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This paper describes AutoFix, an automatic debugging technique that can fix faults in general-purpose software. To provide high-quality fix suggestions and to enable automation of the whole debugging process, AutoFix relies on the presence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Yu Pei , Carlo A. Furia , Martin Nordio , Yi Wei , Bertrand Meyer , Andreas Zeller

We propose SymPlex, a reinforcement learning framework for discovering analytical symbolic solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) without access to ground-truth expressions. SymPlex formulates symbolic PDE solving as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yesom Park , Annie C. Lu , Shao-Ching Huang , Qiyang Hu , Y. Sungtaek Ju , Stanley Osher

A branch of automated program repair (APR) techniques look at finding and reusing existing code for bug repair. ssFix is one of such techniques that is syntactic search-based: it searches a code database for code fragments that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Qi Xin , Steven P. Reiss

Beginning programmers struggle with the complex grammar of modern programming languages like Java, and make lot of syntax errors. The diagnostic syntax error messages from compilers and IDEs are sometimes useful, but often the messages are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Toufique Ahmed , Noah Rose Ledesma , Premkumar Devanbu

Deep learning models for visual recognition often exhibit systematic errors due to underrepresented semantic subpopulations. Although existing debugging frameworks can pinpoint these failures by identifying key failure attributes, repairing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ouyang Xu , Baoming Zhang , Ruiyu Mao , Yunhui Guo

We propose utilizing fast and slow thinking to enhance the capabilities of large language model-based agents on complex tasks such as program repair. In particular, we design an adaptive program repair method based on issue description…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xin Cao , Nan Yu

Computational analysis of performed music is a key component of music information research, as performance shapes much of the music we hear. Music performance analysis studies the acoustic variations introduced by performers and how these…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Corentin Guichaoua , Daniel Bedoya , Elaine Chew

Symbolic execution is a program analysis technique commonly utilized to determine whether programs violate properties and, in case violations are found, to generate inputs that can trigger them. Used in the context of security properties…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Ignacio Tiraboschi , Tamara Rezk , Xavier Rival

We introduce a novel technique for finding real errors in programs. The technique is based on a synergy of three well-known methods: metacompilation, slicing, and symbolic execution. More precisely, we instrument a given program with a code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Jiří Slabý , Jan Strejček , Marek Trtík

Automated program repair (APR) techniques are effective in fixing inevitable defects in software, enhancing development efficiency and software robustness. However, due to the difficulty of generating precise specifications, existing APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu He , Shu Wang , Kun Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated code repair but often struggle with the complex semantic and structural correctness required. We present SynthFix, a hybrid neural-symbolic framework that improves LLM-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yifan Zhang , Jieyu Li , Kexin Pei , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically generate correct patches for buggy programs. Recent approaches leveraging large language models (LLMs) have shown promise but face limitations. Most rely solely on static analysis,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhili Huang , Ling Xu , Chao Liu , Weifeng Sun , Xu Zhang , Yan Lei , Meng Yan , Hongyu Zhang

Symbolic execution is a program analysis technique executing programs with symbolic instead of concrete inputs. This principle allows for exploring many program paths at once. Despite its wide adoption -- in particular for program testing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Arthur Correnson , Dominic Steinhoefel

We present SyncFix, a framework that enforces cross-view consistency during the diffusion-based refinement of reconstructed scenes. SyncFix formulates refinement as a joint latent bridge matching problem, synchronizing distorted and clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Deming Li , Abhay Yadav , Cheng Peng , Rama Chellappa , Anand Bhattad

We present a method of automatically synthesizing steps to solve search problems. Given a specification of a search problem, our approach uses symbolic execution to analyze the specification in order to extract a set of constraints which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Mara Downing , Abtin Molavi , Lucas Bang

We present DefExt, an easy to use semi supervised Definition Extraction Tool. DefExt is designed to extract from a target corpus those textual fragments where a term is explicitly mentioned together with its core features, i.e. its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Luis Espinosa-Anke , Roberto Carlini , Horacio Saggion , Francesco Ronzano

Deep learning and language models are increasingly dominating automated program repair research. While previous generate-and-validate approaches were able to find and use fix ingredients on a file or even project level, neural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Julian Aron Prenner , Romain Robbes

Being able to automatically repair programs is an extremely challenging task. In this paper, we present MintHint, a novel technique for program repair that is a departure from most of today's approaches. Instead of trying to fully automate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Shalini Kaleeswaran , Varun Tulsian , Aditya Kanade , Alessandro Orso

Symbolic execution is an effective path oriented and constraint based program analysis technique. Recently, there is a significant development in the research and application of symbolic execution. However, symbolic execution still suffers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Yufeng Zhang , Zhenbang Chen , Ji Wang

We propose a path-based approach to program repair for imperative programs. Our repair framework takes as input a faulty program, a logic specification that is refuted, and a hint where the fault may be located. An iterative abstraction…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Heinz Riener , Rüdiger Ehlers , Görschwin Fey
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