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Automatic programming has seen increasing popularity due to the emergence of tools like GitHub Copilot which rely on Large Language Models (LLMs). At the same time, automatically generated code faces challenges during deployment due to…

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Code completion plays a prominent role in modern integrated development environments (IDEs). Machine learning has become ubiquitous in analogous natural language writing and search software, surfacing more relevant autocompletions and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Gareth Ari Aye , Gail E. Kaiser

This work introduces self-infilling code generation, a general framework that incorporates infilling operations into auto-regressive decoding. Our approach capitalizes on the observation that recent infilling-capable code language models…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lin Zheng , Jianbo Yuan , Zhi Zhang , Hongxia Yang , Lingpeng Kong

Currently, large pre-trained language models are widely applied in neural code completion systems. Though large code models significantly outperform their smaller counterparts, around 70\% of displayed code completions from Github Copilot…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Zhensu Sun , Xiaoning Du , Fu Song , Shangwen Wang , Mingze Ni , Li Li , David Lo

Code completion is one of the most useful features in the Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), which can accelerate software development by suggesting the next probable token based on the contextual code in real-time. Recent studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Fang Liu , Ge Li , Yunfei Zhao , Zhi Jin

Code completion is a prominent application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering. Due to the near real-time response requirements of this task, base models with small to medium-sized parameters are typically employed,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Dongjun Yu , Xiao Yan , Zhenrui Li , Jipeng Xiao , Haochuan He , Yongda Yu , Hao Zhang , Guoping Rong , Xiaobo Huang

Token-level code completion is one of the most critical features in modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). It assists developers by suggesting relevant identifiers and APIs during coding. While completions are typically derived…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniele Cipollone , Egor Bogomolov , Arie van Deursen , Maliheh Izadi

Automation engineering is the task of integrating, via software, various sensors, actuators, and controls for automating a real-world process. Today, automation engineering is supported by a suite of software tools including integrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Arquimedes Canedo , Palash Goyal , Di Huang , Amit Pandey , Gustavo Quiros

Automatic programming attempts to minimize human intervention in the generation of executable code, and has been a long-standing challenge in the software engineering community. To advance automatic programming, researchers are focusing on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Ye Shang , Tongke Zhang , Shengcheng Yu , Zhenyu Chen

Evaluating the correctness of code generated by AI is a challenging open problem. In this paper, we propose a fully automated method, named ACCA, to evaluate the correctness of AI-generated code for security purposes. The method uses…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Domenico Cotroneo , Alessio Foggia , Cristina Improta , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

Code completion is usually cast as a language modelling problem, i.e., continuing an input in a left-to-right fashion. However, in practice, some parts of the completion (e.g., string literals) may be very hard to predict, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Daya Guo , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Jian Yin , Nan Duan , Marc Brockschmidt , Miltiadis Allamanis

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

In this paper, we aim to do code completion based on implementing a Neural Network from Li et. al.. Our contribution is that we use an encoding that is in-between character and word encoding called Byte Pair Encoding (BPE). We use this on…

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Physics education researchers are interested in using the tools of machine learning and natural language processing to make quantitative claims from natural language and text data, such as open-ended responses to survey questions. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-11-08 Rebeckah K. Fussell , Emily M. Stump , N. G. Holmes

Code optimization is the process of enhancing code efficiency, while preserving its intended functionality. This process often requires a deep understanding of the code execution behavior at run-time to identify and address inefficiencies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Federico Di Menna , Luca Traini , Gabriele Bavota , Vittorio Cortellessa

In computer science education, test cases are an integral part of programming assignments since they can be used as assessment items to test students' programming knowledge and provide personalized feedback on student-written code. The goal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Nischal Ashok Kumar , Andrew Lan

A code clone is a pair of code fragments, within or between software systems that are similar. Since code clones often negatively impact the maintainability of a software system, several code clone detection techniques and tools have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Golam Mostaeen , Banani Roy , Chanchal Roy , Kevin Schneider , Jeffrey Svajlenko

Code completion, a key downstream task in code generation, is one of the most frequent and impactful methods for enhancing developer productivity in software development. As intelligent completion tools evolve, we need a robust evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhenyu Pan , Rongyu Cao , Yongchang Cao , Yingwei Ma , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Han Liu , Yongbin Li

AI Code Completion (e.g., GitHub's Copilot) has revolutionized how computer science students interact with programming languages. However, AI code completion has been studied from the developers' perspectives, not the students' perspectives…

Code completion, one of the most useful features in the Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), can accelerate software development by suggesting the libraries, APIs, and method names in real-time. Recent studies have shown that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Fang Liu , Ge Li , Bolin Wei , Xin Xia , Zhiyi Fu , Zhi Jin