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Modern prefetchers identify memory access patterns in order to predict future accesses. However, many applications exhibit irregular access patterns that do not manifest spatio-temporal locality in the memory address space. Such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Leeor Peled , Uri Weiser , Yoav Etsion

Today's conventional search engines hardly do provide the essential content relevant to the user's search query. This is because the context and semantics of the request made by the user is not analyzed to the full extent. So here the need…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Swathi Rajasurya , Tamizhamudhu Muralidharan , Sandhiya Devi , S. Swamynathan

Code retrieval is to find the code snippet from a large corpus of source code repositories that highly matches the query of natural language description. Recent work mainly uses natural language processing techniques to process both query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xiang Ling , Lingfei Wu , Saizhuo Wang , Gaoning Pan , Tengfei Ma , Fangli Xu , Alex X. Liu , Chunming Wu , Shouling Ji

Source code search plays an important role in software development, e.g. for exploratory development or opportunistic reuse of existing code from a code base. Often, exploration of different implementations with the same functionality is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Muhammad Hammad , Önder Babur , Hamid Abdul Basit , Mark van den Brand

The WorldWideWeb (WWW) is a huge conservatory of web pages. Search Engines are key applications that fetch web pages for the user query. In the current generation web architecture, search engines treat keywords provided by the user as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Leena Giri G , Srikanth P L , S H Manjula , K R Venugopal , L M Patnaik

Code retrieval, which retrieves code snippets based on users' natural language descriptions, is widely used by developers and plays a pivotal role in real-world software development. The advent of deep learning has shifted the retrieval…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wenchao Gu , Ensheng Shi , Yanlin Wang , Lun Du , Shi Han , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Neural program embeddings have shown much promise recently for a variety of program analysis tasks, including program synthesis, program repair, fault localization, etc. However, most existing program embeddings are based on syntactic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Ke Wang , Rishabh Singh , Zhendong Su

Modern experimental platforms such as particle accelerators, fusion devices, telescopes, and industrial process control systems expose tens to hundreds of thousands of control and diagnostic channels accumulated over decades of evolution.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Thorsten Hellert , Nikolay Agladze , Alex Giovannone , Jan Jug , Frank Mayet , Mark Sherwin , Antonin Sulc , Chris Tennant

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of finding algorithm implementations from code. Successfully matching code and algorithms can help understand unknown code, provide reference implementations, and automatically collect data for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Adithya Kulkarni , Mohna Chakraborty , Yonas Sium , Sai Charishma Valluri , Wei Le , Qi Li

Language models can serve as a valuable tool for software developers to increase productivity. Large generative models can be used for code generation and code completion, while smaller encoder-only models are capable of performing code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Andor Diera , Abdelhalim Dahou , Lukas Galke , Fabian Karl , Florian Sihler , Ansgar Scherp

As of today the programming language of the vast majority of the published source code is manually specified or programmatically assigned based on the sole file extension. In this paper we show that the source code programming language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Shaul Zevin , Catherine Holzem

Component-based synthesis seeks to build programs using the APIs provided by a set of libraries. Oftentimes, these APIs have effects, which make it challenging to reason about the correctness of potential synthesis candidates. This is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ashish Mishra , Suresh Jagannathan

A major bottleneck in search-based program synthesis is the exponentially growing search space which makes learning large programs intractable. Humans mitigate this problem by leveraging the compositional nature of the real world: In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jonas Witt , Sebastijan Dumančić , Tias Guns , Claus-Christian Carbon

The growing trends in automation, Internet of Things, big data and cloud computing technologies have led to the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), where it is possible to visualize and identify patterns and insights, which results…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Idoia Berges , Víctor Julio Ramírez-Durán , Arantza Illarramendi

The goal of natural language semantic code search is to retrieve a semantically relevant code snippet from a fixed set of candidates using a natural language query. Existing approaches are neither effective nor efficient enough towards a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare , Junnan Li , Shafiq Joty , Steven C. H. Hoi

Programmers typically organize executable source code using high-level coding patterns or idiomatic structures such as nested loops, exception handlers and recursive blocks, rather than as individual code tokens. In contrast, state of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Srinivasan Iyer , Alvin Cheung , Luke Zettlemoyer

Computing devices have recently become capable of interacting with their end users via natural language. However, they can only operate within a limited "supported" domain of discourse and fail drastically when faced with an out-of-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zhichu Lu , Forough Arabshahi , Igor Labutov , Tom Mitchell

Every program should be accompanied by a specification that describes important aspects of the code's behavior, but writing good specifications is often harder than writing the code itself. This paper addresses the problem of synthesizing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Kanghee Park , Loris D'Antoni , Thomas Reps

Large Language models (LLMs) have shown promise as generators of symbolic control policies, producing interpretable program-like representations through iterative search. However, these models are not capable of separating the functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Carlo Bosio , Matteo Guarrera , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Mark W. Mueller

Both experimental and computational biology is becoming increasingly automated. Laboratory experiments are now performed automatically on high-throughput machinery, while computational models are synthesized or inferred automatically from…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Alessandro Abate , Luca Cardelli , Marta Kwiatkowska , Luca Laurenti , Boyan Yordanov