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Explainable AI (XAI) methods typically focus on identifying essential input features or more abstract concepts for tasks like image or text classification. However, for algorithmic tasks like combinatorial optimization, these concepts may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Elad Shoham , Hadar Cohen , Khalil Wattad , Havana Rika , Dan Vilenchik

Applying machine learning to tasks that operate with code changes requires their numerical representation. In this work, we propose an approach for obtaining such representations during pre-training and evaluate them on two different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mikhail Pravilov , Egor Bogomolov , Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

Large language models (LLMs) have shown significant progress in reasoning tasks. However, recent studies show that transformers and LLMs fail catastrophically once reasoning problems exceed modest complexity. We revisit these findings…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Revanth Rameshkumar , Jimson Huang , Yunxin Sun , Fei Xia , Abulhair Saparov

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has continued to achieve tremendous success in recent times. However, the decision logic of these frameworks is often not transparent, making it difficult for stakeholders to understand, interpret or explain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Fuseini Mumuni , Alhassan Mumuni

Despite significant evolution of CUDA programming and domain-specific libraries, effectively utilizing GPUs with massively parallel engines remains difficult. Large language models (LLMs) show strong potential in generating optimized CUDA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Junfeng Gong , Zhiyi Wei , Junying Chen , Cheng Liu , Huawei Li

In the rapidly evolving industry of software development, coding efficiency and accuracy play significant roles in delivering high-quality software. Various code suggestion and completion tools, such as CodeBERT from Microsoft and GPT-3.5…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Bingbing Zhang , Ziyu Lin , Yingxin Su

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant advancements in natural language understanding. However, through that enormous semantic representation that the LLM has learnt, is it somehow possible for it to understand images as well?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Mu Cai , Zeyi Huang , Yuheng Li , Utkarsh Ojha , Haohan Wang , Yong Jae Lee

Model pre-training on large text corpora has been demonstrated effective for various downstream applications in the NLP domain. In the graph mining domain, a similar analogy can be drawn for pre-training graph models on large graphs in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Han Xie , Da Zheng , Jun Ma , Houyu Zhang , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Xiang Song , Qing Ping , Sheng Wang , Carl Yang , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi

What does it mean for a generative AI model to be explainable? The emergent discipline of explainable AI (XAI) has made great strides in helping people understand discriminative models. Less attention has been paid to generative models that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Jiao Sun , Q. Vera Liao , Michael Muller , Mayank Agarwal , Stephanie Houde , Kartik Talamadupula , Justin D. Weisz

In this paper, we discuss learning algorithms and their importance in different types of applications which includes training to identify important patterns and features in a straightforward, easy-to-understand manner. We will review the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz , Elias Hossain , Abdoljalil Addeh , Keyan Alexander Rahimi

Replicating AI research is a crucial yet challenging task for large language model (LLM) agents. Existing approaches often struggle to generate executable code, primarily due to insufficient background knowledge and the limitations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yujie Luo , Zhuoyun Yu , Xuehai Wang , Yuqi Zhu , Ningyu Zhang , Lanning Wei , Lun Du , Da Zheng , Huajun Chen

While pretrained models such as BERT have shown large gains across natural language understanding tasks, their performance can be improved by further training the model on a data-rich intermediate task, before fine-tuning it on a target…

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning techniques have been widely used in software engineering to improve developer productivity, the quality of software systems, and decision-making. However, such AI/ML models for software engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Jirayus Jiarpakdee , John Grundy

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate software development, yet most prior evaluations focus on functional correctness or high-level languages such as Python. As one of the first systematic explorations of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Atieh Barati Nia , Mohammad Dindoost , David A. Bader

Natural language to code generation is an important application area of LLMs and has received wide attention from the community. The majority of relevant studies have exclusively concentrated on increasing the quantity and functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Naman Jain , Tianjun Zhang , Wei-Lin Chiang , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Koushik Sen , Ion Stoica

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

Code vulnerability detection (CVD) is essential for addressing and preventing system security issues, playing a crucial role in ensuring software security. Previous learning-based vulnerability detection methods rely on either fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xuefeng Jiang , Lvhua Wu , Sheng Sun , Jia Li , Jingjing Xue , Yuwei Wang , Tingting Wu , Min Liu

Machine learning models trained on code and related artifacts offer valuable support for software maintenance but suffer from interpretability issues due to their complex internal variables. These concerns are particularly significant in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Vahid Majdinasab , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

The development of large language models (LLM) has shown progress on reasoning, though studies have largely considered either English or simple reasoning tasks. To address this, we introduce a multilingual structured reasoning and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Bryan Li , Tamer Alkhouli , Daniele Bonadiman , Nikolaos Pappas , Saab Mansour

Pretrained language models have been shown to be effective in many software-related generation tasks; however, they are not well-suited for editing tasks as they are not designed to reason about edits. To address this, we propose a novel…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jiyang Zhang , Sheena Panthaplackel , Pengyu Nie , Junyi Jessy Li , Milos Gligoric