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The post-training pipeline for diffusion models currently has two stages: supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on curated data and reinforcement learning (RL) with reward models. A fundamental gap separates them. SFT optimizes the denoiser only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 You Qin , Linqing Wang , Hao Fei , Roger Zimmermann , Liefeng Bo , Qinglin Lu , Chunyu Wang

Code smell is a great challenge in software refactoring, which indicates latent design or implementation flaws that may degrade the software maintainability and evolution. Over the past of decades, the research on code smell has received…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hanyu Zhang , Tomoji Kishi

Data movement between main memory and the CPU is a major bottleneck in parallel data-intensive applications. In response, researchers have proposed using compilers and intermediate representations (IRs) that apply optimizations such as loop…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Shoumik Palkar , Matei Zaharia

Refactoring is a common practice in software development, aimed at improving the internal code structure in order to make it easier to understand and modify. Consequently, it is often assumed that refactoring makes the code less prone to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Isabella Ferreira , Lawrence Arkoh , Anderson Uchôa , Ana Carla Bibiano , Alessandro Garcia , Wesley K. G. Assunção

Software architecture consists of series of decisions taken to give a structural solution that meets all the technical and operational requirements. The paper involves code refactoring. Code refactoring is a process of changing the internal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Manpreet Kaur , Ravjeet Singh , Sukhveer Kaur , Baljot Singh , Savpreet Kaur , Navkaran Singh , Aman Ohri , Ravenna Sharma

The concept of Self-Affirmed Refactoring (SAR) was introduced to explore how developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages, i.e., developers' explicit documentation of refactoring operations intentionally introduced…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni

Asynchronous programming is widely adopted for building responsive and efficient software, and modern languages such as C# provide async/await primitives to simplify the use of asynchrony. In this paper, we propose an approach for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Sidi Mohamed Beillahi , Ahmed Bouajjani , Constantin Enea , Shuvendu Lahiri

Applying large language models (LLMs) for academic API usage shows promise in reducing researchers' academic information seeking efforts. However, current LLM API-using methods struggle with complex API coupling commonly encountered in…

Current search techniques are limited to standard RAG query-document applications. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to expand the code and index for predicting the required APIs, directly enabling high-quality, end-to-end code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Esakkivel Esakkiraja , Denis Akhiyarov , Aditya Shanmugham , Chitra Ganapathy

We present SPEAR, an open-source python library for data programming with semi supervision. The package implements several recent data programming approaches including facility to programmatically label and build training data. SPEAR…

This paper introduces the SOAR framework for imitation learning. SOAR is an algorithmic template that learns a policy from expert demonstrations with a primal dual style algorithm that alternates cost and policy updates. Within the policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Stefano Viel , Luca Viano , Volkan Cevher

Cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) have gained popularity due to their low cost and elasticity. However, like other software, SaaS applications suffer from code smells, which can drastically affect functionality and resource usage.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Asif Imran , Tevfik Kosar

Modern code review is a widely used technique employed in both industrial and open-source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure adherence to coding standards and guidelines. During code review, developers may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Moataz Chouchen , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni

Software undergoes constant changes to support new requirements, address bugs, enhance performance, and ensure maintainability. Thus, developers spend a great portion of their workday trying to understand and review the code changes of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Pouria Alikhanifard , Nikolaos Tsantalis

Understanding and analyzing big data is firmly recognized as a powerful and strategic priority. For deeper interpretation of and better intelligence with big data, it is important to transform raw data (unstructured, semi-structured and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Seyed-Mehdi-Reza Beheshti , Alireza Tabebordbar , Boualem Benatallah , Reza Nouri

The performance of automatic code documentation generation models depends critically on the quality of the training data used for supervision. However, most existing code documentation datasets are constructed through large scale scraping…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Recep Kaan Karaman , Meftun Akarsu

Refactoring is the art of improving the design of a system without altering its external behavior. Refactoring has become a well established and disciplined software engineering practice that has attracted a significant amount of research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Anthony Peruma , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian Newman , Ali Ouni , Marouane Kessentini

Usually, programming languages have official documentation to guide developers with APIs, methods, and classes. However, researchers identified insufficient or inadequate documentation examples and flaws with the API's complex structure as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-05 AmirHossein Naghshzan , Latifa Guerrouj , Olga Baysal

Fast numerical libraries have been a cornerstone of scientific computing for decades, but this comes at a price. Programs may be tied to vendor specific software ecosystems resulting in polluted, non-portable code. As we enter an era of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Bruce Collie , Philip Ginsbach , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

Modern software development relies heavily on Application Programming Interface (API) libraries. However, there are often certain constraints on using API elements in such libraries. Failing to follow such constraints (API misuse) could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tam The Nguyen , Phong Minh Vu , Tung Thanh Nguyen