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Call graphs depict the static, caller-callee relation between "functions" in a program. With most source/target languages supporting functions as the primitive unit of composition, call graphs naturally form the fundamental control flow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ganesh M. Narayan , K. Gopinath , V. Sridhar

Static analysis plays a key role in finding bugs, including security issues. A critical step in static analysis is building accurate call graphs that model function calls in a program. However, due to hard-to-analyze language features,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan , Gianluca De Stefano , Giancarlo Pellegrino , Cristian-Alexandru Staicu

In recent years, the rise of deep learning and automation requirements in the software industry has elevated Intelligent Software Engineering to new heights. The number of approaches and applications in code understanding is growing, with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ruoting Wu , Yuxin Zhang , Qibiao Peng , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

With the increasing popularity of large language models (LLMs), reasoning on basic graph algorithm problems is an essential intermediate step in assessing their abilities to process and infer complex graph reasoning tasks. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Qiaolong Cai , Zhaowei Wang , Shizhe Diao , James Kwok , Yangqiu Song

Understanding and navigating large-scale codebases remains a significant challenge in software engineering. Existing methods often treat code as flat text or focus primarily on local structural relationships, limiting their ability to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 David Sounthiraraj , Jared Hancock , Yassin Kortam , Ashok Javvaji , Prabhat Singh , Shaila Shankar

Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In recent years, many code search studies have leveraged…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Chao Liu , Xin Xia , David Lo , Cuiyun Gao , Xiaohu Yang , John Grundy

Source code spends most of its time in a broken or incomplete state during software development. This presents a challenge to machine learning for code, since high-performing models typically rely on graph structured representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xuechen Li , Chris J. Maddison , Daniel Tarlow

This paper focuses on Code Generation task that aims at generating relevant code fragments according to given natural language descriptions. In the process of software development, developers often encounter two scenarios. One is requested…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Ge Li , Michael Lyu

Today most developers utilize source code written by other parties. Because the code is modified frequently, the developers need to grasp the impact of the modification repeatedly. A call graph and especially its special type, a call path,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Koji Yamamoto , Taka Matsutsuka

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

As a rich source of data, Call Graphs are used for various applications including security vulnerability detection. Despite multiple studies showing that Call Graphs can drastically improve the accuracy of analysis, existing ecosystem-scale…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mehdi Keshani

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in stand-alone code tasks like HumanEval and MBPP, but struggle with handling entire code repositories. This challenge has prompted research on enhancing LLM-codebase interaction at a repository scale.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Xiangyan Liu , Bo Lan , Zhiyuan Hu , Yang Liu , Zhicheng Zhang , Fei Wang , Michael Shieh , Wenmeng Zhou

The immense amounts of source code provide ample challenges and opportunities during software development. To handle the size of code bases, developers commonly search for code, e.g., when trying to find where a particular feature is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Luca Di Grazia , Michael Pradel

Code writing is repetitive and predictable, inspiring us to develop various code intelligence techniques. This survey focuses on code search, that is, to retrieve code that matches a given query by effectively capturing the semantic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yutao Xie , Jiayi Lin , Hande Dong , Lei Zhang , Zhonghai Wu

Writing code requires significant time and effort in software development. To automate this process, researchers have made substantial progress for code generation. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jia Li , Xianjie Shi , Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Zhi Jin , Lei Li , Huangzhao Zhang , Jia Li , Fang Liu , Yuwei Zhang , Zhengwei Tao , Yihong Dong , Yuqi Zhu , Chongyang Tao

I will present a way to implement graph algorithms which is different from traditional methods. This work was motivated by the belief that some ideas from software engineering should be applied to graph algorithms. Re-usability of software…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-24 Marco Nissen

The progress made in code modeling has been tremendous in recent years thanks to the design of natural language processing learning approaches based on state-of-the-art model architectures. Nevertheless, we believe that the current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Martin Weyssow , Houari Sahraoui , Bang Liu

Deep learning is widely used to uncover hidden patterns in large code corpora. To achieve this, constructing a format that captures the relevant characteristics and features of source code is essential. Graph-based representations have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Mootez Saad , Tushar Sharma

Generative models for source code are an interesting structured prediction problem, requiring to reason about both hard syntactic and semantic constraints as well as about natural, likely programs. We present a novel model for this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Marc Brockschmidt , Miltiadis Allamanis , Alexander L. Gaunt , Oleksandr Polozov

The growing demand for automated graph algorithm reasoning has attracted increasing attention in the large language model (LLM) community. Recent LLM-based graph reasoning methods typically decouple task descriptions from graph data,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fali Wang , Chenglin Weng , Xianren Zhang , Siyuan Hong , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang
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