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The diversity of programming languages is growing, making the language extensibility of code clone detectors crucial. However, this is challenging for most existing clone detection detectors because the source code handler needs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Wenqing Zhu , Norihiro Yoshida , Toshihiro Kamiya , Eunjong Choi , Hiroaki Takada

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various software engineering tasks, such as code generation and debugging, because of their ability to translate between programming languages and natural languages.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenqing Zhu , Norihiro Yoshida , Eunjong Choi , Yutaka Matsubara , Hiroaki Takada

Type-4 clones refer to a pair of code snippets with similar semantics but written in different syntax, which challenges the existing code clone detection techniques. Previous studies, however, highly rely on syntactic structures and textual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Zhipeng Xue , Zhijie Jiang , Chenlin Huang , Rulin Xu , Xiangbing Huang , Liumin Hu

Compilers can specialize programs having invariants for performance improvement. Detecting program invariants that span large and complex code, however, is difficult for compilers. Traditional compilers do not perform very expensive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Wei He

Software systems are getting more complex as the system grows where maintaining such system is a primary concern for the industry. Code clone is one of the factors making software maintenance more difficult. It is a process of replicating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-05-28 Md. Monzur Morshed , Md. Arifur Rahman , Salah Uddin Ahmed

Software clones have been an active area of research for the past two decades. However, although numerous clone detection tools are now available, only a small fraction of the literature has focused on tool evaluation, and this is in fact…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Rachel Gauci

Unlike the flow structure of natural languages, programming languages have an inherent rigidity in structure and grammar.However, existing detection methods based on pre-trained models typically treat code as a natural language sequence,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ziliang Wang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Yihong Dong , Yingfei Xiong , Zhi Jin

In recent years, code security has become increasingly important, especially with the rise of interconnected technologies. Detecting vulnerabilities early in the software development process has demonstrated numerous benefits. Consequently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 José Gonçalves , Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Reusing code can produce duplicate or near-duplicate code clones in code repositories. Current code clone detection techniques, like Program Dependence Graphs, rely on code structure and their dependencies to detect clones. These techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Sandeep Kaur Kuttal , Akash Ghosh

Semantic clones are program components with similar behavior, but different textual representation. Semantic similarity is hard to detect, and semantic clone detection is still an open issue. We present semantic clone detection via…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Hannes Thaller , Lukas Linsbauer , Alexander Egyed

Recent advances in large-scale code generation models have led to remarkable progress in producing high-quality code. These models are trained in a self-supervised manner on extensive unlabeled code corpora using a decoder-only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jiayi Lin , Yanlin Wang , Yibiao Yang , Lei Zhang , Yutao Xie

How can we identify similar repositories and clusters among a large online archive, such as GitHub? Determiningrepository similarity is an essential building block in studying the dynamics and the evolution of such software ecosystems. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Md Omar Faruk Rokon , Pei Yan , Risul Islam , Michalis Faloutsos

Code embedding is a keystone in the application of machine learning on several Software Engineering (SE) tasks. To effectively support a plethora of SE tasks, the embedding needs to capture program syntax and semantics in a way that is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Wei Ma , Mengjie Zhao , Ezekiel Soremekun , Qiang Hu , Jie Zhang , Mike Papadakis , Maxime Cordy , Xiaofei Xie , Yves Le Traon

This work focuses on sign language retrieval-a recently proposed task for sign language understanding. Sign language retrieval consists of two sub-tasks: text-to-sign-video (T2V) retrieval and sign-video-to-text (V2T) retrieval. Different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yiting Cheng , Fangyun Wei , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Wenqiang Zhang

We address contextualized code retrieval, the search for code snippets helpful to fill gaps in a partial input program. Our approach facilitates a large-scale self-supervised contrastive training by splitting source code randomly into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Johannes Villmow , Viola Campos , Adrian Ulges , Ulrich Schwanecke

Source code clone detection is the task of finding code fragments that have the same or similar functionality, but may differ in syntax or structure. This task is important for software maintenance, reuse, and quality assurance (Roy et al.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mohammed Ataaur Rahaman , Julia Ive

Automatic source code analysis in key areas of software engineering, such as code security, can benefit from Machine Learning (ML). However, many standard ML approaches require a numeric representation of data and cannot be applied directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Rhys Compton , Eibe Frank , Panos Patros , Abigail Koay

During the recent years, tampering of digital images has become a general habit among people and professionals. As a result, establishment of image authenticity has become a key issue in fields those make use of digital images.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-07-28 Minati Mishra , M. C. Adhikary

Our work introduces SAVeD (Semantically Aware Version Detection), a contrastive learning-based framework for identifying versions of structured datasets without relying on metadata, labels, or integration-based assumptions. SAVeD addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Artem Frenk , Roee Shraga

Code vulnerability detection (CVD) is essential for addressing and preventing system security issues, playing a crucial role in ensuring software security. Previous learning-based vulnerability detection methods rely on either fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xuefeng Jiang , Lvhua Wu , Sheng Sun , Jia Li , Jingjing Xue , Yuwei Wang , Tingting Wu , Min Liu