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Code review generation can reduce developer effort by producing concise, reviewer-style feedback for a given code snippet or code change. However, generation-only models often produce generic or off-point reviews, while retrieval-only…

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Concept learning is a form of supervised machine learning that operates on knowledge bases in description logics. State-of-the-art concept learners often rely on an iterative search through a countably infinite concept space. In each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou , Caglar Demir , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve strong accuracy through test-time scaling, generating longer chains of thought or sampling multiple solutions, but at steep costs in tokens and latency. We argue that memory is a core ingredient for…

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A common way to extend the memory of large language models (LLMs) is by retrieval augmented generation (RAG), which inserts text retrieved from a larger memory into an LLM's context window. However, the context window is typically limited…

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Built upon the existing analysis of retrieval heads in large language models, we propose an alternative reranking framework that trains models to estimate passage-query relevance using the attention scores of selected heads. This approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuqing Li , Jiangnan Li , Mo Yu , Guoxuan Ding , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

The performance of value classes is highly dependent on how they are represented in the virtual machine. Value class instances are immutable, have no identity, and can only refer to other value objects or primitive values and since they…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Tobias Pape , Carl Friedrich Bolz , Robert Hirschfeld

The Move language provides abstractions for programming with digital assets via a mix of value semantics and reference semantics. Ensuring memory safety in programs with references that access a shared, mutable global ledger is difficult,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Sam Blackshear , John Mitchell , Todd Nowacki , Shaz Qadeer

Modern retrieval pipelines increasingly rely on query reformulation and neural reranking to improve effectiveness, but this comes at a significant computational cost and introduces a fundamental tradeoff between recall and query drift.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-04 V Venktesh , Mandeep Rathee , Avishek Anand

To remain useful for their users, software systems need to continuously enhance and extend their functionality. Nevertheless, in many object-oriented applications, features are not represented explicitly. The lack of modularization is known…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-07 T. Pandiyavathi

Although data-free incremental learning methods are memory-friendly, accurately estimating and counteracting representation shifts is challenging in the absence of historical data. This paper addresses this thorny problem by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Zhiheng Ma , Xiaopeng Hong , Beinan Liu , Yabin Wang , Pinyue Guo , Huiyun Li

In real-world scenarios with naturally occurring datasets, reference summaries are noisy and may contain information that cannot be inferred from the source text. On large news corpora, removing low quality samples has been shown to reduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Griffin Adams , Han-Chin Shing , Qing Sun , Christopher Winestock , Kathleen McKeown , Noémie Elhadad

Several programming languages use garbage collectors (GCs) to automatically manage memory for the programmer. Such collectors must decide when to look for unreachable objects to free, which can have a large performance impact on some…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Lujing Cen , Ryan Marcus , Hongzi Mao , Justin Gottschlich , Mohammad Alizadeh , Tim Kraska

Neural language models are usually trained to match the distributional properties of a large-scale corpus by minimizing the log loss. While straightforward to optimize, this approach forces the model to reproduce all variations in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Daniel Kang , Tatsunori Hashimoto

One of the most attractive features of untyped languages is the flexibility in term creation and manipulation. However, with such power comes the responsibility of ensuring the correctness of these operations. A solution is adding run-time…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Nataliia Stulova , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Reasoning LLMs often spend substantial tokens on long intermediate reasoning traces (e.g., chain-of-thought) when solving new problems. We propose to summarize and store reusable reasoning skills distilled from extensive deliberation and…

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Reducing the cognitive complexity of a piece of code to a given threshold is not trivial. Recently, we modeled software cognitive complexity reduction as an optimization problem and we proposed an approach to assist developers on this task.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Rubén Saborido , Javier Ferrer , Francisco Chicano

A theoretical memory with limited processing power and internal connectivity at each element is proposed. This memory carries out parallel processing within itself to solve generic array problems. The applicability of this in-memory…

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We present a novel programming language design that attempts to combine the clarity and safety of high-level functional languages with the efficiency and parallelism of low-level numerical languages. We treat arrays as eagerly-memoized…

Regenerating codes allow distributed storage systems to recover from the loss of a storage node while transmitting the minimum possible amount of data across the network. We present a systematic computer search for optimal systematic…

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