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Source code summarization -- creating natural language descriptions of source code behavior -- is a rapidly-growing research topic with applications to automatic documentation generation, program comprehension, and software maintenance.…

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The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the field of automated code generation. LLMs rely on large and diverse datasets to learn syntax, semantics, and usage patterns of programming languages. For low-resource…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Alessandro Giagnorio , Alberto Martin-Lopez , Gabriele Bavota

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved automated code generation. While existing approaches have achieved strong performance at the function and file levels, real-world software engineering requires…

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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

Bimodal software analysis initially appeared to be within reach with the advent of large language models. Unfortunately, the complex interplay of natural language text and code in software engineering, presents unique challenges that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xunzhu Tang , Liran Wang , Yonghui Liu , Linzheng Chai , Jian Yang , Zhoujun Li , Haoye Tian , Jacques Klein , Tegawende F. Bissyande

Standard transformer-based language models, while powerful for general text, often struggle with the fine-grained syntax and entity relationships in complex technical, engineering documents. To address this, we propose the Contextual Graph…

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During software maintenance, programmers spend a lot of time on code comprehension. Reading comments is an effective way for programmers to reduce the reading and navigating time when comprehending source code. Therefore, as a critical task…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Xing Hu , Yuhan Wei , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Code summarization has emerged as a fundamental technique in the field of program comprehension. While code language models have shown significant advancements, the current models and benchmarks are confined to high-readability code, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Wenhao Zeng , Yitian Chai , Hao Zhou , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Xiaodong Gu

Conversational query rewriting is crucial for effective conversational search, yet traditional supervised methods require substantial labeled data, which is scarce in low-resource settings. This paper introduces Prompt-Guided In-Context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Raymond Wilson , Chase Carter , Cole Graham

Predicting program behavior and reasoning about code execution remain significant challenges in software engineering, particularly for large language models (LLMs) designed for code analysis. While these models excel at understanding static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Cuong Chi Le , Hoang-Chau Truong-Vinh , Huy Nhat Phan , Dung Duy Le , Tien N. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Large Language Models (LLMs) based on Transformers excel at text processing, but their reliance on prompts for specialized behavior introduces computational overhead. We propose a modification to a Transformer architecture that eliminates…

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Code vulnerability detection is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of modern software systems. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in this domain. However, notable discrepancies in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhihong Sun , Jia Li , Yao Wan , Chuanyi Li , Hongyu Zhang , Zhi jin , Ge Li , Hong Liu , Chen Lyu , Songlin Hu

Many applications today use large language models for code generation; however, production systems have strict latency requirements that can be difficult to meet with large models. Small language models with a few billion parameters are…

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The widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering has intensified the need for improved model and resource efficiency. In particular, for neural code generation, LLMs are used to translate function/method signature…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Guang Yang , Yu Zhou , Wei Cheng , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiang Chen , Terry Yue Zhuo , Ke Liu , Xin Zhou , David Lo , Taolue Chen

In recent years, a significant number of high-quality pretrained models have emerged, greatly impacting Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Natural Language Generation (NLG), and Text Representation tasks. Traditionally, these models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Changshang Xue , Xiande Zhong , Xiaoqing Liu

While reasoning over long context is crucial for various real-world applications, it remains challenging for large language models (LLMs) as they suffer from performance degradation as the context length grows. Recent work MemAgent has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Leheng Sheng , Yongtao Zhang , Wenchang Ma , Yaorui Shi , Ting Huang , Xiang Wang , An Zhang , Ke Shen , Tat-Seng Chua

Linguistic richness is essential for advancing natural language processing (NLP), as dataset characteristics often directly influence model performance. However, traditional metrics such as Type-Token Ratio (TTR), Vocabulary Diversity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Vu Minh Hoang Dang , Rakesh M. Verma

The increasing demand for continual learning in sequential data processing has led to progressively complex training methodologies and larger recurrent network architectures. Consequently, this has widened the knowledge gap between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Abdullah M. Zyarah , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

Code merging is a significant challenge, particularly in large-scale projects. Existing solutions, including program analysis and machine learning, show promise but face critical limitations. Program analysis lacks the ability to infer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qingyu Zhang , Junzhe Li , Jiayi Lin , Changhua Luo , Chenxiong Qian

Predicting program behavior without execution is a critical task in software engineering. Existing models often fall short in capturing the dynamic dependencies among program elements. To address this, we present CodeFlow, a novel machine…

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