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Large Language Models have been recently exploited as judges for complex natural language processing tasks, such as Q&A. The basic idea is to delegate to an LLM the assessment of the "quality" of the output provided by an automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Giuseppe Crupi , Rosalia Tufano , Alejandro Velasco , Antonio Mastropaolo , Denys Poshyvanyk , Gabriele Bavota

Source code summarization -- creating natural language descriptions of source code behavior -- is a rapidly-growing research topic with applications to automatic documentation generation, program comprehension, and software maintenance.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Alexander LeClair , Siyuan Jiang , Collin McMillan

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to enhance the model generalization by sharing representations between related tasks for better performance. Typical MTL methods are jointly trained with the complete multitude of ground-truths for all tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yufeng Wang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chih Hung , Wenrui Ding , Shuo Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this work, we propose a Multi-LLM summarization framework, and investigate two different multi-LLM strategies including centralized and decentralized. Our multi-LLM summarization framework has two fundamentally important steps at each…

It is a challenging and practical research problem to obtain effective compression of lengthy product titles for E-commerce. This is particularly important as more and more users browse mobile E-commerce apps and more merchants make the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Jingang Wang , Junfeng Tian , Long Qiu , Sheng Li , Jun Lang , Luo Si , Man Lan

Source code summarization involves creating brief descriptions of source code in natural language. These descriptions are a key component of software documentation such as JavaDocs. Automatic code summarization is a prized target of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sakib Haque , Zachary Eberhart , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

High quality method names are descriptive and readable, which are helpful for code development and maintenance. The majority of recent research suggest method names based on the text summarization approach. They take the token sequence and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Fan Ge , Li Kuang

Topic models are used to identify and group similar themes in a set of documents. Recent advancements in deep learning based neural topic models has received significant research interest. In this paper, an approach is proposed that further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Trishia Khandelwal

Multi-task learning (MTL) optimizes several learning tasks simultaneously and leverages their shared information to improve generalization and the prediction of the model for each task. Auxiliary tasks can be added to the main task to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Partoo Vafaeikia , Khashayar Namdar , Farzad Khalvati

Text summarization aims to generate a headline or a short summary consisting of the major information of the source text. Recent studies employ the sequence-to-sequence framework to encode the input with a neural network and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Haiyang Xu , Yahao He , Kun Han , Junwen Chen , Xiangang Li

Table summarization is a crucial task aimed at condensing information from tabular data into concise and comprehensible textual summaries. However, existing approaches often fall short of adequately meeting users' information and quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weijia Zhang , Vaishali Pal , Jia-Hong Huang , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Source code summarization of a subroutine is the task of writing a short, natural language description of that subroutine. The description usually serves in documentation aimed at programmers, where even brief phrase (e.g. "compresses data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Aakash Bansal , Sakib Haque , Collin McMillan

Source code summarization is the task of writing natural language descriptions of source code behavior. Code summarization underpins software documentation for programmers. Short descriptions of code help programmers understand the program…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Aakash Bansal , Siyuan Jiang , Sakib Haque , Collin McMillan

Source code summarization is the task of creating short, natural language descriptions of source code. Code summarization is the backbone of much software documentation such as JavaDocs, in which very brief comments such as "adds the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Sakib Haque , Aakash Bansal , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

Code summarization aims to generate concise natural language descriptions for source code. The prevailing approaches adopt transformer-based encoder-decoder architectures, where the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of the source code is utilized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Yeshwanth Nagaraj , Ujjwal Gupta

Automating code documentation through explanatory text can prove highly beneficial in code understanding. Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable strides in Natural Language Processing, especially within software engineering tasks…

Automated code summarization is a long-standing goal for code comprehension. This task automatically generates documentation using a given method. Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches have been proven beneficial for various software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Antonio Vitale , Antonio Mastropaolo , Rocco Oliveto , Massimiliano Di Penta , Simone Scalabrino

Multi-task learning (MTL) has become increasingly popular in natural language processing (NLP) because it improves the performance of related tasks by exploiting their commonalities and differences. Nevertheless, it is still not understood…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zhihan Zhang , Wenhao Yu , Mengxia Yu , Zhichun Guo , Meng Jiang

Label smoothing is a regularization technique for neural networks. Normally neural models are trained to an output distribution that is a vector with a single 1 for the correct prediction, and 0 for all other elements. Label smoothing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Sakib Haque , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

Summarizing source code into natural language descriptions (code summarization) helps developers better understand program functionality and reduce the burden of software maintenance. Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), as opposed to source code,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shijia Dong , Haoruo Zhao , Paul Harvey