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Many useful tasks in data science and machine learning applications can be written as simple variations of matrix multiplication. However, users have difficulty performing such tasks as existing matrix/vector libraries support only a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Junyoung Kim , Kenneth Ross , Eric Sedlar , Lukas Stadler

Search-based test generators are effective at producing unit tests with high coverage. However, such automatically generated tests have no meaningful test and variable names, making them hard to understand and interpret by developers. On…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Matteo Biagiola , Gianluca Ghislotti , Paolo Tonella

Large language models (LLMs) have shown increasing competence in solving mathematical reasoning problems. However, many open-source LLMs still struggle with errors in calculation and semantic understanding during intermediate reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Vernon Y. H. Toh , Deepanway Ghosal , Soujanya Poria

Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM) based Generative AI techniques have made it feasible to translate enterpriselevel code from legacy languages such as COBOL to modern languages such as Java or Python. While the results of…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in register-transfer level (RTL) design automation, but direct RTL generation remains difficult to validate, optimize, and integrate with compiler-based hardware design flows. Hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shuo Yin , Yihe Wang , Lancheng Zou , Xufeng Yao , Tinghuan Chen , Chen Bai , Zhengrong Wang , Tsung-Yi Ho , Bei Yu

We present Integer Linear Programming (ILP) Modulo Theories (IMT). An IMT instance is an Integer Linear Programming instance, where some symbols have interpretations in background theories. In previous work, the IMT approach has been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Panagiotis Manolios , Vasilis Papavasileiou

MiniJava is a subset of the object-oriented programming language Java. Standard ML is the canonical representative of the ML family of functional programming languages, which includes F# and OCaml. Different program analysis and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Martin Mariusz Lester

This work proposes a compilation flow using open-source compiler passes to build a framework to achieve ninja performance from a generic linear algebra high-level abstraction. We demonstrate this flow with a proof-of-concept MLIR project…

Multi-level intermediate representations (MLIR) show great promise for reducing the cost of building domain-specific compilers by providing a reusable and extensible compiler infrastructure. This work presents TPU-MLIR, an end-to-end…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Pengchao Hu , Man Lu , Lei Wang , Guoyue Jiang

Mutation-based Fault Localization (MBFL) has been widely explored for automated software debugging, leveraging artificial mutants to identify faulty code entities. However, MBFL faces significant challenges due to interference mutants…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hengyuan Liu , Zheng Li , Donghua Wang , Yankai Wu , Xiang Chen , Yong Liu

While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities across numerous applications, their robustness remains a critical concern. This paper is motivated by a specific vulnerability: the order sensitivity of LLMs. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Beni Egressy , Jan Stühmer

Textual Large Language Models (LLMs) provide a simple and familiar interface: a string of text is used for both input and output. However, the information conveyed to an LLM often has a richer structure and semantics, which is not conveyed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Michael Hind , Basel Shbita , Bo Wu , Farhan Ahmed , Chad DeLuca , Nathan Fulton , David Cox , Dan Gutfreund

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in non-generative software maintenance tasks, such as fault localization (FL). Success in FL depends on a models ability to reason about program semantics beyond surface-level…

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-Agent LLMs (MALLMs) introduce non-determinism unlike traditional or machine learning software, requiring new approaches to verifying correctness beyond simple output comparisons or statistical accuracy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Felix Dobslaw , Robert Feldt , Juyeon Yoon , Shin Yoo

Software product lines (SPL) are a method for the development of variant-rich software systems. Compared to non-variable systems, testing SPLs is extensive due to an increasingly amount of possible products. Different approaches exist for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Hartmut Lackner , Martin Schmidt

Fortran is the lingua franca of HPC code development and as such it is crucial that we as a community have open source Fortran compilers capable of generating high performance executables. Flang is LLVM's Fortran compiler and leverages MLIR…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Nick Brown

Ensuring the reliability of the Rust compiler is of paramount importance, given increasing adoption of Rust for critical systems development, due to its emphasis on memory and thread safety. However, generating valid test programs for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hongyan Gao , Yibiao Yang , Maolin Sun , Jiangchang Wu , Yuming Zhou , Baowen Xu

Prototyping plays a critical role in the development of machine learning (ML) solutions, yet existing tools often provide limited support for effective collaboration and knowledge reuse among stakeholders. This paper introduces Proto-ML, an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Selin Coban , Miguel Perez , Horst Lichter

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising capabilities for tackling complex reasoning tasks, including optimization problems. However, existing methods either rely on prompt engineering, which leads to poor generalization across problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Dong Li , Xujiang Zhao , Linlin Yu , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Zhong Chen , Feng Chen , Chen Zhao , Haifeng Chen

Software testing is a critical, yet resource-intensive phase of the software development lifecycle. Over the years, various automated tools have been developed to aid in this process. Search-based approaches typically achieve high coverage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pengyu Chang , Yixiong Fang , Silin Chen , Yuling Shi , Beijun Shen , Xiaodong Gu