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Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable abilities to generate code, however their ability to develop software for embedded systems, which requires cross-domain knowledge of hardware and software has not been studied. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Zachary Englhardt , Richard Li , Dilini Nissanka , Zhihan Zhang , Girish Narayanswamy , Joseph Breda , Xin Liu , Shwetak Patel , Vikram Iyer

Random testing has proven to be an effective technique for compiler validation. However, the debugging of bugs identified through random testing presents a significant challenge due to the frequent occurrence of duplicate test programs that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xintong Zhou , Zhenyang Xu , Yongqiang Tian , Chengnian Sun

Linux kernel bug repair is typically approached as a direct mapping from crash reports to code patches. In practice, however, kernel fixes undergo iterative revision on mailing lists before acceptance, with reviewer feedback shaping…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Luyao Bai , Kenan Alghythee , Hang Zhang , Xiaoguang Wang

Automatically fixing compilation errors can greatly raise the productivity of software development, by guiding the novice or AI programmers to write and debug code. Recently, learning-based program repair has gained extensive attention and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xueyang Li , Shangqing Liu , Ruitao Feng , Guozhu Meng , Xiaofei Xie , Kai Chen , Yang Liu

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars each year and take up ~50% of the development time. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Avinash Gopal

Network performance problems are notoriously difficult to diagnose. Prior profiling systems collect performance statistics by keeping information about each network flow, but maintaining per-flow state is not scalable on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Zaoxing Liu , Samson Zhou , Ori Rottenstreich , Vladimir Braverman , Jennifer Rexford

Rust is gaining popularity for its well-known memory safety guarantees and high performance, distinguishing it from C/C++ and JVM-based languages. Its compiler, rustc, enforces these guarantees through specialized mechanisms such as trait…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zixi Liu , Yang Feng , Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li , Xizhe Yin , Qingkai Shi , Baowen Xu , Zhendong Su

Throughput and latency critical applications could often benefit of performing computations close to the client. To enable this, distributed computing paradigms such as edge computing have recently emerged. However, with the advent of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Csaba Györgyi , Sándor Laki , Stefan Schmid

In this work, we investigate the practice of patch construction in the Linux kernel development, focusing on the differences between three patching processes: (1) patches crafted entirely manually to fix bugs, (2) those that are derived…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Anil Koyuncu , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Dongsun Kim , Jacques Klein , Martin Monperrus , Yves Le Traon

In the past decade, research on test-suite-based automatic program repair has grown significantly. Each year, new approaches and implementations are featured in major software engineering venues. However, most of those approaches are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Thomas Durieux , Fernanda Madeiral , Matias Martinez , Rui Abreu

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) rely heavily on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to manage critical infrastructure, yet analyzing PLC executables remains challenging due to diverse proprietary compilers and limited access to source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yonatan Gizachew Achamyeleh , Shih-Yuan Yu , Gustavo Quirós Araya , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Modern software systems often rely on conditional compilation to support optional features and multiple deployment scenarios. In configurable systems, compilation errors may arise only under specific combinations of features, remaining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Rohit Gheyi , Lucas Albuquerque , Márcio Ribeiro , Eduardo Almeida , Danyllo Albuquerque , Mirko Perkusich

Testing compilers with AI models, especially large language models (LLMs), has shown great promise. However, current approaches struggle with two key problems: The generated programs for testing compilers are often too simple, and extensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li

Different from developing neural networks (NNs) for general-purpose processors, the development for NN chips usually faces with some hardware-specific restrictions, such as limited precision of network signals and parameters, constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Yu Ji , YouHui Zhang , WenGuang Chen , Yuan Xie

By July 2025, smart contracts collectively manage roughly $120 billion in assets. With Solidity remaining the dominant language for smart contract development, the correctness of Solidity compilers has become critically important. However,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haoyang Ma , Alastair F. Donaldson , Qingchao Shen , Yongqiang Tian , Junjie Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung

This paper presents a novel end-to-end approach to program repair based on sequence-to-sequence learning. We devise, implement, and evaluate a system, called SequenceR, for fixing bugs based on sequence-to-sequence learning on source code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Zimin Chen , Steve Kommrusch , Michele Tufano , Louis-Noël Pouchet , Denys Poshyvanyk , Martin Monperrus

Modern computing is shifting from homogeneous CPU-centric systems to heterogeneous systems with closely integrated CPUs and GPUs. While the CPU software stack has benefited from decades of memory safety hardening, the GPU software stack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mingkai Li , Joseph Devietti , Suman Jana , Tanvir Ahmed Khan

Software systems evolve continuously through frequent code changes, yet such changes often introduce unintended bugs despite extensive testing and code review. Existing testing approaches are largely constrained to predefined execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yanqi Su , Michael Pradel , Chunyang Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional coding capability. However, as another critical component of programming proficiency, the debugging capability of LLMs remains relatively unexplored. Previous evaluations of LLMs'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Runchu Tian , Yining Ye , Yujia Qin , Xin Cong , Yankai Lin , Yinxu Pan , Yesai Wu , Haotian Hui , Weichuan Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Existing code benchmarks measure whether an agent can produce any test that reproduces a known bug, or whether it can produce a patch that fixes a described issue. Neither isolates the distinct skill of property-based testing: deriving a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Lucas Jing , Xinqi Wang , Liao Zhang , Simon S. Du