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A critical part of creating code suggestion systems is the pre-training of Large Language Models on vast amounts of source code and natural language text, often of questionable origin or quality. This may contribute to the presence of bugs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mahmoud Jahanshahi , Audris Mockus

Fixing static analysis alerts in source code with Large Language Models (LLMs) is becoming increasingly popular. However, LLMs often hallucinate and perform poorly for complex and less common alerts. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuan-An Xiao , Weixuan Wang , Dong Liu , Junwei Zhou , Shengyu Cheng , Yingfei Xiong

Modern Java projects increasingly adopt static analysis tools that prevent null-pointer exceptions by treating nullness as a type property. However, integrating such tools into large, existing codebases remains a significant challenge.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nima Karimipour , Pascal Joos , Michael Pradel , Martin Kellogg , Manu Sridharan

We present a machine learning approach to static code analysis and fingerprinting for weaknesses related to security, software engineering, and others using the open-source MARF framework and the MARFCAT application based on it for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Serguei A. Mokhov

This paper introduces an LLM agent that automates power grid static analysis by converting natural language into MATPOWER scripts. The framework utilizes DeepSeek-OCR to build an enhanced vector database from MATPOWER manuals. To ensure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Qinjuan Wang , Shan Yang , Yongli Zhu

As we stride toward the exascale era, due to increasing complexity of supercomputers, hard and soft errors are causing more and more problems in high-performance scientific and engineering computation. In order to improve reliability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Tao Cui , Jinchao Xu , Chen-Song Zhang

The recent breakthroughs in deep learning methods have sparked a wave of interest in learning-based bug detectors. Compared to the traditional static analysis tools, these bug detectors are directly learned from data, thus, easier to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chi Zhang , Yu Wang , Linzhang Wang

Recent advances in flow-based generative models have enabled training-free, text-guided image editing by inverting an image into its latent noise and regenerating it under a new target conditional guidance. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Thinh Dao , Zhen Wang , Kien T. Pham , Long Chen

Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques aim to automatically fix buggy programs. Among these, Large Language Model-based (LLM-based) approaches have shown great promise. Recent advances demonstrate that directly leveraging LLMs can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiayi Zhang , Kai Huang , Jian Zhang , Yang Liu , Chunyang Chen

In this paper, a novel approach, Inforence, is proposed to isolate the suspicious codes that likely contain faults. Inforence employs a feature selection method, based on mutual information, to identify those bug-related statements that may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Farid Feyzi , Saeed Parsa

In this paper, we present a hybrid approach for buffer overflow detection in C code. The approach makes use of static and dynamic analysis of the application under investigation. The static part consists in calculating taint dependency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Sanjay Rawat , Dumitru Ceara , Laurent Mounier , Marie-Laure Potet

Bug reports are essential for developers to confirm software problems, investigate their causes, and validate fixes. Unfortunately, reports often miss important information or are written unclearly, which can cause delays, increased issue…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Junayed Mahmud , Antu Saha , Oscar Chaparro , Kevin Moran , Andrian Marcus

Providing feedback is an integral part of teaching. Most open online courses on programming make use of automated grading systems to support programming assignments and give real-time feedback. These systems usually rely on test results to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Rahul Gupta , Aditya Kanade , Shirish Shevade

Automated random testing has shown to be an effective approach to finding faults but still faces a major unsolved issue: how to generate test inputs diverse enough to find many faults and find them quickly. Stateful testing, the automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Yi Wei , Hannes Roth , Carlo A. Furia , Yu Pei , Alexander Horton , Michael Steindorfer , Martin Nordio , Bertrand Meyer

Iterative refinement (IR) is a popular scheme for solving a linear system of equations based on gradually improving the accuracy of an initial approximation. Originally developed to improve upon the accuracy of Gaussian elimination,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Chai Wah Wu , Mark S. Squillante , Vasileios Kalantzis , Lior Horesh

The practice of unit testing enables programmers to obtain automated feedback on whether a currently edited program is consistent with the expectations specified in test cases. Feedback is most valuable when it happens immediately, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Toni Mattis , Robert Hirschfeld

Managing large numbers of incoming bug reports and finding the most critical issues in hardware development is time consuming, but crucial in order to reduce development costs. In this paper, we present an approach to predict the time to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Thi Thu Hang Do , Markus Dobler , Niklas Kühl

Issue resolution and bug-fixing processes are essential in the development of machine-learning libraries, similar to software development, to ensure well-optimized functions. Understanding the issue resolution and bug-fixing process of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Adekunle Ajibode , Dong Yunwei , Yang Hongji

Static analysers search for overapproximating proofs of safety commonly known as safety invariants. Fundamentally, such analysers summarise traces into sets of states, thus trading the ability to distinguish traces for computational…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Cristina David , Daniel Kroening , Matt Lewis

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based Agents have been applied to fix bugs automatically, demonstrating the capability in addressing software defects by engaging in development environment interaction, iterative validation and code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiangxin Meng , Zexiong Ma , Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng