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Large language model (LLM)-based search agents have proven promising for addressing knowledge-intensive problems by incorporating information retrieval capabilities. Existing works largely focus on optimizing the reasoning paradigms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tongyu Wen , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

The ultimate goal of any software developer seeking a competitive edge is to meet stakeholders needs and expectations. To achieve this, it is necessary to effectively and accurately manage stakeholders system requirements. The paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Anupama Prasanth , Sandhia Valsala , Safeeullah Soomro

Function calling enables large language models (LLMs) to interact with external systems by leveraging tools and APIs. When faced with multi-step tool usage, LLMs still struggle with tool selection, parameter generation, and tool-chain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Sijia Cui , Aiyao He , Shuai Xu , Hongming Zhang , Yanna Wang , Qingyang Zhang , Yajing Wang , Bo Xu

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that provably satisfy a given specification in the form of a polymorphic refinement type. We observe that such specifications are particularly suitable for program synthesis for two…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Nadia Polikarpova , Ivan Kuraj , Armando Solar-Lezama

Iteratively improving and repairing source code with large language models (LLMs), known as refinement, has emerged as a popular way of generating programs that would be too complex to construct in one shot. Given a bank of test cases,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hao Tang , Keya Hu , Jin Peng Zhou , Sicheng Zhong , Wei-Long Zheng , Xujie Si , Kevin Ellis

Nowadays, cognitive service provides more interactive way to understand users' requirements via human-machine conversation. In other words, it has to capture users' requirements from their utterance and respond them with the relevant and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bolin Zhang , Zhiying Tu , Yunzhe Xu , Dianhui Chu , Xiaofei Xu

We present ReFormeR, a pattern-guided approach for query reformulation. Instead of prompting a language model to generate reformulations of a query directly, ReFormeR first elicits short reformulation patterns from pairs of initial queries…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Amin Bigdeli , Mert Incesu , Negar Arabzadeh , Charles L. A. Clarke , Ebrahim Bagheri

Despite recent advances in inversion and instruction-based image editing, existing approaches primarily excel at editing single, prominent objects but significantly struggle when applied to complex scenes containing multiple entities. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Bimsara Pathiraja , Maitreya Patel , Shivam Singh , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

The project, under industrial funding, presented in this publication aims at the semantic analysis of a normative document describing requirements applicable to electrical appliances. The objective of the project is to build a semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Helene de Ribaupierre , Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle , Nathalie Baumier , Serge Blumental

We introduce skipping refinement, a new notion of correctness for reasoning about optimized reactive systems. Reasoning about reactive systems using refinement involves defining an abstract, high-level specification system and a concrete,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Mitesh Jain , Panagiotis Manolios

Candidate retrieval is a fundamental issue in recommendation system. Given user's recommendation request, relevant candidates need to be retrieved in realtime for subsequent ranking operations. Considering that the retrieval operation is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Zheng Liu , Yu Xing , Jianxun Lian , Defu Lian , Ziyao Li , Xing Xie

This paper presents the ReXCL tool, which automates the extraction and classification processes in requirements engineering, enhancing the software development life-cycle. The tool features two main modules: Extraction, which processes raw…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Paheli Bhattacharya , Manojit Chakraborty , Santhosh Kumar Arumugam , Rishabh Gupta

This paper presents the ReXCL tool, which automates the extraction and classification processes in requirement engineering, enhancing the software development lifecycle. The tool features two main modules: Extraction, which processes raw…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Paheli Bhattacharya , Manojit Chakraborty , Santhosh Kumar Arumugam , Rishabh Gupta

Large language models have shown good performances in generating code to meet human requirements. However, human requirements expressed in natural languages can be vague, incomplete, and ambiguous, leading large language models to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Zejun Wang , Jia Li , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Process mining techniques aim to extract insights in processes from event logs. One of the challenges in process mining is identifying interesting and meaningful event labels that contribute to a better understanding of the process. Our…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Niek Tax , Natalia Sidorova , Reinder Haakma , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

This paper discusses a model-based approach to validate software requirements in agile development processes by simulation and in particular automated testing. The use of models as central development artifact needs to be added to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Jewgenij Botaschanjan , Markus Pister , Bernhard Rumpe

Metric Elicitation (ME) is a framework for eliciting classification metrics that better align with implicit user preferences based on the task and context. The existing ME strategy so far is based on the assumption that users can most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-08 Safinah Ali , Sohini Upadhyay , Gaurush Hiranandani , Elena L. Glassman , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Finding a suited software solution for a company poses a resource-intensive task in an ever-widening market. Software should solve the technical task at hand as perfectly as possible and, at the same time, match the company strategy. Based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Harald Papp , Marc Hanussek

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) show significant potential for achieving high autonomy in various scenarios such as software development. Recent research has shown that LLM agents can leverage past experiences to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Chen Qian , Jiahao Li , Yufan Dang , Wei Liu , YiFei Wang , Zihao Xie , Weize Chen , Cheng Yang , Yingli Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Metric elicitation is a recent framework for eliciting classification performance metrics that best reflect implicit user preferences based on the task and context. However, available elicitation strategies have been limited to linear (or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-23 Gaurush Hiranandani , Jatin Mathur , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Oluwasanmi Koyejo