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Cross-language code clone detection (X-CCD) is challenging because semantically equivalent programs written in different languages often share little surface similarity. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mohamad Khajezade , Fatemeh H. Fard , Mohamed Sami Shehata

Machine learning (ML) codebases face unprecedented challenges in maintaining code quality and sustainability as their complexity grows exponentially. While traditional code smell detection tools exist, they fail to address ML-specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Karthik Shivashankar , Antonio Martini

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

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of generating functional source code, raising concerns about authorship, accountability, and security. While detecting AI-generated code is critical, existing datasets and benchmarks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Daniil Orel , Dilshod Azizov , Indraneil Paul , Yuxia Wang , Iryna Gurevych , Preslav Nakov

Recent studies highlight various machine learning (ML)-based techniques for code clone detection, which can be integrated into developer tools such as static code analysis. With the advancements brought by ML in code understanding, ML-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Teeradaj Racharak , Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul , Chayanee Junplong , Akara Supratak

Source code clone detection is the task of finding code fragments that have the same or similar functionality, but may differ in syntax or structure. This task is important for software maintenance, reuse, and quality assurance (Roy et al.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mohammed Ataaur Rahaman , Julia Ive

To tackle the threat of fake news, the task of detecting and grounding multi-modal media manipulation DGM4 has received increasing attention. However, most state-of-the-art methods fail to explore the fine-grained consistency within local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yiheng Li , Yang Yang , Zichang Tan , Huan Liu , Weihua Chen , Xu Zhou , Zhen Lei

With the advancement of remote sensing satellite technology and the rapid progress of deep learning, remote sensing change detection (RSCD) has become a key technique for regional monitoring. Traditional change detection (CD) methods and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Chengming Wang , Guodong Fan , Jinjiang Li , Min Gan , C. L. Philip Chen

Code cloning is a common practice in software development, but it poses significant security risks by propagating vulnerabilities across cloned segments. To address this challenge, we introduce srcVul, a scalable, precise detection approach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Hakam Alomari , Christopher Vendome , Hilal Gyawali

The code clone detection method based on semantic similarity has important value in software engineering tasks (e.g., software evolution, software reuse). Traditional code clone detection technologies pay more attention to the similarity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Cheng Huang , Hui Zhou , Chunyang Ye , Bingzhuo Li

Reusing code can produce duplicate or near-duplicate code clones in code repositories. Current code clone detection techniques, like Program Dependence Graphs, rely on code structure and their dependencies to detect clones. These techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Sandeep Kaur Kuttal , Akash Ghosh

As of today the programming language of the vast majority of the published source code is manually specified or programmatically assigned based on the sole file extension. In this paper we show that the source code programming language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Shaul Zevin , Catherine Holzem

Code clone detection is about finding out similar code fragments, which has drawn much attention in software engineering since it is important for software maintenance and evolution. Researchers have proposed many techniques and tools for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Junjie Shan , Shihan Dou , Yueming Wu , Hairu Wu , Yang Liu

Recent advances in code large language models (CodeLLMs) have made them indispensable tools in modern software engineering. However, these models occasionally produce outputs that contain proprietary or sensitive code snippets, raising…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tianlin Li , Yunxiang Wei , Zhiming Li , Aishan Liu , Qing Guo , Xianglong Liu , Dongning Sun , Yang Liu

Type-4 clones refer to a pair of code snippets with similar semantics but written in different syntax, which challenges the existing code clone detection techniques. Previous studies, however, highly rely on syntactic structures and textual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Zhipeng Xue , Zhijie Jiang , Chenlin Huang , Rulin Xu , Xiangbing Huang , Liumin Hu

Semantic and Cross-language code clone generation may be useful for code reuse, code comprehension, refactoring and benchmarking. OpenAI's GPT model has potential in such clone generation as GPT is used for text generation. When developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Palash R. Roy , Ajmain I. Alam , Farouq Al-omari , Banani Roy , Chanchal K. Roy , Kevin A. Schneider

There are a great many clone detection tools proposed in the literature. In this paper, we investigate the state of clone detection tool evaluation. We begin by surveying the clone detection benchmarks, and performing a multi-faceted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jeffrey Svajlenko , Chanchal K. Roy

Programmers often reuse code from source code repositories to reduce the development effort. Code clones are candidates for reuse in exploratory or rapid development, as they represent often repeated functionality in software systems. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Muhammad Hammad , Önder Babur , Hamid Abdul Basit , Mark van den Brand

Multi-domain detection of the machine-generated code snippets in various programming languages is a challenging task. SemEval-2026 Task~13 copes with this challenge in various angles, as a binary detection problem as well as attribution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Adam Skurla , Dominik Macko , Jakub Simko

Large Language Models (LLMs) have strong capabilities in code comprehension, but fine-tuning costs and semantic alignment issues limit their project-specific optimization; conversely, code models such CodeBERT are easy to fine-tune, but it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ziliang Wang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Yingfei Xiong , Jia Li , Meng Yan , Zhi Jin