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Symbolic execution helps check programs by exploring different paths based on symbolic inputs. Tools like KLEE are commonly used because they can automatically detect bugs and create test cases. But one of KLEE's biggest issues is how slow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rong Feng , Vanisha Gupta , Vivek Patel , Viroopaksh Reddy Ernampati , Suman Saha

Recent years have seen the development of LLM-based code generation. Compared to generating code in a software project, incremental code edits are empirically observed to be more frequent. The emerging code editing approaches usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chenyan Liu , Yufan Cai , Yun Lin , Yuhuan Huang , Yunrui Pei , Bo Jiang , Ping Yang , Jin Song Dong , Hong Mei

Predicting program behavior without execution is a critical task in software engineering. Existing models often fall short in capturing the dynamic dependencies among program elements. To address this, we present CodeFlow, a novel machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Cuong Chi Le , Hoang Nhat Phan , Huy Nhat Phan , Tien N. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Symbolic execution detects vulnerabilities with precision, but applying it to large codebases requires harnesses that set up symbolic state, model dependencies, and specify assertions. Writing these harnesses has traditionally been a manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Md Shafiuzzaman , Achintya Desai , Wenbo Guo , Tevfik Bultan

Code optimization is the process of enhancing code efficiency, while preserving its intended functionality. This process often requires a deep understanding of the code execution behavior at run-time to identify and address inefficiencies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Federico Di Menna , Luca Traini , Gabriele Bavota , Vittorio Cortellessa

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional static program analysis methods, such as symbolic execution, offering the ability to reason over code directly without relying on theorem provers or SMT…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yihe Li , Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck

Code quality is of paramount importance in all types of software development settings. Our work seeks to enable Machine Learning (ML) engineers to write better code by helping them find and fix instances of Data Leakage in their models.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Catherine DeMario , Roger Shagawat , Brandon Kreiser

We present an algorithm for tests generation tools based on symbolic execution. The algorithm is supposed to help in situations, when a tool is repeatedly failing to cover some code by tests. The algorithm then provides the tool a necessary…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Marek Trtík

Machine learning algorithms are typically run on large scale, distributed compute infrastructure that routinely face a number of unavailabilities such as failures and temporary slowdowns. Adding redundant computations using coding-theoretic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jack Kosaian , K. V. Rashmi , Shivaram Venkataraman

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated an impressive ability to generate codes on competitive programming tasks. However, with limited sample numbers, LLMs still suffer from poor accuracy. Inspired by the process of human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kechi Zhang , Zhuo Li , Jia Li , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

The iterative and incremental nature of software development using models typically makes a model of a system incomplete (i.e., partial) until a more advanced and complete stage of development is reached. Existing model execution approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Mojtaba Bagherzadeh , Nafiseh Kahani , Karim Jahed , Juergen Dingel

Symbolic execution is a successful and very popular technique used in software verification and testing. A key limitation of symbolic execution is in dealing with code containing loops. The problem is that even a single loop can generate a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-07-08 Jan Obdrzalek , Marek Trtik

We address the problem of automatic decompilation, converting a program in low-level representation back to a higher-level human-readable programming language. The problem of decompilation is extremely important for security researchers.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Omer Katz , Yuval Olshaker , Yoav Goldberg , Eran Yahav

To enhance documentation and maintenance practices, developers conventionally establish links between related software artifacts manually. Empirical research has revealed that developers frequently overlook this practice, resulting in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Maliheh Izadi , Pooya Rostami Mazrae , Tom Mens , Arie van Deursen

The ability to execute the test suite of a project is essential in many scenarios, e.g., to assess code quality and code coverage, to validate code changes made by developers or automated tools, and to ensure compatibility with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Islem Bouzenia , Michael Pradel

We propose a symbolic execution method for programs that can draw random samples. In contrast to existing work, our method can verify randomized programs with unknown inputs and can prove probabilistic properties that universally quantify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zachary Susag , Sumit Lahiri , Justin Hsu , Subhajit Roy

Logical errors in programming don't raise compiler alerts, making them hard to detect. These silent errors can disrupt a program's function or cause run-time issues. Their correction requires deep insight into the program's logic,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zhenyu Xu , Victor S. Sheng

Learning neural program embeddings is key to utilizing deep neural networks in program languages research --- precise and efficient program representations enable the application of deep models to a wide range of program analysis tasks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Ke Wang , Zhendong Su

Code generation models can benefit data scientists' productivity by automatically generating code from context and text descriptions. An important measure of the modeling progress is whether a model can generate code that can correctly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Junjie Huang , Chenglong Wang , Jipeng Zhang , Cong Yan , Haotian Cui , Jeevana Priya Inala , Colin Clement , Nan Duan , Jianfeng Gao

In many sequence learning tasks, such as program synthesis and document summarization, a key problem is searching over a large space of possible output sequences. We propose to learn representations of the outputs that are specifically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Joey Hong , David Dohan , Rishabh Singh , Charles Sutton , Manzil Zaheer