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We introduce Learn2fix, the first human-in-the-loop, semi-automatic repair technique when no bug oracle--except for the user who is reporting the bug--is available. Our approach negotiates with the user the condition under which the bug is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Marcel Böhme , Charaka Geethal , Van-Thuan Pham

Mistakes in binary conditions are a source of error in many software systems. They happen when developers use, e.g., < or > instead of <= or >=. These boundary mistakes are hard to find and impose manual, labor-intensive work for software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Hendrig Sellik , Onno van Paridon , Georgios Gousios , Maurício Aniche

Automatic unit test (UT) generation is essential for software quality assurance, but existing approaches--including symbolic execution, search-based approaches, and recent LLM-based generators--struggle to produce human-quality tests with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ziyue Hua , Tianyu Chen , Yeyun Gong , Shuai Lu , Peng Cheng , Qinglin Zhu , Yibo He , Yingjie Fu , Wenpin Jiao , Wei Yang , Tao Xie

Large sets of unlabelled data within the healthcare domain remain underutilized. Active learning offers a way to exploit these datasets by iteratively requesting an oracle (e.g. medical professional) to label instances. This process, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Dani Kiyasseh , Tingting Zhu , David A. Clifton

This paper is on active learning where the goal is to reduce the data annotation burden by interacting with a (human) oracle during training. Standard active learning methods ask the oracle to annotate data samples. Instead, we take a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Miriam W. Huijser , Jan C. van Gemert

We introduce AccurateRAG -- a novel framework for constructing high-performance question-answering applications based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Our framework offers a pipeline for development efficiency with tools for raw…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Linh The Nguyen , Chi Tran , Dung Ngoc Nguyen , Van-Cuong Pham , Hoang Ngo , Dat Quoc Nguyen

Recent progress in reasoning models suggests that generating plausible attempts for research-level mathematics may be within reach, but verification remains a bottleneck, consuming scarce expert time. We hypothesize that a meaningful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Guijin Son , Donghun Yang , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Hyunwoo Ko , Amit Agarwal , Sunghee Ahn , Kyong-Ha Lee , Youngjae Yu

While test-time scaling has enabled large language models to solve highly difficult tasks, state-of-the-art results come at exorbitant compute costs. These inefficiencies can be attributed to the miscalibration of post-trained language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Cai Zhou , Zekai Wang , Menghua Wu , Qianyu Julie Zhu , Flora C. Shi , Chenyu Wang , Ashia Wilson , Tommi Jaakkola , Stephen Bates

Evaluating test cases automatically generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) is a critical yet challenging task. Existing benchmarks often evaluate the exclusion ratio on large, unstructured collections of wrong codes, suffering from high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xianzhen Luo , Jinyang Huang , Wenzhen Zheng , Qingfu Zhu , Mingzheng Xu , Yiheng Xu , Yuantao Fan , Wanxiang Che

Defects4J is a large, peer-reviewed, structured dataset of real-world Java bugs. Each bug in Defects4J is provided with a test suite and at least one failing test case that triggers the bug. In this paper, we report on an experiment to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Matias Martinez , Thomas Durieux , Jifeng Xuan , Romain Sommerard , Martin Monperrus

Deep Learning (DL) compilers are widely adopted to optimize advanced DL models for efficient deployment on diverse hardware. Their quality has profound effect on the quality of compiled DL models. A recent bug study shows that the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Haoyang Ma , Qingchao Shen , Yongqiang Tian , Junjie Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung

Since many real-world documents combine textual and tabular data, robust Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are essential for effectively accessing and analyzing such content to support complex reasoning tasks. Therefore, this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jan Strich , Enes Kutay Isgorur , Maximilian Trescher , Chris Biemann , Martin Semmann

Reconstructing a method's change history efficiently and accurately is critical for many software engineering tasks, including maintenance, refactoring, and comprehension. Despite the availability of method history generation tools such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shahidul Islam , Ashik Aowal , Md Sharif Uddin , Shaiful Chowdhury

Test-time training (TTT) adapts language models through gradient-based updates at inference. But is adaptation the right strategy? We study compute-optimal test-time strategies for verifiable execution-grounded (VEG) tasks, domains like GPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jarrod Barnes

Understanding the reliability of natural language generation is critical for deploying foundation models in security-sensitive domains. While certified poisoning defenses provide provable robustness bounds for classification tasks, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Mihnea Ghitu , Matthew Wicker

Among the many different kinds of program repair techniques, one widely studied family of techniques is called test suite based repair. Test-suites are in essence input-output specifications and are therefore typically inadequate for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Zhongxing Yu , Matias Martinez , Benjamin Danglot , Thomas Durieux , Martin Monperrus

Hybrid tabular-textual question answering (QA) requires reasoning from heterogeneous information, and the types of reasoning are mainly divided into numerical reasoning and span extraction. Current numerical reasoning methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Tengxun Zhang , Hongfei Xu , Josef van Genabith , Deyi Xiong , Hongying Zan

Testing software is often costly due to the need of mass-producing test cases and providing a test oracle for it. This is often referred to as the oracle problem. One method that has been proposed in order to alleviate the oracle problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Adrian Wildandyawan , Yasuharu Nishi

Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG systems enhance large language models by grounding responses in external knowledge bases, but conventional RAG architectures operate with static corpora that cannot evolve from user interactions. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Teja Chinthala

Selective classifiers improve model reliability by abstaining on inputs the model deems uncertain. However, few practical approaches achieve the gold-standard performance of a perfect-ordering oracle that accepts examples exactly in order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stephan Rabanser , Nicolas Papernot