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Code review that detects and locates defects and other quality issues plays an important role in software quality control. One type of issue that may impact the quality of software is code smells. Yet, little is known about the extent to…

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To accelerate software development, much research has been performed to help people understand and reuse the huge amount of available code resources. Two important tasks have been widely studied: code retrieval, which aims to retrieve code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Ziyu Yao , Jayavardhan Reddy Peddamail , Huan Sun

The popularity of machine learning has wildly expanded in recent years. Machine learning techniques have been heatedly studied in academia and applied in the industry to create business value. However, there is a lack of guidelines for code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Haiyin Zhang , Luís Cruz , Arie van Deursen

Create an idea, prototype it, evaluate if users like it, then learn. It is the circle of business. If AI can operate in all parts of the circle, it will enable rapid iteration and learning speeds for businesses. Experiment platforms that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jeffrey Wong , Antoine Creux

We present Loom, an outfit recommendation system that combines neural embedding retrieval with structured domain scoring to generate complete, coherent outfits from fashion catalogs. Given an anchor clothing item, Loom retrieves…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Anushree Berlia

Recently, automatic code comment generation is proposed to facilitate program comprehension. Existing code comment generation techniques focus on describing the functionality of the source code. However, there are other aspects such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Iman Keivanloo

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

Programming tutorials are often created to demonstrate programming tasks with code examples. However, our study of Stack Overflow questions reveals the low utilization of high-quality programming tutorials, which is caused task description…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jiamou Sun , Zhenchang Xing , Xin Peng , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

Adversarial examples are important to test and enhance the robustness of deep code models. As source code is discrete and has to strictly stick to complex grammar and semantics constraints, the adversarial example generation techniques in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhao Tian , Junjie Chen , Zhi Jin

In this paper, we present a tertiary systematic literature review of previous surveys, secondary systematic literature reviews, and systematic mappings. We identify the main observations (what we know) and challenges (what we do not know)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Guilherme Lacerda , Fabio Petrillo , Marcelo Pimenta , Yann Gael Gueheneuc

Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers as a popular way to seek programming-related information from peers via the internet. The Stack Overflow community recommends users to provide the related code snippet when they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , John Grundy , David Lo , Yuan-Fang Li

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted across diverse domains of software engineering, such as code generation, program repair, and vulnerability detection. These applications require understanding beyond surface-level code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Danning Xie , Mingwei Zheng , Xuwei Liu , Jiannan Wang , Chengpeng Wang , Lin Tan , Xiangyu Zhang

We propose a family of very efficient hierarchical indexing schemes for ungapped, score matrix-based similarity search in large datasets of short (4-12 amino acid) protein fragments. This type of similarity search has importance in both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-09-04 Aleksandar Stojmirovic , Vladimir Pestov

Code generation aims to produce code that fulfills requirements written in natural languages automatically. Large language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have demonstrated promising effectiveness in this area. Nonetheless, these LLMs often fail…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Ruwei Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Chao Liu

We describe an intelligent assistant based on mining existing software repositories to help the developer interactively create checkable specifications of code. To be most useful we apply this at the subsystem level, that is chunks of code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Steven P. Reiss

The automated recognition of algorithm implementations can support many software maintenance and re-engineering activities by providing knowledge about the concerns present in the code base. Moreover, recognizing inefficient algorithms like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Denis Neumüller , Florian Sihler , Raphael Straub , Matthias Tichy

Taxonomies play a crucial role in various applications by providing a structural representation of knowledge. The task of taxonomy expansion involves integrating emerging concepts into existing taxonomies by identifying appropriate parent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qingkai Zeng , Yuyang Bai , Zhaoxuan Tan , Zhenyu Wu , Shangbin Feng , Meng Jiang

While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive reasoning capabilities, understanding and validating their knowledge utilization remains challenging. Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting partially addresses this by revealing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Aissatou Diallo , Antonis Bikakis , Luke Dickens , Anthony Hunter , Rob Miller

We propose using natural language outlines as a novel modality and interaction surface for providing AI assistance to developers throughout the software development process. An NL outline for a code function comprises multiple statements…