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Large language models (LLMs) have made it remarkably easy to synthesize plausible source code from natural language prompts. While this accelerates software development and supports learning, it also raises new risks for academic integrity,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Syed Mehedi Hasan Nirob , Shamim Ehsan , Moqsadur Rahman , Summit Haque

Our work explores the utilization of deep learning, specifically leveraging the CodeBERT model, to enhance code security testing for Python applications by detecting SQL injection vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional security testing methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Guan-Yan Yang , Yi-Heng Ko , Farn Wang , Kuo-Hui Yeh , Haw-Shiang Chang , Hsueh-Yi Chen

With the success of large-scale pre-training in language tasks, there is an increasing trend of applying it to the domain of life sciences. In particular, pre-training methods based on DNA sequences have received increasing attention…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chaoqi Liang , Lifeng Qiao , Peng Ye , Nanqing Dong , Jianle Sun , Weiqiang Bai , Yuchen Ren , Xinzhu Ma , Hongliang Yan , Chunfeng Song , Wanli Ouyang , Wangmeng Zuo

Code large language models mark a pivotal breakthrough in artificial intelligence. They are specifically crafted to understand and generate programming languages, significantly boosting the efficiency of coding development workflows. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Rui Xie , Zhengran Zeng , Zhuohao Yu , Chang Gao , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

We are surprised to find that BERT's peak performance of 77% on the Argument Reasoning Comprehension Task reaches just three points below the average untrained human baseline. However, we show that this result is entirely accounted for by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Timothy Niven , Hung-Yu Kao

The rapid development of large language models has revolutionized code intelligence in software development. However, the predominance of closed-source models has restricted extensive research and development. To address this, we introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Daya Guo , Qihao Zhu , Dejian Yang , Zhenda Xie , Kai Dong , Wentao Zhang , Guanting Chen , Xiao Bi , Y. Wu , Y. K. Li , Fuli Luo , Yingfei Xiong , Wenfeng Liang

Predicting the runtime complexity of a programming code is an arduous task. In fact, even for humans, it requires a subtle analysis and comprehensive knowledge of algorithms to predict time complexity with high fidelity, given any code. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jagriti Sikka , Kushal Satya , Yaman Kumar , Shagun Uppal , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Roger Zimmermann

Source code clones pose risks ranging from intellectual property violations to unintended vulnerabilities. Effective and efficient scalable clone detection, especially for diverged clones, remains challenging. Large language models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Muslim Chochlov , Gul Aftab Ahmed , James Vincent Patten , Yuanhua Han , Guoxian Lu , David Gregg , Jim Buckley

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on code generation, but the mechanisms by which Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting helps remain unclear. We present a systematic empirical and information-theoretic study of CoT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Naizhu Jin , Zhong Li , Guang Yang , Tian Zhang , Qingkai Zeng

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code snippet given a natural language query. Different from typical information retrieval tasks, code search requires to bridge the semantic gap between the programming language and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Chen Wu , Ming Yan

Sampling diverse programs from a code language model and reranking with model likelihood is a popular method for code generation but it is prone to preferring degenerate solutions. Inspired by collaborative programming, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Tianyi Zhang , Tao Yu , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Mike Lewis , Wen-tau Yih , Daniel Fried , Sida I. Wang

Decompilation is the procedure of transforming binary programs into a high-level representation, such as source code, for human analysts to examine. While modern decompilers can reconstruct and recover much information that is discarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Pratyay Banerjee , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Fish Wang , Chitta Baral

Recently developed large pre-trained language models, e.g., BERT, have achieved remarkable performance in many downstream natural language processing applications. These pre-trained language models often contain hundreds of millions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Xinyi Wang , Haiqin Yang , Liang Zhao , Yang Mo , Jianping Shen

The performance of neural code search is significantly influenced by the quality of the training data from which the neural models are derived. A large corpus of high-quality query and code pairs is demanded to establish a precise mapping…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhensu Sun , Li Li , Yan Liu , Xiaoning Du , Li Li

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have become a more common choice of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Research in word representation shows that isotropic embeddings can significantly improve performance on downstream tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Yuxin Liang , Rui Cao , Jie Zheng , Jie Ren , Ling Gao

In this paper, we propose a context-aware recommender system that models students' programming skills using embeddings of the source code they submit throughout a course. These embeddings predict students' skills across multiple programming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Carlos Eduardo P. Silva , João Pedro M. Sena , Julio C. S. Reis , André G. Santos , Lucas N. Ferreira

Recently, pre-trained language models like BERT have shown promising performance on multiple natural language processing tasks. However, the application of these models has been limited due to their huge size. To reduce its size, a popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Zihan Zhao , Yuncong Liu , Lu Chen , Qi Liu , Rao Ma , Kai Yu

This paper presents an automatic method to evaluate the naturalness of natural language generation in dialogue systems. While this task was previously rendered through expensive and time-consuming human labor, we present this novel task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ye Liu , Wolfgang Maier , Wolfgang Minker , Stefan Ultes

Recent advancements in code large language models (Code-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in resolving programming related tasks. Meanwhile, researchers have recognized that the quality of pre-training data is crucial for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chengli Xing , Zhengran Zeng , Gexiang Fang , Rui Xie , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang

Neural Language Models of Code, or Neural Code Models (NCMs), are rapidly progressing from research prototypes to commercial developer tools. As such, understanding the capabilities and limitations of such models is becoming critical.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-29 David N. Palacio , Alejandro Velasco , Nathan Cooper , Alvaro Rodriguez , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk