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Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that have undergone extensive training using large datasets in order to understand and produce language that closely resembles that of humans. These models have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Alessio Buscemi

Changes in source code are an inevitable part of software development. They are the results of indispensable activities such as fixing bugs or improving functionality. Descriptions for code changes (commit messages) help people better…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Thanh Trong Vu , Thanh-Dat Do , Hieu Dinh Vo

Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Copilot, are transforming software development by automating code generation and, arguably, enable rapid prototyping, support education, and boost productivity. Therefore, correctness and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Robin Beer , Alexander Feix , Tim Guttzeit , Tamara Muras , Vincent Müller , Maurice Rauscher , Florian Schäffler , Welf Löwe

Large pre-trained language models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in producing high-quality text via prompting techniques. This fact introduces new possibilities for data collection and annotation, particularly in situations where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tiziano Labruna , Sofia Brenna , Andrea Zaninello , Bernardo Magnini

Commit messages have an important impact in software development, especially when working in large teams. Multiple developers who have a different style of writing may often be involved in the same project. For this reason, it may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Nicolae-Teodor Pavel , Traian Rebedea

A commit message describes the main code changes in a commit and plays a crucial role in software maintenance. Existing commit message generation (CMG) approaches typically frame it as a direct mapping which inputs a code diff and produces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Bo Xiong , Linghao Zhang , Chong Wang , Peng Liang

Upon its release in late 2022, ChatGPT has brought a seismic shift in the entire landscape of AI, both in research and commerce. Through instruction-tuning a large language model (LLM) with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hailin Chen , Fangkai Jiao , Xingxuan Li , Chengwei Qin , Mathieu Ravaut , Ruochen Zhao , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty

Automated coaching messages for weight control can save time and costs, but their repetitive, generic nature may limit their effectiveness compared to human coaching. Large language model (LLM) based artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhuoran Huang , Michael P. Berry , Christina Chwyl , Gary Hsieh , Jing Wei , Evan M. Forman

Commit message is one of the most important textual information in software development and maintenance. However, it is time-consuming to write commit messages manually. Commit Message Generation (CMG) has become a research hotspot.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Linghao Zhang , Hongyi Zhang , Chong Wang , Peng Liang

Large-scale language models (LLMs) have emerged as a groundbreaking innovation in the realm of question-answering and conversational agents. These models, leveraging different deep learning architectures such as Transformers, are trained on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Fardin Ahsan Sakib , Saadat Hasan Khan , A. H. M. Rezaul Karim

Committing to a version control system means submitting a software change to the system. Each commit can have a message to describe the submission. Several approaches have been proposed to automatically generate the content of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Siyuan Jiang , Collin McMillan

Commit messages play a crucial role in collaborative software development. They provide a clear and concise description of the changes made to the source code. However, many commit messages among students' projects lack useful information.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Iris Ma , Cristina V. Lopes

Large language models have been demonstrated to be valuable in different fields. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has been trained using massive amounts of data and simulates human conversation by comprehending context and generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ali Borji

Corrective maintenance is crucial to ensure the quality of software, thereby improving reliability and user experience. In a version control system (VCS), developers write commit messages to document their changes and support later…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Syful Islam , Stefano Zacchiroli

Commit messages (CMs) are an essential part of version control. By providing important context in regard to what has changed and why, they strongly support software maintenance and evolution. But writing good CMs is difficult and often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 David Faragó , Michael Färber , Christian Petrov

In recent years, large language models have been responsible for great advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT in particular, an AI chatbot developed and recently released by OpenAI, has taken the field to the next…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Raphaël Khoury , Anderson R. Avila , Jacob Brunelle , Baba Mamadou Camara

Commit messages record code changes (e.g., feature modifications and bug repairs) in natural language, and are useful for program comprehension. Due to the frequent updates of software and time cost, developers are generally unmotivated to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Shangqing Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Sen Chen , Lun Yiu Nie , Yang Liu

Background: Log messages provide valuable information about the status of software systems. This information is provided in an unstructured fashion and automated approaches are applied to extract relevant parameters. To ease this process,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Merve Astekin , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Gestures perform a variety of communicative functions that powerfully influence human face-to-face interaction. How this communicative function is achieved varies greatly between individuals and depends on the role of the speaker and the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Laura B. Hensel , Nutchanon Yongsatianchot , Parisa Torshizi , Elena Minucci , Stacy Marsella

This paper discusses OpenAIs ChatGPT, a generative pre-trained transformer, which uses natural language processing to fulfill text-based user requests (i.e., a chatbot). The history and principles behind ChatGPT and similar models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Brady Lund , Ting Wang , Nishith Reddy Mannuru , Bing Nie , Somipam Shimray , Ziang Wang