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Automated fault localization requires connecting an observed test failure to the responsible method across thousands of candidates--a task that purely statistical approaches handle with limited precision and that LLMs cannot yet handle at…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mahdi Farzandway , Fatemeh Ghassemi

Providing timely and personalized guidance for students' programming assignments, offers significant practical value for helping students complete assignments and enhance their learning. In recent years, various automated Fault Localization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Fang Liu , Tianze Wang , Li Zhang , Zheyu Yang , Jing Jiang , Zian Sun

Abrupt and unexpected terminations of software are termed as software crashes. They can be challenging to analyze. Finding the root cause requires extensive manual effort and expertise to connect information sources like stack traces,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Neetha Jambigi , Bartosz Bogacz , Moritz Mueller , Thomas Bach , Michael Felderer

The testing phase is an essential part of software development, but manually creating test cases can be time-consuming. Consequently, there is a growing need for more efficient testing methods. To reduce the burden on developers, various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sasara Shimizu , Yoshiki Higo

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data selection is commonly formulated as instance ranking: score each example and retain a top-$k$ subset. However, effective SFT training subsets are often produced through ordered curation recipes, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Haodong Wu , Jiahao Zhang , Lijie Hu , Yongqi Zhang

Fault Localization (FL) aims to automatically localize buggy lines of code, a key first step in many manual and automatic debugging tasks. Previous FL techniques assume the provision of input tests, and often require extensive program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Ruben Martins , Claire Le Goues , Vincent J. Hellendoorn

This study addresses the challenge of integrating complex, high-dimensional deep semantic features with simple, interpretable structural cues for lyrical content classification. We introduce a novel Synergistic Fusion Layer (SFL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 M. A. Gameiro

Debugging is one of the most time-consuming and expensive tasks in software development. Several formula-based fault localization (FBFL) methods have been proposed, but they fail to guarantee a set of diagnoses across all failing tests or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Pedro Orvalho , Mikoláš Janota , Vasco Manquinho

Federated Learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning paradigm to break down data silo. Traditional FL approaches largely rely on gradient-based updates, facing significant issues about heterogeneity, scalability, convergence, and…

Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) faces the significant challenge of adversarial or unreliable vehicles in vehicular networks, which can compromise the model's integrity through misleading updates. Addressing this, our study introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 M. Saeid HaghighiFard , Sinem Coleri

Fault localization, aiming at localizing the root cause of the bug under repair, has been a longstanding research topic. Although many approaches have been proposed in the last decades, most of the existing studies work at coarse-grained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiajun Jiang , Yumeng Wang , Junjie Chen , Delin Lv , Mengjiao Liu

Over the past decade, Deep Learning (DL) has become an integral part of our daily lives. This surge in DL usage has heightened the need for developing reliable DL software systems. Given that fault localization is a critical task in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

Automated program repair is already deployed in industry, but concerns remain about repair quality. Recent research has shown that one of the main reasons repair tools produce incorrect (but seemingly correct) patches is imperfect fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Manish Motwani , Yuriy Brun

In Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL), a suspiciousness score is assigned to each code element based on test coverage and test outcomes. The scores are then used to rank the code elements relative to each other in order to aid the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Qusay Idrees Sarhan , Bela Vancsics , Arpad Beszedes

Federated Learning (FL) is plagued by two key challenges: high communication overhead and performance collapse on heterogeneous (non-IID) data. Analytic FL (AFL) provides a single-round, data distribution invariant solution, but is limited…

Background: Compilers are fundamental to software development, translating high-level source code into executable software systems. Faults in compilers can have severe consequences and thus effective localization and resolution of compiler…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yibiao Yang , Qingyang Li , Maolin Sun , Jiangchang Wu , Yuming Zhou

Maintenance is a dominant component of software cost, and localizing reported defects is a significant component of maintenance. We propose a scalable approach that leverages the natural language present in both defect reports and source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Zachary P. Fry , Westley Weimer

Current temporal forgery localization (TFL) approaches typically rely on temporal boundary regression or continuous frame-level anomaly detection paradigms to derive candidate forgery proposals. However, they suffer not only from feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Tianyi Wang , Xi Shao , Harry Cheng , Yinglong Wang , Mohan Kankanhalli

Fault localization (FL) is a critical step in debugging, which typically relies on repeated executions to pinpoint faulty code regions. However, repeated executions can be impractical in the presence of non-deterministic failures or high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ahmadreza Saboor Yaraghi , Golnaz Gharachorlu , Sakina Fatima , Lionel C. Briand , Ruiyuan Wan , Ruifeng Gao

Focal Loss has reached incredible popularity as it uses a simple technique to identify and utilize hard examples to achieve better performance on classification. However, this method does not easily generalize outside of classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chen Liu , Xiaomeng Dong , Michael Potter , Hsi-Ming Chang , Ravi Soni