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In software reverse engineering, decompilation is the process of recovering source code from binary files. Decompilers are used when it is necessary to understand or analyze software for which the source code is not available. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Javier Escalada , Ted Scully , Francisco Ortin

Large-scale source-code clone detection is a challenging task. In our previous work, we proposed an approach (SSCD) that leverages artificial neural networks and approximates nearest neighbour search to effectively and efficiently locate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Gul Aftab Ahmed , James Vincent Patten , Yuanhua Han , Guoxian Lu , David Gregg , Jim Buckley , Muslim Chochlov

Code completion plays a prominent role in modern integrated development environments (IDEs). Machine learning has become ubiquitous in analogous natural language writing and search software, surfacing more relevant autocompletions and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Gareth Ari Aye , Gail E. Kaiser

Deep learning models are widely used for solving challenging code processing tasks, such as code generation or code summarization. Traditionally, a specific model architecture was carefully built to solve a particular code processing task.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Sergey Troshin , Nadezhda Chirkova

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

Code Clone Detection, which aims to retrieve functionally similar programs from large code bases, has been attracting increasing attention. Modern software often involves a diverse range of programming languages. However, current code clone…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yangkai Du , Tengfei Ma , Lingfei Wu , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji

Understanding the functional (dis)-similarity of source code is significant for code modeling tasks such as software vulnerability and code clone detection. We present DISCO(DIS-similarity of COde), a novel self-supervised model focusing on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yangruibo Ding , Luca Buratti , Saurabh Pujar , Alessandro Morari , Baishakhi Ray , Saikat Chakraborty

Code cloning, a widespread practice in software development, involves replicating code fragments to save time but often at the expense of software maintainability and quality. In this paper, we address the specific challenge of detecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Lida Zhao , Shihan Dou , Yutao Hu , Yueming Wu , Jiahui Wu , Chengwei Liu , Lyuye Zhang , Yi Liu , Jun Sun , Xuanjing Huang , Yang Liu

This study explores the application of deep learning technologies in software development processes, particularly in automating code reviews, error prediction, and test generation to enhance code quality and development efficiency. Through…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Keqin Li , Armando Zhu , Peng Zhao , Jintong Song , Jiabei Liu

We develop a first line of attack for solving programming competition-style problems from input-output examples using deep learning. The approach is to train a neural network to predict properties of the program that generated the outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Matej Balog , Alexander L. Gaunt , Marc Brockschmidt , Sebastian Nowozin , Daniel Tarlow

Deep Neural Networks have been shown to succeed at a range of natural language tasks such as machine translation and text summarization. While tasks on source code (ie, formal languages) have been considered recently, most work in this area…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

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

Recurrent neural networks are nowadays successfully used in an abundance of applications, going from text, speech and image processing to recommender systems. Backpropagation through time is the algorithm that is commonly used to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Cedric De Boom , Thomas Demeester , Bart Dhoedt

Deep learning has demonstrated great abilities in various code generation tasks. However, despite the great convenience for some developers, many are concerned that the code generators may recite or closely mimic copyrighted training data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Weixiang Yan , Yuanchun Li

The backpropagation of error algorithm used to train deep neural networks has been fundamental to the successes of deep learning. However, it requires sequential backward updates and non-local computations, which make it challenging to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Beren Millidge , Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Software developers embed logging statements inside the source code as an imperative duty in modern software development as log files are necessary for tracking down runtime system issues and troubleshooting system management tasks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Sina Gholamian , Paul A. S. Ward

The rapid development of large language models has revolutionized code intelligence in software development. However, the predominance of closed-source models has restricted extensive research and development. To address this, we introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Daya Guo , Qihao Zhu , Dejian Yang , Zhenda Xie , Kai Dong , Wentao Zhang , Guanting Chen , Xiao Bi , Y. Wu , Y. K. Li , Fuli Luo , Yingfei Xiong , Wenfeng Liang

Existing large language model-based code generation pipelines typically use beam search or sampling algorithms during the decoding process. Although the programs they generate achieve high token-matching-based scores, they often fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Shun Zhang , Zhenfang Chen , Yikang Shen , Mingyu Ding , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Code clones are identical or similar code segments. The wide existence of code clones can increase the cost of maintenance and jeopardise the quality of software. The research community has developed many techniques to detect code clones,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Wahidur Rahman , Yisen Xu , Fan Pu , Jifeng Xuan , Xiangyang Jia , Michail Basios , Leslie Kanthan , Lingbo Li , Fan Wu , Baowen Xu

Detecting code clones is crucial in various software engineering tasks. In particular, code clone detection can have significant uses in the context of analyzing and fixing bugs in large scale applications. However, prior works, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Hongfa Xue , Yongsheng Mei , Kailash Gogineni , Guru Venkataramani , Tian Lan