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Automated program repair is already deployed in industry, but concerns remain about repair quality. Recent research has shown that one of the main reasons repair tools produce incorrect (but seemingly correct) patches is imperfect fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Manish Motwani , Yuriy Brun

Many techniques for automated program repair involve syntactic program transformations. Applying combinations of such transformations on faulty code yields fix candidates whose correctness must be determined. Exploring these combinations…

In response to the threat of adversarial examples, adversarial training provides an attractive option for enhancing the model robustness by training models on online-augmented adversarial examples. However, most of the existing adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jia-Li Yin , Lehui Xie , Wanqing Zhu , Ximeng Liu , Bo-Hao Chen

Automatic program repair (APR) techniques have the potential to reduce manual efforts in uncovering and repairing program defects during the code review (CR) process. However, the limited accuracy and considerable time costs associated with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Zelin Zhao , Zhaogui Xu , Jialong Zhu , Peng Di , Yuan Yao , Xiaoxing Ma

Automated generation of feedback on programming assignments holds significant benefits for programming education, especially when it comes to advanced assignments. Automated Program Repair techniques, especially Large Language Model based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Qianhui Zhao , Fang Liu , Li Zhang , Yang Liu , Zhen Yan , Zhenghao Chen , Yufei Zhou , Jing Jiang , Ge Li

Learning-enabled controllers have been adopted in various cyber-physical systems (CPS). When a learning-enabled controller fails to accomplish its task from a set of initial states, researchers leverage repair algorithms to fine-tune the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Pengyuan Lu , Matthew Cleaveland , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee , Ivan Ruchkin

Code authorship attribution (CAA) supports software forensics, plagiarism detection, and intellectual property protection. However, existing supervised CAA approaches suffer from scarce training data and closed-world assumptions: they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jingwei Ye , Zhi Wang , Xin Li , Cong Gao , Chenbin Su , Jieshuai Yang , Jianfei Tang , Ge Chu

Credit default poses significant challenges to financial institutions and consumers, resulting in substantial financial losses and diminished trust. As such, credit default risk management has been a critical topic in the financial…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuanhong Wu , Jingyan Xu , Wei Ye , Christina Schweikert , D. Frank Hsu

APR (Automated Program Repair) aims to automatically locate program defects, generate patches and validate the repairs. Existing techniques for APR are often combined with LLMs (Large Language Models), which leverages the code-related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Haichuan Hu , Xiaochen Xie , Quanjun Zhang

Verification and validation of cyber-physical systems (CPS) via large-scale simulation often surface failures that are hard to interpret, especially when triggered by interactions between continuous and discrete behaviors at specific events…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zaid Ghazal , Hadiza Yusuf , Khouloud Gaaloul

Automated program repair techniques, which target to generating correct patches for real world defects automatically, have gained a lot of attention in the last decade. Many different techniques and tools have been proposed and developed.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Jiajun Jiang , Yingfei Xiong

Static analyzers can reason about the properties and behaviors of programs and detect various issues without executing them. Hence, they should extract the necessary information to understand the analyzed program well. Annotation has been a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Huaien Zhang , Yu Pei , Shuyun Liang , Shin Hwei Tan

Network configurations are prone to errors, which can lead to catastrophic service outages. A tool that can achieve automatic configuration repair (ACR) is highly desired by operators. Existing tools for ACR follow a semantic-driven…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhenrong Gu , Peng Zhang , Xing Feng , Xu Liu

Process-aware Recommender systems (PAR systems) are information systems that aim to monitor process executions, predict their outcome, and recommend effective interventions to reduce the risk of failure. This paper discusses monitoring,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Marcus Dees , Massimiliano de Leoni , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Hajo A. Reijers

(Note: This work is a preprint.) Static analysis (SA) tools produce many diagnostic alerts indicating that source code in C or C++ may be defective and potentially vulnerable to security exploits. Many of these alerts are false positives.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-06 David Svoboda , Lori Flynn , William Klieber , Michael Duggan , Nicholas Reimer , Joseph Sible

Because machine learning has significantly improved efficiency and convenience in the society, it's increasingly used to assist or replace human decision-making. However, the data-based pattern makes related algorithms learn and even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingran Yang , Min Zhang , Lingfeng Zhang , Zhaohui Wang , Yonggang Zhang

When using graphs and graph transformations to model systems, consistency is an important concern. While consistency has primarily been viewed as a binary property, i.e., a graph is consistent or inconsistent with respect to a set of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Lars Fritsche , Alexander Lauer , Maximilian Kratz , Andy Schürr , Gabriele Taentzer

Handling faults is a growing concern in HPC. In future exascale systems, it is projected that silent undetected errors will occur several times a day, increasing the occurrence of corrupted results. In this article, we propose SEDAR, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Diego Montezanti , Enzo Rucci , Armando De Giusti , Marcelo Naiouf , Dolores Rexachs , Emilio Luque

Counterfactual explanations (CFEs) are a popular approach in explainable artificial intelligence (xAI), highlighting changes to input data necessary for altering a model's output. A CFE can either describe a scenario that is better than the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ulrike Kuhl , André Artelt , Barbara Hammer

Motor imagery (MI) BCIs are sensitive to EEG artifacts, yet the practical impact of automated artifact rejection on downstream MI decoding performance remains unclear. While most work focuses on decoder design, the contribution of data…