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In this work, we propose and study annotated code search: the retrieval of code snippets paired with brief descriptions of their intent using natural language queries. On three benchmark datasets, we investigate how code retrieval systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Geert Heyman , Tom Van Cutsem

Pre-trained language models have achieved promising success in code retrieval tasks, where a natural language documentation query is given to find the most relevant existing code snippet. However, existing models focus only on optimizing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Dong Li , Yelong Shen , Ruoming Jin , Yi Mao , Kuan Wang , Weizhu Chen

Despite Retrieval-Augmented Generation improving code completion, traditional retrieval methods struggle with information redundancy and a lack of diversity within limited context windows. To solve this, we propose a resource-optimized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiaohan Chen , Zhongying Pan , Quan Feng , Yu Tian , Shuqun Yang , Mengru Wang , Lina Gong , Yuxia Geng , Piji Li , Xiang Chen

We present a supervised binary encoding scheme for image retrieval that learns projections by taking into account similarity between classes obtained from output embeddings. Our motivation is that binary hash codes learned in this way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Sravanthi Bondugula , Varun Manjunatha , Larry S. Davis , David Doermann

There is a key demand to automatically generate code for small tasks for developers. Websites such as StackOverflow provide a simplistic way by offering solutions in small snippets which provide a complete answer to whatever task question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , Jinxiao Song , David Tomassi , Siddhartha Punj , Jailan Sabet

The ability to match pieces of code to their corresponding natural language descriptions and vice versa is fundamental for natural language search interfaces to software repositories. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-perspective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Rajarshi Haldar , Lingfei Wu , Jinjun Xiong , Julia Hockenmaier

Recent advances in large-scale code generation models have led to remarkable progress in producing high-quality code. These models are trained in a self-supervised manner on extensive unlabeled code corpora using a decoder-only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jiayi Lin , Yanlin Wang , Yibiao Yang , Lei Zhang , Yutao Xie

Dense Retrieval (DR) models have proven to be effective for Document Retrieval and Information Grounding tasks. Usually, these models are trained and optimized for improving the relevance of top-ranked documents for a given query. Previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Stefano Campese , Alessandro Moschitti , Ivano Lauriola

Deep supervised hashing has emerged as an influential solution to large-scale semantic image retrieval problems in computer vision. In the light of recent progress, convolutional neural network based hashing methods typically seek pair-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xuefei Zhe , Shifeng Chen , Hong Yan

Recently, there have been significant advances in neural methods for tackling knowledge-intensive tasks such as open domain question answering (QA). These advances are fueled by combining large pre-trained language models with learnable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Hengxin Fun , Sunil Gandhi , Sujith Ravi

Ranker and retriever are two important components in dense passage retrieval. The retriever typically adopts a dual-encoder model, where queries and documents are separately input into two pre-trained models, and the vectors generated by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Haifeng Li , Mo Hai , Dong Tang

We present a novel framework for applying deep neural networks (DNN) to soft decoding of linear codes at arbitrary block lengths. Unlike other approaches, our framework allows unconstrained DNN design, enabling the free application of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Amir Bennatan , Yoni Choukroun , Pavel Kisilev

Representational Similarity Analysis is a method from cognitive neuroscience, which helps in comparing representations from two different sources of data. In this paper, we propose using Representational Similarity Analysis to probe the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shounak Naik , Rajaswa Patil , Swati Agarwal , Veeky Baths

Code retrieval is a key task aiming to match natural and programming languages. In this work, we propose adversarial learning for code retrieval, that is regularized by question-description relevance. First, we adapt a simple adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Jie Zhao , Huan Sun

Large language model (LLM)-based search agents have proven promising for addressing knowledge-intensive problems by incorporating information retrieval capabilities. Existing works largely focus on optimizing the reasoning paradigms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tongyu Wen , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

Generating textual descriptions for images has been an attractive problem for the computer vision and natural language processing researchers in recent years. Dozens of models based on deep learning have been proposed to solve this problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Ahmad Asadi , Reza Safabakhsh

Dense retrieval has shown promising results in many information retrieval (IR) related tasks, whose foundation is high-quality text representation learning for effective search. Some recent studies have shown that autoencoder-based language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Xinyu Ma , Jiafeng Guo , Ruqing Zhang , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Code search aims to retrieve the code snippet that highly matches the given query described in natural language. Recently, many code pre-training approaches have demonstrated impressive performance on code search. However, existing code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yubo Zhang , Yanfang Liu , Xinxin Fan , Yunfeng Lu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code-related tasks, such as code generation and automated program repair. Despite their promising performance, most existing approaches for code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yicong Zhao , Shisong Chen , Jiacheng Zhang , Zhixu Li

Approaches for compressing large-language models using low-rank decomposition have made strides, particularly with the introduction of activation and loss-aware SVD, which improves the trade-off between decomposition rank and downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sidhant Sundrani , Francesco Tudisco , Pasquale Minervini