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Previous studies have demonstrated that neural code comprehension models are vulnerable to identifier naming. By renaming as few as one identifier in the source code, the models would output completely irrelevant results, indicating that…

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Semantic vector embedding techniques have proven useful in learning semantic representations of data across multiple domains. A key application enabled by such techniques is the ability to measure semantic similarity between given data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shalisha Witherspoon , Dean Steuer , Graham Bent , Nirmit Desai

SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions and their compiler intrinsics are widely supported by modern processors to accelerate performance-critical tasks. SIMD intrinsic programming, a trade-off between coding productivity and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yibo He , Shuoran Zhao , Jiaming Huang , Yingjie Fu , Hao Yu , Cunjian Huang , Tao Xie

Binary similarity analysis determines if two binary executables are from the same source program. Existing techniques leverage static and dynamic program features and may utilize advanced Deep Learning techniques. Although they have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Xiangzhe Xu , Zhou Xuan , Shiwei Feng , Siyuan Cheng , Yapeng Ye , Qingkai Shi , Guanhong Tao , Le Yu , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

Developers must comprehend the code they will maintain, meaning that the code must be legible and reasonably self-descriptive. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of research and tooling that supports developers in understanding their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Anthony Peruma , Venera Arnaoudova , Christian D. Newman

Neural program embedding can be helpful in analyzing large software, a task that is challenging for traditional logic-based program analyses due to their limited scalability. A key focus of recent machine-learning advances in this area is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Ke Wang , Mihai Christodorescu

Establishing semantic correspondence is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to match keypoints with the same semantic information across different images. Benefiting from the rapid development of deep learning, remarkable progress…

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Identifying the relationships among program elements is useful for program understanding, debugging, and analysis. One such relationship is synonymy. Function synonyms are functions that play a similar role in code, e.g. functions that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Daniel DeFreez , Aditya V. Thakur , Cindy Rubio-González

Embedding models have demonstrated strong performance in tasks like clustering, retrieval, and feature extraction while offering computational advantages over generative models and cross-encoders. Benchmarks such as MTEB have shown that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zhuohao Li , Wenqing Chen , Jianxing Yu , Zhichao Lu

Assessing the degree of semantic relatedness between words is an important task with a variety of semantic applications, such as ontology learning for the Semantic Web, semantic search or query expansion. To accomplish this in an automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Thomas Niebler , Martin Becker , Christian Pölitz , Andreas Hotho

Distributed language representation has become the most widely used technique for language representation in various natural language processing tasks. Most of the natural language processing models that are based on deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Martina Toshevska , Frosina Stojanovska , Jovan Kalajdjieski

Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been continuously expanding their real-world applications for source code processing tasks across the software engineering domain, e.g., clone detection, code search, comment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Maryam Vahdat Pour , Zhuo Li , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati

This report investigates enhancing semantic caching effectiveness by employing specialized, fine-tuned embedding models. Semantic caching relies on embedding similarity rather than exact key matching, presenting unique challenges in…

Bug localization refers to the identification of source code files which is in a programming language and also responsible for the unexpected behavior of software using the bug report, which is a natural language. As bug localization is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Partha Chakraborty , Venkatraman Arumugam , Meiyappan Nagappan

Identifier names play a significant role in program comprehension activities, with high-quality names improving developer productivity and system quality. To correct poor-quality names, developers rename identifiers to reflect their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Anthony Peruma , Christian D. Newman

Bug prediction is a resource demanding task that is hard to automate using static source code analysis. In many fields of computer science, machine learning has proven to be extremely useful in tasks like this, however, for it to work we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tamás Aladics , Judit Jász , Rudolf Ferenc

Concise and meaningful method names are crucial for program comprehension and maintenance. However, method names may become inconsistent with their corresponding implementations, causing confusion and errors. Several deep learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Taiming Wang , Yuxia Zhang , Lin Jiang , Yi Tang , Guangjie Li , Hui Liu

Finding an optimal word representation algorithm is particularly important in terms of domain specific data, as the same word can have different meanings and hence, different representations depending on the domain and context. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Nouman Ahmed , Ronin Wu , Victor Botev

Program representation learning is a fundamental task in software engineering applications. With the availability of "big code" and the development of deep learning techniques, various program representation learning models have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Siqi Han , DongXia Wang , Wanting Li , Xuesong Lu

Obtaining standardized crowdsourced benchmark of computational methods is a major issue in data science communities. Dedicated frameworks enabling fair benchmarking in a unified environment are yet to be developed. Here we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhen Xu , Sergio Escalera , Isabelle Guyon , Adrien Pavão , Magali Richard , Wei-Wei Tu , Quanming Yao , Huan Zhao