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Most explainable AI (XAI) techniques are concerned with the design of algorithms to explain the AI's decision. However, the data that is used to train these algorithms may contain features that are often incomprehensible to an end-user even…

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Programming languages are engineered languages that allow to instruct a machine and share algorithmic information; they have a great influence on the society since they underlie almost every information technology artefact, and they are at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Silvia Crafa

Providing explainable and faithful feedback is crucial for automated student answer assessment. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework that explores using ChatGPT, a cutting-edge large language model, for the concurrent tasks of…

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Recent advances in explainable recommendations have explored the integration of language models to analyze natural language rationales for user-item interactions. Despite their potential, existing methods often rely on ID-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xinshun Feng , Mingzhe Liu , Yi Qiao , Tongyu Zhu , Leilei Sun , Shuai Wang

Large language model (LLM)-based debugging systems can generate failure explanations, but these explanations may be incomplete or incorrect. Misleading explanations are harmful for downstream tasks (e.g., bug triage, bug fixing). We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Julius Porbeck , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Holger Giese

When a software bug is reported, developers engage in a discussion to collaboratively resolve it. While the solution is likely formulated within the discussion, it is often buried in a large amount of text, making it difficult to comprehend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Sheena Panthaplackel , Junyi Jessy Li , Milos Gligoric , Raymond J. Mooney

Intelligent agents, such as robots, are increasingly deployed in real-world, human-centric environments. To foster appropriate human trust and meet legal and ethical standards, these agents must be able to explain their behavior. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhang Xi-Jia , Yue Guo , Shufei Chen , Simon Stepputtis , Matthew Gombolay , Katia Sycara , Joseph Campbell

We examine how users perceive the limitations of an AI system when it encounters a task that it cannot perform perfectly and whether providing explanations alongside its answers aids users in constructing an appropriate mental model of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Judith Sieker , Simeon Junker , Ronja Utescher , Nazia Attari , Heiko Wersing , Hendrik Buschmeier , Sina Zarrieß

Since Artificial Intelligence (AI) software uses techniques like deep lookahead search and stochastic optimization of huge neural networks to fit mammoth datasets, it often results in complex behavior that is difficult for people to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Daniel S. Weld , Gagan Bansal

In most current research, large language models (LLMs) are able to perform reasoning tasks by generating chains of thought through the guidance of specific prompts. However, there still exists a significant discrepancy between their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yuanzhen Xie , Tao Xie , Mingxiong Lin , WenTao Wei , Chenglin Li , Beibei Kong , Lei Chen , Chengxiang Zhuo , Bo Hu , Zang Li

Language models for program synthesis are usually trained and evaluated on programming competition datasets (MBPP, APPS). However, these datasets are limited in size and quality, while these language models are extremely data hungry.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Noah van der Vleuten

Large-scale pre-trained vision foundation models, such as CLIP, have become de facto backbones for various vision tasks. However, due to their black-box nature, understanding the underlying rules behind these models' predictions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haozhe Chen , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick , Chengzhi Mao

Specifications for code writing tasks are usually expressed in natural language and may be ambiguous. Programmers must therefore develop the ability to recognize ambiguities in task specifications and resolve them by asking clarifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Aditey Nandan , Viraj Kumar

Determining whether a configurable software system has a performance bug or it was misconfigured is often challenging. While there are numerous debugging techniques that can support developers in this task, there is limited empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Miguel Velez , Pooyan Jamshidi , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel , Christian Kästner

As Large Language Models for Code (LM4Code) become integral to software engineering, establishing trust in their output becomes critical. However, standard accuracy metrics obscure the underlying reasoning of generative models, offering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dipin Khati , Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas , David N. Palacio , Alejandro Velasco , Michele Tufano , Denys Poshyvanyk

Automatic Program Repair (APR) is a brilliant idea: when detecting a bug, also provide suggestions for correcting the program. Progress towards that goal is hindered by the absence of a common frame of reference for the multiplicity of APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Victoria Kananchuk , Ilgiz Mustafin , Bertrand Meyer

Understanding how humans revise their beliefs in light of new information is crucial for developing AI systems which can effectively model, and thus align with, human reasoning. While theoretical belief revision frameworks rely on a set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou , Antonio Rago , Maria Vanina Martinez , William Yeoh

The design and evaluation of assisting technologies to support behavior change processes have become an essential topic within the field of human-computer interaction research in general and the field of immersive intervention technologies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Carolin Wienrich , Nina Ines Döllinger , Rebecca Hein

Recent advances in interactive large language models like ChatGPT have revolutionized various domains; however, their behavior in natural and role-play conversation settings remains underexplored. In our study, we address this gap by deeply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yufei Tao , Ameeta Agrawal , Judit Dombi , Tetyana Sydorenko , Jung In Lee

Detecting harmful AI actions is important as AI agents gain adoption. Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is one method widely used to detect adversarial attacks and AI misalignment. However, attackers and misaligned models might evade CoT…

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