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Background: During software maintenance and development, the comprehension of program code is key to success. High-quality comments can help us better understand programs, but they're often missing or outmoded in today's programs. Automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yuxiang Zhu , Minxue Pan

A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based question-answering (QA) system enhances a large language model's knowledge by retrieving relevant documents based on user queries. Discrepancies between user queries and document phrasings often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Qi Wang , Yixuan Cao , Yifan Liu , Jiangtao Zhao , Ping Luo

The task of generating code solutions for a given programming problem can benefit from the use of pre-trained language models such as Codex, which can produce multiple diverse samples. However, a major challenge for this task is to select…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Bei Chen , Fengji Zhang , Anh Nguyen , Daoguang Zan , Zeqi Lin , Jian-Guang Lou , Weizhu Chen

Software defects are a major threat to the reliability of computer systems. The literature shows that more than 30% of bug reports submitted in large software projects are misclassified (i.e., are feature requests, or mistakes made by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Renato Andrade , César Teixeira , Nuno Laranjeiro , Marco Vieira

Developers often write low-quality code comments due to the lack of programming experience, which can reduce the efficiency of developers program comprehension. Therefore, developers hope that code comment generation tools can be developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Guang Yang , Xiang Chen , Jinxin Cao , Shuyuan Xu , Zhanqi Cui , Chi Yu , Ke Liu

Progress in large language models is increasingly constrained by an evaluation bottleneck: benchmarks must be built and models run before iteration can begin. We investigate whether evaluation outcomes can be forecast before any experiments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jungsoo Park , Ethan Mendes , Gabriel Stanovsky , Alan Ritter

Researchers and practitioners have designed and implemented various automated test case generators to support effective software testing. Such generators exist for various languages (e.g., Java, C#, or Python) and for various platforms…

Identifying security issues early is encouraged to reduce the latent negative impacts on software systems. Code review is a widely-used method that allows developers to manually inspect modified code, catching security issues during a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Wachiraphan Charoenwet , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Van-Thuan Pham , Christoph Treude

Over the past decade, social media platforms have been key in spreading rumors, leading to significant negative impacts. To counter this, the community has developed various Rumor Detection (RD) algorithms to automatically identify them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bing Wang , Bingrui Zhao , Ximing Li , Changchun Li , Wanfu Gao , Shengsheng Wang

Comments are very useful to the flow of code development. With the increasing commonality of code, novice coders have been creating a significant amount of codebases. Due to lack of commenting standards, their comments are often useless,…

Test code is indispensable in software development, ensuring the correctness of production code and supporting maintainability. Nonetheless, errors or omissions in the test code can conceal production defects. While code review is widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hui Sun , Yinan Wu , Wesley K. G. Assunção , Kathryn T. Stolee

Recent advances in video generation have posed great challenges in the assessment of AI-generated content, particularly with the emergence of increasingly sophisticated models. The various inconsistencies and defects observed in such videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Rui Chen , Lei Sun , Jing Tang , Geng Li , Xiangxiang Chu

Code review is a well-established and valued practice in the software engineering community contributing to both code quality and interpersonal benefits. However, there are challenges in both tools and processes that give rise to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lo Gullstrand Heander , Emma Söderberg , Christofer Rydenfält

Program repair techniques offer cost-saving benefits for debugging within software development and programming education scenarios. With the proven effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in code-related tasks, researchers have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Boyang Yang , Haoye Tian , Weiguo Pian , Haoran Yu , Haitao Wang , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Shunfu Jin

Large language models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in code generation, but competitive programming remains a challenge. Recent training-based methods have improved code generation by using reinforcement learning (RL) with execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Lingxiao Tang , Muyang Ye , Zhaoyang Chu , Xiaoxue Ren , Zhongxin Liu , Lingfeng Bao , He Ye

Automatic code generation has recently attracted large attention and is becoming more significant to the software development process. Solutions based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are being used to increase human and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Leon Chemnitz , David Reichenbach , Hani Aldebes , Mariam Naveed , Krishna Narasimhan , Mira Mezini

Transformer-based language models for automatic code completion have shown great promise so far, yet the evaluation of these models rarely uses real data. This study provides both quantitative and qualitative assessments of three public…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Maliheh Izadi , Jonathan Katzy , Tim van Dam , Marc Otten , Razvan Mihai Popescu , Arie van Deursen

Code generation with large language models often relies on multi-stage human-in-the-loop refinement, which is effective but very costly - particularly in domains such as frontend web development where the solution quality depends on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hannah Sansford , Derek H. C. Law , Wei Liu , Abhishek Tripathi , Niresh Agarwal , Gerrit J. J. van den Burg

The use of large language models (LLMs) for automated code generation has emerged as a significant focus within AI research. As these pretrained models continue to evolve, their ability to understand and generate complex code structures has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Nazmus Ashrafi , Salah Bouktif , Mohammed Mediani

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enabled the development of sophisticated models that are capable of producing high-caliber text, images, and other outputs through the utilization of large pre-trained models. Nevertheless,…

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