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Correctness and robustness are essential for logic synthesis applications, but they are often only tested with a limited set of benchmarks. Moreover, when the application fails on a large benchmark, the debugging process may be tedious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Siang-Yun Lee , Heinz Riener , Giovanni De Micheli

Synthetic data generation is widely known to boost the accuracy of neural grammatical error correction (GEC) systems, but existing methods often lack diversity or are too simplistic to generate the broad range of grammatical errors made by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Felix Stahlberg , Shankar Kumar

Context: The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software engineering has led to the development of AI-powered test automation tools, promising improved efficiency, reduced maintenance effort, and enhanced defect-detection. However, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Vahid Garousi , Nithin Joy , Zafar Jafarov , Alper Buğra Keleş , Sevde Değirmenci , Ece Özdemir , Ryan Zarringhalami

The problem of mechanically formalizing and proving metatheoretic properties of programming language calculi, type systems, operational semantics, and related formal systems has received considerable attention recently. However, the dual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-29 James Cheney , Alberto Momigliano

Finding and fixing bugs are time-consuming activities in software development. Spectrum-based fault localization aims to identify the faulty position in source code based on the execution trace of test cases. Failing test cases and their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Jifeng Xuan , Martin Monperrus

Simulation is increasingly being used for generating large labelled datasets in many machine learning problems. Recent methods have focused on adjusting simulator parameters with the goal of maximising accuracy on a validation task, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Harkirat Singh Behl , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Ran Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Vibhav Vineet

Test-based automatic program repair has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. However, the test suites in practice are often too weak to guarantee correctness and existing approaches often generate a large number of incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yingfei Xiong , Xinyuan Liu , Muhan Zeng , Lu Zhang , Gang Huang

We consider the task of automated theorem proving, a key AI task. Deep learning has shown promise for training theorem provers, but there are limited human-written theorems and proofs available for supervised learning. To address this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Mingzhe Wang , Jia Deng

Verifying fact-checking claims poses a significant challenge, even for humans. Recent approaches have demonstrated that decomposing claims into relevant questions to gather evidence enhances the efficiency of the fact-checking process. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Ritvik Setty , Vinay Setty

Test oracle generation in non-regression testing is a longstanding challenge in software engineering, where the goal is to produce oracles that can accurately determine whether a function under test (FUT) behaves as intended for a given…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Dong Huang , Mingzhe Du , Jie M. Zhang , Zheng Lin , Meng Luo , Qianru Zhang , See-Kiong Ng

Despite recent progress, state-of-the-art question answering models remain vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. While dynamic adversarial data collection, in which a human annotator tries to write examples that fool a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Max Bartolo , Tristan Thrush , Robin Jia , Sebastian Riedel , Pontus Stenetorp , Douwe Kiela

Competitive programming contests play a crucial role in cultivating computational thinking and algorithmic skills among learners. However, generating comprehensive test cases to effectively assess programming solutions remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Stefan Dascalescu , Adrian Marius Dumitran , Mihai Alexandru Vasiluta

Unit tests represent the most basic level of testing within the software testing lifecycle and are crucial to ensuring software correctness. Designing and creating unit tests is a costly and labor-intensive process that is ripe for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Andrea Lops , Fedelucio Narducci , Azzurra Ragone , Michelantonio Trizio , Claudio Bartolini

Concolic testing mixes symbolic and concrete execution to generate test cases covering paths effectively. Its benefits have been demonstrated for more than 15 years to test imperative programs. Other programming paradigms, like logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Sophie Fortz , Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet , Gilles Perrouin , Wim Vanhoof , German Vidal

Automated test generation (ATG), which aims to reduce the cost of manual test suite development, has been investigated for decades and has produced countless techniques based on a variety of approaches: symbolic analysis, search-based,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rangeet Pan , Tyler Stennett , Raju Pavuluri , Nate Levin , Alessandro Orso , Saurabh Sinha

We present a method for generating training data for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to improve small open-weights language models on mathematical tasks. Existing data generation approaches rely on open-loop pipelines and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Teresa Yeo , Myeongho Jeon , Dulaj Weerakoon , Rui Qiao , Alok Prakash , Armando Solar-Lezama , Archan Misra

Machine learning models have prevalent applications in many real-world problems, which increases the importance of correctness in the behaviour of these trained models. Finding a good test case that can reveal the potential failure in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Harsh Vardhan , Janos Sztipanovits

Software testing is an essential part of the software lifecycle and requires a substantial amount of time and effort. It has been estimated that software developers spend close to 50% of their time on testing the code they write. For these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Cody Watson , Michele Tufano , Kevin Moran , Gabriele Bavota , Denys Poshyvanyk

Recent works have shown that supervised models often exploit data artifacts to achieve good test scores while their performance severely degrades on samples outside their training distribution. Contrast sets (Gardneret al., 2020) quantify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yonatan Bitton , Gabriel Stanovsky , Roy Schwartz , Michael Elhadad

Applications of reversible circuits can be found in the fields of low-power computation, cryptography, communications, digital signal processing, and the emerging field of quantum computation. Furthermore, prototype circuits for low-power…

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