of finding the erroneous line of code to the user. This paper presents an automatic approach for identifying potential error…

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With the rapid development and large-scale popularity of program software, modern society increasingly relies on software systems. However, the problems exposed by software have also come to the fore. Software defect has become an important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Kai Huang , Zhengzi Xu , Su Yang , Hongyu Sun , Xuejun Li , Zheng Yan , Yuqing Zhang

Users around the world rely on software-intensive systems in their day-to-day activities. These systems regularly contain bugs and security vulnerabilities. To facilitate bug fixing, data-driven models of automatic program repair use pairs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Anastasiia Grishina

A significant portion of student programming submissions in CS1 learning environments are uncompilable, limiting their use in student modeling and downstream knowledge tracing. Traditional modeling pipelines often exclude these cases,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Griffin Pitts , Aum Pandya , Darsh Rank , Tirth Bhatt , Muntasir Hoq , Bita Akram

Program synthesis and repair have emerged as an exciting area of research, driven by the potential for revolutionary advances in programmer productivity. Among most promising ideas emerging for synthesis are syntax-driven search,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Manos Koukoutos , Mukund Raghothaman , Etienne Kneuss , Viktor Kuncak

The automated repair of C++ compilation errors presents a significant challenge, the resolution of which is critical for developer productivity. Progress in this domain is constrained by two primary factors: the scarcity of large-scale,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Weixuan Sun , Jucai Zhai , Dengfeng Liu , Xin Zhang , Xiaojun Wu , Qiaobo Hao , AIMgroup , Yang Fang , Jiuyang Tang

We introduce a framework for automatically choosing data structures to support efficient computation of analytical workloads. Our contributions are twofold. First, we introduce a novel low-level intermediate language that can express the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Amir Shaikhha , Marios Kelepeshis , Mahdi Ghorbani

Research on automatic software repair is concerned with the development of systems that automatically detect and repair bugs. One well-known class of bugs is the infinite loop. Every computer programmer or user has, at least once,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Sebastian R. Lamelas Marcote , Martin Monperrus

We consider the problem of Cost-Aware Learning, where sampling different component functions of a finite-sum objective incurs different costs. The objective is to reach a target error while minimizing the total cost. First, we propose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Clara Mohri , Amir Globerson , Haim Kaplan , Tomer Koren , Yishay Mansour

With the advent of AI-based coding engines, it is possible to convert natural language requirements to executable code in standard programming languages. However, AI-generated code can be unreliable, and the natural language requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Martin Mirchev , Andreea Costea , Abhishek Kr Singh , Abhik Roychoudhury

Program errors can occur in any type of programming, and can manifest in a variety of ways, such as unexpected output, crashes, or performance issues. And program error diagnosis can often be too abstract or technical for developers to…

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Database applications are typically written using a mixture of imperative languages and declarative frameworks for data processing. Application logic gets distributed across the declarative and imperative parts of a program. Often, there is…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-27 K. Venkatesh Emani , S. Sudarshan

Automated Program Repair (APR) is a fast growing area with numerous new techniques being developed to tackle one of the most challenging software engineering problems. APR techniques have shown promising results, giving us hope that one day…

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Due to the fragility of quantum mechanical effects, real quantum computers are plagued by frequent noise effects that cause errors during computations. Quantum error-correcting codes address this problem by providing means to identify and…

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Scalable and automatic formal verification for concurrent systems is always demanding. In this paper, we propose a verification framework to support automated compositional reasoning for concurrent programs with shared variables. Our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fuyuan Zhang , Yongwang Zhao , David Sanan , Yang Liu , Alwen Tiu , Shang-Wei Lin , Jun Sun

Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques typically rely on a given test-suite to guide the repair process. Apart from the need to provide test oracles, this makes the produced patches prone to test data over-fitting. In this work, instead…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuntong Zhang , Andreea Costea , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Davin McCall , Abhik Roychoudhury

Automatic Program Repair (APR) aims at fixing buggy source code with less manual debugging efforts, which plays a vital role in improving software reliability and development productivity. Recent APR works have achieved remarkable progress…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wei Yuan , Quanjun Zhang , Tieke He , Chunrong Fang , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Xiaodong Hao , Hongzhi Yin

When humans design cost or goal specifications for robots, they often produce specifications that are ambiguous, underspecified, or beyond planners' ability to solve. In these cases, corrections provide a valuable tool for human-in-the-loop…