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Commit messages are natural language descriptions of code changes, which are important for software evolution such as code understanding and maintenance. However, previous methods are trained on the entire dataset without considering the…

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Commit messages are crucial in software development, supporting maintenance tasks and communication among developers. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Commit Message Generation (CMG) using various software contexts, some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jiawei Li , David Faragó , Christian Petrov , Iftekhar Ahmed

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

A commit message is a textual description of the code changes in a commit, which is a key part of the Git version control system (VCS). It captures the essence of software updating. Therefore, it can help developers understand code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Linghao Zhang , Jingshu Zhao , Chong Wang , Peng Liang

Commit messages are valuable resources for describing why code changes are committed to repositories in version control systems (e.g., Git). They effectively help developers understand code changes and better perform software maintenance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hongyu Kuang , Ning Zhang , Hui Gao , Xin Zhou , Wesley K. G. Assunção , Xiaoxing Ma , Dong Shao , Guoping Rong , He Zhang

Commit messages are crucial in software development, supporting maintenance tasks and communication among developers. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Commit Message Generation (CMG) using various software contexts, some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jiawei Li , David Faragó , Christian Petrov , Iftekhar Ahmed

Commit messages aid developers in their understanding of a continuously evolving codebase. However, developers not always document code changes properly. Automatically generating commit messages would relieve this burden on developers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-27 S. R. P. van Hal , M. Post , K. Wendel

Social aspects of software projects become increasingly important for research and practice. Different approaches analyze the sentiment of a development team, ranging from simply asking the team to so-called sentiment analysis on text-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Marc Herrmann , Martin Obaidi , Larissa Chazette , Jil Klünder

We present ComSum, a data set of 7 million commit messages for text summarization. When documenting commits, software code changes, both a message and its summary are posted. We gather and filter those to curate developers' work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Leshem Choshen , Idan Amit

The sense of belonging to a community is a basic human need that impacts an individuals behavior, long-term engagement, and job satisfaction, as revealed by research in disciplines such as psychology, healthcare, and education. Despite much…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Bianca Trinkenreich , Klaas-Jan Stol , Anita Sarma , Daniel M. German , Marco A. Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Commit messages are essential in software development as they serve to document and explain code changes. Yet, their quality often falls short in practice, with studies showing significant proportions of empty or inadequate messages. While…

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The reasoning steps generated by LLMs might be incomplete, as they mimic logical leaps common in everyday communication found in their pre-training data: underlying rationales are frequently left implicit (unstated). To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Dongwei Jiang , Guoxuan Wang , Yining Lu , Andrew Wang , Jingyu Zhang , Chuyu Liu , Benjamin Van Durme , Daniel Khashabi

Estimating the internal state of a robotic system is complex: this is performed from multiple heterogeneous sensor inputs and knowledge sources. Discretization of such inputs is done to capture saliences, represented as symbolic…

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Eliciting "chain of thought" (CoT) rationales -- sequences of token that convey a "reasoning" process -- has been shown to consistently improve LLM performance on tasks like question answering. More recent efforts have shown that such…

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False-positive bug reports represent a significant yet underexplored challenge in the development and maintenance of the Linux kernel. They occur when correct system behavior is mistakenly flagged as a defect, consuming developer effort…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiashuo Tian , Dong Wang , Chen Yang , Haichi Wang , Zan Wang , Junjie Chen

The informativeness of security-related commit messages is crucial for patch triage: when high, it enables the rapid distribution and deployment of security fixes. Prior research (Reis et al., 2023) reported, however, that commit messages…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Syful Islam , Stefano Zacchiroli

Code review is an important quality assurance activity for software development. Code review discussions among developers and maintainers can be heated and sometimes involve personal attacks and unnecessary disrespectful comments,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Isabella Ferreira , Jinghui Cheng , Bram Adams

Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on generating extensive intermediate reasoning units (e.g., tokens, sentences) to enhance final answer quality across a wide range of complex tasks. While this approach has proven effective, it inevitably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Joonwon Jang , Jaehee Kim , Wonbin Kweon , Seonghyeon Lee , Hwanjo Yu

Recent reasoning large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable improvements in mathematical reasoning capabilities through long Chain-of-Thought. The reasoning tokens of these models enable self-correction within reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yu Cui , Bryan Hooi , Yujun Cai , Yiwei Wang

As AI coding agents become both primary producers and consumers of source code, the software industry faces an accelerating loss of institutional knowledge. Each commit captures a code diff but discards the reasoning behind it - the…

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