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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to automated software testing, yet their ability to generalize beyond memorized patterns and reason about natural language bug reports remains unclear. We present a systematic evaluation…

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We introduce self-invoking code generation, a new task designed to evaluate the progressive reasoning and problem-solving capabilities of LLMs. In this task, models are presented with a base problem and a related, more complex problem. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhaojian Yu , Yilun Zhao , Arman Cohan , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities in numerous fields. This survey focuses on how LLMs empower users, regardless of their technical background, to use human languages to automatically generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Nam Huynh , Beiyu Lin

Multi-agent systems are frequently employed for autonomous code generation, demonstrating strong utility in complex algorithmic problem-solving. Recent studies tackle the difficulty of producing functionally correct programs by leveraging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kaushitha Silva , Srinath Perera

Automated test generation has a substantial body of work, yet most studies focus on generating tests for complete software units, such as classes, and rely on metrics such as code coverage for assessment. In contrast, modern software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Vahid Haratian , Atakan Akar , Berk Çakar , Eray Tüzün

In recent years, the application of large language models (LLMs) to code-related tasks has gained significant attention. However, existing evaluation benchmarks often focus on limited scenarios, such as code generation or completion, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jia Feng , Jiachen Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Chun Yong Chong , Chaozheng Wang , Shan Gao , Xin Xia

Code generation is a longstanding challenge, aiming to generate a code snippet based on a natural language description. Usually, expensive text-code paired data is essential for training a code generation model. Recently, thanks to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Daoguang Zan , Bei Chen , Dejian Yang , Zeqi Lin , Minsu Kim , Bei Guan , Yongji Wang , Weizhu Chen , Jian-Guang Lou

Large language models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in code generation, but competitive programming remains a challenge. Recent training-based methods have improved code generation by using reinforcement learning (RL) with execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Lingxiao Tang , Muyang Ye , Zhaoyang Chu , Xiaoxue Ren , Zhongxin Liu , Lingfeng Bao , He Ye

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in code generation tasks, powering various applications like code completion, debugging, and programming assistance. However, existing benchmarks such as HumanEval, MBPP, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Manik Sheokand , Parth Sawant

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) like Codex are powerful tools for performing code completion and code generation tasks as they are trained on billions of lines of code from publicly available sources. Moreover, these models are capable of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Catherine Tony , Markus Mutas , Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Riccardo Scandariato

Large Language Models (LLMs) for code have gained significant attention recently. They can generate code in different programming languages based on provided prompts, fulfilling a long-lasting dream in Software Engineering (SE), i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Florian Tambon , Arghavan Moradi Dakhel , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh , Michel C. Desmarais , Giuliano Antoniol

Language models are promising solutions for tackling increasing complex problems. In software engineering, they recently gained attention in code assistants, which generate programs from a natural language task description (prompt). They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jean-Baptiste Döderlein , Nguessan Hermann Kouadio , Mathieu Acher , Djamel Eddine Khelladi , Benoit Combemale

The manual generation of test scripts is a time-intensive, costly, and error-prone process, indicating the value of automated solutions. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great promise in this domain, leveraging their extensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Victor Alves , Carla Bezerra , Ivan Machado , Larissa Rocha , Tássio Virgínio , Publio Silva

We evaluate AI-assisted generative capabilities on fundamental numerical kernels in high-performance computing (HPC), including AXPY, GEMV, GEMM, SpMV, Jacobi Stencil, and CG. We test the generated kernel codes for a variety of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-20 William F. Godoy , Pedro Valero-Lara , Keita Teranishi , Prasanna Balaprakash , Jeffrey S. Vetter

Recent studies have adopted pre-trained language models, such as CodeT5 and CodeGPT, for automated program generation tasks like code generation, repair, and translation. Numerous language model-based approaches have been proposed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yonghui Liu , Li Li

Code generation aims to automatically generate code snippets of specific programming language according to natural language descriptions. The continuous advancements in deep learning, particularly pre-trained models, have empowered the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

Code generation models have increasingly become integral to aiding software development. Although current research has thoroughly examined the correctness of the code produced by code generation models, a vital aspect that plays a pivotal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Dong Huang , Yuhao Qing , Weiyi Shang , Heming Cui , Jie M. Zhang

Unit testing is a commonly-used approach in software engineering to test the correctness and robustness of written code. Unit tests are tests designed to test small components of a codebase in isolation, such as an individual function or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Vincent Li , Nick Doiron