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Providing feedback is an integral part of teaching. Most open online courses on programming make use of automated grading systems to support programming assignments and give real-time feedback. These systems usually rely on test results to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Rahul Gupta , Aditya Kanade , Shirish Shevade

Instructing a robot to complete an everyday task within our homes has been a long-standing challenge for robotics. While recent progress in language-conditioned imitation learning and offline reinforcement learning has demonstrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Federico Ceola , Lorenzo Natale , Niko Sünderhauf , Krishan Rana

The joint task of bug localization and program repair is an integral part of the software development process. In this work we present DeepDebug, an approach to automated debugging using large, pretrained transformers. We begin by training…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Dawn Drain , Colin B. Clement , Guillermo Serrato , Neel Sundaresan

A long-standing open challenge for automated program repair is the overfitting problem, which is caused by having insufficient or incomplete specifications to validate whether a generated patch is correct or not. Most available repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Anastasiia Grishina , Leon Moonen

The existing deep learning (DL)-based automated program repair (APR) models are limited in fixing general software defects. % We present {\tool}, a DL-based approach that supports fixing for the general bugs that require dependent changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen

Automated software debugging is a crucial task for improving the productivity of software developers. Many neural-based techniques have been proven effective for debugging-related tasks such as bug localization and program repair (or bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Nghi D. Q. Bui , Yue Wang , Steven Hoi

Millions of open-source projects with numerous bug fixes are available in code repositories. This proliferation of software development histories can be leveraged to learn how to fix common programming bugs. To explore such a potential, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Michele Tufano , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Massimiliano Di Penta , Martin White , Denys Poshyvanyk

Crash localization, an important step in debugging crashes, is challenging when dealing with an extremely large number of diverse applications and platforms and underlying root causes. Large-scale error reporting systems, e.g., Windows…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Manish Shetty , Chetan Bansal , Suman Nath , Sean Bowles , Henry Wang , Ozgur Arman , Siamak Ahari

Efficient, reliable trapping of execution in a program at the desired location is a linchpin technique for dynamic malware analysis. The progression of debuggers and malware is akin to a game of cat and mouse - each are constantly in a…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Gregory Michael Price

Debugging imperative network programs is a challenging task for developers because understanding various network modules and complicated data structures is typically time-consuming. To address the challenge, this paper presents an automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Lei Shi , Yuepeng Wang , Rajeev Alur , Boon Thau Loo

Automated issue fixing is a critical task in software debugging and has recently garnered significant attention from academia and industry. However, existing fixing techniques predominantly focus on the repair phase, often overlooking the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jianming Chang , Xin Zhou , Lulu Wang , David Lo , Bixin Li

Current deepfake detection models achieve state-of-the-art performance on pristine academic datasets but suffer severe spatial attention drift under real-world compound degradations, such as blurring and severe lossy compression. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Minh-Khoa Le-Phan , Minh-Hoang Le , Trong-Le Do , Minh-Triet Tran

Software debugging is tedious, time-consuming, and even error-prone by itself. So, various automated debugging techniques have been proposed in the literature to facilitate the debugging process. Automated Program Repair (APR) is one of the…

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Detecting vulnerabilities in source code remains critical yet challenging, as conventional static analysis tools construct inaccurate program representations, while existing LLM-based approaches often miss essential vulnerability context…

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Visual programs are executable code generated by large language models to address visual reasoning problems. They decompose complex questions into multiple reasoning steps and invoke specialized models for each step to solve the problems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xueqing Wu , Zongyu Lin , Songyan Zhao , Te-Lin Wu , Pan Lu , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

The art of finding software vulnerabilities has been covered extensively in the literature and there is a huge body of work on this topic. In contrast, the intentional insertion of exploitable, security-critical bugs has received little…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jannik Pewny , Thorsten Holz

Variability models (e.g., feature models) are a common way for the representation of variabilities and commonalities of software artifacts. Such models can be translated to a logical representation and thus allow different operations for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Viet-Man Le , Alexander Felfernig , Mathias Uta , David Benavides , José Galindo , Thi Ngoc Trang Tran

Large language models leverage internet-scale text data, yet embodied AI remains constrained by the prohibitive costs of physical trajectory collection. Desktop environments -- particularly gaming -- offer a compelling alternative: they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Suhwan Choi , Jaeyoon Jung , Haebin Seong , Minchan Kim , Minyeong Kim , Yongjun Cho , Yoonshik Kim , Yubeen Park , Youngjae Yu , Yunsung Lee

Automated Program Repair (APR) has benefited from the code understanding and generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing feedback-based APR methods iteratively refine candidate patches using test execution feedback and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Linhao Wu , Yifei Pei , Zhen Yang , Kainan Li , Zhonghang Lu , Hao Tan , Xiran Lyu , Jia Li , Yizhou Chen , Pengyu Xue , Kunwu Zheng , Dan Hao

Among areas of software engineering where AI techniques -- particularly, Large Language Models -- seem poised to yield dramatic improvements, an attractive candidate is Automatic Program Repair (APR), the production of satisfactory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Li Huang , Ilgiz Mustafin , Marco Piccioni , Alessandro Schena , Reto Weber , Bertrand Meyer