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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in code generation, but they may generate erroneous programs. Reading a program takes ten times longer than writing it. Showing these erroneous programs to developers will waste…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jia Li , Yuqi Zhu , Yongmin Li , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of Generative AI (GenAI) potential to revolutionise software coding through increased efficiency and reduced time span for writing code. It acknowledges the transformative power of GenAI in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Marcellin Atemkeng , Sisipho Hamlomo , Brian Welman , Nicole Oyetunji , Pouya Ataei , Jean Louis K. E Fendji

Understanding uncertainty plays a critical role in achieving common ground (Clark et al.,1983). This is especially important for multimodal AI systems that collaborate with users to solve a problem or guide the user through a challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Qi Cheng , Mert İnan , Rahma Mbarki , Grace Grmek , Theresa Choi , Yiming Sun , Kimele Persaud , Jenny Wang , Malihe Alikhani

Quantitative research relies heavily on coding, and coding errors are relatively common even in published research. In this paper, we examine whether individuals are more or less likely to check their code depending on the results they…

General Economics · Economics 2025-09-26 Bruno Ferman , Lucas Finamor

Human-AI collaboration for decision-making strives to achieve team performance that exceeds the performance of humans or AI alone. However, many factors can impact success of Human-AI teams, including a user's domain expertise, mental…

Uncertainty in machine learning refers to the degree of confidence or lack thereof in a model's predictions. While uncertainty quantification methods exist, explanations of uncertainty, especially in high-dimensional settings, remain an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Isaac Roberts , Alexander Schulz , Sarah Schroeder , Fabian Hinder , Barbara Hammer

Generative AI has made significant strides, yet concerns about the accuracy and reliability of its outputs continue to grow. Such inaccuracies can have serious consequences such as inaccurate decision-making, the spread of false…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Nan Tang , Chenyu Yang , Ju Fan , Lei Cao , Yuyu Luo , Alon Halevy

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into software development processes, the prevalence and sophistication of AI-generated code continue to expand rapidly. This study addresses the critical need for transparency and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-28 David Hanson

The software engineering community recently has witnessed widespread deployment of AI programming assistants, such as GitHub Copilot. However, in practice, developers do not accept AI programming assistants' initial suggestions at a high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jenny T. Liang , Chenyang Yang , Brad A. Myers

AI assistants for coding are on the rise. However one of the reasons developers and companies avoid harnessing their full potential is the questionable security of the generated code. This paper first reviews the current state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jakub Res , Ivan Homoliak , Martin Perešíni , Aleš Smrčka , Kamil Malinka , Petr Hanacek

Dependability on AI models is of utmost importance to ensure full acceptance of the AI systems. One of the key aspects of the dependable AI system is to ensure that all its decisions are fair and not biased towards any individual. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Aniya Agarwal , Pranay Lohia , Seema Nagar , Kuntal Dey , Diptikalyan Saha

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools based on large language models have acheived human-level performance on some computer programming tasks. We report several experiments using GPT-4 to generate computer code. These experiments demonstrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Russell A Poldrack , Thomas Lu , Gašper Beguš

As AI-powered code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot become popular, it is crucial to understand software developers' trust in AI tools -- a key factor for tool adoption and responsible usage. However, we know little about how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ruotong Wang , Ruijia Cheng , Denae Ford , Thomas Zimmermann

Large language models are known to produce outputs that are plausible but factually incorrect. To prevent people from making erroneous decisions by blindly trusting AI, researchers have explored various ways of communicating factuality…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hyo Jin Do , Werner Geyer

Prediction sets provide a theoretically grounded framework for quantifying uncertainty in machine learning models. Adapting them to structured generation tasks, in particular, large language model (LLM) based code generation, remains a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Senrong Xu , Yuhao Tan , Yanke Zhou , Guangyuan Wu , Zenan Li , Yuan Yao , Taolue Chen , Feng Xu , Xiaoxing Ma

Large language models (LLMs) are notorious for hallucinating, i.e., producing erroneous claims in their output. Such hallucinations can be dangerous, as occasional factual inaccuracies in the generated text might be obscured by the rest of…

Large language models (LLMs) could be valuable personal AI agents across various domains, provided they can precisely follow user instructions. However, recent studies have shown significant limitations in LLMs' instruction-following…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Juyeon Heo , Miao Xiong , Christina Heinze-Deml , Jaya Narain

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the code generation capabilities of ChatGPT, a prominent large language model, compared to human programmers. A novel dataset of 131 code-generation prompts across 5 categories was curated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Muhammad Fawad Akbar Khan , Max Ramsdell , Erik Falor , Hamid Karimi

We argue that uncertainty is a key and understudied limitation of LLMs' performance in creative writing, which is often characterized as trite and clich\'e-ridden. Literary theory identifies uncertainty as a necessary condition for creative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Peiqi Sui

We performed a billion locality sensitive hash comparisons between artificially generated data samples to answer the critical question - can we reproduce the results of generative AI models? Reproducibility is one of the pillars of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Edward Kim , Isamu Isozaki , Naomi Sirkin , Michael Robson