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Learning-based automated vulnerability repair (AVR) techniques that utilize fine-tuned language models have shown promise in generating vulnerability patches. However, questions remain about their ability to repair unseen vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Woorim Han , Yeongjun Kwak , Miseon Yu , Kyeongmin Kim , Younghan Lee , Hyungon Moon , Yunheung Paek

Machine learning-based program analyses have recently shown the promise of integrating formal and probabilistic reasoning towards aiding software development. However, in the absence of large annotated corpora, training these analyses is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Miltiadis Allamanis , Henry Jackson-Flux , Marc Brockschmidt

Software vulnerabilities pose significant security threats, requiring effective mitigation. While Automated Program Repair (APR) has advanced in fixing general bugs, vulnerability patching, a security-critical aspect of APR remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zanis Ali Khan , Aayush Garg , Qiang Tang

Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on automatic program repair (APR) for high-resource programming languages (HRPLs), but their effectiveness drops sharply in low-resource programming languages (LRPLs), due to a lack of sufficient…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhipeng Wang , Boyang Yang , Yidong Wan , Liuye Guo , You Lv , Tao Zheng , Zhuowei Wang , Tieke He

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have accelerated the development of AI-driven automated program repair (APR) solutions. However, these solutions are typically evaluated using static benchmarks such as Defects4J and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yinghang Ma , Jiho Shin , Leuson Da Silva , Zhen Ming , Jiang , Song Wang , Foutse Khomh , Shin Hwei Tan

Automated Program Repair (APR) holds the promise of alleviating the burden of debugging and fixing software bugs. Despite this, developers still need to manually inspect each patch to confirm its correctness, which is tedious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ruixin Wang , Zhongkai Zhao , Le Fang , Nan Jiang , Yiling Lou , Lin Tan , Tianyi Zhang

A less complex and more straightforward program is a crucial factor that enhances its maintainability and makes writing secure and bug-free programs easier. However, due to its heavy workload and the risks of breaking the working programs,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Atsushi Shirafuji , Yusuke Oda , Jun Suzuki , Makoto Morishita , Yutaka Watanobe

Retrieving the correct set of files from a large codebase is a crucial step in Automated Program Repair (APR). High recall is necessary to ensure that the relevant files are included, but simply increasing the number of retrieved files…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mahir Labib Dihan , Faria Binta Awal , Md. Ishrak Ahsan

Modern computing students often rely on both natural-language prompting and manual code editing to solve programming tasks. Yet we still lack a clear understanding of how these two modes are combined in practice, and how their usage varies…

Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a foundational technology in high-performance computing (HPC), widely used for large-scale simulations and distributed training (e.g., in machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Scott Piersall , Yang Gao , Shenyang Liu , Liqiang Wang

In the research of automated program repair (APR), benchmark datasets consisting of known defects in combination with test suites that indicate the defects are of high importance. They allow for an evidence-based comparison of different APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Adam Krafczyk , Klaus Schmid

Security vulnerability repair is a difficult task that is in dire need of automation. Two groups of techniques have shown promise: (1) large code language models (LLMs) that have been pre-trained on source code for tasks such as code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yi Wu , Nan Jiang , Hung Viet Pham , Thibaud Lutellier , Jordan Davis , Lin Tan , Petr Babkin , Sameena Shah

A key part of learning to program is learning to understand programming error messages. They can be hard to interpret and identifying the cause of errors can be time-consuming. One factor in this challenge is that the messages are typically…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Juho Leinonen , Arto Hellas , Sami Sarsa , Brent Reeves , Paul Denny , James Prather , Brett A. Becker

Within the realm of software engineering, specialized tasks on code, such as program repair, present unique challenges, necessitating fine-tuning Large language models~(LLMs) to unlock state-of-the-art performance. Fine-tuning approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Boyang Yang , Haoye Tian , Jiadong Ren , Hongyu Zhang , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Claire Le Goues , Shunfu Jin

Large language models possess impressive capabilities in generating programs (e.g., Python) from natural language descriptions to execute robotic tasks. However, these generated programs often contain errors that violate externally given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yunhao Yang , Neel P. Bhatt , William Ward , Zichao Hu , Joydeep Biswas , Ufuk Topcu

Automated program repair (APR) struggles to scale from isolated functions to full repositories, as it demands a global, task-aware understanding to locate necessary changes. Current methods, limited by context and reliant on shallow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhongqiang Pan , Chuanyi Li , Wenkang Zhong , Yi Feng , Bin Luo , Vincent Ng

This paper introduces the "Search, Align, and Repair" data-driven program repair framework to automate feedback generation for introductory programming exercises. Distinct from existing techniques, our goal is to develop an efficient, fully…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Ke Wang , RIshabh Singh , Zhendong Su

Automated program repair (APR) has attracted widespread attention in recent years with substantial techniques being proposed. Meanwhile, a number of benchmarks have been established for evaluating the performances of APR techniques, among…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Shangwen Wang , Ming Wen , Xiaoguang Mao , Deheng Yang

In this paper, we first show that increases in beam size, even for small-sized LLMs (1B-7B params), require extensive GPU usage, leading to up to 80% of recurring crashes due to memory overloads in LLM-based APR. Seemingly simple solutions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Toby Murray

Introductory programming courses often emphasize mastering syntax and basic constructs before progressing to more complex and interesting programs. This bottom-up approach can be frustrating for novices, shifting the focus away from problem…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chris Kerslake , Paul Denny , David H Smith , James Prather , Juho Leinonen , Andrew Luxton-Reilly , Stephen MacNeil