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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Himangi Mittal , Gaurav Mittal , Nelson Daniel Troncoso , Yu Hu

There has been a recent surge of interest in automating software engineering tasks using deep learning. This paper addresses the problem of code generation, where the goal is to generate target code given source code in a different language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Sindhu Tipirneni , Ming Zhu , Chandan K. Reddy

User Interface (UI) prototyping is a necessary step in the early stages of application development. Transforming sketches of a Graphical User Interface (UI) into a coded UI application is an uninspired but time-consuming task performed by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Vanita Jain , Piyush Agrawal , Subham Banga , Rishabh Kapoor , Shashwat Gulyani

Pseudo-code written by natural language is helpful for novice developers' program comprehension. However, writing such pseudo-code is time-consuming and laborious. Motivated by the research advancements of sequence-to-sequence learning and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Guang Yang , Yanlin Zhou , Xiang Chen , Chi Yu

Human face exhibits an inherent hierarchy in its representations (i.e., holistic facial expressions can be encoded via a set of facial action units (AUs) and their intensity). Variational (deep) auto-encoders (VAE) have shown great results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Dieu Linh Tran , Robert Walecki , Ognjen Rudovic , Stefanos Eleftheriadis , Bjørn Schuller , Maja Pantic

When designing a program, both novice programmers and seasoned developers alike often sketch out -- or, perhaps more famously, whiteboard -- their ideas. Yet despite the introduction of natively multimodal Generative AI models, work on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-12 David H. Smith , S. Moonwara A. Monisha , Annapurna Vadaparty , Leo Porter , Daniel Zingaro

Automated reverse engineering of HTML/CSS code from UI screenshots is an important yet challenging problem with broad applications in website development and design. In this paper, we propose a novel vision-code transformer (ViCT) composed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Davit Soselia , Khalid Saifullah , Tianyi Zhou

Websites are critical in today's digital world, with over 1.11 billion currently active and approximately 252,000 new sites launched daily. Converting website layout design into functional UI code is a time-consuming yet indispensable step…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yuxuan Wan , Chaozheng Wang , Yi Dong , Wenxuan Wang , Shuqing Li , Yintong Huo , Michael R. Lyu

An early stage of developing user-facing applications is creating a wireframe to layout the interface. Once a wireframe has been created it is given to a developer to implement in code. Developing boiler plate user interface code is time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Alex Robinson

Code generation aims to automatically generate code snippets of specific programming language according to natural language descriptions. The continuous advancements in deep learning, particularly pre-trained models, have empowered the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

Despite the rapid progress of multimodal large language models in building Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, their real-world task completion is fundamentally bottlenecked by a lack of world knowledge about GUI operations. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zheng Wu , Chengcheng Han , Zhengxi Lu , Tianjie Ju , Yanyu Chen , Qi Gu , Xunliang Cai , Zhuosheng Zhang

In software development through integrated development environments (IDEs), code completion is one of the most widely used features. Nevertheless, majority of integrated development environments only support completion of methods and APIs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Shao Kun Deng , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have the potential to assist users in interacting with complex software (e.g., PowerPoint, Photoshop). While prior research has primarily focused on automating user actions through clicks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Saelyne Yang , Jaesang Yu , Yi-Hao Peng , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Jae Won Cho , Yale Song , Juho Kim

Manual slide creation is labor-intensive and requires expert prior knowledge. Existing natural language-based LLM generation methods struggle to capture the visual and structural nuances of slide designs. To address this, we formalize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wenxin Tang , Jingyu Xiao , Wenxuan Jiang , Xi Xiao , Yuhang Wang , Xuxin Tang , Qing Li , Yuehe Ma , Junliang Liu , Shisong Tang , Michael R. Lyu

Large pre-trained language models for textual data have an unconstrained output space; at each decoding step, they can produce any of 10,000s of sub-word tokens. When fine-tuned to target constrained formal languages like SQL, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Torsten Scholak , Nathan Schucher , Dzmitry Bahdanau

Graphic User Interface (GUI) is facing great demand with the popularization and prosperity of mobile apps. Automatic UI code generation from UI design draft dramatically simplifies the development process. However, the nesting layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Shuhong Xiao , Tingting Zhou , Yunnong Chen , Dengming Zhang , Liuqing Chen , Lingyun Sun , Shiyu Yue

Design-to-code generation has emerged as a promising approach to bridge the gap between design prototypes and deployable frontend code. However, existing methods often suffer from structural inconsistencies, asset misalignment, and limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yongxi Chen , Lei Chen

Large language models (LLMs) struggle to consistently generate UI code that compiles and produces visually relevant designs. Existing approaches to improve generation rely on expensive human feedback or distilling a proprietary model. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jason Wu , Eldon Schoop , Alan Leung , Titus Barik , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jeffrey Nichols

It has been of increasing interest in the field to develop automatic machineries to facilitate the design process. In this paper, we focus on assisting graphical user interface (UI) layout design, a crucial task in app development. Given a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yang Li , Julien Amelot , Xin Zhou , Samy Bengio , Si Si

Deep learning methods have recently achieved great empirical success on machine translation, dialogue response generation, summarization, and other text generation tasks. At a high level, the technique has been to train end-to-end neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ziang Xie