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Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have become widely popular and widely used in various software engineering tasks such as refactoring, testing, code review, and program comprehension. Although recent studies have examined the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Luo Xu , Sofia Martinez , Anthony Peruma , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian D. Newman , Ali Ouni

Large Language Models, particularly decoder-only generative models such as GPT, are increasingly used to automate Software Engineering tasks. These models are primarily guided through natural language prompts, making prompt engineering a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Alexander Korn , Lea Zaruchas , Chetan Arora , Andreas Metzger , Sven Smolka , Fanyu Wang , Andreas Vogelsang

Prompt engineering is a crucial yet challenging task for optimizing the performance of large language models (LLMs) on customized tasks. This pioneering research introduces the Automatic Prompt Engineering Toolbox (APET), which enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Daan Kepel , Konstantina Valogianni

To support software developers in finding and fixing software bugs, several automated program repair techniques have been introduced. Given a test suite, standard methods usually either synthesize a repair, or navigate a search space of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Dominik Sobania , Martin Briesch , Carol Hanna , Justyna Petke

Large language models (LLMs) enable the rapid generation of data wrangling scripts based on natural language instructions, but these scripts may not fully adhere to user-specified requirements, necessitating careful inspection and iterative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jiajun Zhu , Xinyu Cheng , Zhongsu Luo , Yunfan Zhou , Xinhuan Shu , Di Weng , Yingcai Wu

Patch backporting, the process of migrating mainline security patches to older branches, is an essential task in maintaining popular open-source projects (e.g., Linux kernel). However, manual backporting can be labor-intensive, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhaoyang Li , Zheng Yu , Jingyi Song , Meng Xu , Yuxuan Luo , Dongliang Mu

Large language models (LLMs) can be used as accessible and intelligent chatbots by constructing natural language queries and directly inputting the prompt into the large language model. However, different prompt' constructions often lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jinta Weng , Jiarui Zhang , Yue Hu , Daidong Fa , Xiaofeng Xuand , Heyan Huang

One of the primary mechanisms by which developers receive feedback about in-field failures of software from users is through bug reports. Unfortunately, the quality of manually written bug reports can vary widely due to the effort required…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Mattia Fazzini , Kevin Moran , Carlos Bernal Cardenas , Tyler Wendland , Alessandro Orso , Denys Poshyvanyk

Debugging is a critical but challenging task for programmers. This paper proposes ChatDBG, an AI-powered debugging assistant. ChatDBG integrates large language models (LLMs) to significantly enhance the capabilities and user-friendliness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kyla H. Levin , Nicolas van Kempen , Emery D. Berger , Stephen N. Freund

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in code generation and comprehension, yet their application to complex software engineering tasks often suffers from low precision and limited interpretability. We present Repeton,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nguyen Phu Vinh , Anh Chung Hoang , Chris Ngo , Truong-Son Hy

This paper presents prompt design techniques for software engineering, in the form of patterns, to solve common problems when using large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT to automate common software engineering activities, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Jules White , Sam Hays , Quchen Fu , Jesse Spencer-Smith , Douglas C. Schmidt

Research into methods for improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) through fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and soft-prompting has tended to focus on the use of highly technical or high-cost techniques,…

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable performance across various NLP tasks. However, they often generate incorrect or hallucinated information, which hinders their practical applicability in real-world scenarios. Human feedback…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Wenhao Yu , Zhihan Zhang , Zhenwen Liang , Meng Jiang , Ashish Sabharwal

Bug reproduction is critical in the software debugging and repair process, yet the majority of bugs in open-source and industrial settings lack executable tests to reproduce them at the time they are reported, making diagnosis and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Lara Khatib , Noble Saji Mathews , Meiyappan Nagappan

With the increase in software vulnerabilities that cause significant economic and social losses, automatic vulnerability detection has become essential in software development and maintenance. Recently, large language models (LLMs) like GPT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Chenyuan Zhang , Hao Liu , Jiutian Zeng , Kejing Yang , Yuhong Li , Hui Li

In the rapidly evolving field of business process management, there is a growing need for analytical tools that can transform complex data into actionable insights. This research introduces a novel approach by integrating Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Mehrdad Agha Mohammad Ali Kermani , Hamid Reza Seddighi , Mehrdad Maghsoudi

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive effectiveness in various software engineering tasks, including automated program repair (APR). In this study, we take a deep dive into automated bug fixing utilizing LLMs. In contrast to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Soneya Binta Hossain , Nan Jiang , Qiang Zhou , Xiaopeng Li , Wen-Hao Chiang , Yingjun Lyu , Hoan Nguyen , Omer Tripp

This paper addresses the challenge of comprehending very long contexts in Large Language Models (LLMs) by proposing a method that emulates Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) through specialized prompt engineering and chain-of-thought…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Joon Park , Kyohei Atarashi , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

Despite their wide adoption in various domains (e.g., healthcare, finance, software engineering), Deep Learning (DL)-based applications suffer from many bugs, failures, and vulnerabilities. Reproducing these bugs is essential for their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mehil B Shah , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Foutse Khomh

The rapid development of large language models is transforming software development. Beyond serving as code auto-completion tools in integrated development environments, large language models increasingly function as foundation models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Junjie Shi , Weisong Sun , Zhenpeng Chen , Zhujun Wu , Xiaohong Chen , Zhi Jin , Yang Liu