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Search engines could consistently favor certain values over the others, which is considered as biased due to the built-in infrastructures. Many studies have been dedicated to detect, control, and mitigate the impacts of the biases from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Bin Han , Chirag Shah , Daniel Saelid

Code super-optimization is the task of transforming any given program to a more efficient version while preserving its input-output behaviour. In some sense, it is similar to the paraphrase problem from natural language processing where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Rudy Bunel , Alban Desmaison , M. Pawan Kumar , Philip H. S. Torr , Pushmeet Kohli

Code intelligence leverages machine learning techniques to extract knowledge from extensive code corpora, with the aim of developing intelligent tools to improve the quality and productivity of computer programming. Currently, there is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yao Wan , Yang He , Zhangqian Bi , Jianguo Zhang , Hongyu Zhang , Yulei Sui , Guandong Xu , Hai Jin , Philip S. Yu

Multi-modal search engines have experienced significant growth and widespread use in recent years, making them the second most common internet use. While search engine systems offer a range of services, the image search field has recently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Swagatika Dash

Conflicts of interest often arise between data sources and their users regarding how the users' information needs should be interpreted by the data source. For example, an online product search might be biased towards presenting certain…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Nischal Aryal , Arash Termehchy , Marianne Winslett

Semantic code search has been widely adopted in both academia and industry. These approaches embed natural-language queries and code snippets into a shared embedding space and retrieve results based on vector similarity. Despit strong…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yiming Liu , Ruofan Liu , Yun Lin , Zicong Zhang , Weiyu Kong , Pengnian Qi , Xiao Cheng , Weinan Zhang , Qianxiang Wang , Linpeng Huang

Recently, a diverse set of decoding and reranking procedures have been shown effective for LLM-based code generation. However, a comprehensive framework that links and experimentally compares these methods is missing. We address this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Haau-Sing Li , Patrick Fernandes , Iryna Gurevych , André F. T. Martins

Improved software discovery is a prerequisite for greater software reuse: after all, if someone cannot find software for a particular task, they cannot reuse it. Understanding people's approaches and preferences when they look for software…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Michael Hucka , Matthew J. Graham

Code review is considered a key process in the software industry for minimizing bugs and improving code quality. Inspection of review process effectiveness and continuous improvement can boost development productivity. Such inspection is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Saifullah Mahbub , Md. Easin Arafat , Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman , Zannatul Ferdows , Masum Hasan

Code retrieval is allowing software engineers to search codes through a natural language query, which relies on both natural language processing and software engineering techniques. There have been several attempts on code retrieval from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mehdi Bahrami , N. C. Shrikanth , Yuji Mizobuchi , Lei Liu , Masahiro Fukuyori , Wei-Peng Chen , Kazuki Munakata

Search query suggestions affect users' interactions with search engines, which then influences the information they encounter. Thus, bias in search query suggestions can lead to exposure to biased search results and can impact opinion…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Fabian Haak , Björn Engelmann , Christin Katharina Kreutz , Philipp Schaer

This paper focuses on Code Generation task that aims at generating relevant code fragments according to given natural language descriptions. In the process of software development, developers often encounter two scenarios. One is requested…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Ge Li , Michael Lyu

A novel pseudocode search engine is designed to facilitate efficient retrieval and search of academic papers containing pseudocode. By leveraging Elasticsearch, the system enables users to search across various facets of a paper, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Levent Toksoz , Mukund Srinath , Gang Tan , C. Lee Giles

Developers use search for various tasks such as finding code, documentation, debugging information, etc. In particular, web search is heavily used by developers for finding code examples and snippets during the coding process. Recently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Nikitha Rao , Chetan Bansal , Joe Guan

Traditional code search engines often do not perform well with natural language queries since they mostly apply keyword matching. These engines thus require carefully designed queries containing information about programming APIs for code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , David Lo

Developers spend 70% of their time understanding code. Code that is easy to read can save time, while hard-to-read code can lead to the introduction of bugs. However, it is difficult to establish what makes code more understandable.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Delano Oliveira

Sampling diverse programs from a code language model and reranking with model likelihood is a popular method for code generation but it is prone to preferring degenerate solutions. Inspired by collaborative programming, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Tianyi Zhang , Tao Yu , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Mike Lewis , Wen-tau Yih , Daniel Fried , Sida I. Wang

This paper introduces a novel code-to-code search technique that enhances the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) by including both static and dynamic features as well as utilizing both similar and dissimilar examples during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Anthony Saieva , Saikat Chakraborty , Gail Kaiser

Code search is vital in the maintenance and extension of software systems. Past works have used separate language models for the natural language and programming language artifacts on models with multiple encoders and different loss…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Monoshiz Mahbub Khan , Zhe Yu

Millions of repetitive code snippets are submitted to code repositories every day. To search from these large codebases using simple natural language queries would allow programmers to ideate, prototype, and develop easier and faster.…