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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in tool learning. In real-world scenarios, user queries are often ambiguous and incomplete, requiring effective clarification. However, existing interactive…

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Test-Time Optimization enables models to adapt to new data during inference by updating parameters on-the-fly. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have explored learning prompts at test time to improve performance in downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dhruv Sarkar , Aprameyo Chakrabartty , Bibhudatta Bhanja

Pointer analysis is a fundamental static program analysis for computing the set of objects that an expression can refer to. Decades of research has gone into developing methods of varying precision and efficiency for pointer analysis for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-07 K. Tuncay Tekle , Yanhong A. Liu

Due to accessible big data collections from consumers, products, and stores, advanced sales forecasting capabilities have drawn great attention from many companies especially in the retail business because of its importance in decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Xuan Bi , Gediminas Adomavicius , William Li , Annie Qu

While designing machine learning based text analytics applications, often, NLP data scientists manually determine which NLP features to use based upon their knowledge and experience with related problems. This results in increased efforts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Janardan Misra

Programmers often leverage data structure libraries that provide useful and reusable abstractions. Modular verification of programs that make use of these libraries naturally rely on specifications that capture important properties about…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhe Zhou , Robert Dickerson , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

Annotating long-horizon robotic demonstrations with precise temporal action boundaries is crucial for training and evaluating action segmentation and manipulation policy learning methods. Existing annotation tools, however, are often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Sergej Stanovcic , Daniel Sliwowski , Dongheui Lee

A resource leak occurs when a program fails to free some finite resource after it is no longer needed. Such leaks are a significant cause of real-world crashes and performance problems. Recent work proposed an approach to prevent resource…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Narges Shadab , Pritam Gharat , Shrey Tiwari , Michael D. Ernst , Martin Kellogg , Shuvendu Lahiri , Akash Lal , Manu Sridharan

As applications grow in capability, they also grow in complexity. This complexity in turn gets pushed into modules and libraries. In addition, hardware configurations become increasingly elaborate, too. These two trends make understanding,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Ronny Brendel , Bert Wesarg , Ronny Tschüter , Matthias Weber , Thomas Ilsche , Sebastian Oeste

The construction of high-quality parallel corpora for translation research has increasingly evolved from simple sentence alignment to complex, multi-layered annotation tasks. This methodological shift presents significant challenges for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Baorong Huang , Ali Asiri

This paper describes a new modelling language for the effective design of Java annotations. Since their inclusion in the 5th edition of Java, annotations have grown from a useful tool for the addition of meta-data to play a central role in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Irene Córdoba , Juan de Lara

Static analysis is a powerful technique for automatic verification of programs but raises major engineering challenges when developing a full-fledged analyzer for a realistic language such as Java. This paper describes the Sawja library: a…

Modern software relies on libraries and uses them via application programming interfaces (APIs). Correct API usage as well as many software engineering tasks are enabled when APIs have formal specifications. In this work, we analyze the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-17 John L. Singleton , Gary T. Leavens , Hridesh Rajan , David R. Cok

In this paper, we present the FATS (Feature Analysis for Time Series) library. FATS is a Python library which facilitates and standardizes feature extraction for time series data. In particular, we focus on one application: feature…

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Logging is a practice widely adopted in several phases of the software lifecycle. For example, during software development log statements allow engineers to verify and debug the system by exposing fine-grained information of the running…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Antonio Mastropaolo , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

High-throughput experimentation enables efficient search space exploration for the discovery and optimization of new materials. However, large search spaces of, e.g., compositionally complex materials, require decreasing characterization…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-03 Felix Thelen , Lars Banko , Rico Zehl , Sabrina Baha , Alfred Ludwig

While there are numerous linear algebra teaching tools, they tend to be focused on the basics, and not handle the more advanced aspects. This project aims to fill that gap, focusing specifically on methods like Strassen's fast matrix…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Akhilesh Pai , James Harold Davenport

This document investigates the integration of adaptive distinguishing sequences into the process of active automata learning (AAL). A novel AAL algorithm "ADT" (adaptive discrimination tree) is developed and presented. Since the submission…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Markus Theo Frohme

Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel on homophilic graphs where connected nodes share labels, but struggle with heterophilic graphs where edges do not imply similarity. Moreover, iterative message passing limits scalability due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Turja Kundu , Sanjukta Bhowmick

Static analysis has established itself as a weapon of choice for detecting security vulnerabilities. Taint analysis in particular is a very general and powerful technique, where security policies are expressed in terms of forbidden flows,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Saikat Dutta , Diego Garbervetsky , Shuvendu Lahiri , Max Schäfer