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Keeping track of scientific challenges, advances and emerging directions is a fundamental part of research. However, researchers face a flood of papers that hinders discovery of important knowledge. In biomedicine, this directly impacts…

Publicly available source-code libraries are continuously growing and changing. This makes it impossible for models of code to keep current with all available APIs by simply training these models on existing code repositories. Thus,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Shuyan Zhou , Uri Alon , Frank F. Xu , Zhiruo Wang , Zhengbao Jiang , Graham Neubig

Modern software relies on a multitude of automated testing and quality assurance tools to prevent errors, bugs and potential vulnerabilities. This study sets out to provide a head-to-head, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of six…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Damian Gnieciak , Tomasz Szandala

The automatic generation of source code is one of the long-lasting dreams in software engineering research. Several techniques have been proposed to speed up the writing of new code. For example, code completion techniques can recommend to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Matteo Ciniselli , Luca Pascarella , Emad Aghajani , Simone Scalabrino , Rocco Oliveto , Gabriele Bavota

Large Language Models (LLMs) like Codex are powerful tools for performing code completion and code generation tasks as they are trained on billions of lines of code from publicly available sources. Moreover, these models are capable of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Catherine Tony , Markus Mutas , Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Riccardo Scandariato

Code search is an important information retrieval application. Benefits of better code search include faster new developer on-boarding, reduced software maintenance, and ease of understanding for large repositories. Despite improvements in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Lucas Roberts , Denisa Roberts

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

We introduce a new type of programming challenge called programming puzzles, as an objective and comprehensive evaluation of program synthesis, and release an open-source dataset of Python Programming Puzzles (P3). Each puzzle is defined by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Tal Schuster , Ashwin Kalyan , Oleksandr Polozov , Adam Tauman Kalai

Scientific software-defined as computer programs, scripts, or code used in scientific research, data analysis, modeling, or simulation-has become central to modern research. However, there is limited research on the readability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Alyssia Chen , Carol Wong , Bonita Sharif , Anthony Peruma

With the rapid increase in the amount of public code repositories, developers maintain a great desire to retrieve precise code snippets by using natural language. Despite existing deep learning based approaches(e.g., DeepCS and MMAN) have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Chen Zeng , Yue Yu , Shanshan Li , Xin Xia , Zhiming Wang , Mingyang Geng , Bailin Xiao , Wei Dong , Xiangke Liao

Duplicated code has a negative impact on the quality of software systems and should be detected at least. In this paper, we discuss an approach that improves source code retrieval using the structural information about the programs. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Yoshihisa Udagawa

Program comprehension is a fundamental task in software development and maintenance processes. Software developers often need to understand a large amount of existing code before they can develop new features or fix bugs in existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Vinoj Jayasundara , Nghi Duy Quoc Bui , Lingxiao Jiang , David Lo

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

Software security vulnerabilities can lead to severe consequences, making early detection essential. Although code review serves as a critical defense mechanism against security flaws, relevant feedback remains scarce due to limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zixiao Zhao , Yanjie Jiang , Hui Liu , Kui Liu , Lu Zhang

Despite the surge of interest in autonomous scientific discovery (ASD) of software artifacts (e.g., improved ML algorithms), current ASD systems face two key limitations: (1) they largely explore variants of existing codebases or similarly…

Developers spend a significant amount of time searching their local codebase. To help them search efficiently, researchers have proposed novel tools that apply state-of-the-art information retrieval algorithms to retrieve relevant code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Xi Ge , David Shepherd , Kostadin Damevski , Emerson Murphy-Hill

Clone-and-own approach is a natural way of source code reuse for software developers. To assess how known bugs and security vulnerabilities of a cloned component affect an application, developers and security analysts need to identify an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Takashi Ishio , Yusuke Sakaguchi , Kaoru Ito , Katsuro Inoue

Code retrieval aims to find relevant code snippets matching natural language queries within massive codebases, playing a vital role in software development. Recent advances leverage PLMs to bridge the semantic gap between natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yixuan Li , Xinyi Liu , Weidong Yang , Ben Fei , Shuhao Li , Mingjie Zhou , Lipeng Ma

Many users turn to document retrieval systems (e.g. search engines) to seek answers to controversial questions. Answering such user queries usually require identifying responses within web documents, and aggregating the responses based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sihao Chen , Siyi Liu , Xander Uyttendaele , Yi Zhang , William Bruno , Dan Roth

The objectives of this work are cross-modal text-audio and audio-text retrieval, in which the goal is to retrieve the audio content from a pool of candidates that best matches a given written description and vice versa. Text-audio retrieval…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 A. Sophia Koepke , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , João F. Henriques , Zeynep Akata , Samuel Albanie