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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in code generation. However, how to reliably evaluate code generated by LLMs remains an unresolved problem. This paper presents CodeJudge, a code evaluation framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Weixi Tong , Tianyi Zhang

Code reasoning tasks are becoming prevalent in large language model (LLM) assessments. Yet, there is a dearth of studies on the impact of real-world complexities on code reasoning, e.g., inter- or intra-procedural dependencies, API calls,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Changshu Liu , Alireza Ghazanfari , Yang Chen , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Testing compilers with AI models, especially large language models (LLMs), has shown great promise. However, current approaches struggle with two key problems: The generated programs for testing compilers are often too simple, and extensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li

In recent years there has been a considerable effort in optimising formal methods for application to code. This has been driven by tools such as CPAChecker, DIVINE, and CBMC. At the same time tools such as Uppaal have been massively…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Mitja Kulczynski , Axel Legay , Dirk Nowotka , Danny Bøgsted Poulsen

Increasing complexity in software systems places a growing demand on reasoning tools that unlock vulnerabilities manifest in source code. Many current approaches focus on vulnerability analysis as a classifying task, oversimplifying the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ala Jararweh , Michael Adams , Avinash Sahu , Abdullah Mueen , Afsah Anwar

Weak memory models specify the semantics of concurrent programs on multi-core architectures. Reasoning techniques for weak memory models are often specialized to one fixed model and verification results are hence not transferable to other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Lara Bargmann , Heike Wehrheim

In recent years, end-to-end Large Language Model (LLM) technology has shown substantial advantages across various domains. As critical system software and infrastructure, compilers are responsible for transforming source code into target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Hongbin Zhang , Shihao Gao , Yang Liu , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu , Chen Zhao

This paper describes a C code generator for ACL2 that recognizes ACL2 representations of C constructs, according to a shallow embedding of C in ACL2, and translates those representations to the represented C constructs. The code generator…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Alessandro Coglio

This paper presents a framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) into translation validation, targeting LLVM compiler transformations where formal verification tools fall short. Our framework first utilizes existing formal…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yanzhao Wang , Fei Xie

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great success in code generation. LLMs take as the input a prompt and output the code. A key question is how to make prompts (i.e., Prompting Techniques). Existing prompting techniques are designed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jia Li , Yunfei Zhao , Yongmin Li , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Evaluating the performance of Code Language Models (CLMs) for software engineering tasks, especially in multilingual and low-resource programming language settings, poses significant challenges. These challenges are primarily due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rohit Dandamudi , Gema Rodríguez-Pérez

Software migration is garnering increasing attention with the evolution of software and society. Early studies mainly relied on handcrafted translation rules to translate between two languages, the translation process is error-prone and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Xin Yin , Chao Ni , Tien N. Nguyen , Shaohua Wang , Xiaohu Yang

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities across a myriad of tasks, yet they occasionally yield undesirable outputs. We posit that these limitations are rooted in the foundational autoregressive architecture of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Cheng Yang , Chufan Shi , Siheng Li , Bo Shui , Yujiu Yang , Wai Lam

Virtualization promises significant benefits in security, efficiency, dependability, and cost. Achieving these benefits depends upon the reliability of the underlying virtual machine monitors (hypervisors). This paper describes an ongoing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-10-24 Mike Dahlin , Ryan Johnson , Robert Bellarmine Krug , Michael McCoyd , William Young

Intermediate reasoning or acting steps have successfully improved large language models (LLMs) for handling various downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks. When applying LLMs for code generation, recent works mainly focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Tao Sun , Linzheng Chai , Jian Yang , Yuwei Yin , Hongcheng Guo , Jiaheng Liu , Bing Wang , Liqun Yang , Zhoujun Li

Vectorization is a powerful optimization technique that significantly boosts the performance of high performance computing applications operating on large data arrays. Despite decades of research on auto-vectorization, compilers frequently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jubi Taneja , Avery Laird , Cong Yan , Madan Musuvathi , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

LLM-based code assistants are becoming increasingly popular among developers. These tools help developers improve their coding efficiency and reduce errors by providing real-time suggestions based on the developer's codebase. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Amit Finkman Noah , Avishag Shapira , Eden Bar Kochva , Inbar Maimon , Dudu Mimran , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising results for software engineering applications, but still struggle with code reasoning tasks such as vulnerability detection (VD). We introduce ConceptCoder, a fine-tuning method that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Md Mahbubur Rahman , Hengbo Tong , Wei Le

Programmers increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation. However, misalignment between programmers' goals and generated code complicates the code evaluation process and demands frequent switching between prompt…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ryan Yen , Jiawen Zhu , Sangho Suh , Haijun Xia , Jian Zhao

Large Language Models (LLM) are evolving and have significantly revolutionized the landscape of software development. If used well, they can significantly accelerate the software development cycle. At the same time, the community is very…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zachariah Sollenberger , Jay Patel , Christian Munley , Aaron Jarmusch , Sunita Chandrasekaran