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Recently, dynamically typed languages, such as Python, have gained unprecedented popularity. Although these languages alleviate the need for mandatory type annotations, types still play a critical role in program understanding and…

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Automated unit test generation is an established research field that has so far focused on statically-typed programming languages. The lack of type information in dynamically-typed programming languages, such as Python, inhibits test…

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Python type inference is challenging in practice. Due to its dynamic properties and extensive dependencies on third-party libraries without type annotations, the performance of traditional static analysis techniques is limited. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Siwei Cui , Gang Zhao , Zeyu Dai , Luochao Wang , Ruihong Huang , Jeff Huang

Python's dynamic typing system offers flexibility and expressiveness but can lead to type-related errors, prompting the need for automated type inference to enhance type hinting. While existing learning-based approaches show promising…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Chong Wang , Jian Zhang , Yiling Lou , Mingwei Liu , Weisong Sun , Yang Liu , Xin Peng

There has been growing interest in automatically predicting missing type annotations in programs written in Python and JavaScript. While prior methods have achieved impressive accuracy when predicting the most common types, they often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jiayi Wei , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

Python type annotations enable static type checking, but most code remains untyped because manual annotation is time-consuming and tedious. Past approaches to automatic type inference fall short: static methods struggle with dynamic…

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Dynamic languages, such as Python and Javascript, trade static typing for developer flexibility and productivity. Lack of static typing can cause run-time exceptions and is a major factor for weak IDE support. To alleviate these issues, PEP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Amir M. Mir , Evaldas Latoskinas , Sebastian Proksch , Georgios Gousios

Statically analyzing dynamically-typed code is a challenging endeavor, as even seemingly trivial tasks such as determining the targets of procedure calls are non-trivial without knowing the types of objects at compile time. Addressing this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Lukas Seidel , Sedick David Baker Effendi , Xavier Pinho , Konrad Rieck , Brink van der Merwe , Fabian Yamaguchi

Dynamically typed languages such as JavaScript and Python have emerged as the most popular programming languages in use. Important benefits can accrue from including type annotations in dynamically typed programs. This approach to gradual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Fangke Ye , Jisheng Zhao , Vivek Sarkar

Python's dynamic type system, while offering significant flexibility and expressiveness, poses substantial challenges for static analysis and automated tooling, particularly in unannotated or partially annotated codebases. Existing type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ali Aman , Muhammad Asaduzzaman , Shaowei Wang

Dynamic languages (such as Python and JavaScript) offer flexibility and simplified type handling for programming, but this can also lead to an increase in type-related errors and additional overhead for compile-time type inference. As a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Teyu Lin , Minghao Fan , Huaxun Huang , Zhirong Shen , Rongxin Wu

Type inference for dynamic programming languages such as Python is an important yet challenging task. Static type inference techniques can precisely infer variables with enough static constraints but are unable to handle variables with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yun Peng , Cuiyun Gao , Zongjie Li , Bowei Gao , David Lo , Qirun Zhang , Michael Lyu

As gradual typing becomes increasingly popular in languages like Python and TypeScript, there is a growing need to infer type annotations automatically. While type annotations help with tasks like code completion and static error catching,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Jiayi Wei , Maruth Goyal , Greg Durrett , Isil Dillig

Gradual typing enables developers to annotate types of their own choosing, offering a flexible middle ground between no type annotations and a fully statically typed language. As more and more code bases get type-annotated, static type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Yiu Wai Chow , Luca Di Grazia , Michael Pradel

Although the dynamic type system of Python facilitates the developers in writing Python programs, it also brings type errors at run-time. There exist rule-based approaches for automatically repairing Python type errors. The approaches can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yun Peng , Shuzheng Gao , Cuiyun Gao , Yintong Huo , Michael R. Lyu

Maintaining large code bases written in dynamically typed languages, such as JavaScript or Python, can be challenging due to the absence of type annotations: simple data compatibility errors proliferate, IDE support is limited, and APIs are…

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Recognizing fallacies is crucial for ensuring the quality and validity of arguments across various domains. However, computational fallacy recognition faces challenges due to the diverse genres, domains, and types of fallacies found in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Tariq Alhindi , Smaranda Muresan , Preslav Nakov

Python's dynamic typing mechanism, while promoting flexibility, is a significant source of runtime type errors that plague large-scale software, which inspires the automatic type inference techniques. Existing type inference tools have…

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Jupyter notebooks enable developers to interleave code snippets with rich-text and in-line visualizations. Data scientists use Jupyter notebook as the de-facto standard for creating and sharing machine-learning based solutions, primarily…

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Language model (LM) prompting--a popular paradigm for solving NLP tasks--has been shown to be susceptible to miscalibration and brittleness to slight prompt variations, caused by its discriminative prompting approach, i.e., predicting the…

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